January 29, 2006

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

Solomon Short

Prickley Pears
Are Picked for Pickles
But no Peach Picks
A Face that Prickles
Burma Shave


"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human"

William Gibson

COFFEE
part 7 of 23

Coffee trees produce highly aromatic, short-lived flowers producing a scent between jasmine and orange. These blossoms produce cranberry-sized coffee cherries. It takes four to five years to yield a commercial harvest.

Coffee was first known in Europe as Arabian Wine.

Coffee, along with beer and peanut butter, is on the national list of the "ten most recognizable odors."

Coffee, as a world commodity, is second only to oil.

Commercially flavored coffee beans are flavored after they are roasted and partially cooled to around 100 degrees. Then the flavors applied, when the coffee beans' pores are open and therefore more receptive to flavor absorption.

How strange that a person will carefully attend to his home or his finances, yet will completely neglect the development of his own mind.

Vernon Howard

What We Learned From the Ice Storm of 1998: "I didn't miss school at all. What are you talking about?" -- 15 year old


OUR FOUNDING FATHERS

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

Patrick Henry

A fireman is running to get a net under a lady who looks like she might jump off the balcony of her 20 story apartment building. There is nothing below her except a 20 story fall. The fireman is still 100 yards away when she falls and can't nearly get there in time. The woman is not hurt more than a bruise. How is that possible?

With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.




I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.