A Conversation for The h2g2 Poem: Quantifying Life's Goodies

Life without coffee, is unthinkable.

Post 1

Elektragheorgheni -Please read 'The Post'

Rod, you and Mr Eliot are correct, life as we know it would be impossible without coffee. Coffee made democracy possible ---otherwise everyone would still be ruled by a king or queen. Coffee houses were the subversive hothouses which fed the Enlightenment.smiley - winkeye


Life without coffee, is unthinkable.

Post 2

Rod

Yep, good stuff, we say.
They tell me I can get hooked on it but no, it's too friendly for that...

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... fed the enlightenment

Aye, and gave plotting time, in a pseudo trustworthy environment, to those who planned to supplant those kings & queens...

Cynical? Nah


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