fwd: Caffiene

>In article <5z4o68$yr8@sparjf.sp.uc.pbz>, Ray Depew <eeq@sp.uc.pbz> wrote:
Why go to all the trouble of brewing espresso with caffeinated water?  
It's cheaper to keep a bottle of No-Doz next to the machine.  Tablets of
pure caffeine, and you can vary the JATO dosage as required.
>
>Romance, boy.  It's all about the romance of making espresso with water
>that contains as much caffeine as the coffee grounds themselves.  Don't
>you get a mad-scientist image dancing before your eyes, with glass-eyed
>caffeine addicts gathered around the espresso, watching each and every
>step like hungry vultures over the dying antelope, waiting for the
>coffee to brew, maniacal grins on their faces all the while?  Popping
>No-Doz just seems so pedeestrian next to this image, a little too
>modern and shiny and neat.  With the pills, the caffeine dose is
>well-measured and there's no danger of something accidentally going
>seriously awry.  It's that slight feeling of danger, that slight chance
>of being sent to the hospital with your heart racing and your veins
>visibly pumping through your parchment-like skin, all because you let
>the espresso brew a little too long.  That intoxicating feel of danger,
>that is what it feels to be ALIVE!.

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