> > > I do admit to finding Dr. Nakamats unendingly amusing,
> > > where Mr. Woodsum was not particularly.
> > I'm not sure I've ever been introduced to either, come to think.
> 
> I met Mr. Woodsum at an event where I played, I
> believe, K.614, which is why I put this post in
> this place (it was going to be 616 or 617).
> 
From what I can find of the former, I'm not sure I'd want culinary cues
from him anyway.

> > > That may be preferable - actually making your
> > > reputation instead of having it made for you.
> > That depends on the reputation.
> 
> There's no such thing as bad publicity, the saying
> goes. Well, there might be, but it is much rarer
> than it ought to be.

Today the bad press, tomorrow your own talk show.
 
> > > a sweetened mix of the two, the coffee component
> > > usually being Eight O'Clock.
> > That does sound like kid food.  I drank coffee with "stuff" when I was
> > young, but the older I got the worse the mix tasted.
> 
> Did you have some trauma attached to weak coffee
> in your childhood? I actually tasted a zucchini
> when I ws a kid.

No, but it's totally tasteless and pointless.  I was never into pointless
coffee.  One more reason I don't do decaf either.
 
> > It was old enough to vocally protest its treatment? Ick.
> 
> Aural, better than oral.

Then your innards would protest.