Voltaire's Weird Situation with Coffee
javawizard
- from the Food section of www.odd-info.com
toci
> Voltaire drank between fifty and sixty-five cups of coffee every day.
> - from the Food section ofwww.odd-info.com
He stayed close to a toilet? Toci
Rainy
Steve Ackman wrote:
> In <99a4fa76-6216-4444...@m74g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
> on Sun, 5 Oct 2008 10:37:41 -0700 (PDT), javawizard, javaw...@aol.com wrote:
> > Voltaire drank between fifty and sixty-five cups of coffee every day.
>
> So which is it then? In
> news:1990eafd-d864-4123...@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com
> you warned that you can accidentally kill yourself by
> drinking as little as 40 cups of coffee a day.
>
> --
> ☯☯
Might be a matter of size of a cup, but more likely that you can kill
yourself if you drink 40 cups all of a sudden but gradually going up
to 60 is unwise but not lethal.
lavarock7
> In <99a4fa76-6216-4444...@m74g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
> on Sun, 5 Oct 2008 10:37:41 -0700 (PDT), javawizard, javaw...@aol.com wrote:
>
> news:1990eafd-d864-4123...@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com
> you warned that you can accidentally kill yourself by
> drinking as little as 40 cups of coffee a day.
>
toci
> Steve Ackman wrote:
> > In <99a4fa76-6216-4444-8211-690fc3eef...@m74g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
> > on Sun, 5 Oct 2008 10:37:41 -0700 (PDT), javawizard, javawiz...@aol.com wrote:
> >> Voltaire drank between fifty and sixty-five cups of coffee every day.
>
> > So which is it then? In
> >news:1990eafd-d864-4123...@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com
> > you warned that you can accidentally kill yourself by
> > drinking as little as 40 cups of coffee a day.
>
> And Voltaire is still dead, right? :-)
Voltaire was seldom dead right. Toci
DougW
> Steve Ackman wrote:
>> javawizard wrote:
>>> Voltaire drank between fifty and sixty-five cups of coffee every
>>> day.
>>
>> So which is it then? In
>> news:1990eafd-d864-4123...@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com
>> you warned that you can accidentally kill yourself by
>> drinking as little as 40 cups of coffee a day.
>>
> And Voltaire is still dead, right? :-)
After all that coffee he probably still has the jitters.
http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2006-10-18/
--
DougW
Twug Storn
news:99a4fa76-6216-4444...@m74g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> Voltaire drank between fifty and sixty-five cups of coffee every day.
> - from the Food section of www.odd-info.com
Probably little tiny cups
Flasherly
> "javawizard" <javawiz...@aol.com> wrote in message
I'd wonder -- being it's going to be brewed, and likely served up with
mugs, wooden or fired earthen. Also, where he drank it -- coffee
would have been right for a café, as it was his youth that saw coffee
being first moved off street vendors and into house establishments.
Let's see, ah yes -- Voltaire frequented The Café de Procope, at some
opposition to La Comédie, Procope, also being of lower street urchin
origins, whose proprietor managed to build and sway into an artistic
vogue, clients of a likes among writers, musicians, or actors.
Voltaire actually preferred coffee without culinary taste strictures,
being it was laced by chocolate. The candid beat aesthete, however,
often a populous characterization of a French cavernous setting, in a
dark basement dimly offset by candles, may very well be prototypically
found in this very den he frequented. To credit, one may suppose, an
adherence his stayed within alliances, and forewent any indulgence The
Café Royal Drummer sallied, as aristocratic bents inclined;--
Apparently within contrasts, Louis XV incessantly attended, to a
degree of vice and excess apportioned, that Marie Antoinette no less
gratified at some further realm of what that should conceivably
entail.
From the mere briefest of trivias compounded from [pp. 18-20 of] The
Book of Coffee and Tea, by Joel Schapira, I humbly thought to submit
for your greater perusal.
Ennobled in attestation, as always &etc.,
-F
Space Cowboy
We side with Voltaire who said of coffee, "It is a poison, certainly--
but a slow poison, for I've been drinking it these eighty-four years."
Jim
Flasherly wrote:
> On Oct 7, 4:27 pm, "Twug Storn" <tytyt...@tytyttyty.com> wrote:
> > "javawizard" <javawiz...@aol.com> wrote in message
> >
> > news:99a4fa76-6216-4444...@m74g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > > Voltaire drank between fifty and sixty-five cups of coffee every day.
> > > - from the Food section ofwww.odd-info.com
> >
> > Probably little tiny cups
>
> I'd wonder -- being it's going to be brewed, and likely served up with
> mugs, wooden or fired earthen. Also, where he drank it -- coffee
> would have been right for a caf?, as it was his youth that saw coffee
> being first moved off street vendors and into house establishments.
> Let's see, ah yes -- Voltaire frequented The Caf? de Procope, at some
> opposition to La Com?die, Procope, also being of lower street urchin
> origins, whose proprietor managed to build and sway into an artistic
> vogue, clients of a likes among writers, musicians, or actors.
> Voltaire actually preferred coffee without culinary taste strictures,
> being it was laced by chocolate. The candid beat aesthete, however,
> often a populous characterization of a French cavernous setting, in a
> dark basement dimly offset by candles, may very well be prototypically
> found in this very den he frequented. To credit, one may suppose, an
> adherence his stayed within alliances, and forewent any indulgence The
> Caf? Royal Drummer sallied, as aristocratic bents inclined;--
Flasherly
> Also on page 90:
> We side with Voltaire who said of coffee, "It is a poison, certainly--
> but a slow poison, for I've been drinking it these eighty-four years."
>
> Jim
Poison is a bit harsh, but for a context to have chosen a less
innocuous word. From a forgotten Chinese book - War should be
resorted to when all else is exhausted, like a poison;- Or, alcohol,
slow suicide by poisoning. Coffee, of course, being of a "known"
affiliation issues instigate, if not one then of fermenting
concoctions, seethed to a boil in a damning indictment issued by the
King of England (and shortly abrogated due to popular outcry. A few
pages before the intro coffee takes, off Parisian streets into cafes,
is a mention of the London circuit, which I didn't read. Except a
nearby paragraph that, at the time dear spry Voltaire was drinking
cafe coffee, alcohol's popularity was again gaining appeal in London,
perhaps giving coffee houses a run for their money;... I daresay
within reason soddy stories of gin near epidemic proportions
circulate, though I wouldn't know their chronology).
-F
Scott Dorsey
Steve Ackman <st...@SNIP-THIS.twoloonscoffee.com> wrote:
>In <99a4fa76-6216-4444...@m74g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
>> Voltaire drank between fifty and sixty-five cups of coffee every day.
>
>news:1990eafd-d864-4123...@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com
>you warned that you can accidentally kill yourself by
>drinking as little as 40 cups of coffee a day.
That is FOOLISH. Aside from the CONSTANT SEIZURES and the BRAIN DAMAGE
it is PERFECTLY SAFE.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
Alan
(Sorry; pet peeve.)
Alan
On Oct 10, 10:35 am, klu...@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> In article <slrngeif6p.vp9.st...@sorceror.wizard.dyndns.org>,
> Steve Ackman <st...@SNIP-THIS.twoloonscoffee.com> wrote:
>
> >In <99a4fa76-6216-4444-8211-690fc3eef...@m74g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,