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Ward Cleaver3/16/2009 8:43:29 am PDT

re: #891 Kenneth

Starbuck’s co. say the company was named after the first mate in Moby Dick because he loved coffee so much. But in fact, Starbuck drank no coffee at any time in the novel. He did throw a load of tea overboard at one point. But his preferred drink was rum.

“Rum, the lash, and sodomy”?

/as michael savage used to say