Tea, not coffee - Totally Off the Beam

[Nora Renka]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:

> bboyminn:

> I remember several years back when Folger's Coffee, a popular 
> American brand, has a TV advertisement that features a teenage boy 
> waking up in the morning and rushing down to the kitchen where he 
> sipped Folger's coffee with apparent orgasmic delight. 

I remember those ads.  Never knew they caused such outrage, though.

> Of course, now days, teens drink coffee as their drug of choice. I 
> met a guy working in a coffee shop who said he usually drank 12 
> (TWELVE!) straight shots of Expresso before going to class (college 
> classes). Can you spell heart attack?

Well, it's in the US so less interesting to your question, but my 
entire department would be completely and utterly non-functional 
without coffee.  People are eternally late to meetings and talks 
because they are going to get coffee.  I don't drink the stuff myself 
other than very, very occasionally, because it makes me twitch.  
Literally.  And I am high-strung enough--I don't NEED 12 espresso 
shots to be awake and argumentative for class.

I'm addicted to the rooibos tea they have in my dining hall, 
instead...

-Nora waits for the rush at the gym to clear out, so posts instead