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"Espresso! My Espresso!"
Tribute to Madeleine Page
E-mail me at frcn@digitalpath.net
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"Espresso! My Espresso!"
Tribute to Madeleine Page
E-mail me at frcn@digitalpath.net
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On December 15 a bright light by the name of Madeleine Page was taken from us. Her posts were always a delight, and each ended with her ever-so-recognizable and always changing signature line. If you would like to do something to honor Madeleine's memory, please go to THE HUNGER SITE and click on the "GIVE FREE FOOD" button there. In Madeleine's own words:
As a tribute to Madeleine's centered, balanced, and delightful posts on alt.coffee, I have perused the alt.coffee archives and present here a selection, at random, of those delightful "internym's" she always included in her signatures. Good bye, Madeleine,
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Madeleine Page 1945 - 2003
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Madeleine "I like flogging as much as the next woman, but things are getting out of hand on this damn thread" Page [referring to the Malabar Gold Thread]
Madeleine "this is my version of a gentle warning" Page
Madeleine "but my dentist is *delighted* that I've started reading ac" Page
Madeleine "phat" Page
Madeleine "bearturd coffee is a truly grizzly thought" Page
Madeleine "too old to remember the puka shell craze" Page
Madeleine "at least I came across one great line that may some day become my .sig" Page
Madeleine "the essential social skill is, as always, remembering where the f&*#! you are" Page
Madeleine "now for an inexpensive but reliable entry level burr grinder that doesn't cost more than my espresso machine" Page
Madeleine "I can see me being up all night, having brewed seven expressos before bedtime" Page
Madeleine "what he said" Page
Madeleine "sorry about that" Page
Madeleine "in case no one had noticed, I'm sort of enjoying myself on this coffee journey" Page
Madeleine "I'm saving for a neon sign that reads "M's Cappuccino Crapshoot"" Page
Madeleine "I want to make Smithfarms Kona in a Cona -- waaaaaah" Page
Madeleine "don't you have to unscrew tiny little screws and everything to remove the screen?" Page
Madeleine "she also washes the kitten and intervenes when he and Gus get into a spat" Page
Madeleine "gotta go, it's time to retrieve the Sulawesi from its perch on the porch where it's cooling" Page
Madeleine "owowow" Page
Madeleine "who's the other psychologist, then?" Page
Madeleine "had a hunch she was right" Page
Madeleine "except for the bit that goes 'Why the f&%#*!! don'tI drink tea instead?'" Page
Madeleine "time for supper, trala!" Page
Madeleine "but I'll go glare at them some, see if that helps" Page
Madeleine "I [heart] my GSD, Emily the Quadruped" Page
Madeleine "just as long as it doesn't coincide with the Catskills house party being organized by a friend from, um, Chicago" Page
Madeleine "OK, back to work [soigh]" Page
Madeleine "three words for you, Sasha: neener, neener, neener" Page
Madeleine "and thanks, Ken, for a good idea" Page
Madeleine "so maybe switching Silvia off when you're not using her would be a good idea" Page
Madeleine "though since Randy says they were OK people when he met them at SCAA at least one of those alties may relent" Page
Madeleine "could always use it as an anti-slip mat" Page
Madeleine "I'll be the one slinking around looking faintly guilty for hanging out with the Real Coffee Fanatics" Page
Madeleine "fixing you with a beady little eye" Page
Madeleine "not sure why "skill" is in derision-quotes in Louise's post, either" Page
Madeleine "when these things arrive with an .exe file attached, I'm gladder than ever that I'ma Mac person" Page
Madeleine "that was *fun*" Page
Madeleine "haven't had good fried bread in an age, either" Page
Madeleine "and all three cats will happily snack on my houseplants, unless I ... should more properly be called HumanNo, given its horrid stench" Page
Madeleine "ever helpful" Page
Madeleine "waving, not drowning" Page
Madeleine "drink cappas exclusively, so I know from steam" Page
Madeleine "call me Doc" Page
Madeleine "aka ancient@crone.com, which always greets me with "Hello Ancient Crone!"" Page
Madeleine ""hmpph" indeed" Page
Madeleine "in short, their service is so stellar I'd happily overlook "it's" for "its" in a note from Baratza, and I'ma bear for wrong apostrophes" Page
Madeleine "and good luck with getting your sense of smell back real soon" Page
Madeleine "moving, job-hunting, falling downstairs -- three good reasons for not reading ac for a while" Page
Madeleine "there's a real difference between being pointlessly penny-pinching and involuntarily impecunious" Page
Madeleine "I'm in the pits and Chumleigh's in the basement" Page
Madeleine "I could be wrong -- it's happened once or twice before" Page
Madeleine "why don't you tackle the Irish troubles next?" Page
Madeleine "in short, YMMV" Page
Madeleine "very satisfied Panix customer, no financial interest in the company" Page
Madeleine "I really do love this group" Page
Madeleine "I use a chopstick" Page
Madeleine "assuming that would have garnered more than an adenoidal "Oh?"" Page
Madeleine "seven years later, and I still miss him" Page
Madeleine "thanks, folks" Page
Madeleine "I think I'm fuzzily positing a connection between these facts, but we're getting awfully close to politics here" Page
Madeleine "so far, my latte art consists of a cabbage, a cloud and a straigh line: pictures at 11" Page
Madeleine "the best of it was that my mother was almost as good a cook as most of those we met in France" Page
Madeleine "on a diet that doesn't allow much milk, so off cappas for a while [waaah]" Page
Madeleine "bad dreams tonight" Page
Madeleine "the disadvantage of the perspex keyboard that comes with the gloriously silent Cube is that every shred of dust is visible" Page
Madeleine "got my lovely Santos for $125 there" Page
Visit my home page! Sign my imaginary guestbook! www.mpage.net
Madeleine "and that was the better of the two cappuccinos I had that afternoon" Page
Madeleine "this really is a special group [snif]" Page -- Visit my home page!
Madeleine "I'll just sit in the corner here and play my nice six-string catarrh" Page
Madeleine "when I'm not using Pine, I'm using the euphonious Eudora" Page
Madeleine "was at my first ever bluegrass concert a week ago: hadn't seen such a substantial group of only-white-folks since I moved to Philly" Page
Madeleine "a coffee NMR?" Page
Madeleine "Ayer on aG String" Page
Madeleine "slight, ladylike growling is in progress" Page
Madeleine "and how about we let the political stuff drop?" Page
Madeleine "namely, a dead parrot" Page
Madeleine "'spammage is damage' is my motto" Page
Madeleine "they're supposed to help me rebuild the poor disintegrated Chumleigh" Page
Madeleine "saving up for a social security blanket myself" Page
Madeleine "or so I am told" Page
Madeleine "seems to have a curious relationship with Yahoo, however, in that you always ... Yahoo to report spam to them, unlike all other sites" Page
Madeleine "low Flashpoint" Page
Madeleine "see www.altfolkloreurban.com" Page
Madeleine "please note the advanced technical nature of the language used in this post" Page
Madeleine "[tragic sob]" Page
Madeleine "originally developed as a form of nerd-baiting" Page
Madeleine "along with Vitamin E and anti-inflammatories" Page
Madeleine "their straight Costa Rican is nothing to sneeze at either" Page
Madeleine "anyone got any old lace I can use as a cover for the lid?" Pag
Madeleine "have a good holiday" Page
Madeleine "let's resist the urge to "improve" this group" Page
Madeleine "sounds like a worthy successor to the Late Lamented HWG" Page
Madeleine "the pursuit of perfection can lead to no coffee at all" Page
Madeleine "but I [heart] that Pavoni" Page
Madeleine "YMMV" Page
Madeleine "not Prussian, but certainly Blue" Page
Madeleine "hmmmm.... coffee... Tuscany & Umbria.... free place to stay... heheh" Page
Madeleine "I am so *not* a sweet, apple-cheeked silver-haired granny that some of you whippersnappers imagined" Page
Madeleine "in short, there's nor real evidence that ad wizards actually *do* crap like that" Page
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