We're a Melitta cone filter household too. The coffee's better than what comes out of most automatic drip machines, and they're faster, cheaper, and completely unbreakable.

I like the phrase "made the heart do the bad funky."

It's a little-known medical term.

coffee for functioning, not coffee for pleasure.

This is the only coffee I drink.

Ideally, they're both.

It's a little-known medical term.

Heh. That reminds me of Butter Battle, when I played Dr. Zook. It was written by a friend of mine, and he was directing, so we were often suggesting lines (three of us put together a whole mini-scene making reference to another musical going on at the time). One of my lines was, "The Lady Jane is loony as a mad corsair!" And I came up with this calculator schtick, whereby I pressed a bunch of buttons on three different calculators, and then on the last one, I turned it upside down (8008135) to read the diagnosis.

That's what I used during the performances, but I had had something else before, and I used it during the pick-up rehearsal. I did, "The Lady Jane is loony as a mad corsair!...It's a medical term." One of my co-stars thought it was really funny and wondered why I hadn't been doing that the whole time.

I have one cup of coffee every morning. (Okay, lately it's been 2.) That's it for caffeine. But lord help the person who gets between me and my cup.

This is me. Be prepared for crankiness, especially at work, before I've had my morning caffeine.

Thanks, Robin! (Did you understand it? Did anyone understand it? This is a key issue here. My editor tried to cut down my use of big words as much as possible.)

I understood it, and was glad I read it even aside from knowing the author--I've heard "COX-2 inhibitor" tossed around so much on the news, all without knowing what COX-2 was or why anyone wanted to inhibit it in the first place.

Good clip.

WRT coffee, neither DH nor I drink it. I'm one of those freaks who drinks soda for breakfast; he just does without caffeine until lunch. We used to have a French press for company--used to, because it was a little too close to the edge of the counter, and last week I was carrying a big load of laundry through the kitchen (since that's how you get to the laundry room) and knocked it off. I'll have to make sure to buy another before my parents visit again, because they're a pair of addicts for sure.

I understood it, and was glad I read it even aside from knowing the author--I've heard "COX-2 inhibitor" tossed around so much on the news, all without knowing what COX-2 was or why anyone wanted to inhibit it in the first place.

Thank you. You are so my target audience. And exactly why I wrote it.

Then you force them to swing by the nearest place that has coffee, and sometimes it's swill like gas-station coffee or Starbucks (sorry, Jess, but I just don't like Starbucks), but you do what you gotta do to get that fix.

Back In The Day of being sent to conventions by a certain Gaming Company, part of the booth set-up procedure was for someone to go find the first coffee shop within 4 blocks of the event, buy a cup of coffee and a double mocha, and then report on the quality. This happened *before* we set up merchandising displays.

Susan, your a freak like me! I've tried coffee, but I just can't get into it. I love my caffiene cold and bubbly.