Philosophical thought of the day....

Vikram A Punathambekar

*If* the bull decides to let you live after you've, umm, aroused it, that is. :-D

Cheers, Vikram.

"If a trend is truly global, then that trend ought to be visible across ANY subset of that data" - fat_boy

Vikram A Punathambekar

:laugh:

Cheers, Vikram.

"If a trend is truly global, then that trend ought to be visible across ANY subset of that data" - fat_boy

Steve Mayfield

seeing a calf feed itself should have been enough of a clue... :doh:

Steve

Steve Mayfield

maybe it was as simple as catching rain runoff from the coffee plant...later on a cool evening they just heated the concoction to warm up and voila!

Steve

El Corazon

Steve Mayfield wrote:

seeing a calf feed itself should have been enough of a clue...

Ug wasn't that bright.... perhaps it even took the coincidence of seeing the two events happening simultaneously before the idea clicked.... His wife might even have had twins, fully occupied. The cow had a few spares. After that it was just a quick note to how many animals had spares. A bit of experimentation to find out which were digestible, a bit of time passes, and we have the modern list of who drinks what. :)

_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

UncaDanno

Right you are. The accepted tale is that an Egyptian shepherd noticed the goats were friskier and more playful after eating the cherries off a coffe bush. (Yes, "cherries". Coffee is a fruit. The bean analogous to the pit. But that's another story.) Getting the "benefits" from eating the cherries evolved into the discovery of eating the dried pits and thence to crushing and eating, then roasting, crushing, and steeping the pits in water.

Roger Wright

What about the guy (or gal) that first ate an artichoke? That sucker was hungry! And what were the circumstances leading to the discovery that one can get stoned by licking the underside of a certain toad? And does the toad enjoy it, too? And why don't I ever get invited to those kind of parties? I'll bet Michael Martin was involved, though... :-D

"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

leppie

El Corazon wrote:

How did someone come up with coffee?

They were smoking weed :)

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El Corazon

Roger Wright wrote:

And why don't I ever get invited to those kind of parties?

I can't speak for you... but I was always a geek, I never got to go to those parties. The few I went to we sat around discussing black holes and Einstein-Rosen bridges. After the first two, you realize they are all the same and stop going.... Man you start wishing for that toad just to liven things up a bit!

_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

Liam OHagan

I'm more concerned about the first person to eat an egg! 'Golly, that chicken just crapped out a white thing, I thing I'll eat it' As you may have gathered, I'm not a fan of eggs... On a more serious note, I watched Tony Robinson's 'Worst Jobs in History' recently, and the job of making blue by a complicated process involving a very stinky plant called woad came up. How did people discover that???

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