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December 17th, 2006
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10 signs you had too much to drink
December 16th, 2006
(Unfortunately these really happened…ENJOY!!)
10. You just realized you gave your car keys to a complete stranger so he can go on a beer run.
9. You see a cooler full of Mickies and you think it’s a good idea to dive head first into it while professing your love for the drink.
8. You use a chair to show what you would do to the girl you like if she was there right now.
7. Your hommie’s younger brother looks good enough to fuck so you chase him around the house!
6. You wake up and try to figure out how the hottie you took home from the club gained 300lbs over night.
5. You find your self drinking beer out of a shot glass while singing the song Black by Pearl Jam to a stripper on stage.
4. You think it’s a good idea to stick your head out of a car going 70mph on the freeway to throw up, thus creating a cyclonic vomit effect inside the car and all over your friends.
3. During your “Drunk Drive-Thru” ordering at the local Jack in the Box, you leave your car to go puke by the dumpster and never come back.
2. You wake up remembering the drive home was a little rough so you go out to the car and fine the entire passenger side is missing paint, the mirror is hanging by 1 wire and the tire is missing. Ohh the metal rim is still there but the actual tire is no where to be found.
1. Waking up next to the Burger King Dumpster, your shirt and cell phone are gone, your wallet is missing $300, you only have one shoe on and there is a foot print on your chest.
20 Facts about Coffee
December 10th, 2006
Undoubtedly, some of you are going to end up here wanting to learn something about coffee so I figured why not.
So here are 20 interesting facts all about coffee.
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Coffee is the second most traded product in the world after petroleum.
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Each year some 7 million tons of green beans are produced world wide. Most of which is hand picked.
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Over 53 countries grow coffee worldwide with almost all of them along the equator.
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The world’s largest coffee producer is Brazil with over 3,970 million coffee trees and is responsible for 30 to 40 % of total world output. Colombia comes in second with around two thirds of Brazil’s production.
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It takes five years for a coffee tree to reach maturity.
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The average yield from one tree is the equivalent of one roasted pound of coffee.
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With the exception of Hawaii and Puerto Rico, no coffee is grown in the United States or its territories.
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Most coffee is transported by ships with approximately 2,200 ships involved in transporting the coffee each year.
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Germany is the world’s second largest consumer of coffee.
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27% of U.S. coffee drinkers and 43% of German drinkers add a sweetener to their coffee.
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People who buy coffee primarily at drive through windows on their way to work will spend as much as 45 hours a year waiting in line.
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The average person who buys coffee outside the office to consume at work will spend the equivalent value of a round trip plane ticket to Florida every year.
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The first coffee house in Europe opened in Venice in 1683, while coffee was available in Europe as early as 1608, mostly for the rich.
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The expression “a cup of Joe” was first coined during WWII, when American servicemen (known as G.I. Joes) were identified as big coffee drinkers.
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The popular trend towards flavored coffees originated in the United States during the 1970’s.
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October 1st is the official Coffee Day in Japan
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Most of the world’s coffee is grown by small-scale coffee farming families
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The global coffee industry makes about $60 billion annually. Coffee farmers earn as little as 4 cents a pound for the coffee they pick by hand.
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25 million families around the world work in the coffee-fields and totally depend on the coffee crop as their only source of income.
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A Belgian living in Guatemala invented the first instant coffee in 1906 and later immigrated to the United States. His name, ironically enough, was George Washington.
I Like Big Butts!
December 8th, 2006
The “N” word let’s join the controversy
December 2nd, 2006
With everything that has happened in the past couple weeks regarding the Michael Richards “KKKramer” incident, I just have to throw in my 2¢ about this.
First off, if you haven’t seen the video here it is
01:55
In no way am I agreeing with the actions of anyone involved in this incident but lets take a non-bias look at this:
I. We only see from when he started his rant; we don’t get to see all the heckling from the audience members that led up to this. This video, like every other video of racial attacks that make it to the public is edited, we don’t get to see the whole thing from start to finish.
II. Watch the video, you see that the same very people who were so “offended” by his use of racial words resort to playing the exact same race card themselves, using racial attacks right back at him but their use of the words are totally acceptable, even if they are using it with the same intentions. Since when does someone have to be a member of a certain race to be allowed to use certain words of the English Language? Hatred is hatred; it shouldn’t be justified by the color of your skin.
III. This is clearly an ego battle between a comedian on stage working and hecklers disrespecting him by talking throughout his standup. If anyone has been to the laugh factory you know it’s not a big auditorium but rather it’s a small personal venue where you are literally just feet away from the talent. Anything you say is heard.
IV. Where’s the video’s of Chris Rock, Dave Chapelle and every other black comedian spewing racial slurs about Whites, Mexicans and even Blacks. Turn on BET or Comedy Central and see how many times you hear the words “Whitey”, “Cracka”, “Whitebred”, “SnowFlake”, Nigga or Nigger and many other popular racial slurs that are allowed on National Television. Or watch the “Kings of Comedy” or the “Queens of Comedy”. We can listen to any Hip-Hop album or Rap album and hear it used more times then you can count and used in the same negative content.
Unfortunately, the “N” word is never going to go away. Its meaning and use will always be there, just replaced with a different word, such as Nigga, Nucka, Nizzle, Spick, Wetback, Kyke, Wop, Cracka, or any other word you can tag onto having a negative meaning.
Funny how in spite of all the hatred, abuse, rapes, murders, separations of family, death of a culture, disrespect, humiliation and other crimes against humanity over the past 100 plus years, it’s a 2 minute rant from an angry comedian that has made people stand up and take notice that we might want to stop using racial slurs and show mutual respect for one another.
