There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
~Katharine Whitehorn
The midnight Ride of Paul For beer Led to a warmer Hemishpere Burma Shave
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry A. Kissinger
COFFEE part 1 of 23
"Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and as sweet as love" - Turkish Proverb
52% of Americans drink coffee.
A acre of coffee trees can produce up to 10,000 pounds of coffee cherries. That amounts to approximately 2000 pounds of beans after hulling or milling.
A scientific report form the University of California found that the steam rising from a cup of coffee contains the same amounts of antioxidants as three oranges. The antioxidants are heterocyclic compounds which prevents cancer and heart disease. It's good for you!
Adding sugar to coffee is believed to have started in 1715, in the court of King Louis XIV, the French monarch.
We can't all be heroes. Someone has to sit on the step and clap as they go by.
anonymous
"Why don't they just do what they did in 1899?" -- On preparing for Y2K in 1999.
A hiker comes to a fork in the road and doesn't know which way to go to reach his destination. There are two men at the fork, one of whom always tells the truth while the other always lies. The hiker doesn't know which is which, though. He may ask one of the men only one question to find his way. Which man does he ask, and what is the question?
One of my friends once had his photos taken at a local photo shop. the next day he went to pick them up but the person at the desk refused to give him his photos without the purchase slip and the photos themselves were not enough to convince him that it was actually the right person wanting his photos back.
I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
