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Comment by Randall Smith on December 2, 2015 at 7:21am

Happy "Hump Day", coffee lovers. Although, as a retiree, there is no such thing. Traditions die hard. I wonder who came up with that term?

Comment by Plinius on November 26, 2015 at 12:49pm

In case your German is rusty - it's a story of a row between father and daughter about her coffee addiction. He wants to forbid her drinking coffee and threatens to take away her privileges, like visiting friends and buying new clothes. When he says that she won't get a husband then she relents. But she makes it a point of her marriage contract that she'll be allowed to drink coffee....

Comment by Randall Smith on November 26, 2015 at 8:05am

GC, if those were the words to "Holy" back when I was a Methodist, I might have been able to tolerate the song. By the way, I lasted 12 years as a UU member. I might still be one if not for a divorce (she got the church in the settlement!). Thanks for the laugh.

Comment by Randall Smith on November 26, 2015 at 8:01am

Chris, I started watching the vidie, but don't have 25 minutes to complete it. Looks entertaining, however! Thanks for sharing.

Comment by Randall Smith on November 26, 2015 at 7:58am

GC, I like it! I am a former UUer, atheist and all. Ironically, I hate the old "Holy, Holy, Holy" song. As a previous life Methodist, it seemed we sang it every other Sunday. 

Comment by Plinius on November 26, 2015 at 6:31am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC5KpmK6oOs 

And let's not forget the Kaffee Kantate!

Comment by Grinning Cat on November 25, 2015 at 10:34am

Happy Thanksgiving to you as well, Randy, and to everyone! (And a sane Friday and weekend!)

"Pecan pie without coffee is a sin!"

There's a hymn that praises coffee -- and doesn't mention any invisible beings! To the tune of "Holy, holy, holy":

Coffee, Coffee, Coffee,
Praise the strength of coffee.
Early in the morn we rise with thoughts of only thee.
Served fresh or reheated,
Dark by thee defeated,
Brewed black by perk or drip or instantly.

Though all else we scoff we
Come to church for coffee;
If we're late to congregate, we come in time for thee.
Coffee our one ritual,
Drinking it habitual,
Brewed black by perk or drip or instantly.

(It's by Christopher Raible, a Unitarian Universalist minister; the third verse is more specifically UU. It's been said, with a grain of truth, that coffee hour is the closest thing Unitarians have to a sacrament.)

Comment by Randall Smith on November 25, 2015 at 7:16am

Hope all you coffee lovers (and others) have a Happy Thanksgiving. Pecan pie without coffee is a sin!

Comment by Grinning Cat on November 17, 2015 at 1:48pm

From ScienceDaily: many coffee machines release metals harmful to health; the scientists recommend extensive rinsing after decalcifying and before using them.

"The unwanted extras in your morning filter coffee"

Comment by Steph S. on November 17, 2015 at 12:58pm

How is everyone today?

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