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Got one you missed:
Fill filter w/ coffee.
Fill reservoir w/ water.
Set timer.
Get in intense conversation.
Fill carafe w/ water to put in reservoir.
Continue conversation.
Put full pot of water on burner.
Wait ten hours for full reservoir to brew into full pot while you are asleep.....
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I haven't scored ALL of the above as accomplishments...
Just t'aint sayin' how many...I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
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When I was just a young'n, my mother put the kettle on to boil water for her coffee (she used instant for her "ordinary" coffee). She got started on something else, so when the kettle boiled I, being a helpful lad, followed her procedure for making coffee:
1. Put a heaping teaspoon full of the brown stuff from the glass jar beside the toaster into the mug.
2. Fill the mug with boiling water.
3. Stir.
What I didn't know was that there were TWO glass jars of brown stuff, with the second being the ground coffee she used on special occasions. Guess which jar I grabbed.
Of course, one of my brother's model railroad magazines (years later) had a single-panel cartoon that taught an important lesson - NEVER store your dark brown track ballast in an old coffee can.Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.
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Quoth DGoddessChardonnay View Postmaking a full pot but only drinking 2 cups and leaving the rest to get cold really steams me.)but I can make one cup at a time.
My dad once had one of those grind 'n brew machines, he set the timer before we went to bed but missed the carafe sitting in the dishrack.
I wake up to the grinder going, a 'brewing' sound that isn't quite right, dad running upstairs, then "OH SHIT!"Last edited by Dreamstalker; 11-04-2011, 01:44 PM."I am quite confident that I do exist."
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Quoth MoonCat View PostI brewed a pot of hot water once. Forgot to put coffee in the filter, poured in the water, turned it on...voila, nice pot of hot water. Not as tasty as coffee, though!
Quoth Chromatix View PostNo, usually the right amount is about half the depth of the filter - which, because it is cone shaped, is a good deal less than half the volume.
Quoth sms001 View PostGot one you missed:
Fill filter w/ coffee.
Fill reservoir w/ water.
get distracted
Fill carafe w/ water to put in reservoir.
get distracted
Fill reservoir w/ water.
Hit start button.
Everything will be ok in the end. If it's not ok, it's not the end.
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Quoth Dreamstalker View PostThis is why we love our Keurig. Yes, it can be annoying washing out the filter cup (possibly 5862 times a day in my case)but I can make one cup at a time.
My dad once had one of those grind 'n brew machines, he set the timer before we went to bed but missed the carafe sitting in the dishrack.
I wake up to the grinder going, a 'brewing' sound that isn't quite right, dad running upstairs, then "OH SHIT!"
Not practical for someone who gets paid every 2 weeks yet buys most of her groceries at the first of the month.
Another mistake that was made with my coffee maker (by the former painter) was he had started brewing a pot but forgot to put the carafe back underneath on the plate. I had a lake of coffee going all over the counter.
But then I almost forgot to move it back into the kitchen last night after moving it (we're trying to get stuff moved back in and Mom's been playing musical appliances) to the top of the dryer in the laundry room.
When I finally got back to move it, one of the cats was almost wrapped up around it, asleep. It's a good thing he didn't figure out how to plug it up and turn it on.Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)
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Quoth DGoddessChardonnay View Post...one of the cats was almost wrapped up around it, asleep. It's a good thing he didn't figure out how to plug it up and turn it on.I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
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Quoth dalesys View PostThis coffee tastes like cat piss!
Speaking of a coffepot smelling like cat piss . . . same cat who had, in her time with us, ruined two Epson printers and a keyboard had somehow managed to ruin a 4 cup coffemaker.
For some reason, when I'd turn it on, it'd smell just like cat piss and the smell would overtake the kitchen. Not to mention my coffee would taste funny.
I tried cleaning it inside and out and soaking the carafe, but nothing seemed to help. Mom and I tried to turn it on again and I thought I could still smell the cat pee.
That coffeemaker went out the back door and into the trash can.And Zoey was put down not too long afterwards . . . .
Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)
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Reminds me of a bar story.
A corny sue'r, a maistre of stays and postponements, an odious ale legal, two twit a professional liar, lacking the humility of our ain an ainly Jester, was bloviating at the bar of the fineness of his pàláté, claiming to be able to identify any wine, beer, rum, whisky or liquor at a single sip.
Our zero was impressing one and all until the bar's resident wino, One-Finger, slid a shotglass down the bar and said: "Name that."
The Filthydelphia Lawyer sipped... strangled... and sp-p-puttered: "That's piss!"
"Yes, but whose?"I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
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Well, you can always make Cowboy Coffee... Brew as usual, pour coffee into water reservoir, re-brew. Fresh grounds optional."For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
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Found another way:
Pour the carafe of water into... the can of coffee.I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
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