Quite right. This fellow is certainly a hero.
Regards, Ivan
1 posted on
04/27/2003 5:19:38 PM PDT by
MadIvan
To: alnick; knews_hound; faithincowboys; hillary's_fat_a**; redbaiter; MizSterious; Krodg; ...
Bump!
2 posted on
04/27/2003 5:19:49 PM PDT by
MadIvan
To: MadIvan
The Pope yesterday beatified a 17th-century friar credited with halting a Muslim invasion of Europe and in the process gave the world cappuccino coffee. Hey, I'm not even Christian and I think this alone makes him a saint, as far as I'm concernned.
To: MadIvan
The Pope yesterday beatified a 17th-century friar credited with halting a Muslim invasion of Europe and in the process gave the world cappuccino coffee. A patron saint of coffee? It's about time.
To: MadIvan
He was a friar, not a monk. The Franciscans are not monks. Neither are the Dominicans. The Benedictines are.
To: MadIvan
The Patron Saint of Coffee? Cool!
7 posted on
04/27/2003 6:30:11 PM PDT by
SuziQ
To: MadIvan
Ah cappuccino! It goes well with croissants.
9 posted on
04/27/2003 6:54:14 PM PDT by
Savage Beast
(Peace is the prerogative of the powerful. The path to peace is confrontation, not appeasement.)
To: MadIvan
Next up for beatification: Friar Espresso and Friar Mocha Latte. ;-)
To: MadIvan
Ya know, as much as I thoroughly love Fox News Channel.........I have it on most of the time..........I was sitting at my computer today, listening to it, and a news guy talked about how the Pope "beautified" several people today. Beautified. Just had to cringe and laugh.
To: MadIvan
BTW, when the Muslims take over France, do you suppose they'll outlaw croissants and force the French to eat cruciate pastries called croix?
12 posted on
04/27/2003 6:59:33 PM PDT by
Savage Beast
(Peace is the prerogative of the powerful. The path to peace is confrontation, not appeasement.)
To: MadIvan
sacks of coffee which the Christians found too bitter, so they sweetened it with honey and milk. Then they charged $3.50 a cup and the first Starbucks was born.
To: MadIvan
15 posted on
04/27/2003 7:03:11 PM PDT by
risk
(I'm making some good coffee to celebrate!)
To: MadIvan; risk
19 posted on
04/27/2003 7:32:16 PM PDT by
eleni121
To: MadIvan
What? The Turks took the sugar home but left the coffee?
In the old days when a guy came to visit the house of the girl he wanted to marry, he and the parents of the girl would sit in the living room and the girl would serve the coffee. Bitter coffee meant the girl was uninterested. Sweet coffee meant she was good to go..
20 posted on
04/27/2003 7:43:10 PM PDT by
a_Turk
(Lookout, lookout, the candy man..)
To: MadIvan
Great post! Bump
21 posted on
04/27/2003 10:21:43 PM PDT by
duckln
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