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  • Re: Questionable Content: Roasted Coffee with Extra Flavor

    From Your Name@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Sat Dec 14 10:31:26 2024
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    On 2024-12-13 20:34:25 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:

    Questionable Content: Roasted Coffee with Extra Flavor
    https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5458

    Do you want your roasted beans with spider flavoring or without ?

    Lynn

    Spider-flavour would be better than the world's two most expensive coffees.

    - Black Ivory coffee
    Arabica coffee beans consumed by elephants and collected
    from their waste. The taste of Black Ivory coffee is
    influenced by elephants' digestive enzymes, which break
    down the coffee's protein.

    - Kopi Luwak coffee
    It is produced from coffee beans which have been partially
    digested by the Indonesian palm civet and then excreted.

    Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "This coffee tastes like poo!"
    ... then again, *ALL* coffee always tastes like poo, so you wouldn't
    tell the difference. :-p

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  • From BCFD 36@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Fri Dec 13 14:50:41 2024
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    On 12/13/24 12:34, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    Questionable Content: Roasted Coffee with Extra Flavor
       https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5458

    Do you want your roasted beans with spider flavoring or without ?

    Lynn


    Right now I can't get Questionable Content to display on my Mac using
    Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. Admittedly they are all on an older
    operating system, but I can't get it to display on my updated yesterday
    iPad. I am annoyed.

    --
    ----------------

    Dave Scruggs
    Senior Software Engineer - Lockheed Martin, et. al (mostly Retired)
    Captain - Boulder Creek Fire (Retired)
    Board of Directors - Boulder Creek Fire Protection District (What was I thinking?)

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 14 13:52:22 2024
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    On 2024-12-13 22:50:41 +0000, BCFD 36 said:
    On 12/13/24 12:34, Lynn McGuire wrote:

    Questionable Content: Roasted Coffee with Extra Flavor
    �� https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5458

    Do you want your roasted beans with spider flavoring or without ?

    Lynn

    Right now I can't get Questionable Content to display on my Mac using
    Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. Admittedly they are all on an older
    operating system, but I can't get it to display on my updated yesterday
    iPad. I am annoyed.

    Works fine on my aging Mac running High Sierra (10.13.6) with Safari
    13.1.2 and Firefox 115.18.0. The site was a bit slow for me earlier,
    but did work and seems faster now. Maybe they were having issues at
    their end.

    If you're using an ad blocker or other firewall, then that may be the
    problem, although it does work with my ad blocker running.

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Sat Dec 14 18:17:55 2024
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    On 2024-12-14 02:53:46 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:
    On 12/13/2024 2:34 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

    Questionable Content: Roasted Coffee with Extra Flavor
    �� https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5458

    Do you want your roasted beans with spider flavoring or without ?

    Lynn

    BTW, this webcomic claims that the average human eats 45,000 spiders per year !

    Yuck !

    Lynn

    It's a *myth* that people swallow 4 (or 8 or more) spiders per year
    while sleeping. We do not swallow any spiders while sleeping - spiders
    are smart enough to stay away.

    All sorts of stuff does get into the machinery that makes our products
    (both in the harvesting and the manufacturing processes), no matter how
    much cleaning is involved, but it's usually no longer noticeable by the
    time it gets to the public.

    Some people of course do eat insects (chocolate covered or plain) by
    choice. Many animals also eat insects.

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Fri Dec 13 22:55:13 2024
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On 12/13/2024 6:53 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    On 12/13/2024 2:34 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    Questionable Content: Roasted Coffee with Extra Flavor
        https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5458

    Do you want your roasted beans with spider flavoring or without ?

    Lynn

    BTW, this webcomic claims that the average human eats 45,000 spiders per
    year !

    Yuck !

    Well, the name of it IS "Questionable Content"....

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Dec 14 08:28:55 2024
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:50:41 -0800, BCFD 36 <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 12/13/24 12:34, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    Questionable Content: Roasted Coffee with Extra Flavor
    �� https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5458

    Do you want your roasted beans with spider flavoring or without ?

    Lynn


    Right now I can't get Questionable Content to display on my Mac using >Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. Admittedly they are all on an older
    operating system, but I can't get it to display on my updated yesterday >iPad. I am annoyed.

    Well, that's nasty.

    I think you have three possible approaches:
    1) A dumpster dive into whatever Settings Apple has graciously made
    available to you.
    2) Consideration of the possibility that this is an anti-Apple site
    and is actively resisting Apple devices.
    3) Consideration of the possibility that Apple has pulled up the
    drawbridge and that, hencforth, it's devices will not display any
    content not from Apple.

    Here's hoping you find a solution!

    It displays fine in Win 10 with Edge, BTW.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From Robert Woodward@21:1/5 to Paul S Person on Sat Dec 14 10:21:03 2024
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Paul S Person <[email protected]d> wrote:

    On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:50:41 -0800, BCFD 36 <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 12/13/24 12:34, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    Questionable Content: Roasted Coffee with Extra Flavor
    �� https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5458

    Do you want your roasted beans with spider flavoring or without ?

    Lynn


    Right now I can't get Questionable Content to display on my Mac using >Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. Admittedly they are all on an older
    operating system, but I can't get it to display on my updated yesterday >iPad. I am annoyed.

    Well, that's nasty.

    I think you have three possible approaches:
    1) A dumpster dive into whatever Settings Apple has graciously made
    available to you.
    2) Consideration of the possibility that this is an anti-Apple site
    and is actively resisting Apple devices.
    3) Consideration of the possibility that Apple has pulled up the
    drawbridge and that, hencforth, it's devices will not display any
    content not from Apple.


    It displays on both my Mac and iPad (both using Safari), though it has
    been rather slow.

    --
    "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
    Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. �-----------------------------------------------------
    Robert Woodward [email protected]

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Dec 14 18:39:59 2024
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:
    Some people of course do eat insects (chocolate covered or plain) by
    choice. Many animals also eat insects.

    Anyone who has ridden a motorcycle in the summer has eaten plenty.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Scott Dorsey on Sun Dec 15 09:44:47 2024
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On 12/14/2024 12:39 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
    Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:
    Some people of course do eat insects (chocolate covered or plain) by
    choice. Many animals also eat insects.

    Anyone who has ridden a motorcycle in the summer has eaten plenty.
    --scott

    Not if you wear a full helmet, as you really should do. If you fall off
    wearing just a head helmet, then scrapping your face along the hot tarmac/concrete is not a pleasant experience.

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  • From Christian Weisgerber@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Sat Dec 14 23:15:35 2024
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On 2024-12-13, Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:

    Questionable Content: Roasted Coffee with Extra Flavor
    https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5458

    Do you want your roasted beans with spider flavoring or without ?

    My late dad always maintained that he didn't want to drink newly
    pressed wine(*) because of the squashed spiders in it, although for
    some reason he didn't have the same objection to fully matured wine.
    And make no mistake, all sorts of arthropods end up in there.
    I think a number of years ago, there was a minor panic in the local wine-growing region because a type of ladybug had exploded in
    numbers. Wait, ladybugs feeds on aphids and are useful, aren't
    they? Generally yes, but apparently this kind had developed a taste
    for those oh-so-sweet grapes, so they ended up getting pressed into
    the juice and they had a sufficiently foul taste that the vintners
    were afraid the whole vintage would be spoiled.


    *)
    I'm struggling to find the right term. Wikipedia's entry is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federweisser
    Is there no better-established English name?

    --
    Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Scott Dorsey on Sat Dec 14 16:52:15 2024
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On 12/14/2024 10:39 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
    Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:
    Some people of course do eat insects (chocolate covered or plain) by
    choice. Many animals also eat insects.

    Anyone who has ridden a motorcycle in the summer has eaten plenty.

    I always put my face shield down, so no bugs for me.

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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  • From Titus G@21:1/5 to Dimensional Traveler on Sun Dec 15 14:42:59 2024
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On 15/12/24 13:52, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
    On 12/14/2024 10:39 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
    Your Name  <[email protected]> wrote:
    Some people of course do eat insects (chocolate covered or plain) by
    choice. Many animals also eat insects.

    Anyone who has ridden a motorcycle in the summer has eaten plenty.

    I always put my face shield down, so no bugs for me.

    Bugs between Dimensions are no longer a popular SF story.

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Dec 15 04:12:35 2024
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    In article <vjl97v$7qsd$[email protected]>,
    Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 12/14/2024 10:39 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
    Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:
    Some people of course do eat insects (chocolate covered or plain) by
    choice. Many animals also eat insects.

    Anyone who has ridden a motorcycle in the summer has eaten plenty.

    I always put my face shield down, so no bugs for me.


    Somedays you're the face shield, some days you're the bug..
    --
    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Christian Weisgerber on Sun Dec 15 17:54:38 2024
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On 2024-12-14 23:15:35 +0000, Christian Weisgerber said:

    On 2024-12-13, Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:

    Questionable Content: Roasted Coffee with Extra Flavor
    https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5458

    Do you want your roasted beans with spider flavoring or without ?

    My late dad always maintained that he didn't want to drink newly
    pressed wine(*) because of the squashed spiders in it, although for
    some reason he didn't have the same objection to fully matured wine.
    And make no mistake, all sorts of arthropods end up in there.
    I think a number of years ago, there was a minor panic in the local wine-growing region because a type of ladybug had exploded in
    numbers. Wait, ladybugs feeds on aphids and are useful, aren't
    they? Generally yes, but apparently this kind had developed a taste
    for those oh-so-sweet grapes, so they ended up getting pressed into
    the juice and they had a sufficiently foul taste that the vintners
    were afraid the whole vintage would be spoiled.


    *)
    I'm struggling to find the right term. Wikipedia's entry is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federweisser
    Is there no better-established English name?

    You should probably be more worried about what was on the feet of the
    workers when they stomped the grapes in the traditional / old ways. ;-)

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Dec 15 09:10:42 2024
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:15:35 -0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2024-12-13, Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:

    Questionable Content: Roasted Coffee with Extra Flavor
    https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5458

    Do you want your roasted beans with spider flavoring or without ?

    My late dad always maintained that he didn't want to drink newly
    pressed wine(*) because of the squashed spiders in it, although for
    some reason he didn't have the same objection to fully matured wine.
    And make no mistake, all sorts of arthropods end up in there.
    I think a number of years ago, there was a minor panic in the local >wine-growing region because a type of ladybug had exploded in
    numbers. Wait, ladybugs feeds on aphids and are useful, aren't
    they? Generally yes, but apparently this kind had developed a taste
    for those oh-so-sweet grapes, so they ended up getting pressed into
    the juice and they had a sufficiently foul taste that the vintners
    were afraid the whole vintage would be spoiled.


    *)
    I'm struggling to find the right term. Wikipedia's entry is >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federweisser
    Is there no better-established English name?

    "federweisser translation english" prompts Bing to provide

    "new wine"

    as the English translation.

    "new wine definition" is ... amazing: it has endless websites
    explaining Jesus "new wine in new wineskins" and related matters.
    Skillfully hidden is [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/new_wine], whose
    first definition

    "Wine that has fermented for a short amount of time."

    is probably closest to Federweisser, at least in some parts of Europe.
    It also notes that, in English at least, this comes /directly/ from
    the New Testament.

    I should note that "unfermented wine" [https://glosbe.com/en/en/unfermented%20wine] isn't much better,
    \which is a surprise to me -- I would have thought "grape juice" would
    be much the same thing.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to William Hyde on Mon Dec 16 14:26:37 2024
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    William Hyde <[email protected]> writes:
    Christian Weisgerber wrote:
    On 2024-12-13, Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:

    Questionable Content: Roasted Coffee with Extra Flavor
    https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5458

    Do you want your roasted beans with spider flavoring or without ?

    My late dad always maintained that he didn't want to drink newly
    pressed wine(*) because of the squashed spiders in it, although for
    some reason he didn't have the same objection to fully matured wine.
    And make no mistake, all sorts of arthropods end up in there.
    I think a number of years ago, there was a minor panic in the local
    wine-growing region because a type of ladybug had exploded in
    numbers. Wait, ladybugs feeds on aphids and are useful, aren't
    they? Generally yes, but apparently this kind had developed a taste
    for those oh-so-sweet grapes, so they ended up getting pressed into
    the juice and they had a sufficiently foul taste that the vintners
    were afraid the whole vintage would be spoiled.


    *)
    I'm struggling to find the right term. Wikipedia's entry is
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federweisser
    Is there no better-established English name?

    I've never drunk this, though I may once have seen it on sale as
    "breakfast wine".

    beaujolais nouveau used (still is?) to be a "thing", with people racing
    to drink it on the third thursday of November every year.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaujolais_nouveau

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  • From Christian Weisgerber@21:1/5 to Scott Lurndal on Mon Dec 16 18:50:39 2024
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On 2024-12-16, Scott Lurndal <[email protected]> wrote:

    I'm struggling to find the right term. Wikipedia's entry is
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federweisser
    Is there no better-established English name?

    I've never drunk this, though I may once have seen it on sale as
    "breakfast wine".

    beaujolais nouveau used (still is?) to be a "thing", with people racing
    to drink it on the third thursday of November every year.

    Yes, but _beaujolais nouveau_, a type of _vin de primeur_, is a
    different thing from the _vin bourru_ I had in mind.

    Specifically, _vin de primeur_ is a quickly produced wine that is
    put on the market right after harvest and fermentation without
    having been aged.

    _Vin bourru_ is must (grape juice) that is in the very process of
    fermentation.

    --
    Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]

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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to William Hyde on Mon Dec 16 22:14:43 2024
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    William Hyde <[email protected]> writes:
    Scott Lurndal wrote:
    William Hyde <[email protected]> writes:
    Christian Weisgerber wrote:
    On 2024-12-13, Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:

    Questionable Content: Roasted Coffee with Extra Flavor
    https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5458

    Do you want your roasted beans with spider flavoring or without ?

    My late dad always maintained that he didn't want to drink newly
    pressed wine(*) because of the squashed spiders in it, although for
    some reason he didn't have the same objection to fully matured wine.
    And make no mistake, all sorts of arthropods end up in there.
    I think a number of years ago, there was a minor panic in the local
    wine-growing region because a type of ladybug had exploded in
    numbers. Wait, ladybugs feeds on aphids and are useful, aren't
    they? Generally yes, but apparently this kind had developed a taste
    for those oh-so-sweet grapes, so they ended up getting pressed into
    the juice and they had a sufficiently foul taste that the vintners
    were afraid the whole vintage would be spoiled.


    *)
    I'm struggling to find the right term. Wikipedia's entry is
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federweisser
    Is there no better-established English name?

    I've never drunk this, though I may once have seen it on sale as
    "breakfast wine".

    beaujolais nouveau used (still is?) to be a "thing", with people racing
    to drink it on the third thursday of November every year.

    Oh yes, in my younger days I happily consumed barrels of this. But it's
    not quite the same thing (nor is my "breakfast wine" apparently).

    True. I once visited Bargetto winery (thirty years ago now), just
    after the gewurtztraminer crush - they served the fresh crush
    (chilled) in the tasting room. The best fruit juice I ever tasted, bar none.

    I didn't notice any ladybugs, but I expect the juice was filtered.

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to Scott Lurndal on Mon Dec 16 23:30:59 2024
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    Scott Lurndal <[email protected]> wrote:
    beaujolais nouveau used (still is?) to be a "thing", with people racing
    to drink it on the third thursday of November every year.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaujolais_nouveau

    It's always been a Thanksgiving tradition in our family. It's never
    really any good but you have to do it because it's a tradition.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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