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How important is coffee in your life?

Posted by Arashmania • 7/14/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: addiction, coffee, craving, drug, health, life, work

In the past years I have grown hooked on coffee and it usually makes my day. During work it helps me get through the day, adding a savory flavor to it and making it all worthwhile. Still I tend to control my craving and keep it to maximum three cups a day.

Thank God coffee is a legal drug and accordding to new studies it is actually good for you in many aspects.

What do you think? Is coffee relevant to your life?

User Comments

7/14/08

Anok

I don't bleed blood.

I bleed coffee.

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1. 7/14/08
  
  alexmcone
  
  Pfft. Showoff.
2. 7/14/08
  
  Anok
  
  Ha! Maybe if you drank more coffee that moving incident would never had occurred! *giggle*
3. 7/15/08
  
  alexmcone
  
  Hell. If I had been drinking beer it wouldn't have mattered so much.
4. 7/15/08
  
  alexmcone
  
  Darned stupid double posts
5. 7/31/08
  
  keyster94
  
  Anok, that's what I was gonna say!
7/14/08

TimMc

Anok...we must be related. I think I have more coffee than blood running through my system. Dark Roasted, Organic Ethiopian Yrgacheffe. MmMmMMmMmMMMmm

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1. 7/14/08
  
  Anok
  
  It's true - seeing me without a cup of coffee in my hand is like seeing me without an arm.
  
  It's just not right
7/14/08

wigwam2theorem

Very important. 2 cups in the morning to keep me awake.

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7/14/08

Arashmania

Apart from keeping me alert, it also works as a laxative.

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7/14/08

MadameX

I like coffee, but it's not a habit with me. Most days I make coffee in the morning; some days I drink a cup or two and some (in the winter, especially), I drink it all day. Others (like today), I never get around to making it at all.

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7/14/08

ThriftShopRomantic

I don't drink a lot of coffee-- usually just one good cup of it to start-- but that cup makes a difference in my awareness of the great world around me.

Huzzah for coffee!

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7/14/08

calais50

I actually started a thread on caffeine addiction a while back. I am now able to function on one cup of coffee at lunch time and I feel so much better than when I was drinking lots of coffee. Here is the thread I posted:
"I drink 4-5 cups of coffee per day. I have recently been trying to cut down on coffee as I have a heart arrythmia that is worsened by caffeine, plus drinking coffee makes me awake for a little while but saps all of my energy later. I have recently cut it down to half, but because of that, I am now always so sleepy and tired I can barely move. I only feel awake for about an hour a day. Also I've been incredibly bitchy, with a capital B, which is not like me. I imagine some other people can quit with no problem, but not me..."

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7/14/08

Norski

I'll plead the fifth - cup of coffee, that is.

Seriously? I like my coffee in the morning, but have eschewed it from time to time without later running into walls or falling asleep on the keyboard.

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7/14/08

dlowe

I am a computer programmer. Coffee is liquid productivity.

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7/14/08

lulubelleb

Coffee used to be one of my basic food groups, along with chocolate, bread and pasta. Unfortunately, I'm on a medication that has changed my palate. Coffee smells revolting to me now. Chocolate tastes like burnt motor oil. Bread and pasta taste sour or curdled. The docs tell me my normal sense of taste will return when I'm finished with this treatment, it's just a matter of time. (sigh)

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1. 7/14/08
  
  Anok
  
  Oh that is horrible! I'll drink your share until you're better.
7/14/08

Donlewis

It's hour of the day dependent. Early in the morning, it trumps my wife and kids. By now, the market is down and I'd only swap out a couple of best friends.

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7/14/08

XanthePat

I hate coffee

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7/14/08

Lainey

2 cups every morning, without it I get the awful caffeine withdrawal headache. Must have coffee!! When I worked 12 hour shifts in a hospital around 4:00 PM we'd make a pot to get through those last 4 hours.

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7/14/08

flamingpoodle

Coffee is my one true love.

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7/14/08

curlydesigh

I truly love coffee, but don't understand decaf.

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1. 7/14/08
  
  Arashmania
  
  I completely agree with you! Decaf = nonalcoholic beer ...meaning who on earth would wanna drink any of those?
7/14/08

wehireu

It keeps me grouchy in the morning and gets me out the front door. Two cups a day.

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7/14/08

weblogian

Is it true Coffee kills fat?

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7/14/08

kdawg68

only drink the stuff once in a while on weekends. I've got enough vices as it is.

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7/14/08

jadedconformist

Strangely enough, because of my new-found fondness for coffee, I drink almost none of it at work now. I didn't realize how horrible the workplace coffee was until I developed a taste for it. I don't consider myself a coffee snob by any means but I still can't believe I used to think that coffee was fine.

Would any of you drink the most expensive coffee in the world; Kopi Luwak?

"Kopi Luwak (pronounced [ˈkopi ˈluwak]) or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus)."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

I make mention of the coffee in my short story, along with some other unsavory concoctions: jadedconformist.blogspot.com/2007/11/groovy-kind-of-love.html

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1. 7/14/08
  
  Arashmania
  
  Yes, as a coffee junkie i have included a lot of free advertising in most of my stories too, once even enlisting all its benefits in an ode to coffee. i can't help it!
7/14/08

craftymug

I love my coffee! I drink it with nothing added. No creamer, no sweetner, just caffeine.
craftythisandthat.blogspot.com/search/label/coffee%20sayings

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7/14/08

lordiwanttobewhole

i'm more of a tea drinker....

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7/14/08

howardbannister

Coffee is made from beans. Therefore, it is a form of protein.

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7/14/08

Sylvia

I love coffee....lots and lots of coffee

and THIS GUY CAN SERVE ME 10 CUPS A DAY

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1. 7/15/08
  
  flamingpoodle
  
  Damn paparazzi. They always catch me at the most inopportune times! At least I had a cup of coffee to cheer me up, otherwise I'd be shooting at them.
2. 7/15/08
  
  JacobDiv
  
  yea, I look a lot better than that bum.
3. 7/31/08
  
  Theresa111
  
  Hey! No fair!
4. 7/31/08
  
  howardbannister
  
  I think I know what religion that guy is.
5. 8/01/08
  
  riaboo
  
  Oerrrrrrr!
6. 8/19/08
  
  slivatree
  
  I didn't give permission for my photgraph to be published! I wish!
7/15/08

7masterheathen

Coffee is at it's most important to me before I get out on the road in the morning for the drive to work. If I have no coffee, I am a road hazard to one and all, possibly creating 2-10 car pile ups with an exploding fuel tanker as icing on the cake. With coffee, I can abide by- most -traffic laws.

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7/15/08

Majik

I can't think straight without a coffee in the morning and I can't sleep with out having a cup of decaf at night. If I could hook up an IV to put coffee directly in my system I probably would.

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7/15/08

roentarre

Very much. Love coffee. It is my life

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7/15/08

XIII

Mmmm, coffee. About 15 cups a day on average.

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7/15/08

JacobDiv

Bering Sea crab fishing boats go into port when they run out of coffee. So, I don't mind admitting it's a necessity.

WOW, lots of heavy coffee drinkers on here. Who wudda thunk?

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7/15/08

Shiley

I need coffee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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7/15/08

thoughtsofg

eww coffee

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1. 7/15/08
  
  7masterheathen
  
  No No... don't say eeewwww. Say Yum-Yum-Yumly to coffee! It is the greatest beverage on earth! Hooray!
  
  Sorry... I think I've had one too many cups.
7/15/08

Closeoutindustry

I take coffee to work daily, but

I forgot my coffee mug yesterday and ended up ripping of the head of a fellow employee. I hate it when that happens-

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7/15/08

vijayalakshmioct8

i drink oly when i get headache. i know it wouldnt relieve me from headache but gives me some power to withstand

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7/15/08

8MinutesOld

No, I don't like coffee. I prefer tea, you don't need a machine for it and there are so many different types and tastes, I always find something I like at the moment.

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7/15/08

kaguvkov

Very important as well as tea..lol

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7/15/08

WilDip

Like Anok, I bleed coffee.

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7/15/08

Houseonahill

It is the only thing I drink daily ~ ALL DAY! Instant Gano excel with reishi, organic, folgers, mcdonalds, instant...whatever the form...can you get it intravenously???

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7/15/08

whatweneed33

Can't stand it! The smell alone makes me ill. I am probably the only living person on the planet who has never ventured into a Starbucks for fear of spontaneous combustion.

I wish I liked tea, but I don't like that either. :-(

I'm such a weirdo! :-)

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7/15/08

Wisco

It's more important than water. I am fueled by caffeine.

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7/15/08

Sway

oh god yes, I drink so much coffee it's ridicules.

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7/31/08

drjay1966

"it's my wife, and it's my life"
Lou Reed (not actually singing about coffee)

"Wake up and turn I loose...got to have [coffee] now"
Bob Marley (also not really singing about coffee)

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7/31/08

acousticguitarist

yes it is yes it is yes
organic

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7/31/08

bloggernoob

it's whatevers. i love tea tho. and i love frozen yogurt. PinkBerry rules!

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7/31/08

drjay1966

To be really timely about it, I might mention that it's 3:28 here, and I need to get up in the morning...so coffee's gonna be really, really important a few short hours from now....

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1. 7/31/08
  
  DrowseyMonkey
  
  I hear that.
7/31/08

ArtConch

Have you seen my avatar, enuf said LOL

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7/31/08

jetz09

i love coffee!

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7/31/08

mikemetalord

...very!

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7/31/08

mariamichelle

I love coffee especially chocolate raspberry flavored with white chocolate creamer. For me it's a great way to start the day.

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7/31/08

clioandme

I love it when my five-pound bag of Fair Trade coffee arrives from Dean's Beans. Tastes so much better than what's in the store, because it was just roasted before they ship it. And the fact that the small-time growers can make a living from the stuff instead of becoming slaves to giant agribusinesses makes it that much yummier.

(Edited to add: Ordering this way makes Fair Trade an option. Couldn't do it at store prices.)

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7/31/08

drjay1966

As a follow up...my morning coffee (Fair Trade) tasted gooooood. Too bad it's gone now.

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7/31/08

LGramlich

Not very. It's Coca Cola I'm addicted to. (Guess I like my caffiene cold.)

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7/31/08

Theresa111

I am getting ready to plug in the coffee right now. Mmmmmm

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7/31/08

howardbannister

Coffee is a form of protein, because it is made from beans.

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1. 8/18/08
  
  TheRedFedora
  
  coffee is not a good source of protein, it barely has any calories, but it does also contain trace mineral elements and antioxidants
7/31/08

JanelleV

I'm not a big coffee drinker..

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7/31/08

4Freedoms

Coffee make me awake...

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7/31/08

Fashionablebags

I love coffee and tea!!

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7/31/08

drjay1966

I need some...now

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7/31/08

drjay1966

god...I wish I could post on this thread without having to scroll past the guy in the tighty-whities, though

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7/31/08

WilDip

Very important. I drink about 4 cups a day. Try Bustelo y'all!

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7/31/08

BlondeConfessions

it's pretty much coursing through my caffeine-dependent veins

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7/31/08

CreativeJunkie

I hate coffee (((ducking for cover)))

But I love hot chocolate!

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1. 7/31/08
  
  offendedblogger
  
  I hear there is therapy for people like yourself.
  
  With that, I am off to make a double shot latte with extra foam! Yummmm.
7/31/08

Ca1v1n

Life without coffee would be like life without sex. In fact if I had to choose one over the other... coffee would win.

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7/31/08

interestingingrid

Can't stand coffee.

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7/31/08

interestingingrid

Can't stand coffee.

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1. 8/19/08
  
  slivatree
  
  Sit down then.
7/31/08

catycat

my god i cant live without coffee,,hehehe

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8/01/08

riaboo

Must have my morning coffee or else I turn into an unrecognizable heap of mess.

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8/01/08

DVS

It's not about fitting time for coffee into my life..more fitting my life around my time for coffee. ;(

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8/01/08

GFG

Kopi-O is important

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8/01/08

DVS

'Rocket fuel' that's my tipple...classic kick starter.

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8/01/08

drjay1966

Sorry to keep resurrecting this thread...
it's just that coffee is resurrecting me...

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8/01/08

Arashmania

The coffee gods will certainly appreciate it!

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8/01/08

wildStarr3

You mean that coffee is actually NOT important to some people?!!

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1. 8/19/08
  
  slivatree
  
  To some it is very important not to drink it.
8/01/08

JDh888

i am a iced tea addict

southern ruuts

i guess

iced coffee, now you're talkin

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8/18/08

TheRedFedora

Without coffee, I doubt I would get out of bed. I even prep my coffee pot so all I have to do is push a button (somedays, that's even too much for me, and my husband has to do all the work and push the button)

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8/18/08

CrystalRaven

ok I am sooo addicted to coffee, that as a poster above mentioned I was put on a medication that required little to no caffine, as soon as the pharmacist told me this, I went back to the doctor and asked for a different medication, I am not joking you

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8/18/08

melindaville

I refer to coffee as PLASMA. :-/

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8/18/08

RTBjr73

It's one of my four main food groups

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8/18/08

drjay1966

One of the big questions in my life is: which is more important--a satisfying quantity of coffee throughout the day, or restful sleep...I go endlessly back and forth on that one....

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8/18/08

Arashmania

I used to drink French roast to improve my French during classes ...it actually worked!

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8/18/08

ender

0

i hate coffee. gross.

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8/18/08

kateblogs

Probably too important, I drink a lot of it. Having said that, it does have a health benefit, I suffer from asthma and drinking coffee in the morning means I don't need to use my inhaler.

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8/18/08

irync

Mmm...coffee! The aroma alone is enough to perk me up. A cup is a must to start my morning off.

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8/18/08

drjay1966

Now THIS thread I'm always happy to see again...except for that guy in the tighty whities I always have to scroll past to comment....

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8/18/08

pamelabaker

Coffee is VERY important to me...I care for children! I have a a friend who has a mug that says, instant human...just add coffee!!
Surely that mug was meant for me

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8/18/08

Arashmania

I'm excited about my cup of coffee tomorrow ... i can almost smell its roasty goodness!

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8/18/08

artpaw

I do not drink coffee, but I just learned the other day that a combo of used coffee grinds and dish soap will remove oil paint or any type of messy grease from your hands. It works like magic.

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1. 8/18/08
  
  drjay1966
  
  My mom says coffee grounds also work to clean a disposal unit in a sink.
8/19/08

stephenams

Without coffee, I'd die!!!

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8/19/08

Slashbe

No coffee here. I drink 4-6 red bulls a day instead.

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8/19/08

Vex

Coffee and caffine are evil. I don't touch the stuff.
*prepares to be stoned to death*

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8/19/08

slivatree

Coffee isn't my cup of tea!

Health wise, I've too many bad things about coffee and too many good things about tea.

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8/19/08

angkaganjil

it is so important!

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8/19/08

slivatree

Funy but I just posted and the next page on BC gave me this:

We're sorry, but our database servers are currently overloaded.
Please enjoy a cappuccino and then try refreshing this page. ~ BlogCatalog

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1. 8/19/08
  
  ThomasCSlater
  
  Looks like coffee is stealing the market! lol
8/19/08

contentconnection

i'm a coffee addict!

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8/19/08

gabgab

the aroma of strong hot black coffee makes feel so alive and alert ...

in fact , i getting myself another cup ... what brand/type do you prefer Brazilian ? Starbucks ?

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8/19/08

janizarzagon

i love to sip a cup of coffee every morning. It's my substitute of not taking breakfast.

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1. 8/19/08
  
  stephenams
  
  for me, coffee=breakfast. hehehe...
8/19/08

HRobertSJS

I am so horribly addicted to caffeine that I will

- get up on Saturday and Sunday mornings and WALK to Tim Horton's to buy myself that oh-so-critical large double-double (18% cream!!) instead of sleep-in. Funny thing is I'm not the only one who does this. There's actually a lineup!

- get up a half-hour earlier than I have to just to beat the morning drive-thru rush. I have painstakingly observed the patterns of coffee-drinking humans and have discovered that the best time to get there is at exactly seven minutes before the 7am. It doesn't make sense. But I don't ask why, I just work with it.

- if my coffee is not exactly the way I like it I will dump it and go sit in the long lineup again. When I get to the window I complain that if I wanted coffee that tasted like monkey shit I would have gone to Starbucks to get it! He he. No offense to Starbuckers, k? They really do have (I think) a coffee that is first filtered through monkeys and a cup goes for something like - correct me if my memory fails here - $600??

[img]nyquil.org/uploads/capuchin-o.png[/img]

P.S. No clue how to ad image here. I tried. Would someone help? Please?

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8/19/08

Arashmania

looks like somebody needs a cup of coffee here ; )

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8/19/08

Grumpus

Coffee is hot liquid rock n roll.

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8/19/08

drjay1966

I was just talking to a friend about espresso...now I want some...but it's 12:50 AM...not sure where I'd even get any this time of night...maybe I should go to bed...then I can get up early and get some...mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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1. 8/20/08
  
  HRobertSJS
  
  drjay,
  
  Judging by your appearance, I don't think the %18 cream would hurt you.
  
  :-)
  
  Robert
4/07/09

marrysoe

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4/07/09

IreneH

i don't really like coffee as i'm afraid it makes me to have imsonia! hahaha..

irene-whatsoever.blogspot.com

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4/07/09

Halconite

As important as waking up early in the morning...

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4/07/09

asaboy666

Well it helps me not to fall asleep on nights. But it makes my Blood pressure high. So I dont drink too much.

Fried Pal
friedpal.blogspot.com

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4/07/09

rfburnhertz

My wife and I grind 2Lbs plus per week...
so it's pretty important.

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4/07/09

shadowmoon87

As important as this piece of paper on the trash right by the side of the computer.
In other words, it's not important.

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