thanks johnny ill wait then

come on you new guys join a small but very dedicated crunching team

Welcome, coffeemad! Glad to see you join our Team!

Thanks, Rudi the Red! We should try to keep both our Teams balanced as we continue to grow our small, yet dedicated Teams.

Sweet, we moved up to #426!

Kudos to all of our Team Mates here:

coffeemad, what a great start!

4inez has passed 125,000 points.
57CHEVY has already surpassed me in a very short time.
Chowbow and yorkyboyuk2001 racking up great numbers.

Great crunching, all!

Welcome to your jittery team members...

Here's the link for "Too Much Coffee Man"

http://www.tmcm.com/magazine/

We have dibs on the "Most Interesting Things About Coffee".

First, some trivia:

When shopping for perfume, take some coffee with you in your bag and have a good sniff in between smelling each perfume to refresh your nose!

Sprinkle spent coffee grounds around the base of your garden plants and it will stop snails and slugs from munching them!

A mixture of coffee grounds and sugar, fed to a pot plant and watered regularly, will revive houseplants that have turned yellow in winter.

Some of the worlds most powerful business, including Lloyds of London and the New York Stock Exchange, started life as a coffee houses.

In December 2001 Brazil produced a scented postage stamp to promote its coffee - the smell should last between 3 and 5 years.

Vincent Van Gogh was a big frequenter of the café society and famously said “I have tried to show the café as a place where one can go mad.”

Pope Clement VIII loved coffee and authorised its use.

Revolutions have been planned in coffee houses, namely the French and the American Revolutions.

At the end of the 16th century records show there were at least 500 cafes in Istanbul alone. The first European cafes were opened by immigrants from Asia around 1650.

A coffee tree has a lifespan of about 50 to 70 years.

The coffee cherries turn from yellow to orange and then bright red, 6 - 8 months after flowering.

When it is in bloom, the coffee tree is covered with 30,000 white flowers which begin to develop into fruit after 24 - 36 hours.

A coffee tree can flower eight times in any one year - depending on rainfall.

There are 900 different flavours of arabica. Complex and very volatile, they deteriorate if exposed to air and light.

The aromas in coffee develop at the 10th minute of roasting.
Coffee increases in volume during roasting by 18.60%.


Hmmm, Points Generated (Rank) 906,607 (#421).

This Team (The Little Train That Could) should get a Million points in about two weeks.

5,271 results so far. Very nice.