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- From: frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney)
- Subject: Re: Gay soda! I'm so excited!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.195310.10958@microsoft.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 19:53:10 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Windows/DOS Users Ed Group
- References: <C14vzr.JF4@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan20.124508.15752@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1993Jan21.040523.14392@macc.wisc.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan21.040523.14392@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.124508.15752@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- >SA121@phx.cam.ac.uk writes:
- >
- >>Why do people think it odd to drink cold coffee? Not as of habit, but
- >>as a cool, refreshing drink on a summer day. After all, iced-tea isn't
- >>exactly unknown....
- >
- >I'll be glad to give you a definitive answer to that. Iced
- >tea is a cool, refreshing drink on a summer day. Cold
- >coffee is an abomination in any season, day or night. See,
- >wasn't that simple?
- >
-
- Well, more simplistic, than simple, actually.
-
- Out here on our obscure shore of the great Pacific, one of the staples
- of summer-time survival is the iced latte, one of the most refreshing
- treats known to man or woman. I first learned the joys of iced -- not
- cold -- coffee at a college hangout run by a cranky, but gifted, German
- pastry maker, Eiskaffee, accompanied perhaps, if one were early enough
- in the evening, by sweet pretzel, and lots of good talk. It was almost
- enough to make up for those painful seminar papers.
-
- Of course, in all honesty, I must confess that I cannot, will not,
- drink hot coffee, even in the winter. Tepid is best, but cold -- not
- iced -- will suffice in extreme situations. The joy of scalded palettes
- and tongues forever escapes this big dumb mick faggot.
-
- --
- Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
- "Well, I'm a little muddled." -- Glinda
-