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Subject: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: GUEST,Bester Noblest Date: 04 Jul 06 - 08:54 PM What if the colonists had been protesting a tax on coffee instead of tea, and it had turned out to be the Boston Coffee Party instead of the Boston Tea Party? How differently would things have turned out in world history and for the USA? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Barry Finn Date: 04 Jul 06 - 09:09 PM For on the famous 60's era music club on Berkley St in downtown Boston would've been call a coffeehouse instead of the Boston Tea Party. Got to hear a lot of great music there back then. Barry |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Peace Date: 04 Jul 06 - 09:23 PM If it had been the Boston Coffee Party, they'd still be awake and celebrating. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 04 Jul 06 - 09:52 PM The question is absurd! If it happened in Boston it had to be the Boston Tea Party. It would have had to have happened in Seattle in order to have been a Coffee Party, in which case it would have been known as the Seattle Coffee Party. Likewise, if it had happened in New York it would have been the New York Cocktail Party. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: wysiwyg Date: 04 Jul 06 - 10:44 PM Starbucks, 200 years sooner. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Paul Burke Date: 05 Jul 06 - 04:02 AM What if the Minutemen had been a bit bigger? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 05 Jul 06 - 04:07 AM A question from another thread... what if Johnny Appleseed WAS planting "pot" plants instead of trees? Would explain a lot about California.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Alice Date: 05 Jul 06 - 09:06 AM It was a tax on rum (molasses) that sparked the "no taxation without representation" revolt, ending up with the Boston tea party demonstration. Got that from a recent National Public Radio segment this week. The person being interviewed was talking about how water was not safe to drink for so long that alcoholic drinks were developed - wine, beer, congac, rum. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: MMario Date: 05 Jul 06 - 09:23 AM water was still drunk - often diluted with alcohol; The more potent drinks were actually developed primarily to make transportation easier. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Ernest Date: 05 Jul 06 - 09:33 AM low tide would be called "espresso" high tide would be called "caffee latte! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Elmer Fudd Date: 05 Jul 06 - 02:53 PM Boston would have another reason to be known as "Beantown." |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Jul 06 - 02:54 PM Ha! Ha! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Dead Horse Date: 05 Jul 06 - 03:37 PM It would have been "grounds" for revolution? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Mr Red Date: 05 Jul 06 - 03:41 PM it just roasts to show |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Amos Date: 05 Jul 06 - 04:38 PM WIred FIshies. BTW, I don't think Johnny Appleseed (Chapman) knew California existed. He was born in 1760-something, and at that time the Wild Northwest went as far as Illinois. That was as far towards the Pacific as he went. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Jul 06 - 04:39 PM Any idea how many apple seeds he planted? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: GUEST Date: 05 Jul 06 - 04:40 PM He planted 131,849 apple seeds. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 05 Jul 06 - 06:24 PM Ah... but how many sprouted and became trees? LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Folkiedave Date: 05 Jul 06 - 06:27 PM There are grounds for closing this thread. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 05 Jul 06 - 06:41 PM But it seems to have not filtered through to the 'Management'... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: GUEST Date: 05 Jul 06 - 07:10 PM 'Ah... but how many sprouted and became trees?' 2,361 |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Jul 06 - 08:24 PM Impressive. But he didn't plant as many seeds as Casanova. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Amos Date: 05 Jul 06 - 08:25 PM He planted millions. At first, he went back East each year to gather seeds by washing the pulp from mills. Then as his own orchards began to mature, he was always welcome by the farmers who had "bought' them from him, usually for pennies, or promises. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Jul 06 - 08:55 PM Fine. He STILL didn't plant as many seeds as Casanova. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Peace Date: 06 Jul 06 - 12:35 AM Or as many venereal diseases. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Amos Date: 06 Jul 06 - 12:38 AM But the products were more useful. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Little Hawk Date: 06 Jul 06 - 11:40 AM True. Ya got me there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: leeneia Date: 07 Jul 06 - 10:17 AM To get back to the Boston Coffee party - given the propensities of British cooking, they might have started making coffee with salt water. This would have rendered coffee a product, like treacle and suet pudding, that nobody else would touch. The effect on the world of today would have been enormous. What would it be like if all the acreage now devoted to coffee were devoted to something else? Would we have the number of people and the complex material culture today if the previous generations had been forced to rely on mere tea to keep awake? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: GUEST Date: 08 Jul 06 - 07:02 AM The colonists were only sent straight coffee. They truly desired the choice of decaffinated. This is where all the problems truly began - they were just too wired. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What if it was the Boston Coffee Party? From: Ernest Date: 08 Jul 06 - 08:51 AM Considering the strength of the coffee I remember getting served in the US /GB sometimes there must have been a Boston Coffee Party - and they are still using that source.... (running for cover) Ernest |
