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Santa Cruz perks up for caffeine alert
Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | By NANCY PASTERNACK

Posted on 03/14/2005 12:33:42 PM PST by freebilly

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To: Billthedrill
"..I'll take his word for it. They look at you funny at Starbuck's when you march up... and announce loudly "I'll have the Turkish enema...""

Remember...it's Santa Cruz...and without batting an eye they'd probably ask "One quart or two???"

(/barf off)

61 posted on 03/14/2005 1:30:36 PM PST by GoldCountryRedneck (The Flogging Will Continue Until Morale Improves)
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To: sam_paine

I'm on my 4th or 5th cup of bad coffee right now and other than just hollering at my boss and calling him a "freakin' moron", it really has no effect on me....


62 posted on 03/14/2005 1:32:31 PM PST by freebilly (Go SC Basketball!)
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To: Bob
"Driving highway 17 from Silicon Valley to the People's Republic of Santa Cruz is an especially bad place to do it as well."

..........yeah, remember how it was before the extended the barrier between the the west and east bound lanes......hilly mountain roads.....hell, that was a death defying act to drive home from Santa Cruz on the weekend..........yikes.......pretty drive though
63 posted on 03/14/2005 1:34:16 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: sheik yerbouty

I've never had turkish coffee...but I can tell you, as long as it's really really fresh, I'll drink any coffee.

I brew my own espresso with distilled water, so the only taste I get is the coffee...

I read somewhere that for 20 minutes after brewing, coffee has as much or more antioxidants as broccoli. Tastes better, too.


64 posted on 03/14/2005 1:35:33 PM PST by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: clearsight

It's up to the individual to understand how they respond to anything they put in their body - coffee, nicotine, booze, medicines, supplements, etc., and then act responsibly with what they choose to do.

I agree with you about #4. I am by no means a caffine junkie, but I do keep caffeine pills in my glove box for emergencies. I've been on long dark roads late at night fighting off sleep - it's very dangerous when pulling over doesn't seem smart and neither does continuing driving.


65 posted on 03/14/2005 1:36:48 PM PST by Sax
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To: clearsight

It's up to the individual to understand how they respond to anything they put in their body - coffee, nicotine, booze, medicines, supplements, etc., and then act responsibly with what they choose to do.

I agree with you about #4. I am by no means a caffine junkie, but I do keep caffeine pills in my glove box for emergencies. I've been on long dark roads late at night fighting off sleep - it's very dangerous when pulling over doesn't seem smart and neither does continuing driving.


66 posted on 03/14/2005 1:36:50 PM PST by Sax
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To: Texan5

in the immortal words of Beevis after a pot of coffee..."I am the Great Cornholio..I need T.P.(toilet paper) for my bunghole!


67 posted on 03/14/2005 1:37:34 PM PST by Stacks (stacks)
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To: Bob

Ah the memories, I used to do that trip daily in the 80's
when living in Crapitola.

Its easier to just have a cardboard cutout of the bird
on a stick to wave out the window, avoiding finger strain.
God knows I needed one several times a day...

Is Rotkin still the Mayor? Doesn't he own Bookshop SC?
I know he is/was? a proud Marxist buisnessman.


68 posted on 03/14/2005 1:40:40 PM PST by rahbert
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To: freebilly

How many Californians does it take to drink a cup of coffee?
5, one to do the actual drinking, and 4 to share the experience.
"Can you grok the caffiene?"
"We're here for you: just be the coffee."
"Share, coffee-brother."
"In a parallel universe, I once was Juan Valdez."


69 posted on 03/14/2005 1:42:06 PM PST by tumblindice (Our Founding Fathers: all conservative gun owners)
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To: Billthedrill; Thinkin' Gal; general_re
“Turkish enema for this one.”
70 posted on 03/14/2005 1:42:22 PM PST by dighton
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To: freebilly

I drink a pot a day. I don't know how many cups that is. I do know I'm an ass at work, so I can't see how coffee could make me worse. ;-)


71 posted on 03/14/2005 1:43:58 PM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: rahbert

Obviously what is needed are Caffine Road Blocks. I suggest Monday mornings during Rush Hour when straight, White men are most likely to indulged in caffinated beverages. "Is that an empty Diet Coke can in the back seat? Out of the car!"


72 posted on 03/14/2005 1:45:14 PM PST by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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To: freebilly

I finished with caffeine after I got pregnant 16 years ago, and never went back. Then I found I couldn't handle the stuff after that. It's really not a big deal after you get used to it.


73 posted on 03/14/2005 2:00:07 PM PST by AmericanChef
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To: rahbert
Is Rotkin still the Mayor? Doesn't he own Bookshop SC? I know he is/was? a proud Marxist buisnessman.

I really don't know. I haven't kept track of that open-air asylum in quite a while. (I used to live up the road in Felton so I never had to deal much with PRSC directly.)

74 posted on 03/14/2005 2:01:21 PM PST by Bob
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To: dighton
Egad. "The cup! The cup! You're supposed to take it out of the cup first!"
75 posted on 03/14/2005 2:10:45 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: freebilly
What about the well known dangers of second hand coffee vapors?

I'm sick and tired of all the inconsiderate coffee adicts that think it is their right to pollute the air everywhere with their foul stinking, (and proven danger) of coffee vapors. Every night I come home and my wife exclaims, Eeee Uuuu, you smell like coffee. A friend of my wife's cousin got cancer last year and I know that all the coffee drinkers in her office caused it. If these people can show any more self restraint than this, then there oughta be a law, I tell you.

--Boot Hill

76 posted on 03/14/2005 2:18:22 PM PST by Boot Hill ("...and Josuha went unto him and said: art thou for us, or for our adversaries?")
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To: freebilly
"But a cup of java in the morning is a lot better than the old Turkish enema," he said.

Nothing like moral relativism. Drink a cup of coffee or ram it in the back door. It all the same to a friggin homo.

77 posted on 03/14/2005 2:25:01 PM PST by evolved_rage (OLAP SCHMOLAP)
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To: freebilly

There is something about all those banked curves on Highway 17 that convinces many drivers that they are in a competitive race. If you are not keeping pace, some idiot will position himself one car length behind you at 65 mph, while the "leaders" flash by on your left. It is probably the most dangerous stretch of road that I have ever regularly driven.

I eventually decided that my safest bet was to enter the competition and try to finish in the middle of the pack. To prepare for that, a few cups of coffee at the Denny's on Ocean St. in Santa Cruz were just the thing, at least for me. Then again, I am not prone to road rage.












78 posted on 03/14/2005 2:33:30 PM PST by TChad
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To: Judith Anne

Less propulsive than brocolli as well.


79 posted on 03/14/2005 2:35:54 PM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: rahbert
Is Rotkin still the Mayor? Doesn't he own Bookshop SC? I know he is/was? a proud Marxist buisnessman.

Nah. That's Neal Coonerty.

Rotkin is a registered (or was) Communist Party member who is now merely a Green or a Socialist Party member, I can't remember which.

Rotkin's big claim to fame is coming to the PRSC as a grad stoodent in the 70's and doing a thesis on "how to take political control of Santa Cruz" which he then apparently successfully implemented. Basically depends on going up to the university every election and getting the kiddies to vote for all the nutcases.

It's to laugh. Let them go after the coffe houses. That's all they have to sell here. The screaming will drive the loonies from office. Let them overstep, it'll be a riot to watch. Save the rest of us from having to drown the SOB's someday.

80 posted on 03/14/2005 2:46:08 PM PST by Regulator
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