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To: Grut
by the way, I wondered where my coffee fetish came from.
24 posted on 06/25/2008 6:12:05 PM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: normy
by the way, I wondered where my coffee fetish came from.

Put it like this: in the Norwegian my father's family spoke, when a visitor departed the formally correct thing for the host to say was "tak fur sitten" ('thanks for visiting'), to which the formally correct reply was "tak fur caffien" ('thanks for the coffee').

31 posted on 06/26/2008 8:52:18 AM PDT by Grut
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