Welcome to My Coffee Page!!!
Grab a cup, and saddle up alongside me….
Fun Quotes:
Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with. ~Drew Sirtors
Decaffeinated coffee is the devil’s blend. ~Author Unknown
A morning without coffee is like sleep. ~Author Unknown
I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee. ~Flash Rosenberg
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation. ~Author Unknown
Way too much coffee. But if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever. ~David Letterman
Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister. ~Bob Irwin
(Ok, I really like that one!)
Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised. ~Star Trek: Voyager
Deja Brew: The feeling that you’ve had this coffee before. ~Author Unknown
More to come!!!!
The Following list was taken from Tim Mitchell’s Website. See the Original at http://www.xanga.com/brasicano I’ve added a few comments in paranthesis
You’re Addicted to Caffeine When…
1. You think sleep is for the weak.
2. You believe that the coffee bean is a vegetable. (and a meat, and a starch, and a fruit)
3. You have a website about caffeine. (This one is, sort of)
4. Your heart beats noticeably faster as a reaction to the smell of coffee. (Guilty as charged)
5. Your heart rate is always in triple digits.
6. You wake up to Mountain Dew, before switching to JOLT. (I don’t understand, what’s “wake up”?)
7. You can name the five flavors of JOLT.
8. You have a mini-fridge under your desk filled with Mountain Dew and JOLT.
9. You drink decaf by accident and slip into a coma. (That’s been known to happen)
10. You ask, “Sleep? What’s that?”
11. You go to the doctor because you’re afraid there might be blood in your Mountain Dew stream. (Or in my case, coffee stream.)
12. Every coffee company wants to have your picture on their packs of coffee powder.
13. Your wife asked you to buy milk, bread and butter and you heard “buy coffee, coffee, and coffee.”
14. Your slogan is “Save water, drink coffee.”
15. Your child’s name is Nescafe.
16. You have tattooed across the knuckles of your hands “JOLT” and “COLA”.
17. Your birthday is a national holiday in Colombia.
18. You’ve knelt and prayed before a Starbuck’s logo. (No, but I have taken a picture of my wife next to a Starbucks logo, but the Logo was huge and the center of the picture, and Erin was small and off to the side.)
19. Your web page has the Mountain Dew color scheme.
20. You have on more than one occasion snorted instant coffee. (Um, I plead the 5th)
21. Your dog’s name is Folgers.
22. You name your guinea pig Starbucks (sound familiar Joel?).
23. You dip espresso beans in chocolate sauce. (Absolutely. Did you know that there is caffiene in chocolate?)
In Praise of Coffee
by Sheik Ansari Djezeri Hanball Abd-al-Kadir, 1857
Oh Coffee, You dispel the worries of the great,
You point the way to those who have wandered from the path of knowledge.
Coffee is the drink of the friends of God, and of His servants who seek wisdom.
As coffee steeps in the cup it gives off a musky aroma and turns the colour of ink.
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of its frothy goodness.
Those who condemn coffee as causing man harm are fools in the eyes of God.
Coffee is the common man’s gold, and like gold it brings to every man the feeling of luxury and nobility.
Coffee differs from pure, gentle milk only in its taste and colour.
Take time in your preparation of coffee and God will be with you and bless you and your table.
Where coffee is served there is grace and splendour and friendship and happiness.
All cares vanish as the coffee cup is raised to the lips.
Coffee flows through your body as freely as your life’s blood, refreshing all that it touches;
Look you at the youth and vigour of those who drink it.
Whoever tastes coffee will forever forswear the liquor of the grape.
Oh drink of God’s glory, your purity brings to man only well being and nobility.
The Coffee Cantata
Recitative Narrator
Be quiet, stop chattering, and pay attention to what’s taking place: here comes Herr Schlendrian with his daughter Lieschen; he’s growling like a honey bear. Hear for yourselves, what she has done to him!
Aria Schlendrian
Don’t one’s children cause one endless trials & tribulations! What I say each day to my daughter Lieschen falls on stony ground.
Recitative Schlendrian
You wicked child, you disobedient girl, oh! When will I get my way? Give up coffee!
Lieschen
Father, don’t be so severe! If I can’t drink my bowl of coffee three times daily, then in my torment I will shrivel up like a piece of roast goat.
Aria Lieschen
Mm! how sweet the coffee tastes, more delicious than a thousand kisses, mellower than muscatel wine. Coffee, coffee I must have, and if someone wishes to give me a treat, ah, then pour me out some coffee!
Recitative Schlendrian
If you don’t give up drinking coffee then you shan’t go to any wedding feast, nor go out walking. Oh! when will I get my way? Give up coffee!
Lieschen
Oh well! Just leave me my coffee!
Schlendrian
Now I’ve got the little minx! I won’t get you a whalebone skirt in the latest fashion.
Lieschen
I can easily live with that.
Schlendrian
You’re not to stand at the window and watch people pass by!
Lieschen
That as well, only I beg of you, leave me my coffee!
Schlendrian
Furthermore, you shan’t be getting any silver or gold ribbon for your bonnet from me!
Lieschen
Yes, yes! only leave me to my pleasure!
Schlendrian
You disobedient Lieschen you, so you go along with it all!
Aria Schlendrian
Hard-hearted girls are not so easily won over. Yet if one finds their weak spot, ah! then one comes away successful.
Recitative Schlendrian
Now take heed what your father says!
Lieschen
In everything but the coffee.
Schlendrian
Well then, you’ll have to resign yourself to never taking a husband.
Lieschen
Oh yes! Father, a husband!
Schlendrian
I swear it won’t happen.
Lieschen
Until I can forgo coffee? From now on, coffee, remain forever untouched! Father, listen, I won’t drink any.
Schlendrian
Then you shall have a husband at last!
Aria Lieschen
Today even dear father, see to it! Oh, a husband! Really, that suits me splendidly! If it could only happen soon that at last, before I go to bed, instead of coffee I were to get a proper lover!
Recitative Narrator
Old Schlendrian goes off to see if he can find a husband forthwith for his daughter Lieschen; but Lieschen secretly lets it be known: no suitor is to come to my house unless he promises me, and it is also written into the marriage contract, that I will be permitted to make myself coffee whenever I want.
Trio
A cat won’t stop from catching mice, and maidens remain faithful to their coffee. The mother holds her coffee dear. The grandmother drank it also. Who can thus rebuke the daughters?
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