BS: The Hazards of Coffee - quote I like

Subject: RE: BS: The Hazards of Coffee - quote I like
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 24 Jul 01 - 04:01 PM

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion
It is by the juice of the bean
The thoughts acquire speed
The hands acquire shaking
The teeth acquire stains
The stains become a warning
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion

Subject: RE: BS: The Hazards of Coffee - quote I like
From: Kim C
Date: 24 Jul 01 - 03:49 PM

a three-hour tour... a three-hour tour.........

Subject: RE: BS: The Hazards of Coffee - quote I like
From: gnu
Date: 24 Jul 01 - 02:37 PM

Coffee... eeeecccchhhh ! Goes in black comes out white. eeeecccchhhh !

Subject: RE: BS: The Hazards of Coffee - quote I like
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Jul 01 - 12:56 PM

That's a truly weird story, Midchuck. Perhaps Texas should consider sentencing people to death by...

pizza

coca cola

pepsi

Big Macs

and so on...

Then again, they could just force them to watch reruns of Gilligan's Island and Three's Company...day after day after day after endless day....

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: The Hazards of Coffee - quote I like
From: Jim Krause
Date: 24 Jul 01 - 12:51 PM

We should all have that law.
Jim

Subject: RE: BS: The Hazards of Coffee - quote I like
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 24 Jul 01 - 12:50 PM

This is good to know. There is a bylaw in my Hometown prohibiting me from driving, operating heavy machinery or attempting to communicate unless I've had at least a half a pot of of coffee.

Subject: The Hazards of Coffee - quote I like
From: Midchuck
Date: 24 Jul 01 - 12:46 PM

King Gustav III, who ruled Sweden in the latter half of the eighteenth century, was so convinced of the particular perils of coffee over all other forms of caffeine that he devised an elaborate experiment. A convicted murderer was sentenced to drink cup after cup of coffee until he died, with another murderer sentenced to a lifetime of tea drinking as a control. (Unfortunately, the two doctors in charge of the study died before anyone else did; then Gustav was murdered; and finally the tea drinker died, at eighty-three, of old age - leaving the original murderer alone with his expresso, and leaving coffee's supposed toxicity in some doubt.)

- from Java Man, article by Malcolm Gladwell, in The New Yorker, July 30, 2001 issue.