Coffee Achievers

YoursTruly

Pre-Starbucks pro-coffee agenda!
Could David Bowie have gotten where he is today...without coffee? Kurt Vonnegut also!

Loose_Thread

Surely The Golden Age of Enlightenment could not be without the coffee and the communal environment of mania it created

("The Baroque Cycle" by Neal Stephenson can't be wrong)

YoursTruly

but what of TEA, the gentleman's drink?

coffee houses be damned to hellfire, all they do is foment rebellion

the_owls

TEA brings me both focus and calm.

TEA is a delicate broth, for kings and the finest of wo/men.

Tea comes with small and careful snack.

Tea, I beseech thee, Tea!

YoursTruly

All who speak in favor of Tea above Coffee are naught but despicable Races of Man, veritable Pharisees of mendacious beverage claims the fallaciousness of which can scarcely be believed by Honest Men.

Tea is the stagnant water poured off of dry dead mummified leaves; the swamp water that once enclosed the mouldering corpse of an Egypt-man's Mummy

Coffee is the noble elixir procured from vibrant growing Beans, plucked by the nubile Hands of young Savages in the Congo and roasted to a fine piquancy over only the most Fragrant of Fires

MirandaJuly

I fear this new beverage they call coff'ee is draining our men of their vital strength. They now lack focus and vigor when in passionate embrace with us.

joey

People who can achieve without coffee are super-achievers.
Just imagine what they'd do if we gave it to them?

MirandaJuly

Ok, I went and looked up that essay I was referencing in case anyone has not read it:

http://www.uni-giessen.de/gloning/tx/wom-pet.htm

MirandaJuly

And the men's response that I had not seen before:

http://www.uni-giessen.de/gloning/tx/mens-answer-1674.htm

"But why must innocent COFFEE be the object of
your Spleen? That harmless and healing Liquor, which
Indulgent Providence first sent amongst us, at a time
when Brimmers of Rebellion, and Fanatick Zeal had
intoxicated the Nation, and we wanted a Drink at once
to make us Sober and Merry: 'Tis not this incomparable
settle Brain that shortens Natures Standard, or
makes us less Active in the Sports of Venus"

ed_chigliak

straight from cnn
"For women, risk of depression falls as coffee intake rises"
http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/26/health/women-depression-coffee/index.html
(love that stock photo btw)

YoursTruly

I WAS JUST COMING HERE TO POST THAT

Dalas also that is really funny

"a drink at once to make us Sober and Merry"