Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 07:34:33 -0800 From: starbird@sj.bigger.net To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg4627$foo@default> Subject: New CP discovery in Java
Six weeks ago, I had placed an unknown species of Nepenthes on my kitchen
window sill. It had arrived in an unmarked box at my doorstep with no
return address. I opened the box, removed the plant, and put it on the
windowsill. Within days, it began to grow. I absent-mindedly put a cup
of Starbucks coffeee on the windowsill one morning, and then I went on
vacation for a week. When I returned, the plant had sent a tendril into
the cup. Upon inspecting the pitcher that opened inside the Starbucks
coffee cup, I noticed that the liquid inside was not clear, but instead
coffee. And, it was still warm. I drank it, and discovered the taste
was like hazelnut coffee. I went to bed that night, but could not sleep.
Apparently, the Nepenthes coffee had 50 times the caffeine of normal
coffee. I have not been able to sleep for 4 weeks now. And, I have
begun eating insects. First ants, then sowbugs, and now small
hummingbirds. My wife refuses to cook dinner for me because I just want
insects mixed with water in a large mixing bowl. I have decided to name
this new species of Nepenthes...Nepenthes Java Hazelnutii.
---Steve
Okay, shaggy dog story over.
P.S. - Dean Cook, where are you?
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