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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: It's just coffee people.....
This is the thread that follow this strip:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/read.cgi?id=20081201&tid=3005354
The explanation:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081003190548AA4aTrl
Best Answer - Chosen by Voters
You order a Venti Cafe Americano (Espresso "watered down")with "room". Meaning room for cream and sugar which you will find at the bar. It has napkins, straws, spoons,stirrers,sugar, sweeteners, half and half,milk,etc..
You could order a venti brewed coffee with room. They usually have a couple kinds to choose from.
Or you could try a Venti Breve Latte or Cappucino. It's either a Latte or a Cappucino with steamed half and half instead of milk.
Starbucks has 3 sizes, Tall (small), Grande (Medium), Large (Venti). Then just whatever drink you want to order.
Any flavors, milks, etc. you want.
For example. I usually order a Venti Iced Quad-shot Skinny Vanilla Latte. Which means I want a large iced latte with non-fat milk, sugar-free vanilla, and 4 shots of espresso.
On some drinks they have whipped cream, if you don't want it, just order your drink and then say no whip.
1/2 caf, means half decaf, half regular.
there's alot more..... milk choices, sizes, no whip, sugar free or regular syrups, no foam, etc. etc..
If you order a frappucino, and you want to add a shot of espresso, ask for whatever size and flavor you want then say
"Affogato style". It's italian for drowned, it just means they float it on top of the frappucino.
MY RESPONSE:
IT'S JUST COFFEE PEOPLE, GET A GRIP!
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Old Salt
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Location: Anchorage, Alaska | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
I'll have a tall, triple shot, decaf, soy latte, thanks.
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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
what's that is REAL English? |
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 877
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Ric - 2008-12-01 8:48 AM
what's that is REAL English?
Flavored/colored heated water |
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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
There you go.... :-) |
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Senior Crew
Posts: 217
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I used to enjoy watching Frazier, where the brothers would go into a Yuppy coffee shop and place their orders. It seemed like their instructions would go on forever, requiring a “dusting” of this, a “hint” of that, and so on.
Drive up coffee stands are very big here in Alaska. Approximately four years ago, my youngest daughter started one, and it has put her through college. Dad gets his coffee for free.  |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1455
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It brought to mind one of the watch reliefs coming back aft carrying 4 cups stacked in each hand of black and bitter. If you wanted a "special" you usually had to get it yourself. To this day all I can stomach is B&B, of course it's decaf now so I'm not all that holy. I wonder if they still oolie to see who makes the coffee run. |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
After years on the road, coast to coast-border to border and then some, I very seldom drink coffee anymore. I used to consume gallons of it. Kept a 2 quart thermos within arms reach constantly. For some reason, when I retired I went cold turkey and really haven't missed it. Like my diet pepsi though. Consume about a 6 pack/day and for some reason I can't get my sleep adjusted. Bummer |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2673
Location: New Jersey | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
Great post Ric.
I like to go to Starbucks and order a "small, black house blend" just to confuse them. They understand that I ain't gonna call a small container, a large and they know that black means I don't take milk and they fill it to the rim...
While in Seattle last year for the USSVI cruise we walked around and I tried some of the local coffee shops. I walked right by the Starbucks shops. I did enjoy Tully's (I think that's the name) alot. I do love good coffee though and always drink & buy the regular blend.
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: New Jersey | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
Ralph, try the caffeine free. It works for me, tho I rarely drink more than I can a day. |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3202
Location: Alexandria, Virginia | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
Personally I prefer the gardinia flavored robo Columbian embalming fluid substitute with a double shot of Old Spice. The one that makes you pee perfume for two weeks that attracts gays residing within a 12 mile radius and forms the basis for California wedding punch. DEX....Oh my God, they're coming out of the woodwork...That awful Dex....He's a gay basher.....not really, as long as they stay on their side of the stall partition, don't engage in below the stall partition secret hand gestures, "foot gone wild" doo-dah dancing...note passing....winking through stall door cracks....or overt invitations to engage in motel mattress olympics...I could care less. If I was in a scavenger hunt and had to come up with a light in the loafers guy or a lesbian....if I couldn't get Richard Simmons, Rosie O'Donnell and/or that gal who has her own TV show, phone numbers from Verizon's Gay locator, I'd hafta hang it up. I don't drink sissy coffee with those cardboard "training wheels" rings....I like coffee that'll stop a buffalo stampede, resurect the dead and knock the antlers off a bull elk. DEX |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 2254
Location: Foothills of the Ozarks | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
I get a B&B from my local Caribou Coffee House every morning on my way to work. The young ladies who work there know me by name and always have a cheerful smile, a good joke and know that I know absolutely none of the jargon that goes along with ordering anything other than my usual "dark blend, black" which I have taught them is known as B&B.
When I had the broken leg they would bring it out to my car so I didn't have to hobble in there and I found out later I was known as the B&B guy with the busted leg. They never failed to have it ready for me. Now, I'm a customer for life. I wonder if I can teach them to put a little brandy in it on these frosty mornings?
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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: Now for some Coffee 'Geek' Humor....
Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised. ~Star Trek: Voyager
You know you've been playing too much Nethack when you refer to coffee as a potion of sleep resistance. ~Sweeney Todd Lundgren
C:\COFFEE.POT missing (A)bort (R)etry (F)all asleep?
In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running. ~Jeff Bezos
Ultimate office automation - networked coffee machines.
Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze.
It maketh me to wake in green pastures:
It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses.
It restoreth my buzz:
It leadeth me in the paths of consciousness for its name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of addiction,
I will fear no Equal:
For thou art with me; thy cream and thy sugar they comfort me.
Thou preparest a carafe before me in the presence of The Starbucks:
Thou anointest my day with pep; my mug runneth over.
Surely richness and taste shall follow me all the days of my life:
And I will dwell in the House of Mochas forever.
C:>COFFEE.COM error. Contact programmer J. Valdez.
Coffee: The first peripheral!
Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee. ~Alexander King
COFFEE.SYS Not Found: User startup disabled.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ~Paul Erdos
Caffeine Allocation Error: COFFEE.SYS missing, Programmer halted.
if(pot.coffee=EMPTY) {programmer->;brain=OFF};
Docs? Oh, you mean the stuff you wipe up coffee with?
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1893
Location: Patterson, New York | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
All I know is that black coffe spilled on the Launcher Panel did no harm.
But if the coffee that spilled had milk and sugar in it, the whole panel would light up; maybe even set off some alarms.
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Old Salt
Posts: 402
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I'll take a tall black coffee. It can be hot cold or my favorite lukewarm. (the jobs I worked usually required my assistance just after I had poured a cup). I don't care if the coffee is fresh or was made the day before and was thick from sitting on the burner all night. MMM MMM GOOD!!!
sTEVE
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1011
Location: NE Florida | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
The big pot in the after battery crew's mess (when made right, with a few egg-shells in the grounds) was the best.
Coming down out of the shears with ice all over your mask and parka.... anything warm might taste good. But that coffee..was great.
Starbucks can't re-create that feeling and taste.
Regards to all who've been there and tasted that..... Coyote |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1107
Location: Tucson AZ | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
Coyote, back in those days your coffee would have been USN blended and roasted - yes, Navy Supply Depots had their own roasting plants. At least in the Pacific Fleet anyway; i grew up in Oakland and can remember the aroma drifting east, on the sea breeze from the Golden Gate, from Oakland Naval Supply. |
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 602
Location: Visalia, Ca. | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
I remember, as a junior electrician, having to make the first batch of coffee in the 30-cup WestBend on the workbench over the port reduction gear on the old Brokedragon. And there still being a couple of cups left the next morning when the on-coming section relieved, thick as molasses in the wintertime, and strong enough to dissolve paint and rust off pump motor bolts. But we never had anybody fall asleep on the midwatch in our section.
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
Another use for coffee in my trucking days was to spread coffee grounds, about 5# worth, around the inside of my refer trailer to remove produce and fish odor. |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2673
Location: New Jersey | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
So ya see Ric, after all that's said and done, it's not just coffee people....it's alot more than that! |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
You're right, Joe. Coffee grounds work good in the flower beds and also to put nightcrawlers in when you go fishing.
Ain't these here BBS' great? Learn something new every day.  |
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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
I wasn't talking about "coffee people" I was talking about "coffee, people"... I quit drinking coffee ten years ago. It was impossible to get a good cup any more. Even Navy coffee was better than the swill served now IMO. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1324
Location: Oxnard, CA | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
Ralph Luther - 2008-12-02 11:41 AM
You're right, Joe. Coffee grounds work good in the flower beds and also to put nightcrawlers in when you go fishing.
Ain't these here BBS' great? Learn something new every day.
It's a known fact! Nightcrawlers grown in a bed with coffee grounds WILL NOT DIE WHEN PUT ON A HOOK! They will not stop wriggling when submerged in water, and will continue to attract fish long after a normal worm would drown. Worms grown in coffee grounds have been known to survive multiple fish strikes - that is - they have the ability to attract fish after fish after fish to strike the same bait, with no ill effects. It is quite possible to go on a weekend fishing trip with just one "coffee grounds grown" worm, and be able to return it to the worm bed on Sunday night, after having caught a whole stringer of Northern Muskies.
It's a known fact!  |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1107
Location: Tucson AZ | Subject: Put on the hip boots, boys, and ...
... start bailing! It's getting deep in here! |
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 606
Location: Citrus County FL | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
No kidding Jon? Gee, how big WERE those fish? |
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Senior Crew
Posts: 217
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“Nightcrawlers grown in a bed with coffee grounds WILL NOT DIE WHEN PUT ON A HOOK!”
Pat McManus has a dissenting opinion. He claims that garden worms make the best fish bait and that worms grown in compost heaps laced with coffee grounds are soft, fat, and lacking in fighting spirit. Garden worms, by way of contrast, after having endured several rototillings, are tough, mean, and street-smart. |
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Mess cooking
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I will go with what Patrick McManus says. He knew ALL there was to know about everything from KID CAMPING to Cabin fever in Idaho! |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
So now you got me to wondering----if I got someone waller around in a bed of coffee grounds would they/she wiggle around for hours on end. hmmmm |
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Wappingers Falls, NY | Subject: RE: It's just coffee people.....
Hey Doc...I just started drinking this brand and like it very much. Keurig makes the K cups for the coffee maker we have and it's really a nice brew. I have been having a problem getting the Green Mountain blend at the store, so went with this brand for the time being, but now I am going to stay with it. Are you "snowed in"...you're gonna need a little "nip" added, if it's that frosty! |
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It's just coffee people.....
