Coffee

[vinteuil]

"Well, nobody’s perfect!”

[umslopogaas]

Keeping a breast? I'd rather have melons than lemons up front, any day. Its a chat up line I've longed to use for many a year, "That's a lovely pair of hot house fruits on your frontage", but alas, I've never found the opportunity.

More on pollination possibilities. 'My dear, can I tickle your sensitivities?"

[Flosshilde]

Thanks to umslopogas, ff & vinteul for their replies about Australian coffee - I'll follow up the referemces.

The coffee I had thismorning smelt good, but didn't have a particularly strong or distinctive flavour (but I make it strongish but have it with hot/warm milk - about the strength of a decent latte - not Starbucks or Costa! & I only have one cup a day - I'm afraid that if I have too much, too strong, it might trigger palpitations - which can knock me out for a day or more (I don't mean I'm unconscious - just that I can't actually do anything).

[Flosshilde]

Keeping a breast? I'd rather have melons than lemons up front, any day. Its a chat up line I've longed to use for many a year, "That's a lovely pair of hot house fruits on your frontage", but alas, I've never found the opportunity.

I think you might enjoy this, at 5 min 30 sec in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfCk_yNuTGk

(how does one embed a video?)

[umslopogaas]

Flosshilde, that was very, very funny and I thank you very much for it, I never had any idea it existed. By way of partial recompense, do you know the works of Gerard Hoffnung? I am not clever enough to provide links, but his works are all out there somewhere. Try typing 'Punkt Contrapunkt Gerard Hoffnung' into Google and you should get Herr Professor something and Doctor something else explaining twelve tone music, and also 'The Bricklayer's Tale', which has had me in fits of laughter for at least fifty years.

And if you survive that, try the 'Letters to Tyrolean Landlords'... 'Standing in savage scenery, the hotel offers STUPENDOUS revelations ... there is a french widow in every bedroom ...' But I'm sure you know it.

[Nick Armstrong]

(how does one embed a video?)

Click on the little picture of a piece of film, above and to the right when you're writing your post.

A window opens up and in the white box, paste the url of the video (rather than simply pasting it into your message, as you did), click OK and

Hey Presto.

[Flosshilde]

Click on the little picture of a piece of film, above and to the right when you're writing your post.

A window opens up and in the white box, paste the url of the video (rather than simply pasting it into your message, as you did), click OK and

Hey Presto.

Ta ever so. Presumably one has to be in advanced mode (not something I'm in very often)?

[Flosshilde]

Flosshilde, that was very, very funny and I thank you very much for it, I never had any idea it existed. By way of partial recompense, do you know the works of Gerard Hoffnung? I am not clever enough to provide links, but his works are all out there somewhere. Try typing 'Punkt Contrapunkt Gerard Hoffnung' into Google and you should get Herr Professor something and Doctor something else explaining twelve tone music, and also 'The Bricklayer's Tale', which has had me in fits of laughter for at least fifty years.

And if you survive that, try the 'Letters to Tyrolean Landlords'... 'Standing in savage scenery, the hotel offers STUPENDOUS revelations ... there is a french widow in every bedroom ...' But I'm sure you know it.

I know the Hoffnung cartoons, but not films. I'll search for them. Thanks.

[Nick Armstrong]

Ta ever so. Presumably one has to be in advanced mode (not something I'm in very often)?

I don't think so. I didn't know there was such a mode!! There's just a line of buttons (fonts, bold/italic, smileys etc) every time you write a message, no?

[umslopogaas]

Flosshilde, I dont think the Hoffnung archives are films. I know his comic deliveries from ancient LP records, but I'm sure Hoffnung is out there as digital downloadable material. The letters to Tyrolean landlords are classic funny material, and as for the advice to foreign tourists on visiting LONDON for the first time ... ALL LONDON BROTHELS DISPLAY A BLUE LAMP!

[Nick Armstrong]

Flosshilde, I dont think the Hoffnung archives are films. I know his comic deliveries from ancient LP records, but I'm sure Hoffnung is out there as digital downloadable material. The letters to Tyrolean landlords are classic funny material, and as for the advice to foreign tourists on visiting LONDON for the first time ... ALL LONDON BROTHELS DISPLAY A BLUE LAMP!

Hence the expression: "Evening all"

[umslopogaas]

Yes, I was always a bit suspicious about what went on up there in Dock Green. After all, as (I think) Tom Stoppard said, "We've a saying under the blue lamp, never search your own back yard, you might find what you're looking for."

Like that red head with the enormous **** PHEWORRR!!!, has she ever got the rhythm!

"Evening all, and good night."

[Barbirollians]

As much as I love Monsooned Malabr I have found a blend I like very much during the day when not looking for quite such a hit - it is a 70:30 blend of Costa Rica and Ethiopian Mocha .

[Dave2002]

http://www.people.com/article/italy-brings-espresso-machine-to-international-space-station

[David-G]

I was delighted to see the other day that Monsooned Malabar is back in Waitrose!