coffee charley Dark murky life blood of the addict. more than cola, less than espresso. Something for Sage. 980906 ... charley tastes like old, dirty oil.. see: death (I can't help it -- I'm addicted) 980908 ... charley uhmm.. is it strange that I've made more than one entry for coffee???? 980909 ... charley And even stranger that no one else seems to care about this elixir? COME ON PEOPLE!! It's COFFEE for god's sakes!! 980909 ... charley just try a teency, weency taste... come on.. its good for you.. really.. :) 980909 ... eric ohmigod, i got him started .... how could i have known? 980909 ... angelea is how i met technology. i got a job pumping espresso at a local cyber-cafe in 1995, started surfing after work and the rest is history. imagine that? 980917 ... caty is associated with mint choccies and sleeping bags. Wonderful housemates and freezing Yorkshire winters. Yum. 981006 ... sarah i take mine black, no sugar, thanks. 981021 ... k i started at age 2. watered-down. i cannot live without it. wah. 981125 ... angelea free now for 1 month and one week! don't you love it? 981128 ... shay there's a coffee stain on everything i own. a girl i love has a yellow mustard stain on everything she owns. she once tried to cajole me into drinking only one cup a day. i don't see her much these days 990131 ... emily A little bean, a little water, some flavoring, and whip cream make emily a happy girl. 990205 ... daxle indications: short term alertness and energy, when one must get up before noon dosages: 1-2 cups upon waking, extra doses as needed throughout day side-effects: body moving while mind is asleep, twitching incessantly with over 32oz at once, honking and squealing "do you want a ride!?" 990504 ... donaldson i drink about 90 - 120 oz. a day, which started as an accident and has become a habit i have this mug that holds 30 oz. and i normally drink three or four cups a day, so you do the math... now i have to drink that much or i just freakin' coma out but i still really love coffee, as only a junkie can 990604 ... rsdio Another cup? 990604 ... jules a reason for me to leave the house and see friends. a reason for me to complain if I don't get it in the morning. another addiction. goes well with chocolate. I luv my coffee. 990615 ... uncle aussie hits the spot. you know the spot. yep, that spot. 990622 ... emsie is one of the most comforting drinks ever. a cup in DC with a cigarette is pure heaven... 990702 ... OTK well, i'm addicted enough that i need it to get to sleep at night. it IS the four food groups. 990723 ... thera and cigarrettes and random conversations about the meaning of life and the reason I wake up in the afternoon. 990727 ... emma foul-tasting stuff that deteriorates the integrity of your body's every fiber. get over it, kids. 990727 ... marjorie me. 991203 ... amy you. 991203 ... valis like a psycho girlfriend that you know you should break up with 'cause you can never get to work on time the next morning ... 991208 ... nameless dicaffe is useless but i dont drink coffee at all i dont get the satisfaction with drinking something bitter and when i did drink coffee i used to put tons of sugar and milk in it and then i could barely call it coffee because it wasnt bitter at all so whats the point of that i stopped drinking coffee because i had no reason to. why does everything must have a point anyway? here i am moving from coffee to points and when i have too many subjects to think about at the same time my mind is getting all confuesed... and then i stop thinking and starts again i hate it when i think about too many things at the same time my mind is getting all confuesed...i said that already didnt i? sometimes i have a thought in my mind and i think the same thought again from some reason and then that thought seems totally stupid. i feel trapped when i think to much and i cant fix my thoughts so i could actually understand what i think because i dont understand what i think ok shut up now dear nameless 991217 ... andrea as i shuffled my feet through the leaves the brisk october wind had scattered on the ground i was startled to see you standing round my door-i'd never have guessed it and didn't want to question just invited you in for a cup of coffee 991231 ... jennifer deb, andrea and jennifer made their way through 3 pots of coffee last night 991231 ... Q and, as always, it was, well, very good, veen without the cream 991231 ... andrea had sooo much with jen and deb and proceeded to denny's by myself and sat at the counter where my waitress Fauna introduced me to MEL i found out he lives a block away from me and has gone to denny's every friday morning for 27 years i had to leave him because my hands were shaking so bad i could barely pick up my sixth cup copyright 1999 991231 ... king kai another crutch 000101 ... deb yum... how many cups can i have before i notice i drank the whole pot alone? twelve, i guess? ::grins:: don't mind me, i'm strung out on caffine again 000101 ... deb yum... how many cups can i have before i notice i drank the whole pot alone? twelve, i guess? ::grins:: don't mind me, i'm strung out on caffine again 000101 ... deb (damn, i hate it when that happens) 000101 ... jennifer "I like my coffee like I like my women... In a cup." 000103 ... jennifer eddie izzard 000103 ... nameless well now i do get the satisfaction about coffee, i started drinking it. it just smells great so i had to feel the smell... taste the smell... and since then i drink about a 3-4 cups a week. no, im not addicted. 000120 ... beth well i think except for a few exceptions this page covers everything that i could have said. i like to think of myself as being known for drinking coffee alost as a badge. just the smell brings me uncontrolable joy. the thought of being without it is beyond any pain ever...somethign wrong with me? nah 000129 ... roxy i was addicted since age seven and then when i turned ninteen it started giving me panic attacks. isn't life grand. 000208 ... Verdulum A recent dependance. Overdue work. Dark liquid. Beans in a pot of water. coffee.. so strong it's solid.. 5 spoons of sugar.. no milk.. you either work, or shake to death trying. 000221 ... nameless "I like my coffee like I love my man: strong, hard and with 2 spoons of sugar" don't remember who said that 000417 ... nameless no, actually it's: strong, good and hot 000417 ... birdmad did someone say eddie_izzard ? 000512 ... birdmad i used to know a dominatrix who had a diferent take on that: "I like my coffee the way i like my customers: pale weak and bitter" she was insane (gloriously so) 000512 ... Brad Maybe it was the coffee? I don't understand how the cute girl with the blonde curly hair knew that it was a moment of personal crisis for me. And her approaching me to start a conversation, while uncomfortable, made it all better. Sort of makes one believe something's in control. 000804 ... eruth be and cigarettes. soothing to the psyche. corderoy clad warrior of words. "welcome to planet earth young lad." days and days before yesterday i actually believed i owned the world. an entire empire, an entity for myself. but then the "irish" coffee departed for the urinal. i felt much better. the day was over. and over. and over. 000814 ... misstree late nights at Denny's, hot, bitter love getting me a little more jittery... a constant comfort, though only occasionally an addiction... bad is REAL bad, good is incredible... "sweet as death and black as my heart." (_Agyar_, Steven Brust, prolly misquoted) need some now to help soothe the bruises, so i'm off... 000815 ... misstree oh, yeah... when i drink lots of coffee, the next day, i smell like onions. took me a long time to figure out what was causing the peculiar scent. had an ex-boyfriend who was quite turned on by me smelling like onions, though, so i guess it worked out well. 000815 ... guitar_freak mocha latte!! 001012 ... psycho babe mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmi like coffee especially good coffee lattes, cappicinos, mochas, you name it I drink it 001103 ... ass facely i like mine black as satan's dingy little shard of heart. 001103 ... SCOTT i likes it breve style-from the middle way cafe in ANCHORAGE, ALASKA sit and smoke and read some Dante, Twain, Hemingway, or some of Jim Morrisons poetry while jacking myself up on the java? oh such heaven 001109 ... stupidpunkgirl we sit and drink coffee at denny's and watch the world go by we sit and drink coffee and talk about everything we sit and drink coffee because that's all we can afford we sit and drink coffee and experience life we sit and drink coffee and feel pain we sit and drink coffee and everything becomes okay 001219 ... ddarre gimme 001220 ... darling so many conversations, getting to knowyou. laughing with you. so many things could have evolved between you and I. for an unknown reason, you searched for my number, to pick me up, for a cup of coffee. the coffee was icky (until i added every creamer and sugar avalible) but you, you were intresting. that cup of coffee turned into an amazing friendship. and i miss you. i hope life is well. 010108 ... stupidpunkgirl drinking coffee every night not just one cup (or five) so many i lose count my hands shake if i don't have coffee and i can't concentrate but what would i do if i didn't drink coffee? 010108 ... daanuh Im sorry, I prefer tea. 010108 ... moonshine The way we laughed over coffee and rice. Silkworms breeding cats furnishing dreams of furbies with human teeth. 010109 ... Cathy it's meant to be bad for you but i always find it so comforting; cold, dry fingers stretched possessively around the warm mug. You can stop thinking then and just think about the coffee. "Is it too hot? Too cold? Too sweet? Too strong?" Simple little problems to distract you from the big ones. Nice. 010415 ... mblase No matter how much I want the caffeine, I can't drink the stuff. Tastes terrible, repels me utterly. So I make myself nauseous with the Mountain Dew; it seems like the lesser of two evils 010426 ... coffee achiever coffee is good 010426 ... Thing Unknown I am immune to all of coffee's effects... except for the third degree burns. 010426 ... rubydee stopped coffee cigarettes marijuana and cocaine all on the same day i miss coffee the most irritated in corner shops the smell tempting drawing me in evil power delicious wet god 010604 ... Sol eugh bluegh ak ak ak ugh! *frantically wipes out mouth with sleeve* hehe, i sound like a kid, I hate coffee 010604 ... Persona Coffee Prayer: O Coffee...thou art truly the nectar of the gods...surely Tim Horton's is your divine temple. Thou asketh me for a smoke whilst I drink thee, and happily I succumb to your sweet allure I shall pledge my oath of faithfulness and loyalty to thee: my large double triple glory. Amen 010705 ... black-dyed gel product nope, it's not helping my hangover... 010706 ... silentbob Legal speed the american way -lagwagon 010706 ... silentbobfuckyou Six Page GuestCheck by me Sick with situation Sick with Complication Sick with Conversation sick with concentration sick with Contemplation She strings coffee beans on a hemp necklace to be who she is not just who she wants to be Shes enjoying herself for the first time and has no one to apologize to for it a momentary loss of memory As i refrain from punching the glove box the coffee is a steamy swamp black and bubbly in my stomach. i listen to her talking like i'm her ventilation web. I collect it from her and pour it in my coffee and stir it with the syscoware stainless steel spoon. Her talking wavers my sickness and heals the already festering wound, festering for three long days. Burn me black syscoware coffeemug let me feel besides this ache. the way it all turned out Did it have to be this way? If only i had done something different. The piggies huddle close in sandled shoes the active listening steams sugary from half and half infested waters. My sunburn plays mind games with my heart maybe my skin is just plastered with pain she writes letters to people who she'll never send them to records tapes of burned cds of acoustic guitar. Coffee spilled like raindrops down our cups brown and muddy like puddles of pain. coupled with tooth decay and bad breath. we see a couple out the window drunkenly kissing as they walk towards this truck stop A discussion of a public display of affection spawns acknowledgment of two overturned empty coffee cups at a table for four Do you ever wish you could break prople? Make it so they exist no more This mood rises up from my stomach gets caught in my throat blasts all the affection for everything i have as i belittle myself and regret my own value. Recounting all the events of my sickly ill-spent life, wondering how much was marred with deciet. 010712 ... yummyC wow i liked that poem a crazy lot. 010712 ... Tiffa Midnight Black Throw some sunshine in, and let the rain fall. Eyes wide open Mind shimmering dull Coffee burn on my jeans keeps me awake at night. 010723 ... Solstice A friend of mine used to tease me about my coffee addiction. (She doesn't drink it). I used to tell her I didn't think I was addicted, and I thought I could quit if I wanted to. Then one day she was at my place when I was staying home with my bf's two kids (ages 4 and 2). We were out of coffee. I almost died. And the bitch laughed at me. 011106 ... ilovepatsajak black with tons of sugar 011106 ... guitar_freak :) COFFEE!!!!! I drink WAY too much 011117 ... yes coffee takes you to a happy medium between sleep and dreaming when you're not awake. that can be a scary place sometimes 011214 ... ClairE "I like my women like I like my coffee -- strong and black." Not for Claire. Only coffee icecream (yum!). 011214 ... ClairE Coffee ice_cream is even better 011214 ... ellen cherry charles my drug of choice 020106 ... ellen cherry charles my drug of choice perhaps my only "vice" 020106 ... Miffey I can't seem to get the real thing anymore, so I guess artificial sleep will have to do. 020110 ... reitoei possibly the single greatest and most influential substance ever discovered. how many brillinat ideas have been thought of at 2 am on a caffiene high. bitter and black, sweet to me. i hunch over the mug and let the steam rise up, fogging my glasses and take that first small sip of scalding life. 020110 ... niki coffee ice cream!!!! my favorite!!! 020111 ... kelli crane i really need to cut down. or maybe de-caf? 020112 ... kelli crane i really need to cut down. or maybe, de-caf? 020112 ... kelli crane de-caf for sure! 020112 ... sphinxradio caffiene makes me pee. 020201 ... Grievance I don't understand what all of the fuss is about. I don't like coffee. ew. (shouts to himself. *shakes head* still don't understand. Tastes like black dirt with cream and sugar on top.) 020205 ... ravensfears Coffee. Its the drink of Gods. I have a cup here, in my hand. Its steam smells like heaven, and it is the perfect color of the exact ammounts of cream and sugar I like. Coffee is better than sex. 020208 ... Yes ojsyr voggr eoyj s psddopm/ oi jsyr smupmr ejp ;olrd vpggrr/ hpf o , h;sf ,u gosmvrr fprdm y ;olr vpggrr/ djr pm;u ftomld yrd/ imgptsymry;u oy d ptsmhr [rlpr/ o yp;f ,udr;g yp esyvj piy gpt ep,rm ejp ;olr ptsmhr [rplpr/ o s, dvstrf yp frsyj pg epr,rm jsbr mp [oyu gpt ,u. o smv jsmf;r oyq 020210 ... reitoei i used to big on coffee but i've cut back now...in favor of the higher caffiene drinks but there's still nothing like a fresh ground and brewed cup of black coffee to get going with. the bitter taste which is strangely the best thing on earth, a scalding cup of coffee rushing down your throat. what if coffee were illegal? the world would come grinding to halt like a coffee grinder when you turn it off... the world would skid to a standstill, no one would rise to do the drudgery of work. life would end. coffee is the elixir of life 020210 ... girl_jane I'm a social drinker. 020226 ... silentbob i had way too much coffee last night with a bottomless glass of coke. I've been generated for about 9 hours. 020301 ... yummyC gives me headaches 020302 ... Mo I like me coffee,with,Milk n sugar 020313 ... Kate So he pulls his car up to mine as we are in the parking lot doing our drivers ed and he asks me what I'm doing tonight. I tell him that I don't know and wonder what he is implying. Remember this doesn't happen to girls like me. The next time our cars end up next to each other, he asks me if I like coffee. I don't so I told him I like tea instead. The third time, he asks me if I want to go to a coffeeshop with him tonight... and I told him that would be nice but I'd have to see what my mother said... but he isn't sparkingly unique to me. I think I have a magnetic impulse to guys with a variation of the name Jon, only his is with an h "like John the prophet". I had to correct him and tell him that John was a disciple. 020706 ... krimilda coffeeshops, coffee, capuccinos, mochaccinos you name it, i'll drink it... specially colombian coffee, pure colombian coffee which lives in my kitchen and comes to me whenever i want it to... is my coffe talking to me???, addcited? jeje, i love it 020909 ... mypalsticmind i like coffee cuz i don't smoke. "smoking is like drinking coffee through a vale." i love the the bitter-sweet hardcore feeling you get after you take your first sip...coffee is grand. one time i spilled ocffee on my new chuckies...i was sad, but the coffee actually made them quite unique-looking. you should try it sometime 020909 ... myplasticmind i like coffee cuz i don't smoke. "smoking is like drinking coffee through a vale." i love the the bitter-sweet hardcore feeling you get after you take your first sip...coffee is grand. one time i spilled ocffee on my new chuckies...i was sad, but the coffee actually made them quite unique-looking. you should try it sometime 020909 ... myplasticmind well 2 is a good number 020909 ... Torch the good brew that gets me up and going for my day 020909 ... *nat* the lets-stay-up-all-night drink I make the best coffee 020909 ... kenobi Ambrosia 020909 ... adumb i don't need no food or drug i just need my coffee mug.. the descendents 021012 ... deadened The first thought when I wake. The sweet smell still lingering in my nostrils from the night before. The car keys sitting beside the money anticipating my rush the put shoes on. The cold morning ride to the coffee shop. The first sip warming my insides. And all is right with the world. 021212 ... Strideo "First introduced in about 1668 in the States to replace tea after the Boston Tea Party, drinking coffee was a patriotic duty and served to defy the British." Wow! I'm a patriot! . 021213 ... Kristopher I once wrote a poem about coffee. Usually spoken while having a cup in hand. My Ode To Coffee: "Coffee! *take sip from mug* WHOOOOOO!!!" Thank you. 021213 ... Reverend Lough she woke me up one morning with a kiss and a hot cup of Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee with cream and sugar......... that's love....... 021215 ... Reverend Lough there is no exquisite sin greater than partaking in the occult ritual of coffee consumption. pure bliss. 021215 ... Reverend Lough if you like a good mocha, you should try this: large mocha with -white and dark chocolate -3 shots of espresso -shot of passion fruit syrup -top with whipped cream this is, by far, the best drink i've ever made. enjoy 021215 ... Strideo damn those robusta beans! what we need are more arabica beans. . 021216 ... Reverend Lough nothing on earth can compare to the potent force of regularity that coffee can bring. i can always count on a cup of coffee to aid me in pushin' out that morning shit!! 021219 ... angie c o f f e e coffee is not for me its a drink some people wake up with that it makes them nervous is no myth slaves to a coffee cup they cant give coffee up haha has anyone heard that before?? it's one of those scary singing round things...that never stops and u split up the groups so everyone is signging a different part and it sounds really creepy haha 021219 ... mourningstars i haven't had enough today caffeine withdrawal gives me a bitch of a headache just a few more cups and i'll be fine 021219 ... Strideo there was this anime called "the Humanoid", I swear underneath it all that movie was really about coffee . 021220 ... Reverend Lough had to cut back for a while...ya know, give the "libido" a break....switched to tea (JUST TEMPORARILY). i'm handlin' it fine..... 021230 ... me the blood in America's veins 030107 ... Lilac I have some need_for_change so I can get some hot_coffee 030108 ... jane see: frappuccino {i think that's how it's spelled} 030108 ... . . 030108 ... Kristopher Alright, all you baristas out there, I have a recipie for you. This is something my good friend FreakBoi came up with one night he stumbled into my cafe. And he taught me this wonderful drink, which I have called 'The FreakBoi Special'. Simple recipie. . . 1) Get the largest cup you can get your damn hands on. 2) Put four (4) shots of espresso. 3) Give it about two or three healthy shots of vanilla syrup. 4) Fill it up to about three-quarters of the way with regular coffee. 5) Fill it to the brim with cold half-n-half (to cancel out the hotness of the coffees so you can down it in about five seconds). 6) Enjoy! 7) Not sleep for three days. But, I don't do caffiene anymore. . . 030129 ... Jennifer Bethke ... but you could ask him for coffee some night. It's the non-relationship drink of choice. It's not a date, it's a caffeinated beverage. Okay, sure, it's hot and bitter, like a relationship that way, but... 030513 ... niska you forgot to add the bourbon 030723 ... writings on weed in the morning to wake up, first thing at work to again, wake up, then during lunch, and then after work, thn after dinner, and then, with friends, and then after midnight with my rommates and/or girlfriend, and the of course, to go to sleep... i am addicted as fuck, hee heeh heeee... it's not even funny.. what's gonna happen to me.. i think i'm gonna die if i don't quit... and with cigarettes it's even better -- makes you concentrate on whatever you're doing, like reading or writing... like right now two different aromas going on here coffee and cigarettes.... damn, i get addiectd to everything... 030918 ... darsai the smell coffee makes me feel good, the taste makes me fly 031007 ... maggie coffee reminds me of her. i hate her. 031030 ... jim Coffee is a gift from the good Lord above, a divine source of focus for the easily distracted. This fine brown friend was aleays a self-administered medication before I was diagnosed with ADD.Only three gallons consumed over the course of the day and I was focused like a laser, twitching around like I had a bad malady.Now that I have a script from Doc for the ADD, coffee is purely recreational. I'm down to about a pot to one ond one half pots daily.I dont consider it an addiction because it's not harmful to self; but, this could be a classic case of the junky's self-delusion,"really, I don't have a problem with XXX..." 031101 ... jim Coffee is a gift from the good Lord above, a divine source of focus for the easily distracted. This fine brown friend was aleays a self-administered medication before I was diagnosed with ADD.Only three gallons consumed over the course of the day and I was focused like a laser, twitching around like I had a bad malady.Now that I have a script from Doc for the ADD, coffee is purely recreational. I'm down to about a pot to one ond one half pots daily.I dont consider it an addiction because it's not harmful to self; but, this could be a classic case of the junky's self-delusion,"really, I don't have a problem with XXX..." 031101 ... Toxic_Kisses drank some from the cornerstore this morn, bleck! I dont rember it tasting this ma-tal-lick-E and it ended up makeing me thirstyer then I had be befor I drank it *Wrinkles her nose* any one want the rest of my coffee? 040102 ... orangine no,no - tea 040202 ... devalis Last saturday I stumbled half asleep into the kitchen, fumbling around for the coffee filters. I don't drink coffee, even the gourmet stuff turns my tastebuds inside-out, and not even in the good way that navel orages and Poprocks do. The different flavors never taste different and things like "white chocolate almond" end up tasting like COFFEE. It's a disappointing endeavor and most people treat coffee like fine wine, which to my slight and probably skewed recollection, isn't necessarily a party in your mouth either. But I moved over to the coffee pot anyway, filling the filter with a cheap little packet of decaf that I'd gotten with the pot for free. The coffee dripped, and I was taken back to that day in the appliance store. I had tried to convince myself that as I was standing in the checkout line that I was buying a coffee pot because I love the smell of freshly brewed coffee. It's be like an air freshner or something, putting the 'pot' back in potpouri. Yeh, I felt better, knowing that I was buying a pot and filters for me, not because I hoped to lure one green-eyed, ruffly-haired coffee drinker into my apartment for a freshly brewed cup. In the morning. With breakfast. In bed. I listened to it percolate, closed my eyes, leaned up agaisnt the countertop. Breath in, breath out. Standing there in one blue terrycloth slipper and a white button down shirt -his button down shirt, gawd, it still smelled like him!- I tried to piece together what exactly I'd just done, how any of this actually happened. The coffee dripped. And I love the smell of fresh brewed coffee in the morning. 040329 ... dosquatch Consciousness distilled, Morning nectar filling the pot, Bringing awareness, alertness, awakeness, with every falling drop. drip... drip... drip... drip... BREW FASTER, DAMMIT! 040423 ... paperthin i drink my coffee black, i like good coffee but the coffee i drink is bad, even a coffee shop can fuck up coffee, i think that because i drink crappy coffee i will enjoy good coffee so much more when i have it, Guatemalans themselves drink crappy coffee yet they have some of the best coffee in the world that they export, i don't really drink that much coffee when someone is thirsty they never think 'I'll have some coffee!' but it's a liquid ??? 040427 ... EbilSporkMonkey Coffee is my god! See I was godless but now I have my delectable coffee as does everyone else here hopefully it'd be a damn shame to run out of coffee I'd start twitching and things of that nature. It's too late for me I'm way too addicted at this point. Well good luck everyone! 040429 ... EbilSPorkMonkey The perfect night would be sitting on the couch the house is empty no one here but my coffee and me... thank you! 040429 ... dosquatch the_coffee's_not_strong_enough 040525 ... hsg appx 200 cups to OD LD50 040719 ... pete my addiction 040719 ... abradarba DON'T drink a cappuccino after noon time in Italy. The world should abide by the habits of the italians, as a rule. They Know. Anyway, Cap is really only pseudo-coffee, or maybe alt-coffee. 040719 ... pete it takes the headaches away, though no longer wakes me up 040723 ... unusual for me Wish I had a pot of coffee and a few friends to share it with, right now. Dark and hot creamy and sweet We talk and sip and drink and share till the cup is empty and my soul is bare.... 040727 ... Borealis I stink of coffee... 040727 ... pete i brought my mug with me so when i go to wait in line at the bank i can drink my coffee and satisfy the headaches... yesterday i had 4 cups.. mmm mmm dark coffee 040728 ... z black with a heart syringe. (no sugar) 040728 ... pete i handed the barista my ginourmous coffee mug, heavily insulated. 'it only holds as much as a normal one' i told her. she looked at me as if i was lying, but soon proved me right. 'where'd you get this? the bookstore?' 'no,' i said, 'i took it from oprig this morning.' 'ohh,' understanding was on her face, 'its one of those.' 040810 ... fritz I was drinking cold, day old coffee. He woke up with a hangover, and stared at me from across the room. I looked back at him. Then it all made sense. I finished my coffee. He went back to sleep. 040922 ... sameolme If coffee was just discovered, it would be hailed as a wonder drug, Prozac doesn't come close to it. 040922 ... tr coffee black.. 050129 ... 39 minutes ago Coffee May Help Prevent Liver Cancer 050215 ... . http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6975257/ 050215 ... Ol Bill at coffee shops & cafes, everywhere...with people 050222 ... Amreen_1977 I'm a caffine addict, chocoholic. 050518 ... pete six months after dropping it cold turkey i tasted coffee again in a fit of intoxication. after a night spent drunk and high watching dune til we passed out, the next day a cigar was produced and the coffee made, only to be followed by more alcohol and grass, filling the room with delightful smells and sights. now its part of the daily tradition again. pick your stimulant, running or drinking coffee.. the later ill prepares you for the former, creating the vicious cycle that keeps the trails away... 050816 ... Drakka If I could make a deal with the Devil in the pale moonlight that I could consume nothing but coffee drinks yet I would be skinny as a snake and healthy as a horse... But I could never eat solid food again, no matter how good that curry looked... I'd take it in a heartbeat and be glad I'd done it. Coffee tastes so good. Ten shots of esspresso consumed during the course of an hour acts as a mild halucinogen for me. 051030 ... yum Coffee may help protect against liver cancer A cup of joe a day reduces risk of disease, study finds Chris Ammann / AP The Coffee Grinder in Westminster, Md., offers over 50 varieties of coffee beans as seen in this July 21 photo. Researchers in Japan have discovered some eye-opening news about coffee: It may help prevent the most common form of liver cancer. The Associated Press WASHINGTON - That hot cup of coffee may do more than just provide a tasty energy boost. It also may help prevent the most common type of liver cancer. A study of more than 90,000 Japanese found that people who drank coffee daily or nearly every day had half the liver cancer risk of those who never drank coffee. The American Cancer Society estimates that 18,920 new cases of liver cancer were diagnosed in the United States last year and some 14,270 people died of the illness. Causes include hepatitis, cirrhosis, excess alcohol consumption and diseases causing chronic inflammation of the liver. Animal studies have suggested a protective association of coffee with liver cancer, so the research team led by Monami Inoue of the National Cancer Center in Tokyo analyzed a 10-year public health study to determine coffee use by people diagnosed with liver cancer and people who did not have cancer. Decreased risk They found the likely occurrence of liver cancer in people who never or almost never drank coffee was 547.2 cases per 100,000 people over 10 years. But for people who drank coffee daily the risk was 214.6 cases per 100,000, the researchers report in this week’s issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. They found that the protective effect occurred in people who drank one to two cups of coffee a day and increased at three to four cups. They were unable to compare the effect of regular and decaffeinated coffee, however, because decaf is rarely consumed in Japan. It’s the caffeine in coffee that makes some people nervous and it has been shown in other studies to prompt mental alertness in many people. Some studies have suggested caffeine aggravates symptoms of menopause or intensifies the side effects of some antibiotics. Heavy caffeine use has been linked to miscarriage. But studies have also shown that a skin cream spiked with caffeine lowers the risk of skin cancer in mice. “It’s an excellent, interesting and provocative study and their conclusions seem justified,” commented Dr. R. Palmer Beasley of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. “It will provoke a lot of new work here,” said Beasley, who was not part of the research group. Reason for effect unclear While the study found a statistically significant relationship between drinking coffee and having less liver cancer, the authors note that it needs to be repeated in other groups. And the reason for the reduction remains unclear. However, Inoue’s team noted that coffee contains large amounts of antioxidants and several animal studies have indicated those compounds have the potential to inhibit cancer in the liver. In their study, the team also looked at green tea, which contains different antioxidants, and they found no association between drinking the tea and liver cancer rates. “Other unidentified substances may also be responsible” for the reduction in cancers, they said. A separate study reported in the same issue of the journal reported no relationship between drinking caffeinated coffee or tea and the rates of colon or rectal cancer. However, that analysis did find a 52 percent decline in rectal cancer among people who regularly drank two or more cups of decaffeinated coffee. In that study a team led by Karin B. Michels of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston analyzed data from two large studies — the Nurses’ Health Study of women and the Health Professionals’ Follow-up Study involving men. The analysis of nearly 2 million person years found 1,438 cases of colorectal cancer. While they did not find any association between cancer rates and consumption of caffeinated coffee or tea, people who regularly drank two or more cups per day of decaffeinated coffee had about half the incidence of rectal cancer as those who never drank decaf. The rate of rectal cancer was 12 cases per 100,000 person-years among those who consumed two or more cups of decaffeinated coffee per day. For those who never drank decaffeinated coffee, the rate was 19 cases per 100,000 person-years. That difference may, however, be due to differences in lifestyle, the researchers commented, suggesting that drinkers of decaffeinated coffee might be more health conscious overall. The Japanese study was funded by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan. The U.S. study was funded by the National Institutes of Health. 070104 ... pete i think i may be in the midsts of coffee withdrawal. can't remember when i last had a cup, though when i stopped i was having upwards of 6 to 7 a day... whooo. now my body is having trouble realizing it's not tired.. caffeine does not wake you up, it just lets your body know it isn't tired. go body go, produce that hormone! 070425 ... Ouroboros Stopped for a week, but green tea wasn't cutting it, so stopped at the local hip cafe and reclaimed my addiction to the dark bitter liquid that keeps me going 070425 ... too much oh... go for a walk in the fresh air then... might help - you never know ? coffee is natural.. but too much of anything an't good - thats what people say anyways. 070426 ... pete walking helps, runnin' helps, biking helps, just drinking a damn coffee helps. did that, brain realized it wasn't tired, slowly, slowly. 070427 ... Ouroboros staying at my boyfriend's house, perfecting the cup that comes from his french press- little bit of traderjoes organic/fair trade breakfast blend, little bit of vanilla fat free 1/2&1/2, the right size coffee mug, instructions from the internet, and vola! caffeine that tastes good! 070918 ... coolsoundingme live and die by this shit 070919 ... hsg http://www.goodlifeletter.co.uk/news/161-can-coffee-really-save-your-eyesight.asp Can coffee really save your eyesight? 22nd June 2007 Cracking bit of good news on Tuesday... don't know if you saw it... But a new study, reported in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, suggests that drinking coffee can protect your eyesight. Italian researchers looked at the coffee drinking and smoking habits of 166 people with a condition called 'blepharospasm'. This is where you get an uncontrollable spasm in your eyelid. It's not just annoying... it can lead to blindness. Now it's claimed that one or two cups of coffee a day can reduce the risk of this condition. Worth knowing, I think. And there was some more coffee news recently. And it made me chuckle too... Shock revelation from the Journal of Pain! Did you know there was a Journal of Pain? Well, there is. Possibly not a relaxing Sunday morning read, or a beforebedtime thing... but anyway... In January, this journal suggested that drinking coffee could help reduce the pain you get after exercise. Now, as you know, I'm not a big exercise man. I'm a big man, yes... EXERCISE, no. My belief is that we can prevent many diseases, ailments and weight gain by making tiny additions, deletions and tweaks to our daily diet. To help this along, we need to walk more. Move about more often. Take some fresh air. In my view, we all need to keep mentally and physically alert. But this doesn't mean we all have to lock ourselves in a gymn and turn into Arnold Schwarzenegger. I mean, do YOU want to govern California? But I do notice a lot of aches right after I've got back from a bike ride, or a long country walk with the kids. Or shopping with Lara (the worst pain of all!) And perhaps you're the kind of person put off moderate exercise by these aches pains that follow. If so, it's useful to know that the study found that two cups of coffee can cut muscle pain by up to 48%. But researchers at warned this may not be applicable to regular caffeine users. This is because they are less sensitive to its effects. And finally, today, there's a lot of confusion about the relation between coffee and kidney stones... Is coffee good or bad for kidney stones? According to a study in the Journal of Urology in 2004, if you are prone to kidney stones you should cut down on the number of cups of coffee you have each day. The scientists gave a group of people who had a history of kidney stones some caffeine. They tested their urine and found larger levels of calcium, which could raise your chances of getting kidney. In an interview with Reuters, the study's leader, Dr. Linda Massey of Washington State University, said 'those prone to kidney stones should have no more than two cups of coffee a day.' Okay... But other research also suggests that coffee, alcohol and milk are actually GOOD for kidney stones. According to a study reported in Kidney International in 2005, coffee, among other things, could be protective against stone disease. This is because coffee is a diuretic, which means that they dilute urine and increase the amount of times you need to go to the lavatory). Confusion! Confusion! Just shows you that science never really has conclusive answers, as the establishment would have you believe. If this was alternative medicine they're been pointing at it, laughing 'I TOLD YOU IT WAS NONSENSE'. Personally, I drink coffee, but limit it to no more than two small cups, or one large mug every day. Seems the best way to go. 080825 ... unhinged i go through a pound of whole beans in about a week and a half; i could probably stretch it to two weeks if i rationed myself, but i like a pot of strong oily goodness in the morning. 080825 ... unhinged alterracoffeepro.com i've been going organic for awhile now. blue heeler dark sumatra but my all time favorite was: cafe volitaire 080825 ... In_Bloom Takes the edge off my knotted stomach and slows my thoughts to where I can think and breathe at the same time. That organic Sumatra is wonderful. 080825 ... hsg let_it_be_known that bit i posted ended with " personally, i dont drink coffee" well i should have quoted it. because i do drink coffee. 080911 ... hsg still outsells energy_drinks (thank_odd) 090630 ... Ouroboros 2 weeks without! 090630 ... unhinged i discovered that if i roll out of bed and take a walk the first thing i do, i have more energy all day than if i drink a pot of coffee. but i haven't rolled out of bed and taken a walk since i made the discovery. it is somehow much more appealing to roll out of bed and fix a pot of coffee and chill in front of my comp. is not much of a go getter in the morning 090630 ... Ouroboros I have also figured out that if I were to go for a walk or run or do 5 minutes of yoga in the morning, my day is significantly better. And yet I do this once every blue moon. 090630 ... no reason that sounds nice perhaps i shall try it especially since coffee doesn't like me. 090630 ... hsg im more attracted to the coffee_shop setting than the coffee itself. as of late I reduced my consumption 2 only fair trade organic / sustainable / not_cut_down_the_rainforest coffees. 090630 ... camille http://postmaster.kessels.com/Hobby/wav/ohyeah.html 090701 ... Jurisprudence Black coffee is a little acidic for me but a touch of cream makes it wonderful. 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I was like "WHAT?!?" ...Holy SH__ ROFL..OK now i'm stressed. pray for me will you fellow blatherer's geez the migraine that comes with this kind of nonsense. I'm healthy (shhh they haven't discovered caffeine in coffee is a drug) what don't they get...i speed walk/power walk an hour an evening like a woman driven my exersion is my peace___argh i'm coffee driven..got to have it..."FOLGER'S" like soldiers in my cup...c'mon i work with children i can't do "24 hours LOL sh__ 110711 ... Toxic_Kisses I use to be a coffee thief mom drank coffee quite a bit when I was really young, but rarely would she ever finish her mug so their was usually about a little less then half a mug of coffee sitting about somewhere in the house. As a child when I saw that she was making a coffee I'd keep a discreet eye on her and wait for her to leave her mug unattended, and I'd just let it sit there, 5-10-30 mins to make sure she wasent coming back and had for gotten about it, then when no one was around to witness it I'd drink her coffee, And Victory was MINE! *rolls eyes* yea I know I was ever oh sooo daring *L* but at the time for me the thrill was in knowing I was doing something my parents wouldn't approve of and getting away with it, plus it dident hurt that even though cold (which is how I prefer it to this day) the coffee did actually taste quite good ^.^ Although being a coffee theft rather lost its thrill when a few years later I got cot and mom just shrugged it off, meh didnt have the same appeal any more once she started making me my own cups of coffee =/ But still until then yea was a rather benign bit of "naughty" fun when I was a kid ^.^ 140410 ... flowerock I love you. sorry that I tried to quit you so many times. You make early misty mornings beautiful, smell wonderful, taste of comfort, warms my heart. I have to love you, my heartmatte cannot live with out you! and I can't live without him, so here we are, sharing coffee_love. 140818 ... flowerock tk I snuck coffee too, but by eay of dipping cookies in it. then my mom saw I liked it and would let me dip cookies from then on. I should find some grain_free_vegan_cookies to dip in some coffee... mmm thin mints and nutter butters and nilla wafers used to be my favorite... and oreos, especially the white ones. now I can t eat any of those. mmm coffee_cookies. squishy outside crunchy inside. 140818 ... tail-devouring snake my life has a big empty hole, without 140818 ... unhinged caffiene inhibits iron absorption i am always tired i started eating fish and i will wait until 2 hrs after my morning coffee to take my iron pill 140818 ... flowerock why do you take iron? or how do you know you need more of it? I am of the understanding that it is usually bad to take extra iron (even when not eating meat, it's in veggies too) I took it for a while when I was tired all the time too. turned out I was tired from not drinking enough water and eating very little (suddenly when I usually at a lot more). just curious, not demanding answers if you don't care to share. I m never sure what s "too personal" or annoying. 140819 what's it to you? who go blather from