![]() There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an
idiot Steven Wright |
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![]() Fish and visitors smell in three days. Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736 |
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![]() Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Chinese Proverb |
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![]() Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. – Steven Wright
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![]() If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. Doug Larson
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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain
ar·cane
adjective. Known or understood by only a few: arcane economic theories. Synonym
mysterious.
Then just as quickly, the two women resumed their arcane
discussion.
Each was embossed with its own arcane
symbol, many totally unfamiliar to him.
The Hofburg Treasures
Stephen Adams page 114 & 213
Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary
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Avicenna, the Arabian philosopher and physician, is accredited with first recording the use of coffee as a beverage. Somewhere about 1000 AD he called the brew 'bunc.' This word for coffee is still used in Ethiopia today. For centuries coffee was used chiefly as a medicine. It was not until the 16th century that it was drank socially in Arabia and Persia. The earliest recorded coffee house was the'Kiva Han.' It opened in Constantinople in 1475. During the next century coffee houses were called: 'Mekteb-i-irfan' which means 'school of the cultured.' The practice of drinking coffee with milk and sugar was started by the owner of Vienna's Domgasse. This coffee house was opened by Franz Georg Kolshitsky in 1683. This polish adventurer was also responsible for originating the style of coffee known as 'Viennese.' Viennese coffee is strained to produce a clear liquid without grounds. In 1930 the Brazilian Institute of Coffee suggested that coffee beans be reduced to a soluble powder. The Nestle company of Vevey, Switzerland, took up the challenge. After eight years of research they produced the world's first instant coffee and called it Nescafe. Source: The New Shell Book of Firsts - Patrick |
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"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." Joseph Addison |
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