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Shirrush 12/28/2006 4:42:39 PM

Well yes, coffee keeps me going too, and I've never even set foot in the New World.

Tea is by no means a viable alternative. We drink lots of it here, and we have access to some great stuff too at decent prices, owing to the laudable efforts of a certain company that immigrated from Varsaw, Poland, about 70 years ago.
Moreover, every Israeli balcony, garden, or wood, provides us with a decent year-round supply of the weeds with which it is customary here, to supplement tea, for effects ranging from an improved taste to real therapeutic benefits against the Common Cold or the Falafel's Revenge.
But there's a time for tea, and there's a time for coffee, and none of us would get confused between the two.

When I got to IDF basic training as a reservist with the "Echelon B" program (direct induction to reserve for immigrants, combat or not, skipping about 32 months of compulsory military service), we were told that coffee was unavailable at the base owing to the fact that the female soldiers and NCO's that were responsible for a large part of our instruction did not drink any. This, of course, was a blatant lie, and every morning the cooks would come out with a large aluminum cauldron in which they had boiled (sob!) a few cheapo teabags (yuck!) with a few 1 kg packs of sugar thrown in, I guess in order to improve pourability through an increase in viscosity.
The color was somehow similar to the mediocre coffee you guys were referring to, but I can tell you that after one week of this, most of us started to develop genuinely clinical symptoms of what we soon named "morning depression", with tears and all, and believe me, there was no other objective reason to feel down other than the lack of coffee, (coffee, not cafein, of which there's plenty in the aforementioned abomination!) since the "hardships" we were submitted to by our earnest and good-willing staff were nothing compared to what we had grown accustomed to by simply being Israeli civilians for a few years.
Salvation came in the second or third week, when we were required to take turns at the base's kitchen to do what we knew best, some work that is, since the cooks had an ample supply of our favorite Turkish coffee that they were simply hoarding for their own use, and with which we were rewarded for our dexterity at wielding the knife against them cukes and carrots, and for our diligence at scouring the kosher yet grimy oven pans.

Most of us quickly understood that the kitchen was the place where one could simply spend his time doing something, that had the additional advantage of having decent coffee and in which we were shielded from the endless classes on Uzi safety and that sort of crap.
The result was that we ended up fighting and arguing among ourselves about who's turn it was to go peel the taters, with everybody vying to get in there, not out!

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EXPERT 6/21/2009 2:48:52 AM

EVERY MUST READ THIS

The U.S is a country that helps people right...... wrong the U.S is a cheap country that likes to get something in return. If u see the Iraq war the U.S will get in return oil but they will also be able to build bases also the New World Order is a LIE if u played Tom Clancys End war u will see the debate in the game is over missile defense system to stop nukes. the main idea is happening right now and also the key to WW3 is Israel

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scooterfan Yo expert 8/8/2009 2:23:37 AM

Thanks for not doing much to disguise your web and home address. Believe it or not the defense mapping agency has improved since the Chinese embassy mistake during the Yugo conflict and you are now on the target maps. May take a while but we'll stop by.

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FJV 8/9/2009 6:21:51 AM

The function block description of a Dutch engineer is coffee input, technical designs output.

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