Three Things
Cream and sugar… really are necessary. I will pass on coffee if the other two aren’t available. I guess that makes me a bit of a wimp.
Cream and sugar… really are necessary. I will pass on coffee if the other two aren’t available. I guess that makes me a bit of a wimp.
HA! Consistently funny, awesome reading! Got to go hook up another cartoonist. Why don’t I already have you all linked up?
HA! Nevermind I do have links here. Ha,ha,ha! Must be getting too old.
I like my coffee black
Just like my metal!
– Mindless Self Indulgence
Couldn’t help but thinking that… I used to be a “little bit of coffee with my cream and sugar” person, but now I take it anyway, preferably dark.
Cute images.
Randie is really adorable. Her frou-frou coffee, not so much.
Me. I love it black. Figure that warm milk just puts you to sleep. Defeats a major coffee plus.
Yes, I know, I too have heard how cream is supposed to take its edge off and make it easier for delicate stomachs. Then again I also love spicy foods and hot sauces. As for sugar…hot steaming, liquid sugar…uh, pass.
Oh well, back to jury duty.
Considering my favourite way to drink coffee is as a latte, this probably means that I should have pink frills and glitter, by Stick’s standards 😉 I prefer purple over pink, anyway.
Me again… I found these while looking through MthruF.com: A couple of latte printers! Link 1(30 seconds) Link 2 (3 minutes)
You’re not a wimp, Brig; you’re a northern Californian. As someone who lived in southern California for a number of years, the fact that you are a northern Californian makes it a big surprise you take ONLY cream and sugar in your coffee. Considering all the spices, cocoa, honey and who-know-what-all your neighbors put in their “coffee”, you’re the Queen of Tough for having only cream and sugar.
Myself, I prefer cowboy coffee: Through a horseshoe into the coffee pot. If it floats, the coffee’s ready to drink. 😉
*GAH* I wish we could edit our notes. That should be “Throw” and NOT “Through”.
Need… more… coffee…
Pete,
Although that suggests straining coffee “through ” a rusty horseshoe to add that certain tang.
Hi, just checking in.
Leave it to coffee to get a discussion going.
Brig, in your pictures I see a prominant microwave. They’re wonderful appliances and can make for a real fast, steaming cup’o joe. Funny thing is that hot water out of a micro gets cold really fast. Off a stove (kettle) or out of a coffee machine it stays hot much longer. Just an observation. Either way, it’s still a fantastic and dare I say sometimes necessary morning treat.
Cheers.
If they made a ringtone that mimicked the sound of a microwave “Ding”, would people answer their phones faster?
MJ… Maybe you just need more coffee…
Pink frilly coffee drinks for you, Astragali… and bedazzled, too! (I am picturing a regular mug… in pink with a tutu and rhinestones… and glitter. So… when’s yer birthday?
hot steaming sugar… mmm… I have actually taken to having honey in my coffee. There are health benefits to having honey as opposed to refined overly processed sugar. If no honey is available, I do sugar in the raw… and brown sugar as a last resort.
Ugh… rusty horseshoes… (a “rusty nail” on the other hand…). Kinda like microwave coffee.
Joe….. Pavlov’s Microwave? Ooo, a hotpocket… oh, it’s just my phone.
For 40-some years after my introduction to mess deck coffee in the Navy, I drank it John Wayne style. I later became a coffee snob, grinding my own 100% Kona (hence my screen name). Economies of time and finance have forced me to buy supermarket pre-ground stuff, which has to be tempered with French Vanilla (sorry, FREEDOM Vanilla) dry creamer.
Also, for many years, I would have added a fourth ingredient for a perfect start to the day: A cigarette. It’s been almost 30 years, but let’s not kid ourselves, sometimes I still miss it.
Ah… but your lungs thank you for it! If I had to give up one vice… it WOULD NOT BE coffee… you’d have to kill me first.
As an at-home coffee grinder, I buy bulk organic coffee from Costco. I mix decaf and regular to get half-caf in the morning, because jitters don’t work so well for cartoonists…. Randie’s okay with it… but her paintings don’t seem to be effected by it.
coffee, cream and sugar…no hot water?
Kona: Freedom vanilla? You don’t call sauerkraut “liberty cabbage” as well, do ya? *shudder*
Joe: In the mid-Nineties, a work colleague had a cellphone which sounded like an electronic game starting up. So I brought one in, and managed to fool him into answering his phone. Twice…
Brig: First my address, then my birthdate… you’ll be wanting my inside leg measurement next! And trust you to shift it from coffee to booze 😛 Surprised you didn’t mention Irish coffee…
Pop is my caffeine of choice, I know it’s not good for me but we all have our vices.
Here’s a little video for all the coffeee lovers out there: http://www.flickspire.com/m/lgroup/LifeIsLikeCoffee
Yeah. After two long days of waiting to be selected, I am again of jury duty.
Astra:
You mention a preference for purple but left the other frills and glitter comment hanging in the wind.
The first of your links had been removed by the poster, but the second one was really interesting. Would have been better if only faster. Brought back fresh memories of going in and out of a court room ad nauseum, and going through many questions, some for me, many more for others at an incredible slow rate. Brings to mind some amazing sand painting art being done by some Tibetan monks in a town just north of here. It takes days to a week to create it. It is then blessed and immediately swept away to represent the short transitory nature of life.
Joe:
ding
(smile)
Brig:
Hmm, your pink, frilly, tutu-wearing, rhinestone-sporting craft mugs may hit paydirt at craft fairs.
And, as for a guy version, I’ve got a “Pearls” calendar on the wall next to me that may offer ideas:
It has goat standing behind rat (sitting on a pillow wearing a Hockey jersey and watching TV)
Panel 1: Goat: WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING, RAT? Rat: HOCKEY.
Panel 2: Goat: I DIDN’T KNOW YOU LIKED HOCKEY.
Rat: I LOVE HOCKEY…EXCEPT FOR THESE BORING LITTLE INTERLUDES WHERE THEY SKATE AROUND TRYING TO HIT THAT BLACK THING.
Panel 3: Goat: THE PUCK.
Rat (standing, yelling at the TV): FIGHT, YOU TIME-WASTING FIGURE SKATERS!!!
Kona:
I’m sure the French will happily unassociate themselves from FREEDOM Vanilla dry creamer.
Brig:
Great idea. Jittery caffine fueled abstract paintings for coffee house display. If your heart can take doing a series, that is. Or………………just have Randie try it.
Meghan:
Wow, great video and must say that I liked those heart cups, which true to the tale would likely be super difficult to drink out of.
Oops. Ment to say “free” of jury duty.
I like my sugar with coffee and cream!
…for the other Beastie fans.
Stick: Well, the preference for purple is actually only over pink. My favourite colour overall is black. I can’t stand frills, or glitter (so you can imagine what fun I have at Christmas on the register at Target!). Oh, and just for clarification (and if you haven’t clicked the link to my website), I’m male. Not, I hasten to add, that there’s anything wrong with guys who like glitter and frou-frou.
As for the coffee video… argh! I’ve managed to find a replacement link, and I can also state what I meant to do before: Turn down the volume before watching! The printer in this clip is MUCH faster than the one in clip 2.
Meg: nice vid… Coffee is like life… sip slowly and pay no attention to the mug. BUT… if you have a pink mug with a tu-tu and bedazzling…
Astragali: Uh, a coffee printer!? Whoa… Kinda takes the artistry out of the whole foam art thing though.
Sugar IVs, eh, Dada?
Stick: glad your jury dutying was abated. Laughed at the Pearls re-inactment. Tanks.
Astra:
Yup, like your new link a whole lot better. Better music. Cuter face. And, wow, the blazing speed. That’s something Starbucks, or Mickie D’s could actually use with lines waiting.
You work for Target? Really? Me? Never have. I have stumbled across your Bullseye dogs and must say that I’ve got me a huge collection going, from the little 3 inchers on up to a big 36 incher. Get this, I’ve even got your two racing dogs, the 41 Reed Sorensen dog and the 2008 Indy winning, Target logo’ed Scott Dixon dog (both signed by their respective drivers) and I’m neither a NASCAR nor an IRL fan. Ha. I do love F1 though and do also have a couple stuffed Ferrari horses. And like you, I too am male.
Brig:
Tanks? Alright. I see that it worked in getting you into a guy frame-of-mind. Hmm. A tank mug. Now why did I not think of that? So would that mug be like an army tank, or a gas tank, or an oil tank. Smile. Oh, and, tanks.
Stick: “My” dogs. How charming. Makes me sound like I have a personal stake in the company (don’t get me started while on the message board ;)). I possess three Target doggies: One is a gift-card holder, the second barks and wags its tail when you press its paw, and the third is the Lego Target gift card doggy.
On a related note, I actually caused my store’s then-STL (we don’t have “managers” at Target) to visibly sag when I told him I wouldn’t be submitting an entry to design a doggy for the 20th anniversary of “Fast, Fun and Friendly”. Didn’t realise he’d been so keen for me to enter.