Friday 14 December 2012

[www.keralites.net] Khatte-mitten khabhrain (sweet-sour news) from around d world for 15/12/12

 

 
CapPOOcino!  Coffee beans passed by humans for sale.
 
A roaster in Oregon is offering to pass coffee beans through his digestive system to create his own unique blend of the beverage for $30 a pound  Inspired by the kopi luwak – an expensive blend of coffee to which coffee beans are naturally passed through the digestive track of a palm civer, a cousin of the mongoose – the seller in Portland is offering to copy the same process.  Te coffee beans, which are retrieved from their waste are said to receive a boost in flavor from its body's enzymes and ca sell for as much as $600 a pound.
 
(Me: In Thailand, coffee beans passed through the digestive tracts of elephants sell for fat sums.  So long as there are health nuts, the tribe of such entrepreneurs will flourish).
 
Weird world
 
A university student, 34, decided to get off a train and buy a ticket a railway station kiosk after her bank card was declined by a conductor's machine.  But as she was about to get back on the train it pulled out of Burnley Central in Lancashire – and she realized she had left her dissertation on board.  In panic she ran after the train to catch up with at the next stop Burnley Barracks.  Railway staff stopped her after a mile and issued a Pounds sterling 50 penalty notice. 
 
Man to wife: "If I die first, I want to you to keep recording my programme just in case I came back as a ghost or a zombie or something."
 
That's bizarre..
 
Man dies after dancing to Gangnam Style.
 
This week, after the death of a British dad, experts now warn that dancing 'Gangnam Style' may be a middle age no-no.  Eamonn Kilbride, 46, was performing the energetic dance that's been made famous by Korean pop star Psy at his office Christmas party over the weekend when he suddenly collapsed and died.
 
An economist, a philosopher, a biologist, and an architect were arguing about what was God's real profession.  The philosopher said, "Well, God is a philosopher because he created the principles by which man is to live."
 
"Ridiculous!" said the biologist.  "Before that, God created man and woman and all living things, so clearly he was a biologist."
 
"Wrong," said the architect.  "Before that, he created the heavens and the Earth.  Before the earth, there was only confusion and chaos!"
 
"Well," said the economist, "where do you think the chaos came from?"
 
(Me: This is no joke, yaaron.  Have you ever seen or heard of two economists agreeing on anything, or the same economist agreeing on it at different places or times?).
 
Obituary
 
US inventor of bar code dies at 91.
 
Norman Joseph Woodland, the inventor of the bar code, that originated six decades ago and revolutionized product labeling, has died at the age of 91.
 
(Me: The others – all sourgrapes or sourpusses - may keep harping or griping about the way things are in the US, bt fact is great ideas originate there).
 
Think it over
 
"Thank God for imminent doomsday" – Jim Butcher.
 
(Me: The latest doomsday is 21st December!)
 
Teeth said to tongue: "If I just press you little you will get cut"
Tongue replied: "If I misuse just one word against someone, then your 32 teeth will come out"...
 
Nursery rhyme of the current generation...
 
"Drinking Drinking
Little BEER.
How I wonder
Which BAR is near.
Quarter rates are up so HIGH
Have desi with chana Fry"
 
Mindchow
 
Do not fear mistakes.
There are none.
 
They keep saying the right person will come along, I think
Mine got hit by a truck.

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