'Shindig'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Coffee history's finest moment:
1453: Coffee is introduced to Constantinople by Ottoman Turks. The world's first coffee shop, Kiva Han, open there in 1475. Turkish law makes it legal for a woman to divorce her husband if he fails to provide her with her daily quota of coffee.
There's a quota?
Our in-house nutritionist, who is a sweet if optimistic girl, put up displays outside all the company cafeterias on the Evils of Caffeine
Pfah! I would go on the counterattack. How dare she malign my poor innocent little coffee beans, who selflessly give their lives that I might stay up reading till 3 AM and still put in something like a day's work. Why, the history of caffeine is the history of civilization! Liberty, equality, Darjeeling tea! Semper filter! Free Java!
1511: Khair Beg, the corrupt governor of Mecca, tries to ban coffee for fear that its influence might foster opposition to his rule. The sultan sends word that coffee is sacred and has the governor executed.
Sounds like it woulda paid to find out if the Sultan was a coffee drinker (not to mention a morning person) before giving that a try.
We are now well into the realm of Too Much Sharing. Today our nutritionist featured asparagus outside the cafeteria. She included a poll -- we were to fold up preprinted pieces of paper labelled either "Asparagus makes my pee smell funny" or "Asparagus does not make my pee smell funny" and place them into the provided bowl. At least they weren't signed...
What next? "I had oysters last night and my boyfriend's still sore"?
Was that supposed to be in Natter, Betsy? If not, it's another funny buffista coincidence.
Our in-house nutritionist, who is a sweet if optimistic girl, put up displays outside all the company cafeterias on the Evils of Caffeine
See, they keep changing their mind on this. For a while, it was all Caffeine = EVIL. But I've seen things recently where scientists are saying that 1 or 2 cups of coffee a day aren't really harmful and, in fact, might have some health benefits.
Okay, I just went and looked it up and this is my favorite part:
Coffee even offsets some of the damage caused by other vices, some research indicates. "People who smoke and are heavy drinkers have less heart disease and liver damage when they regularly consume large amounts of coffee compared to those who don't," says DePaulis.
Frankenbuddha, that was a follow-up to my last crazy nutritionist story.
Betsy, was there a checkbox for "I find the in-house nutritionist creepy and intrusive"?
Coffee even offsets some of the damage caused by other vices, some research indicates. "People who smoke and are heavy drinkers have less heart disease and liver damage when they regularly consume large amounts of coffee compared to those who don't," says DePaulis.What if you smoke, but only occasionally have a couple of glasses of wine?