 | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 |  |
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A word to the wise ain’t necessary -
it’s the stupid ones that need the advice. Bill Cosby |
| I drink coffee. I’ve always enjoyed coffee but since I found out about my diabetes I drink even more. Especially when we go out to eat. I used to order diet cola but a couple times I got the real thing and my blood sugar told the story. So now I drink coffee or iced tea when we go out to eat because I know they can’t sugar me down with those. Over the years I have tried most of the phoo-phoo coffees ... the Irish Crème, French Vanilla, roasted Hazelnut, maybe even roasted Acorns for all I know. I don’t care for most of them. I even tried to be a coffee Snob for a while and bought the beans fresh and ground them every day with my own little special coffee grinder — too much work for a cup of coffee. Now I just buy the plastic Folgers bucket of French Roast and drink a couple pots of that a day. I say all that to give you my coffee credentials. I don’t mean to say I’m one of those sip-n-spit kind of experts who can tell you what day the beans were picked but I know what I like. I have noticed a nice trend locally with coffee. We used to get the same old run of the mill hours old bitter coffee when we dined out. Now that we have a Starbucks in town the coffee is getting better. First Stake-A-Shake started serving Seattle’s Best coffee and I was real happy. I first had that at Yellowstone and drove Tracey crazy wanting to take coffee breaks on vacation. All of a sudden now the Blob Evans is serving a better brand of coffee and they are even bragging as how they are getting new cups. I don’t know what a new fancy cup does for the coffee but I suspect it will just be a smaller cup because the coffee will be more expensive for them. Even MickeyD’s has come out with their own brand of McCoffee. I think all of this is because of Starbuck’s and the coffee snob culture they are creating. I’ve never been there but I hear you can order coffee there that doesn’t taste like coffee so people who don’t even like coffee will drink it. Whatever. I’m just glad they are helping to make real coffee taste better everywhere! |
Protesters calling for automakers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and invigorate green manufacturing demonstrate outside the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit January 13, 2008. (REUTERS/ Mike Cassese (UNITED STATES) |
Clever Texan
Three men ... a Canadian farmer, Osama bin Laden and a Texan, are all working together one day. They come across a lantern and a Genie pops out of it. “I will give each of you one wish, which is three wishes in total,” says the Genie.
The Canadian says, “I am a farmer and my son will also farm. I want the land to be forever fertile in Canada.
POOF! With the blink of the Genie’s eye, the land in Canada was forever fertile for farming.
Osama was amazed, so he said, “I want a wall around Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq and Iran so that no infidels, Americans or Canadians, can come in our precious land.”
POOF! Again, with the blink of the Genie’s eye, there was a huge wall around those countries.
The Texan says, “I am very curious. Please tell me more about this wall.”
The Genie explains, “Well, it’s about 5,000 feet high, 500 feet thick and completely surrounds the country. Nothing can get in or out; it’s virtually impenetrable.”
The Texan sits down, cracks a beer, smiles, and says, “Fill it with oil.” |
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