Comments on: No More Mr. Nice Guy

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:26:54 +0000

That pot is heavy, and the weight has to be a consideration if you are traveling on foot. It is obviously preferable, but I generally was making do with a canteen cup and mess kit for cooking.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:31:16 +0000

I don’t know a single IT professional who actually prefers cream and/or sugar. i know quite a few who do. makes a bigger mess if you spill it on your keyboard, but the extra calories in your coffee keep you from having to waste time eating. :) i grew up camping all over the southwest, carrying lots of dried and powdered food-like things, but still we made coffee on the campfire in a real [enamel] coffee pot.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 02:22:58 +0000

"Yes, cream and sugar are a sacrilege when applied to real coffee. But for instant :( , I’ll take any advantage I can get." Amen to that brother!! :twisted:

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 22:13:34 +0000

In reply to Steve Bates. You really do need something to reduce the acid and baking soda is not a good choice. Milk is often used in poisoning cases.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:05:35 +0000

I don't know a single IT professional who actually prefers cream and/or sugar. But Like Badtux, if I'm fed instant, or really, really awful institutional coffee, I'll sometimes pollute it with cream. Once in a while, that even helps!

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:32:58 +0000

Yes, cream and sugar are a sacrilege when applied to real coffee. But for instant :(, I’ll take any advantage I can get.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 18:37:53 +0000

According to Rook, cream and/or sugar are a sacrilege.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:08:08 +0000

There’s a by-now-(in)famous parody by UU minister Christopher Raible called “Coffee, Coffee, Coffee” …

Here’s the whole thing; at least it’s short…

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 instantly.

Coffee the communion
Of our Uni-Union,
Symbol of our sacred ground, our one necessity.
Feel the holy power
At our coffee hour,
Brewed black by perk or drip or instantly.

It’s a good thing UUs have no worries about sacrilege…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 05:46:20 +0000

The ‘missionaries’ don’t accept anything but water, and that is all I ever see them drink, and I see them drink a lot when they are riding around on their bicycles in the heat. I’ve been known in former years to sit out front under the trees reading with a pitcher of ice tea and I kept extra glasses for the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons who walked the neighborhood. I put a jug of water in the cooler after Mormons consistently turned down the tea, but accepted the glasses and ice.

As for warm versus cold, the missionaries turned down the cold, but I suspect that the Mittster would take the meaning of the letter of prohibition, rather than the spirit, as he does with taxes.

I notice that he doesn’t say he paid 13% of his income in ‘income taxes’ but in ‘taxes’, which would cover property, school, sales, etc. He could still pay no income tax. That is true of the rest of the 47% of the people in this country who pay no income taxes. Of most of those people pay more than 13% because of withholding / payroll taxes.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 05:17:43 +0000

I had forgotten that Mormons don’t drink coffee. Just another reason to distrust them :twisted:.