January 26, 2006

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead






When passing
Through school zones
Please drive slow.
Let's let our
Little shavers
Grow.
Burma Shave




There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
Lawrence Durrell




COFFEE
part 4 of 23
  • Caffeine is on the International Olympic Committee list of prohibited substances. Athletes who test positive for more than 12 micrograms of caffeine per milliliter of urine may be banned from the Olympic Games. This level may be reached after drinking about 5 cups of coffee.
  • Citrus has been added to coffee for several hundred years.
  • Coffee as a medicine reached its highest and lowest point in the 1600's in England. Wild medical contraptions to administer a mixture of coffee and an assortment of heated butter, honey, and oil, became treatments for the sick. Soon tea replaced coffee as the national beverage.
  • Coffee beans are similar to grapes that produce wine in that they are affected by the temperature, soil conditions, altitude, rainfall, drainage and degree of ripeness when picked.
  • Coffee is generally roasted between 400F and 425F. The longer it is roasted, the darker the roast. Roasting time is usually from ten to twenty minutes.



    • Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
    Martin Luther King, Jr.



    What We Learned From the Ice Storm of 1998: "Trees aren't as strong as I thought they were." -- 11 year old



    OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
    Lincoln All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
    Abraham Lincoln



    A man is dead in a warehouse. He is hanging from the roof which is 30 ft high. There is nothing in the room apart from a lot of water. How did he hang himself.



    "It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll."
    Harry Carey



    I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.



    A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.