OT: "Stella" (was Re: Software Licensing and Sanity (was ...))

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
>This public service announcement was brought to you by Kenneth Brody:
>> 
>> Besides:
>> 
>>     Coffee is supposed to be served in the range of 185 degrees! The
>>     National Coffee Association recommends coffee be brewed at "between
>>     195-205 degrees Fahrenheit for optimal extraction" and drunk
>>     "immediately". If not drunk immediately, it should be "maintained
>>     at 180-185 degrees Fahrenheit". (Source: NCAUSA
>>     <http://www.ncausa.org/public/pages/index.cfm?pageid=71>)
>
>And apparently the defense argued that at that temperature, you suffer
>full tissue burns (all the way through all layers of the skin).  Supposedly
>her pants trapped the coffee and she suffered full tissue burns in a wide
>area.  Apparently medical experts thought differently.  But it added to the
>case that said that it was a 'rogue' McD's that was violating policy by
>keeping it that hot (I don't believe it, having worked at one), which had
>supposedly been cited three times prior for the same "offense".  
>
>And that's not unique to McD's either...Hardee's kept theirs at 180-190F
>when I worked there in HS.
>
>Personally, I can't handle it in my mouth at anywhere near the temperature
>they serve it.  I have to let it cool off at least 10-15min or so before I
>even start.  I'm surely not stupid enough to open it between my legs if the
>roof of my mouth can't handle it.  :)

Didn't Frank Zappa say something related to that when testifying before
congress about rating albums?  If I remember correctly, Tipper Gore was
going on about how important it was to rate albums, and Zappa said
something to the effect that when the cover art is a picture of somebody on
a table with a buzz saw going for their crotch that record wasn't for
little Johnny.

Bill
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