Sharleyan thought, tartly.

Getting between an addict and his jolt of java is as dangerous as getting between politicians and their teleprompter! If there is a method to make java on the job, it will be made. It would be an interesting 'experiment' to make a group to do totally without their choice of coffee or chocolate.

Which would you choose?

Everybody knows you have a balanced diet when you have chocolate in both hands. I can and have given up coffee, but I couldn't give up chocolate.

Charybdis wrote:Getting between an addict and his jolt of java is as dangerous as getting between politicians and their teleprompter! If there is a method to make java on the job, it will be made. It would be an interesting 'experiment' to make a group to do totally without their choice of coffee or chocolate.

Which would you choose?

You are certainly welcome to try this experiment. My mama didn't raise no suicidal fools .

Charybdis wrote:Getting between an addict and his jolt of java is as dangerous as getting between politicians and their teleprompter! If there is a method to make java on the job, it will be made. It would be an interesting 'experiment' to make a group to do totally without their choice of coffee or chocolate.

Which would you choose?

Does remind of of the time when I was in the Army at West Point in the early 70s. I was working at the computer center, and it was one of the jobs of the midnight shift operator was to make the coffee for the morning shift to be ready when they came on duty at 0700. One of the operators didn't drink coffee, and decided that he was going to send a message to the morning coffee drinkers that they didn't want him making the coffee. The normal coffee pot was one of the 24 cup coffee urns used in offices around the world - you know the ones, fill it with 24 cups of water, add some ground coffee to the basket at the top, and plug it in. Instead of 24 cups of water he started with 2 of the large jars of instant coffee mixed in the 24 cups of water, doubled the normal amount of coffee in the basket and perked it. After perking it, he place in the floor of the computer room (large mainframe, so lots of cooling) to cool it down, and after it reached room temperature, perked it again. Cooled it down a second time, replaced the coffee grounds, and one more perk, cool, and perk cycle. The last perk cycle finished up at about 6:45 in the morning, so the coffee was ready. One or two of the morning shift commented that the coffee seemed a little strong, the remainder wanted to know how he had perked paint thinner. He was in fact never asked to brew morning coffee again.

fallsfromtrees wrote:

Charybdis wrote:Getting between an addict and his jolt of java is as dangerous as getting between politicians and their teleprompter! If there is a method to make java on the job, it will be made. It would be an interesting 'experiment' to make a group to do totally without their choice of coffee or chocolate.

Which would you choose?

Does remind of of the time when I was in the Army at West Point in the early 70s. I was working at the computer center, and it was one of the jobs of the midnight shift operator was to make the coffee for the morning shift to be ready when they came on duty at 0700. One of the operators didn't drink coffee, and decided that he was going to send a message to the morning coffee drinkers that they didn't want him making the coffee. The normal coffee pot was one of the 24 cup coffee urns used in offices around the world - you know the ones, fill it with 24 cups of water, add some ground coffee to the basket at the top, and plug it in. Instead of 24 cups of water he started with 2 of the large jars of instant coffee mixed in the 24 cups of water, doubled the normal amount of coffee in the basket and perked it. After perking it, he place in the floor of the computer room (large mainframe, so lots of cooling) to cool it down, and after it reached room temperature, perked it again. Cooled it down a second time, replaced the coffee grounds, and one more perk, cool, and perk cycle. The last perk cycle finished up at about 6:45 in the morning, so the coffee was ready. One or two of the morning shift commented that the coffee seemed a little strong, the remainder wanted to know how he had perked paint thinner. He was in fact never asked to brew morning coffee again.

Was the percolator usable after this 'exercise'? Would seem to me that the resulting fluid would be a tad acidic. I'd probably sniffed once and gone the other way, at speed!

My Brother ('72), wife and I were at his 40th in 2012 and while I did not look too hard, I don't recall seeing a single Starbucks and only the McDonalds at the main gate as commercial sources. Given general trends in java brewing, it is likely that only large installations like military messes that still use percolators as normal equipment (if at all!)

I've gone to sraight diet Dr. Pepper. Quality control is better!

Don

n7axw wrote:I've gone to sraight diet Dr. Pepper. Quality control is better!

Don

One of the things I avoid.
Diet items containing phenylalanine.
Can't tell if it's natural or chem-lab.
Natural = no problem.
Chem-lab = hives.

TN4994 wrote:

n7axw wrote:I've gone to sraight diet Dr. Pepper. Quality control is better!

Don

One of the things I avoid.
Diet items containing phenylalanine.
Can't tell if it's natural or chem-lab.
Natural = no problem.
Chem-lab = hives.

Most of the things I like are addictive or otherwise not good for me.

Did you know that kissing causes cancer in lab rats?

Don

n7axw wrote:
Most of the things I like are addictive or otherwise not good for me.

Did you know that kissing causes cancer in lab rats?

Don

I never, ever thought about kissing a lab rat ... you appear to have an interesting life. How many lab rats did you give cancer to?

fallsfromtrees wrote:[snip tale of horror] He was in fact never asked to brew morning coffee again.

About a thousand years ago, the computer science department that was trying to educate me had, in the break room, one of those standard glass-carafe coffee makers with a warming function.

Someone made a full pot late friday, poured their cup, plunked it on the warmer, and went home not very long thereafter.

Monday morning, Eminent Senior Professor gets into the break room earlier than usual in a slightly befuddled condition, goes "oh, good, there's a cup left", and pours out the remaining cup of near-liquid after the weekend of slow evaporation had served to concentrate it.

Which cup, regrettably (see "slightly befuddled"), got drunk.

The Eminent Senior Professor was seen to visibly vibrate like a hummingbird in a hurry. There were rumours involving cardiologists. Big signs got put up about Don't Do That. A grad student did a controlled experiment with another pot of coffee and concluded that the result had the consistency of warm roofing mastic and wondered how it could have been consumed at all.

Charybdis wrote:

n7axw wrote:
Most of the things I like are addictive or otherwise not good for me.

Did you know that kissing causes cancer in lab rats?

Don

I never, ever thought about kissing a lab rat ... you appear to have an interesting life. How many lab rats did you give cancer to?

A family secret although I will let it be known that I still have some unkissed rats on my to do list!

Don