cyber-popart! nice idea.

this is hot moss!!!!

moss, i'll agree with the rap video chick above.

it even has goatse! this is awesome, haha.

Brilliant.

ROFLCOPTER. nice.

that's great....I think it would make a nice blacklight poster to for those people into blacklights and things...

I would wear this forever.



5$

AMAZING.



I'd most definatly buy/wear this.

5$

rofl jon titor



5

This is /so/ awesome.

5$

OMg i love it and it has the badger characters on it! 5 & $

www.4chan.org



Go to /b/. Pick up some more symbols and stuff there.

I think i would be more likely to actually wear this outside my room if OMG WTF and LOL were less prominent.

haha nice!

cheers! $5

freaking brilliant. encapsulates the last decade of our internet experience with pop-art sensibility.



i'd so buy this.

haha awesome

I really like the choice of colours and the idea.I want that shirt,please print it.

haha another 4chan.org-er Havaror???

i pretty much love it.



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The history and development of the beverage that we know as coffee is varied and interesting, involving chance occurrences, political intrigue, and the pursuit of wealth and power.



According to one story, the effect of coffee beans on behavior was noticed by a sheep herder from Caffa Ethopia named Kaldi as he tended his sheep. He noticed that the sheep became hyperactive after eating the red "cherries" from a certain plant when they changed pastures. He tried a few himself, and was soon as overactive as his herd. The story relates that a monk happened by and scolded him for "partaking of the devil's fruit." However the monks soon discovered that this fruit from the shiny green plant could help them stay awake for their prayers.



Another legend gives us the name for coffee or "mocha." An Arabian was banished to the desert with his followers to die of starvation. In desperation, Omar had his friends boil and eat the fruit from an unknown plant. Not only did the broth save the exiles, but their survival was taken as a religious sign by the residents of the nearest town, Mocha. The plant and its beverage were named Mocha to honor this event.



Originally the coffee plant grew naturally in Ethopia, but once transplanted in Arabia was monopolized by them. One early use for coffee would have little appeal today. The Galla tribe from Ethiopia used coffee, but not as a drink. They would wrap the beans in animal fat as their only source of nutrition while on raiding parties. The Turks were the first country to adopt it as a drink, often adding spices such as clove, cinnamon, cardamom and anise to the brew.



Coffee was introduced much later to countries beyond Arabia whose inhabitants believed it to be a delicacy and guarded its secret as if they were top secret military plans. Transportation of the plant out of the Moslem nations was forbidden by the government. The actual spread of coffee was started illegally. One Arab named Baba Budan smuggled beans to some mountains near Mysore, India, and started a farm there. Early in this century, the descendants of those original plants were found still growing fruitfully in the region.



Coffee was believed by some Christians to be the devil's drink. Pope Vincent III heard this and decided to taste it before he banished it. He enjoyed it so much he baptized it, saying "coffee is so delicious it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it."



Coffee today is grown and enjoyed worldwide, and is one of the few crops that small farmers in third-world countries can profitably export.







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





Coffee Timeline:

Excerpt from UTNE READER, Nov/Dec 94, by Mark Schapiro, "Muddy Waters"



Prior to 1000 A.D.: Members of the Galla tribe in Ethiopia notice that they get an energy boost when they eat a certain berry, ground up and mixed with animal fat.



1000 A.D.: Arab traders bring coffee back to their homeland and cultivate the plant for the first time on plantations. They also began to boil the beans, creating a drink they call "qahwa" (literally, that which prevents sleep).



1453: Coffee is introduced to Constantinople by Ottoman Turks. The world's first coffee shop, Kiva Han, open there in 1475. Turkish law makes it legal for a woman to divorce her husband if he fail to provide her with her daily quota of coffee.



1511: Khair Beg, the corrupt governor of Mecca, tries to ban coffee for feat that its influence might foster opposition to his rule. The sultan sends word that coffee is sacred and has the governor executed.



1600: Coffee, introduced to the West by Italian traders, grabs attention in high places. In Italy, Pope Clement VIII is urged by his advisers to consider that favorite drink of the Ottoman Empire part of the infidel threat. However, he decides to "baptize" it instead, making it an acceptable Christian beverage.



1607: Captain John Smith helps to found the colony of Virginia at Jamestown. It's believed that he introduced coffee to North America.



1645: First coffeehouse opens in Italy.



1652: First coffeehouse opens in England. Coffee houses multiply and become such popular forums for learned and not so learned - discussion that they are dubbed "penny universities" (a penny being the price of a cup of coffee).



1668: Coffee replaces beer as New York's City's favorite breakfast drink.



1668: Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse opens in England and is frequented by merchants and maritime insurance agents. Eventually it becomes Lloyd's of London, the best-known insurance company in the world.



1672: First coffeehouse opens in Paris.



1675: The Turkish Army surrounds Vienna. Franz Georg Kolschitzky, a Viennese who had lived in Turkey, slips through the enemy lines to lead relief forces to the city. The fleeing Turks leave behind sacks of "dry black fodder" that Kolschitzky recognizes as coffee. He claims it as his reward and opens central Europe's first coffee house. He also establishes the habit of refining the brew by filtering out the grounds, sweetening it, and adding a dash of milk.



1690: With a coffee plant smuggled out of the Arab port of Mocha, the Dutch become the first to transport and cultivate coffee commercially, in Ceylon and in their East Indian colony - Java, source of the brew's nickname.



1713: The Dutch unwittingly provide Louis XIV of France with a coffee bush whose descendants will produce entire Western coffee industry when in 1723 French naval officer Gabriel Mathieu do Clieu steals a seedling and transports it to Martinique. Within 50 years and official survey records 19 million coffee trees on Martinique. Eventually, 90 percent of the world's coffee spreads from this plant.



1721: First coffee house opens in Berlin.



1727: The Brazilian coffee industry gets its start when Lieutenant colonel Francisco de Melo Palheta is sent by government to arbitrate a border dispute between the French and the Dutch colonies in Guiana. Not only does he settle the dispute, but also strikes up a secret liaison with the wife of French Guiana's governor. Although France guarded its New World coffee plantations to prevent cultivation from spreading, the lady said good-bye to Palheta with a bouquet in which she hid cuttings and fertile seeds of coffee.



1732: Johann Sevastian Bach composes his Kaffee-Kantate. Partly an ode to coffee and partly a stab at the movement in Germany to prevent women from drinking coffee (it was thought to make them sterile), the cantata includes the aria, "Ah! How sweet coffee taste! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! I must have my coffee."



1773: The Boston Tea Party makes drinking coffee a patriotic duty in America.



1775: Prussia's Frederick the Great tries to block inports of green coffee, as Prussia's wealth is drained. Public outcry changes his mind.



1886: Former wholesale grocer Joel Cheek names his popular coffee blend "Maxwell House," after the hotel in Nashville, TN where it's served.



Early 1900's: In Germany, afternoon coffee becomes a standard occasion. The derogatory term "KaffeeKlatsch" is coined to describe women's gossip at these affairs. Since broadened to mean relaxed conversation in general.



1900: Hills Bros. begins packing roast coffee in vacuum tins, spelling the end of the ubiquitous local roasting shops and coffee mills.



1901: The first soluble "instant" coffee is invented by Japanese-American chemist Satori Kato of Chicago.



1903: German coffee importer Ludwig Roselius turn a batch of ruined coffee beans over to researchers, who perfect the process of removing caffeine from the beans without destroying the flavor. He markets it under the brand name "Sanka." Sanka is introduced to the United States in 1923.



1906: George Constant Washington, an English chemist living in Guatemala, notices a powdery condensation forming on the spout of his silver coffee carafe. After experimentation, he creates the first mass-produced instant coffee (his brand is called Red E Coffee).



1907: In less than a century Brazil accounted for 97% of the world's harvest.



1920: Prohibition goes into effect in United States. Coffee sales boom.



1938: Having been asked by Brazil to help find a solution to their coffee surpluses, Nestle company invents freeze-dried coffee. Nestle develops Nescafe and introduces it in Switzerland.



1940: The US imports 70 percent of the world coffee crop.



1942: During W.W.II, American soldiers are issued instant Maxwell House coffee in their ration kits. Back home, widespread hoarding leads to coffee rationing.



1946: In Italy, Achilles Gaggia perfects his espresso machine. Cappuccino is named for the resemblance of its color to the robes of the monks of the Capuchin order.



1969: One week before Woodstock the Manson Family murders coffee heiress Abigail Folger as she visits with friend Sharon Tate in the home of filmmaker Roman Polanski.



1971: Starbucks opens its first store in Seattle's Pike Place public market, creating a frenzy over fresh-roasted whole bean coffee.



1979: Mr Cappuccino opens for business!

The history and development of the beverage that we know as coffee is varied and interesting, involving chance occurrences, political intrigue, and the pursuit of wealth and power.



According to one story, the effect of coffee beans on behavior was noticed by a sheep herder from Caffa Ethopia named Kaldi as he tended his sheep. He noticed that the sheep became hyperactive after eating the red "cherries" from a certain plant when they changed pastures. He tried a few himself, and was soon as overactive as his herd. The story relates that a monk happened by and scolded him for "partaking of the devil's fruit." However the monks soon discovered that this fruit from the shiny green plant could help them stay awake for their prayers.



Another legend gives us the name for coffee or "mocha." An Arabian was banished to the desert with his followers to die of starvation. In desperation, Omar had his friends boil and eat the fruit from an unknown plant. Not only did the broth save the exiles, but their survival was taken as a religious sign by the residents of the nearest town, Mocha. The plant and its beverage were named Mocha to honor this event.



Originally the coffee plant grew naturally in Ethopia, but once transplanted in Arabia was monopolized by them. One early use for coffee would have little appeal today. The Galla tribe from Ethiopia used coffee, but not as a drink. They would wrap the beans in animal fat as their only source of nutrition while on raiding parties. The Turks were the first country to adopt it as a drink, often adding spices such as clove, cinnamon, cardamom and anise to the brew.



Coffee was introduced much later to countries beyond Arabia whose inhabitants believed it to be a delicacy and guarded its secret as if they were top secret military plans. Transportation of the plant out of the Moslem nations was forbidden by the government. The actual spread of coffee was started illegally. One Arab named Baba Budan smuggled beans to some mountains near Mysore, India, and started a farm there. Early in this century, the descendants of those original plants were found still growing fruitfully in the region.



Coffee was believed by some Christians to be the devil's drink. Pope Vincent III heard this and decided to taste it before he banished it. He enjoyed it so much he baptized it, saying "coffee is so delicious it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it."



Coffee today is grown and enjoyed worldwide, and is one of the few crops that small farmers in third-world countries can profitably export.







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





Coffee Timeline:

Excerpt from UTNE READER, Nov/Dec 94, by Mark Schapiro, "Muddy Waters"



Prior to 1000 A.D.: Members of the Galla tribe in Ethiopia notice that they get an energy boost when they eat a certain berry, ground up and mixed with animal fat.



1000 A.D.: Arab traders bring coffee back to their homeland and cultivate the plant for the first time on plantations. They also began to boil the beans, creating a drink they call "qahwa" (literally, that which prevents sleep).



1453: Coffee is introduced to Constantinople by Ottoman Turks. The world's first coffee shop, Kiva Han, open there in 1475. Turkish law makes it legal for a woman to divorce her husband if he fail to provide her with her daily quota of coffee.



1511: Khair Beg, the corrupt governor of Mecca, tries to ban coffee for feat that its influence might foster opposition to his rule. The sultan sends word that coffee is sacred and has the governor executed.



1600: Coffee, introduced to the West by Italian traders, grabs attention in high places. In Italy, Pope Clement VIII is urged by his advisers to consider that favorite drink of the Ottoman Empire part of the infidel threat. However, he decides to "baptize" it instead, making it an acceptable Christian beverage.



1607: Captain John Smith helps to found the colony of Virginia at Jamestown. It's believed that he introduced coffee to North America.



1645: First coffeehouse opens in Italy.



1652: First coffeehouse opens in England. Coffee houses multiply and become such popular forums for learned and not so learned - discussion that they are dubbed "penny universities" (a penny being the price of a cup of coffee).



1668: Coffee replaces beer as New York's City's favorite breakfast drink.



1668: Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse opens in England and is frequented by merchants and maritime insurance agents. Eventually it becomes Lloyd's of London, the best-known insurance company in the world.



1672: First coffeehouse opens in Paris.



1675: The Turkish Army surrounds Vienna. Franz Georg Kolschitzky, a Viennese who had lived in Turkey, slips through the enemy lines to lead relief forces to the city. The fleeing Turks leave behind sacks of "dry black fodder" that Kolschitzky recognizes as coffee. He claims it as his reward and opens central Europe's first coffee house. He also establishes the habit of refining the brew by filtering out the grounds, sweetening it, and adding a dash of milk.



1690: With a coffee plant smuggled out of the Arab port of Mocha, the Dutch become the first to transport and cultivate coffee commercially, in Ceylon and in their East Indian colony - Java, source of the brew's nickname.



1713: The Dutch unwittingly provide Louis XIV of France with a coffee bush whose descendants will produce entire Western coffee industry when in 1723 French naval officer Gabriel Mathieu do Clieu steals a seedling and transports it to Martinique. Within 50 years and official survey records 19 million coffee trees on Martinique. Eventually, 90 percent of the world's coffee spreads from this plant.



1721: First coffee house opens in Berlin.



1727: The Brazilian coffee industry gets its start when Lieutenant colonel Francisco de Melo Palheta is sent by government to arbitrate a border dispute between the French and the Dutch colonies in Guiana. Not only does he settle the dispute, but also strikes up a secret liaison with the wife of French Guiana's governor. Although France guarded its New World coffee plantations to prevent cultivation from spreading, the lady said good-bye to Palheta with a bouquet in which she hid cuttings and fertile seeds of coffee.



1732: Johann Sevastian Bach composes his Kaffee-Kantate. Partly an ode to coffee and partly a stab at the movement in Germany to prevent women from drinking coffee (it was thought to make them sterile), the cantata includes the aria, "Ah! How sweet coffee taste! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! I must have my coffee."



1773: The Boston Tea Party makes drinking coffee a patriotic duty in America.



1775: Prussia's Frederick the Great tries to block inports of green coffee, as Prussia's wealth is drained. Public outcry changes his mind.



1886: Former wholesale grocer Joel Cheek names his popular coffee blend "Maxwell House," after the hotel in Nashville, TN where it's served.



Early 1900's: In Germany, afternoon coffee becomes a standard occasion. The derogatory term "KaffeeKlatsch" is coined to describe women's gossip at these affairs. Since broadened to mean relaxed conversation in general.



1900: Hills Bros. begins packing roast coffee in vacuum tins, spelling the end of the ubiquitous local roasting shops and coffee mills.



1901: The first soluble "instant" coffee is invented by Japanese-American chemist Satori Kato of Chicago.



1903: German coffee importer Ludwig Roselius turn a batch of ruined coffee beans over to researchers, who perfect the process of removing caffeine from the beans without destroying the flavor. He markets it under the brand name "Sanka." Sanka is introduced to the United States in 1923.



1906: George Constant Washington, an English chemist living in Guatemala, notices a powdery condensation forming on the spout of his silver coffee carafe. After experimentation, he creates the first mass-produced instant coffee (his brand is called Red E Coffee).



1907: In less than a century Brazil accounted for 97% of the world's harvest.



1920: Prohibition goes into effect in United States. Coffee sales boom.



1938: Having been asked by Brazil to help find a solution to their coffee surpluses, Nestle company invents freeze-dried coffee. Nestle develops Nescafe and introduces it in Switzerland.



1940: The US imports 70 percent of the world coffee crop.



1942: During W.W.II, American soldiers are issued instant Maxwell House coffee in their ration kits. Back home, widespread hoarding leads to coffee rationing.



1946: In Italy, Achilles Gaggia perfects his espresso machine. Cappuccino is named for the resemblance of its color to the robes of the monks of the Capuchin order.



1969: One week before Woodstock the Manson Family murders coffee heiress Abigail Folger as she visits with friend Sharon Tate in the home of filmmaker Roman Polanski.



1971: Starbucks opens its first store in Seattle's Pike Place public market, creating a frenzy over fresh-roasted whole bean coffee.



1979: Mr Cappuccino opens for business!

The history and development of the beverage that we know as coffee is varied and interesting, involving chance occurrences, political intrigue, and the pursuit of wealth and power.



According to one story, the effect of coffee beans on behavior was noticed by a sheep herder from Caffa Ethopia named Kaldi as he tended his sheep. He noticed that the sheep became hyperactive after eating the red "cherries" from a certain plant when they changed pastures. He tried a few himself, and was soon as overactive as his herd. The story relates that a monk happened by and scolded him for "partaking of the devil's fruit." However the monks soon discovered that this fruit from the shiny green plant could help them stay awake for their prayers.



Another legend gives us the name for coffee or "mocha." An Arabian was banished to the desert with his followers to die of starvation. In desperation, Omar had his friends boil and eat the fruit from an unknown plant. Not only did the broth save the exiles, but their survival was taken as a religious sign by the residents of the nearest town, Mocha. The plant and its beverage were named Mocha to honor this event.



Originally the coffee plant grew naturally in Ethopia, but once transplanted in Arabia was monopolized by them. One early use for coffee would have little appeal today. The Galla tribe from Ethiopia used coffee, but not as a drink. They would wrap the beans in animal fat as their only source of nutrition while on raiding parties. The Turks were the first country to adopt it as a drink, often adding spices such as clove, cinnamon, cardamom and anise to the brew.



Coffee was introduced much later to countries beyond Arabia whose inhabitants believed it to be a delicacy and guarded its secret as if they were top secret military plans. Transportation of the plant out of the Moslem nations was forbidden by the government. The actual spread of coffee was started illegally. One Arab named Baba Budan smuggled beans to some mountains near Mysore, India, and started a farm there. Early in this century, the descendants of those original plants were found still growing fruitfully in the region.



Coffee was believed by some Christians to be the devil's drink. Pope Vincent III heard this and decided to taste it before he banished it. He enjoyed it so much he baptized it, saying "coffee is so delicious it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it."



Coffee today is grown and enjoyed worldwide, and is one of the few crops that small farmers in third-world countries can profitably export.







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





Coffee Timeline:

Excerpt from UTNE READER, Nov/Dec 94, by Mark Schapiro, "Muddy Waters"



Prior to 1000 A.D.: Members of the Galla tribe in Ethiopia notice that they get an energy boost when they eat a certain berry, ground up and mixed with animal fat.



1000 A.D.: Arab traders bring coffee back to their homeland and cultivate the plant for the first time on plantations. They also began to boil the beans, creating a drink they call "qahwa" (literally, that which prevents sleep).



1453: Coffee is introduced to Constantinople by Ottoman Turks. The world's first coffee shop, Kiva Han, open there in 1475. Turkish law makes it legal for a woman to divorce her husband if he fail to provide her with her daily quota of coffee.



1511: Khair Beg, the corrupt governor of Mecca, tries to ban coffee for feat that its influence might foster opposition to his rule. The sultan sends word that coffee is sacred and has the governor executed.



1600: Coffee, introduced to the West by Italian traders, grabs attention in high places. In Italy, Pope Clement VIII is urged by his advisers to consider that favorite drink of the Ottoman Empire part of the infidel threat. However, he decides to "baptize" it instead, making it an acceptable Christian beverage.



1607: Captain John Smith helps to found the colony of Virginia at Jamestown. It's believed that he introduced coffee to North America.



1645: First coffeehouse opens in Italy.



1652: First coffeehouse opens in England. Coffee houses multiply and become such popular forums for learned and not so learned - discussion that they are dubbed "penny universities" (a penny being the price of a cup of coffee).



1668: Coffee replaces beer as New York's City's favorite breakfast drink.



1668: Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse opens in England and is frequented by merchants and maritime insurance agents. Eventually it becomes Lloyd's of London, the best-known insurance company in the world.



1672: First coffeehouse opens in Paris.



1675: The Turkish Army surrounds Vienna. Franz Georg Kolschitzky, a Viennese who had lived in Turkey, slips through the enemy lines to lead relief forces to the city. The fleeing Turks leave behind sacks of "dry black fodder" that Kolschitzky recognizes as coffee. He claims it as his reward and opens central Europe's first coffee house. He also establishes the habit of refining the brew by filtering out the grounds, sweetening it, and adding a dash of milk.



1690: With a coffee plant smuggled out of the Arab port of Mocha, the Dutch become the first to transport and cultivate coffee commercially, in Ceylon and in their East Indian colony - Java, source of the brew's nickname.



1713: The Dutch unwittingly provide Louis XIV of France with a coffee bush whose descendants will produce entire Western coffee industry when in 1723 French naval officer Gabriel Mathieu do Clieu steals a seedling and transports it to Martinique. Within 50 years and official survey records 19 million coffee trees on Martinique. Eventually, 90 percent of the world's coffee spreads from this plant.



1721: First coffee house opens in Berlin.



1727: The Brazilian coffee industry gets its start when Lieutenant colonel Francisco de Melo Palheta is sent by government to arbitrate a border dispute between the French and the Dutch colonies in Guiana. Not only does he settle the dispute, but also strikes up a secret liaison with the wife of French Guiana's governor. Although France guarded its New World coffee plantations to prevent cultivation from spreading, the lady said good-bye to Palheta with a bouquet in which she hid cuttings and fertile seeds of coffee.



1732: Johann Sevastian Bach composes his Kaffee-Kantate. Partly an ode to coffee and partly a stab at the movement in Germany to prevent women from drinking coffee (it was thought to make them sterile), the cantata includes the aria, "Ah! How sweet coffee taste! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! I must have my coffee."



1773: The Boston Tea Party makes drinking coffee a patriotic duty in America.



1775: Prussia's Frederick the Great tries to block inports of green coffee, as Prussia's wealth is drained. Public outcry changes his mind.



1886: Former wholesale grocer Joel Cheek names his popular coffee blend "Maxwell House," after the hotel in Nashville, TN where it's served.



Early 1900's: In Germany, afternoon coffee becomes a standard occasion. The derogatory term "KaffeeKlatsch" is coined to describe women's gossip at these affairs. Since broadened to mean relaxed conversation in general.



1900: Hills Bros. begins packing roast coffee in vacuum tins, spelling the end of the ubiquitous local roasting shops and coffee mills.



1901: The first soluble "instant" coffee is invented by Japanese-American chemist Satori Kato of Chicago.



1903: German coffee importer Ludwig Roselius turn a batch of ruined coffee beans over to researchers, who perfect the process of removing caffeine from the beans without destroying the flavor. He markets it under the brand name "Sanka." Sanka is introduced to the United States in 1923.



1906: George Constant Washington, an English chemist living in Guatemala, notices a powdery condensation forming on the spout of his silver coffee carafe. After experimentation, he creates the first mass-produced instant coffee (his brand is called Red E Coffee).



1907: In less than a century Brazil accounted for 97% of the world's harvest.



1920: Prohibition goes into effect in United States. Coffee sales boom.



1938: Having been asked by Brazil to help find a solution to their coffee surpluses, Nestle company invents freeze-dried coffee. Nestle develops Nescafe and introduces it in Switzerland.



1940: The US imports 70 percent of the world coffee crop.



1942: During W.W.II, American soldiers are issued instant Maxwell House coffee in their ration kits. Back home, widespread hoarding leads to coffee rationing.



1946: In Italy, Achilles Gaggia perfects his espresso machine. Cappuccino is named for the resemblance of its color to the robes of the monks of the Capuchin order.



1969: One week before Woodstock the Manson Family murders coffee heiress Abigail Folger as she visits with friend Sharon Tate in the home of filmmaker Roman Polanski.



1971: Starbucks opens its first store in Seattle's Pike Place public market, creating a frenzy over fresh-roasted whole bean coffee.



1979: Mr Cappuccino opens for business!

The history and development of the beverage that we know as coffee is varied and interesting, involving chance occurrences, political intrigue, and the pursuit of wealth and power.



According to one story, the effect of coffee beans on behavior was noticed by a sheep herder from Caffa Ethopia named Kaldi as he tended his sheep. He noticed that the sheep became hyperactive after eating the red "cherries" from a certain plant when they changed pastures. He tried a few himself, and was soon as overactive as his herd. The story relates that a monk happened by and scolded him for "partaking of the devil's fruit." However the monks soon discovered that this fruit from the shiny green plant could help them stay awake for their prayers.



Another legend gives us the name for coffee or "mocha." An Arabian was banished to the desert with his followers to die of starvation. In desperation, Omar had his friends boil and eat the fruit from an unknown plant. Not only did the broth save the exiles, but their survival was taken as a religious sign by the residents of the nearest town, Mocha. The plant and its beverage were named Mocha to honor this event.



Originally the coffee plant grew naturally in Ethopia, but once transplanted in Arabia was monopolized by them. One early use for coffee would have little appeal today. The Galla tribe from Ethiopia used coffee, but not as a drink. They would wrap the beans in animal fat as their only source of nutrition while on raiding parties. The Turks were the first country to adopt it as a drink, often adding spices such as clove, cinnamon, cardamom and anise to the brew.



Coffee was introduced much later to countries beyond Arabia whose inhabitants believed it to be a delicacy and guarded its secret as if they were top secret military plans. Transportation of the plant out of the Moslem nations was forbidden by the government. The actual spread of coffee was started illegally. One Arab named Baba Budan smuggled beans to some mountains near Mysore, India, and started a farm there. Early in this century, the descendants of those original plants were found still growing fruitfully in the region.



Coffee was believed by some Christians to be the devil's drink. Pope Vincent III heard this and decided to taste it before he banished it. He enjoyed it so much he baptized it, saying "coffee is so delicious it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it."



Coffee today is grown and enjoyed worldwide, and is one of the few crops that small farmers in third-world countries can profitably export.







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





Coffee Timeline:

Excerpt from UTNE READER, Nov/Dec 94, by Mark Schapiro, "Muddy Waters"



Prior to 1000 A.D.: Members of the Galla tribe in Ethiopia notice that they get an energy boost when they eat a certain berry, ground up and mixed with animal fat.



1000 A.D.: Arab traders bring coffee back to their homeland and cultivate the plant for the first time on plantations. They also began to boil the beans, creating a drink they call "qahwa" (literally, that which prevents sleep).



1453: Coffee is introduced to Constantinople by Ottoman Turks. The world's first coffee shop, Kiva Han, open there in 1475. Turkish law makes it legal for a woman to divorce her husband if he fail to provide her with her daily quota of coffee.



1511: Khair Beg, the corrupt governor of Mecca, tries to ban coffee for feat that its influence might foster opposition to his rule. The sultan sends word that coffee is sacred and has the governor executed.



1600: Coffee, introduced to the West by Italian traders, grabs attention in high places. In Italy, Pope Clement VIII is urged by his advisers to consider that favorite drink of the Ottoman Empire part of the infidel threat. However, he decides to "baptize" it instead, making it an acceptable Christian beverage.



1607: Captain John Smith helps to found the colony of Virginia at Jamestown. It's believed that he introduced coffee to North America.



1645: First coffeehouse opens in Italy.



1652: First coffeehouse opens in England. Coffee houses multiply and become such popular forums for learned and not so learned - discussion that they are dubbed "penny universities" (a penny being the price of a cup of coffee).



1668: Coffee replaces beer as New York's City's favorite breakfast drink.



1668: Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse opens in England and is frequented by merchants and maritime insurance agents. Eventually it becomes Lloyd's of London, the best-known insurance company in the world.



1672: First coffeehouse opens in Paris.



1675: The Turkish Army surrounds Vienna. Franz Georg Kolschitzky, a Viennese who had lived in Turkey, slips through the enemy lines to lead relief forces to the city. The fleeing Turks leave behind sacks of "dry black fodder" that Kolschitzky recognizes as coffee. He claims it as his reward and opens central Europe's first coffee house. He also establishes the habit of refining the brew by filtering out the grounds, sweetening it, and adding a dash of milk.



1690: With a coffee plant smuggled out of the Arab port of Mocha, the Dutch become the first to transport and cultivate coffee commercially, in Ceylon and in their East Indian colony - Java, source of the brew's nickname.



1713: The Dutch unwittingly provide Louis XIV of France with a coffee bush whose descendants will produce entire Western coffee industry when in 1723 French naval officer Gabriel Mathieu do Clieu steals a seedling and transports it to Martinique. Within 50 years and official survey records 19 million coffee trees on Martinique. Eventually, 90 percent of the world's coffee spreads from this plant.



1721: First coffee house opens in Berlin.



1727: The Brazilian coffee industry gets its start when Lieutenant colonel Francisco de Melo Palheta is sent by government to arbitrate a border dispute between the French and the Dutch colonies in Guiana. Not only does he settle the dispute, but also strikes up a secret liaison with the wife of French Guiana's governor. Although France guarded its New World coffee plantations to prevent cultivation from spreading, the lady said good-bye to Palheta with a bouquet in which she hid cuttings and fertile seeds of coffee.



1732: Johann Sevastian Bach composes his Kaffee-Kantate. Partly an ode to coffee and partly a stab at the movement in Germany to prevent women from drinking coffee (it was thought to make them sterile), the cantata includes the aria, "Ah! How sweet coffee taste! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! I must have my coffee."



1773: The Boston Tea Party makes drinking coffee a patriotic duty in America.



1775: Prussia's Frederick the Great tries to block inports of green coffee, as Prussia's wealth is drained. Public outcry changes his mind.



1886: Former wholesale grocer Joel Cheek names his popular coffee blend "Maxwell House," after the hotel in Nashville, TN where it's served.



Early 1900's: In Germany, afternoon coffee becomes a standard occasion. The derogatory term "KaffeeKlatsch" is coined to describe women's gossip at these affairs. Since broadened to mean relaxed conversation in general.



1900: Hills Bros. begins packing roast coffee in vacuum tins, spelling the end of the ubiquitous local roasting shops and coffee mills.



1901: The first soluble "instant" coffee is invented by Japanese-American chemist Satori Kato of Chicago.



1903: German coffee importer Ludwig Roselius turn a batch of ruined coffee beans over to researchers, who perfect the process of removing caffeine from the beans without destroying the flavor. He markets it under the brand name "Sanka." Sanka is introduced to the United States in 1923.



1906: George Constant Washington, an English chemist living in Guatemala, notices a powdery condensation forming on the spout of his silver coffee carafe. After experimentation, he creates the first mass-produced instant coffee (his brand is called Red E Coffee).



1907: In less than a century Brazil accounted for 97% of the world's harvest.



1920: Prohibition goes into effect in United States. Coffee sales boom.



1938: Having been asked by Brazil to help find a solution to their coffee surpluses, Nestle company invents freeze-dried coffee. Nestle develops Nescafe and introduces it in Switzerland.



1940: The US imports 70 percent of the world coffee crop.



1942: During W.W.II, American soldiers are issued instant Maxwell House coffee in their ration kits. Back home, widespread hoarding leads to coffee rationing.



1946: In Italy, Achilles Gaggia perfects his espresso machine. Cappuccino is named for the resemblance of its color to the robes of the monks of the Capuchin order.



1969: One week before Woodstock the Manson Family murders coffee heiress Abigail Folger as she visits with friend Sharon Tate in the home of filmmaker Roman Polanski.



1971: Starbucks opens its first store in Seattle's Pike Place public market, creating a frenzy over fresh-roasted whole bean coffee.



1979: Mr Cappuccino opens for business!

amazing 5+$ definatley.

wtf is up with the coffee troll?

and yeah man, awesome!

5 and buy!



PS to the jakes: having to check the "buy" box before clicking the button always makes me forget to do it. this time i was not logged in, so i got lucky. but yeah - annoying.

i like coffee.

I enjoy the inclusion of "A winner is you," tubgirl (i think?) and domo-kun (although I highly suggest removing it, or at least remove the face, the shape of him will be enough).



I am disappointed by the lack of pedobears, lime kittens, cockmonglers, and/or quotations along the lines of "hay laydies" or "you fail it."



Oh well. Can't fit it all. Love it, though. 5$$

thank u jeffdigital for being a jerk. i'm all about it... it's... 1337 ... this is geekcore

Oh man, even a tubgirl allusion. I'm not sure I want to be all nostalgic about this stuff... Maybe someone who spends way too much time on Fark will like it.

what is DSL? I'm retarded ok.

I love this shirt though and would buy it.

..all i can think about now is coffee. Anyway, this design is far to hipster for me.

5 + $



Moss rules.

I would definitely buy this even though I would feel like such a nerd wearing it.

i like it, i'd like it if everything were a little more pushed together, like some of the other designs with a bunch of things together

Genius.

w00t!

I would buy this if it had less PINK!

But I might buy it anyways if they made it.

domo-kun! How 1337!

GOATSE!!!!! Aye Yai Yai!

Composition makes me think of this one:

http://www.threadless.com/product/95/Eighties_Child

exactly what E* said

only i think 80s child was better executed



the colors should be different IMO

i dun think it should be CMYK



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this needs to be printed!! NOW! great design....funny....5$ and a <3

It is being printed. Thanks for scoring.

1) Sorry for the coffee splurge. Friend did that on my name.

2) This shirt NEEDS MORE PINK.

3) This is brilliant and I would buy it in a second.

4) This is going to win, I'm sure of that.

wow you even have faps in there. I will definetly buy ^^

"hey, who ordered the cliche?"

It's great. Whats the snake bear reference? I wish you had that GOD AWFUL dancing baby in the diaper. I wanted to gauge out my eyes with that overdone reference. Or the hampster dance.



I do wish the "bigger wang" was instead a ridiculous XXX phrase such as: "XXX Nude Squirrels!"



I'd also like a differnt shirt color. The bright colors on black look a bit too 80's. Especially since the things you mention in your design are 90's/2000 culture. Am I making any sense?



--great idea and execution. I love it.

Along with the ginormous coffee post AND internet satire...



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I know this story is true, because my friend Mary Ellen’s husband’s sister-in-law’s babysitter’s best friend knows the man that it happened to.



So, this man stopped at a Kentucky Fried Chicken and ordered a bucket of chicken to go. However, once he got it in the car, it smelled so good he couldn’t resist reaching into the bucket, pulling out a piece, and taking a big bite. Only, it wasn’t Kentucky Fried Chicken – it was Kentucky Fried Rat! A city sewer rat had been deep fried and included in his bucket of chicken!



Well, if we feel disgusted you can just imagine how he felt, and he was a little unsettled, so even though he was in a really bad part of town, he stopped at



Well, he knew he had to get to the hospital as soon as possible, so he got out of the bathtub – fortunately whoever had stolen his kidney had bandaged him up so he didn’t bleed to death – and got dressed. He went to the phone to call 911, but when he picked up the receiver, guess what? The phone was dead! The line had been cut! (Probably by the same people who had stolen his kidney.)



Fortunately, his apartment building had a pay phone, so he grabbed his keys and went out into the hallway. Then he realized that he didn’t have any change, so he reached into the coin slot to see if anyone had left some change behind. Only instead of finding change, he got stabbed by a hypodermic needle! And there was a note in the coin slot that read “Welcome to the world of HIV!” Talk about having a day go from bad to worse!



Fortunately, the man did have a couple of things going for him. One, he was not too worried about he was going to pay for his treatment, as he had recently received an email message from Nakumbo Najibwe, the son of the exiled former dictator of Nigeria. Najibwe had promised the man from the bathtub $100,000 if the man would send Najibwe $500 to help smuggle a fortune in precious stones out of Nigeria. The man had sent the money and his bank account number, so he was expecting $100,000 to be deposited into his account any time.



The man also lived very close to a hospital – close enough to walk, in fact, if he had not just had a kidney stolen, but close enough even for someone in his condition to drive to. It’s the same hospital, as a matter of fact, where that little boy is dying, the one who wants everyone in the world to send him a postcard, and the Cancer Society will donate money toward his medical costs for every postcard he receives? The man knew about this because he himself had sent the boy a postcard containing the Neiman Marcus Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe.



That’s the recipe that a woman asked for, because she thought the Neiman Marcus cookies were so good, and the staff gave it to her without telling her that she would be charged for it, and it wasn’t until she got her credit card statement that she found out she’d been charged $600! So, she’s giving the recipe to everyone she can to get back at Neiman Marcus, and the man, the man from the bathtub, had sent a postcard with the recipe on it to the boy who was dying in the local hospital.



It’s also the same hospital where that little girl is dying, the one who wants everyone in the entire world to send her an email message, and for every message she receives the Leukemia Society will donate money toward her medical expenses? The man had sent her that mail message made up of Xs and Os, where if you scroll the right way it turns into an angel, and if you send it to 20 people you will have really good luck, but if you only send it to 10 people you will have only okay luck, and if you send it to less than 10 people you will have really bad luck. Well, obviously the man from the bathtub forwarded it to less than 10 people, because how much worse luck can you have than to have a kidney stolen AND get infected with the virus that causes AIDS!



So, since he couldn’t call 911, the man from the bathtub went down to his parking space, not really expecting his car to be there, and to his amazement it was! Apparently the people who had stolen his kidney had driven him home in his own car. Unfortunately, he was so happy to see his car there that when he got in the front seat, he didn’t notice that in the back seat there was a man who had a hook instead of a hand holding a long, slender knife!



Fortunately, however, as the man from the bathtub pulled out of his parking spot, a kindly truck driver saw the guy with the hook, and each time the guy with the hook reared up to stab the man from the bathtub, the kindly truck driver honked so that the man from the bathtub turned around to see why he was being honke



Unfortunately, however, as he approached the hospital, the man from the bathtub saw a car without its headlights on. Being a good Samaritan, he flashed his li



Incredible. You know, you hear about these things, but you never expect it to happen to your friend’s husband’s sister-in-law’s babysitter’s best friend’s….friend. You can see why I thought you needed to hear this story, so you don’t make the same mistakes as the man from the bathtub. And I need to ask you to please pass it on to 20 of your friends, or at least 10, because if you don’t tell it to at least 10 people you will have really bad luck and you too might have a kidney stolen.



Now, I have to run. This morning I got an email message from Bill Gates himself! Microsoft is testing a new email tracking program, and they need our help, and they are giving $1,000 to the first 1000 people who forward the mail message to ten people! Who could pass that up?



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Source info:

The Ultimate Urban Legend. Adapted from an email sent before the year 2000 and assorted urban legends by Jane Easterly. March 2005.

I LOVE it, but it'd be so much better on another colour shirt. Not black, no no.

Aaah!!! Aaaah!! I want! I need! -tshirt orgasm-

wow, i wish i had given this more thought when it was in the running. i didn't like it at first, but after looking closer, it's pretty awesome! i'd like to see different colors, though.. i'm not too fond of the cmyk

amazing,

this shirt looks great, but it is such a blatant rip off of geoff mcfetridge's work.

Geoff McWho?

he's the guy who invented the fridge

So he didn't invent the Internet?

Fun shirt.

But RobotCop's ROFLCopter is more to my liking..

http://www.threadless.com/submission/50021/ROFLcopter

of course he didnt invent the internet, al gore did

I reeeeeeally want this tshirt. reprint reprint reprint! :(

wow this is like more than 2 years later n i still want u guys to reprint this