The Perfect Coffee Cup

alright......who took my $3259.49 coffee cup. I want it back immediately, this is not funny.

What's this goofy business about "exactly 136.4°F"? Sez who?

57⁰ C

How is 57°C any less arbitrary than 136.4°F? Same question: sez who? For instance, I hate coffee that stinkin' cold.

What arbitrary temp do you like?

If the flesh peels off the roof of my mouth it's too hot, anything approaching my body temp is too cold.

The weaker it is the hotter it needs to be.

amendments ruin an otherwise good cup, doesn't have to be a fancy roast or blend, but good water is important.

& yes I'm trying to hijack a lackluster thread

Sue's post excepted

Maybe I'm just a total idiosyncrat, but Mom told me that even from birth I wanted my formula hot enough to require a pot-holder! In any event, I like hot stuff hot and cold stuff cold, with certain beers and wines at a bit less than room temperature. The weird thing about this discussion is that there should be some 0.1-degree-precise value that would cater to all tastes. But apparently some reporter was blinded by "science." That kinda bugs me.

Maybe I'm just a total idiosyncrat, but Mom told me that even from birth I wanted my formula hot enough to require a pot-holder!

What besides the temp [as yet to be defined] what make a good [or bad] cup?

I have a favorite hand made mug, decidedly not space age... holds 2 cups[0.4731765 liter]

There you go--if you make a good cuppa anything, it might as well be a big one. Right now I am having a pot of lapsang souchong tea, 80°C+. To be sipped, not glugged.

Zing!

Dang it Tornado.

Now Garthh is going to post , "The Blinded by Science Video"

As requested

My favorite on the road cup o joe

Dowe egbert

from drum roll please

BURGER KING,

great cup that holds the heat for hours, even a lid that works

great process brewed on demand machine

, even a lid that works

hate that, you just have to learn that once.

Garthh,

You are ol' reliable, I knew you would come through with the good stuff.

And,

My favorite on the road cup o joe

Dowe egbert

that coffee is great , and at the club I go to it's cheap, $1.50 for a 20 oz. cup, or in Celsius, £.895350 for a 159.998917764 dram cup. Or in Mariposian, $1.50 for a 7-finger cup.

Using a new, high-tech material, German scientists Klaus Sedlbauer and Herbert Sinnesbichler have developed a coffee cup that will keep your drink at the optimum temperature for drinking

WÛNDERBAR!

Except that it utilizes the extremely ineffecient Fischer-Tropf process and requires an entire anti-aircraft division to protect it during deployment.

Feldwebel Packrat, auf

But would it work here?

But would it work here?

Hey Babe,

Yes,as long as you are wearing your proper PPE, which, I believe from the photographic evidence, you are. harumph

Nice rock

As garrrrrrthhhhhh would say, bigger pictures , please.

Is that a shower curtain made of mosaic tile? FABULOUS!!!

Hey all,

Since it appears that this thread is attracting all of the usual suspects, _{The Brits, Ozzies and Kiwis are all still apparently asleep, and/or hungover,} I would like to make a modest proposal, that we hijack this thread and turn this sucker out, before the grownups back in bath breakingville discover it and try to take over. In the name of the Queen and run-on sentences, floor it Garthh and get in an insurmountable lead position, I'll take tail-end Charlie and run interference . Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

NO WE DID NOT!!!_{What the hell is packrat talking about? No idea, but we got us a convoy.}

Think nothing of it, my pleasure.

In case anyone is interested, it's kopi luwak enjoyed at 275 K.

Huh, I thought it kinda looked like a star sapphire.

never mind that shit, Here comes DRONGO!

I think we're safe as long as we don't mention _tea.

or the war.

I can always count on you to catch my pop flies.

Lyle

Uh 4700+

Actually, I have read the majority of the infamous Bath posts. Very funny thread What I thought was funny was how often it got back on topic!

Drew

Hey Jag,

Appreciate your vigilance , I was going to give you a good answer, but your post was off-topic rated. I don't see how it possibly could be off topic, as it contained no mention of coffee, cups or perfection. What's up wid dat?

Just trolling.

Hmmm marmalade or Marmite?

Well, in my unlearned opinion and seeing that you have a motor scooter, I would suggest the marmite, which can do double duty as a field expedient #1 Permatex gasket substitute and also, suprisingly, as a food substitute.

You know, I already have the "perfect coffee cup". It's a Thermos Nissan, holds 14 ounces (a bit more than 400ml), and can keep a cup of coffee or tea piping hot for hours. I bought the thing for $.50 at a church rummage sale, though you can get one like it from Amazon.com for less that 17 US dollars. Anybody care to bet what these PCM coffee cups would cost?

Not a lot of people know this, but Beethoven insisted that his coffee was made with exactly 60 beans to the cup.

Man,

Now I know how John Dg feels when he wakes up and starts wondering where everyone went, except in my case it's usually a matter of wondering where my pants went.

I'm bored, are we there yet?

No

Are we there yet?

No!

Are we there yet?

If you don't be quiet it will take longer to get there.

Why?

Just because.

Because why?

Because I said so.

Why?

Because if you don't shut your freakin' pie hole and keep it shut , I'm going to take you back to the Albanian human traffickers we bought you from and trade you for a bottle of cheap bourbon and a pool boy from a Turkish prison.

Jeez, Grandma , take a chill pill.

Wonder if I can stick this paper clip in one side of this electrical receptacle withou AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH , nope guess not.

What's this thing, hyperlink, hm I'll investigate further, latter. Bold, italics, strikeout, uh, what's all this then, SPELL Check, Hay this thing is grate, I wonder if anyone else No's about this, maybe won of the technical righters wood no, this is rally gone two help the weigh Aye rite, theirs know stopping me now , out of the HUE suckers, there's a new sheriff in town, gaze upon my works and Mr.Packrat, FEAR ME, MR,Packrat, I WILL CRUSH YOU PUNY EARTHLINGS MRPACKRAT,

I WILL GRIND YOUR BONES TO MAKE MY BREAD MR PACKRAT WHAT?

You are well past due for your medications and you are frightening, again as usual the other inmatMEDS MEDS GIMMEE GIMMEE GIMMEE

There , there, that's a good Drongo ,

huh? What?

I said that's a good Packrat

"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the f*** do you think you're talking to?"

Are you talking to me or chewing a brick?

I remain,
Your most 'Umble Savant,

Guest (posting anonymously).

SWEET , TRAVIS!

Now I have something to do, figure out who's pulling the strings, maybe your distinctive tattoos will provide a clue.

I don't think that rises the the level of consiousness

trickle of blather

or maybe

here

Three, good pithy and insightful links, I agree

I just wish I could figure out to do a more comprehensive satanistical analysis of the breaking of the bath

I love it when a good typo comes together

I am beside myself

See what I mean? See what I mean? (say everything twice say everything twice)

Hello? Hello?

you are just a turrible turrible person _{<splutter java drool>}

Well, Packrat thought while sniffing the dust covered coffee cup, nobody has been here in a while. Reading these posts , CR4-ers must think I'm nuts,

just keep talking and you will erase all doubt.

Who said that,

You did , you Mongolfier, your talking to yourself, not only talking to yourself, you're posting, again apparently to yourself, there is something really, really wrong with you.

Shut up, shut up get out of my head,

Okay, loser, now your shouting at yourself, what's that in your hand , a fork, remember last time you tried to get rid of me by sticking a common kitchen utensil in your head? How 'd that work out for you?

Don't bother I'm leaving, later drongo

I thought he'd never leave, now should i delete this, naw I'm sure everyone has unsubscribed , just in case , let's see I don't see delete button, hmm.,submit, ah , must mean like submit to my will, I will you to disappear, Boink.

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Hey Edgebrother, see you have been productively engaged this afternoon, why don't you pop over and help me fix this f***ing well/pump/soaker hose piece of WWL sh*t thing I cobbed together. I'm about ready to judo chop it into next week.

See if I can dig up a snapshot

Later

compose copy paste repeat

my favorite joke for a 3-10 year old

Me: Pete & Repeat were on a boat, Pete fell off & who was left?

Little Kid: Repeat

Me: Pete & Repeat were on a boat, Pete fell off & who was left?

Little Kid: Repeat

Me: Pete & Repeat were on a boat, Pete fell off & who was left?

Little Kid: Repeat

While I'm telling bad jokes...

say you have a brother Jack & he get's stuck on a horse

would you help your brother

Jack Off?

That's too funny , that's one of those jokes that has been bouncing around in my head for forty plus years , occassionally I Make the mistake of telling it, I am rewarded , not with a smile, but usually a mystified look, like what is the matter with you?

It's companion joke is : I know a carpenter with a wooden leg named Pete, do you know Him? I don't know, what's the name of his other leg.

Sometimes you just have to find the right audience. Had a Jamaican room mate , him , me and another Jamaican were doing some construction work, waiting in the truck for the rain to stop , somehow I found myself telling the chicken crossing the road joke, they'd never heard it , man , I trotted out all the ones I could think of , fireman wearing red suspenders, all the way back to kindergarten. It was like I was Jesus at the Sermon on the Mount Comedy Club, They were actually pondering what I was saying , "'im say the bumba clot chicken cross the road to get dem utter side" HUH!

Fun times

_{^{As my daughter says to her best friends:}} "You have no friends - you're a loser - go home".

Home is where you hang your hat.
Home is where your heart is.
Home is where the heat/cool is.
Home is the crawl-space.
... I'm nuts, just keep talking and you will erase all doubt.

"You're undeletable"

That was fun, and Christmas-y