Voltaire's Weird Situation with Coffee

In <99a4fa76-6216-4444-8211-690fc3eef3e4@m74g2000hsh..com>,
on Sun, 5 Oct 2008 10:37:41 -0700 (PDT), javawizard, javawizard@ wrote:
> Voltaire drank between fifty and sixty-five cups of coffee every day.

So which is it then? In
news:1990eafd-d864-4123-8031-5b66f3abc17a@2g2000hsn..com
you warned that you can accidentally kill yourself by
drinking as little as 40 cups of coffee a day.

--
☯☯

Steve Ackman wrote:
> In <99a4fa76-6216-4444-8211-690fc3eef3e4@m74g2000hsh..com>,
> on Sun, 5 Oct 2008 10:37:41 -0700 (PDT), javawizard, javawizard@ wrote:
> > Voltaire drank between fifty and sixty-five cups of coffee every day.
>
> So which is it then? In
> news:1990eafd-d864-4123-8031-5b66f3abc17a@2g2000hsn..com
> you warned that you can accidentally kill yourself by
> drinking as little as 40 cups of coffee a day.
>
> --
> ☯☯

Might be a matter of size of a cup, but more likely that you can kill
yourself if you drink 40 cups all of a sudden but gradually going up
to 60 is unwise but not lethal.

On Oct 6, 10:55 am, lavarock7 <agas97...@mypacks.net> wrote:
> Steve Ackman wrote:
> > In <99a4fa76-6216-4444-8211-690fc3eef...@m74g2000hsh..com>,
> > on Sun, 5 Oct 2008 10:37:41 -0700 (PDT), javawizard, javawiz...@ wrote:
> >> Voltaire drank between fifty and sixty-five cups of coffee every day.
>
> >   So which is it then?  In
> >news:1990eafd-d864-4123-8031-5b66f3abc17a@2g2000hsn..com
> > you warned that you can accidentally kill yourself by
> > drinking as little as 40 cups of coffee a day.
>
> And Voltaire is still dead, right? :-)

Voltaire was seldom dead right. Toci