I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.
Norman Rockwell
A Man A Miss A Car A Curve He kissed the Miss And missed the Curve Burma Shave
Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
Hector Hugh Munro
COFFEE part 6 of 23
Coffee Recipe from: 'Kitchen Directory and American Housewife' (1844)
"Use a tablespoonful ground to a pint of boiling water [less than a quarter of what we would use today]. Boil in tin pot twenty to twenty-five minutes. If boiled longer it will not taste fresh and lively. Let stand four or five minutes to settle, pour off grounds into a coffee pot or urn. Put fish skin or isinglass size of a nine-pence in pot when put on to boil or else the white and shell of half an egg to a couple of quarts of coffee."
Coffee represents 75% of all the caffeine consumed in the United States.
Coffee sacks are usually made of hemp and weigh approximately 132 pounds when they are full of green coffee beans. It takes over 600,000 beans to fill a coffee sack.
Coffee trees are evergreen and grow to heights above 15 feet but are normally pruned to around 8 feet in order to facilitate harvesting.
Coffee trees are self-pollinating
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
Henry George
What We Learned From the Ice Storm of 1998: "I learned that if you plug your generator into your TV, VCR, or your computer, it will cause too much friction and it will blow up." -- 10 year old
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It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
A new medical building containing 100 offices had just been completed. Dave was hired to paint the numbers 1 to 100 on the doors. How many times will Dave have to paint the number nine?
Snow blower for sale...only used on snowy days.
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
