Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 02:06:38 -0500 From: Rand Nicholson <writserv@nbnet.nb.ca> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg4628$foo@default> Subject: Re: 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
>
Interesting, Steve:
I keep my N. alata + in my office/computer room/library. Several times I
have found books left open and (gasp!) the spines broken. Some works by
Milton were found in a pulpy mass on the floor, as if they had been
partially digested and regurgitated.
I wonder ...? ... Naw.
Rand
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