In article <721538534.F00003@ocitor.fidonet> Ruth.Woodring@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Ruth Woodring) writes:
> I also drink caffienated products at events to avoid excessive grumpiness and other nasty nasty caffiene withdrawel symptoms, but I wait until about five o'clock and then begin sipping coffee liqueur. I brew it myself.
>
One major reason Sir Alan was born in 1545 and spent years touring the
Ottoman Empire is that coffee houses were common in Constantinople by the
last quarter of the 16th century. The first English coffee house dates