Update

I just realized that I forgot to include the link to my new blog. ;P Sorry. So here it is: www.greenfreaxunited.blogspot.com

Enjoy, fans!!!

~Muffin (AKA Green Freak)

New Blog

Hey, everyone!!! I know this is the blog everyone knows and loves, and it's not like we're deleting it. Well, I'm not. I don't know about the rest of the Coffee Snobs. Since there seems to be a problem with the comments (as Bob Zenith pointed out to me at school) and nobody else is posting, Coffee Snobs doesn't really exist anymore. It's just Muffin. :(

The bad news aside, I created a new blog! It's not connected in any way to the Coffee Snobs or Latte's account, so it's completely, 100% new! I already posted on it, and there will be changes and modifications made. But if you're reading this, we switched! Hooray!

Remember to comment, etc. Smell ya people later!!!

~Muffin (now known as Green Freak)

Switching

Okay, for anyone still reading this, I think we're going to switch. I mean, switch blogs. Because nobody is commenting, nobody is posting, and it's really boring. So when I create the new blog (on an all-new account, not Latte's) I'll let you guys know. But if you know anyone on the Coffee Snobs, you better tell them to start posting fast or this blog is gone.

~Muffin.

P.S. Please comment on this post.

Hi

Did anyone ever notice how many ways there are to say hi? Like, in English, there's hi, hello, yo, what's up, etc. In other languages there's hola, bonjour, aloha (which also means good-bye) and konichiwa (? sp ?).
Just thought I'd blurt something out. Happy Tuesday!

~Muffin.

Template Change (again)

Okay, people, the votes are in!!! We've gotten a variety of feedback and ideas, and we've come up with a conclusion: the template's staying the same. I know, a whole bunch of people are disappointed (don't stop reading, though! :) ) but I'll still change the colors around and stuff for the holidays. If you have anything you want to add to or say about this post, please comment.

Thanks you, readers of this blog!

~The Coffee Snobs

Sorry

Sorry for the inconvenience, but our comment window is for some reason unknown not working correctly. It is posting multiple comments of the same type, so until we get this fixed, I hope you don't mind duplicates!! :)

Template Change

Okay, people. I have a serious question for you guys. Comment on this post on your idea of the following question: Should the Coffee Snobs change the template (basically the background and layout) of this blog? I don't want just a yes or no reply. I want to know WHY. The more comments, the better, so start the feedback, people!

NOTE: The blog will be exactly the same, it's just that it will have an all new look to it. :)

Here are some of the different options:

What Is Easter?

Easter is the annual festival commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the principal feast of the Christian year. It is celebrated on a Sunday on varying dates between March 22 and April 25 and is therefore called a movable feast. The dates of several other ecclesiastical festivals, extending over a period between Septuagesima Sunday (the ninth Sunday before Easter) and the first Sunday of Advent, are fixed in relation to the date of Easter.

Connected with the observance of Easter are the 40-day penitential season of Lent, beginning on Ash Wednesday and concluding at midnight on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday; Holy Week, commencing on Palm Sunday, including Good Friday, the day of the crucifixion, and terminating with Holy Saturday; and the Octave of Easter, extending from Easter Sunday through the following Sunday. During the Octave of Easter in early Christian times, the newly baptized wore white garments, white being the liturgical color of Easter and signifying light, purity, and joy.

The Christian festival of Easter probably embodies a number of converging traditions; most scholars emphasize the original relation of Easter to the Jewish festival of Passover, or Pesach, from which is derived Pasch, another name for Easter. The early Christians, many of whom were of Jewish origin, were brought up in the Hebrew tradition and regarded Easter as a new feature of the Passover festival, a commemoration of the advent of the Messiah as foretold by the prophets.

An article from Funk & Wagnalls® New Encyclopedia. © 2005 World Almanac Education Group, A WRC Media Company


Just another little fun-filled moment from yours truly. :) Hope you're having a great Spring Break, guys!

~Muffin.

When Is Easter?

Easter 2009
Easter 2009 will take place on Sunday, April 12.

Easter Calendar
Easter 2010 will be Sunday, April 4.
Easter 2011 will be Sunday, April 24.
Easter 2012 will be Sunday, April 8.


Easter in the Early Church

According to the New Testament, Christ was crucified on the eve of Passover and shortly afterward rose from the dead. In consequence, the Easter festival commemorated Christ's resurrection. In time, a serious difference over the date of the Easter festival arose among Christians. Those of Jewish origin celebrated the resurrection immediately following the Passover festival, which, according to their Babylonian lunar calendar, fell on the evening of the full moon (the 14th day in the month of Nisan, the first month of the year); by their reckoning, Easter, from year to year, fell on different days of the week.

Christians of Gentile origin, however, wished to commemorate the resurrection on the first day of the week, Sunday; by their method, Easter occurred on the same day of the week, but from year to year it fell on different dates. An important historical result of the difference in reckoning the date of Easter was that the Christian churches in the East, which were closer to the birthplace of the new religion and in which old traditions were strong, observed Easter according to the date of the Passover festival. The churches of the West, descendants of Greco-Roman civilization, celebrated Easter on a Sunday.

Rulings of the Council of Nicaea on the Date of Easter

Constantine I, Roman emperor, convoked the Council of Nicaea in 325. The council unanimously ruled that the Easter festival should be celebrated throughout the Christian world on the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox; and that if the full moon should occur on a Sunday and thereby coincide with the Passover festival, Easter should be commemorated on the Sunday following. Coincidence of the feasts of Easter and Passover was thus avoided.

The Council of Nicaea also decided that the calendar date of Easter was to be calculated at Alexandria, then the principal astronomical center of the world. The accurate determination of the date, however, proved an impossible task in view of the limited knowledge of the 4th-century world. The principal astronomical problem involved was the discrepancy, called the epact, between the solar year and the lunar year. The chief calendric problem was a gradually increasing discrepancy between the true astronomical year and the Julian calendar then in use.

Later Dating Methods

Ways of fixing the date of the feast tried by the church proved unsatisfactory, and Easter was celebrated on different dates in different parts of the world. In 387, for example, the dates of Easter in France and Egypt were 35 days apart. About 465, the church adopted a system of calculation proposed by the astronomer Victorinus (fl. 5th cent.), who had been commissioned by Pope Hilarius (r. 461–68) to reform the calendar and fix the date of Easter. Elements of his method are still in use. Refusal of the British and Celtic Christian churches to adopt the proposed changes led to a bitter dispute between them and Rome in the 7th century.

Reform of the Julian calendar in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII, through adoption of the Gregorian calendar, eliminated much of the difficulty in fixing the date of Easter and in arranging the ecclesiastical year; since 1752, when the Gregorian calendar was also adopted in Great Britain and Ireland, Easter has been celebrated on the same day in the Western part of the Christian world. The Eastern churches, however, which did not adopt the Gregorian calendar, commemorate Easter on a Sunday either preceding or following the date observed in the West. Occasionally the dates coincide; the most recent times were in 1865 and 1963.

Because the Easter holiday affects a varied number of secular affairs in many countries, it has long been urged as a matter of convenience that the movable dates of the festival be either narrowed in range or replaced by a fixed date in the manner of Christmas. In 1923 the problem was referred to the Holy See, which has found no canonical objection to the proposed reform. In 1928 the British Parliament enacted a measure allowing the Church of England to commemorate Easter on the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April. Despite these steps toward reform, Easter continues to be a movable feast.

An article from Funk & Wagnalls® New Encyclopedia. © 2005 World Almanac Education Group, A WRC Media Company


Okay, guys. You probably think I'm crazy, because I know that NOBODY will read all of this mind-boggling stuff. I just thought the top few facts were cool, and they're located at...check this out...the TOP of the post. Huh? How cool is that? Anyway, I'm going to be posting a question a day about Easter until I run out of facts, or at least articles on the Encylopedia. Peace out, homedogs.

~Muffin, the Easter expert.

Rainy Days

Twenty Things to Do on a Rainy Day
Aren't rainy days a real bummer? Well here are some fun things to do even while the sun is not shining. Don't worry, the sun will be back to play before you know it - and you'll be having fun in the meantime!
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/63195/twenty_things_to_do_on_a_rainy_day.html

lol, don't freak out guys. I didn't make this. I got it off of a Google search for "things to do on a rainy day" 'cause I'm really REALLY bored right now. I read through it, and it's kinda cheesy. But I love cheese, so there's no problem there. :)

Have a great rainy day, people of America, Switzerland, and Wisconsin!

~Muffin.

Comments

I NEED COMMENTS, PEOPLE!!!!!!

~Muffin.

Eco Help

Okay, people. We have a mission here. There are two sides to that mission, and by that, I mean two outcomes.

Outcome Numero Uno: We all die, and Earth shrivels up into an unknown brown glob of who-knows-what. Life as we know it will cease to exist.

Outcome Numero Dos: We all survive, and Earth stays the same as it is now, except that it won't be degrading and the hole in the ozone over Antarctica won't be there, and there won't be any smog, and the world will run 100% off of solar and wind and hydro energy, and...well...maybe it won't be the same at all.

So, which one would you rather have? I'm guessing that, if you're sane, you chose the second one, because human beings tend to like staying alive. It's a weird little quirk, I guess.*

Anyway, to keep Earth from shriveling up, here are some simple things that you can do around your neighborhood:

1. Recycle. I know, you hear it a lot. "Recycle this, recycle that! Clean up your room, Johnny!" But if everyone recycled five soda bottles on the continental US, we would have almost a trillion pounds of recycled plastic.

2. Clean up. No, I don't mean your room. I mean, if you have trash in your yard, around your school, in a pond you know of, or even in an abandoned lot or field, go pick it up! Get some friends together, form a squad of eco-friendly people, and GO CLEAN IT UP! Sheesh, I need to stop drinking caffeine.

3. Spread the word. Tell your family. Tell your friends. Tell your teachers. Tell your teachers' family and friends. Call the POTUS on your cell and tell them that the world is going to explode (seriously, call Obama. I want to know what happens.)

Do these three totally awesome things that I just made up, and you'll be sitting pretty on a nice, green Earth without pollution, smog, smoke, holes in the ozone, etc. And if you don't believe me, go fall in a ditch, rot in a sack, roll into a river, and get eaten by a rabid sewer rat, because you're obviously being misinformed about something. Smell ya people later!

~Muffin.

*Quirk: –noun
1. a peculiarity of action, behavior, or personality; mannerism: He is full of strange quirks.
2. a shift, subterfuge, or evasion; quibble.
3. a sudden twist or turn: He lost his money by a quirk of fate.
4. a flourish or showy stroke, as in writing.
5. Architecture. a. an acute angle or channel, as one dividing two parts of a molding or one dividing a flush bead from the adjoining surfaces.
b. an area taken from a larger area, as a room or a plot of ground.
c. an enclosure for this area.

6. Obsolete. a clever or witty remark; quip.

Questions, Comments, Fits of Paranoia?

Guys of this awesome-tastic, super-colossal, totally amazing, and in all other ways inconceivably terrific blog: I need some information!!!
Okay, so first of all, we need followers. If you're a blogger, follow this blog. If you have a Google or IM account, follow this blog. One can never have enough followers.
Also, WE NEED COMMENTS, PEOPLE! You have NO idea how boring Spring Break can be without reading comments. Sometimes I'm unsure that people even read this blog, other than me.
Then there's the identity issue. Um...we've been having problems with people giving out other people's names, etc. Please don't do that. I mean, I didn't PUBLISH those comments, but I know someone out there hoped I did. And that's scary.

TTFN, guys!

~Muffin.

Earth Hour

Heyy!

Okay, people. There's something really important taking place this Saturday, and I want to make sure you all know what it is. In fact, call your family, friends, people you know, people you like, people you don't like, and the president of the United States about this: Earth Hour is going to occur on Saturday, March 28, 2009. What is Earth Hour, you might ask? It's an entire hour where everybody in the world shuts off their electricity and lights for one hour. Everyone's participating in it...and so should you! To learn more about this fabulous event, go to www.earthhour.com.

Yeah. It's this important.

TTFN, TGFN, and SYL,

~Muffin.

Request

I was wondering if anyone besides Bob Zenith reads this blog? Do I even know you? And thank you for the comment. I want more comments, please. They make me feel like I'm important. :)

~Muffin.

Betcha Didn't Know

Here are some things you probably didn't know:

~If everyone recycled 5 soft drink bottles (PET plastic bottles), over five thousand pounds of plastic would be recycled each day.

~Each day Americans throw out enough metal and aluminum to rebuild the US air fleet two times.

~America produces half a trillion pounds of recyclable garbage a year and ships it to China and elsewhere for disposal.

~Hawaii has no disposable system; they dump their garbage in a landfill off the coast of Maui.

~Every day, Americans use enough energy to power the whole world for a month with everything on nonstop.

Kinda scary to think about, you know? Hope you like this, Bob Zenith.

~Muffin, the green freak

Go Here, People!!!

http://www.thinkgreen.com/home

~Muffin, the green freak

The Big Green Help

Go Here

http://www.microprizes.com/mp12.htm

This is an awesome site. Seriously. Like, it'll choose your animal if you decide to go to the game "Noah's Zoo". Don't ask. But the other games are really hard. I'll give you a million dollars if you can do them (not really).

Have a good weekend!

~Muffin.

A Summary of THE OUTSIDERS

A Summary of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Summary by Muffin Coffeesnob

The first event in the book is Ponyboy Curtis getting jumped by the Socs. He is on his way home from the movies and some Socs pulled a blade on him. His gang comes to the rescue and chases the rich kids off, and they bring him to The Dingo, a greaser and hood club. Dally, Pony, and Johnny go to a drive-through movie station. There they meet Cherry Valance and Marcia. Dally leaves after Johnny tells him to quit saying dirty things to the girls, and Pony tells Cherry how Johnny was beaten up by the Socs at an earlier date. She tells him that not all Socs are like that, and reminds him that they watch the same sunset. Two-Bit comes and helps Pony and Johnny walk the two girls home, but their boyfriends (Socs) come by and pick them up, telling the greasers to get lost. After that, Two-Bit leaves the other two. Pony and Johnny go to the lot and fall asleep. When they wake up, Pony runs back to his house to face Darry for staying out late. Darry hits him, and Pony runs back to get Johnny from the lot. Together they decide to walk to the park and back, but they encounter Cherry and Marcia’s boyfriends and some other Socs, who try to drown Pony. Johnny stabs Bob, the Soc who tried to kill Pony, and they go to Darry to get help after the other Socs leave.
Darry gives Ponyboy and Johnny a gun, fifty dollars, and tells them to get on a train and go to an abandoned church he knows about. They follow his instructions, and they camp out there for a while—reading, smoking, and playing poker for fun. Dally meets them after five or six days and takes them to Dairy Queen. When they get back, the church is on fire. Fearing that he started it with a cigarette on accident, Pony runs to see what’s wrong. A woman is screaming and he can hear children inside the burning building. Ignoring Dally’s yells to get back, he scrambles into the church with Johnny, and they together save all of the children, though not before a timber falls on Johnny’s back, most likely breaking his spine. Pony is reunited with Sodapop and Darry, and the three brothers go home after being interviewed by the reporters who are calling them heroes for saving the children. When Pony wakes up, he starts making breakfast, and Two-Bit and Steve come over. Darry and Soda come downstairs, and Pony tells Darry that he had one of the dreams he can’t ever remember. Two-Bit and Pony go out, and some Socs catch up with them. Randy explains to Pony that he doesn’t want to join in the big rumble between the greasers and Socs because nothing good will come of it. Then Two-Bit and Pony visit Johnny, who’s dying because of his broken back. Johnny passes out after telling the nurse he doesn’t want to see his mother, who is there to visit him. After this, Two-Bit tells Pony that they should go visit Dally. He’s doing fine. They talked to Cherry Valance (a spy on the greasers’ side) and she tells them the rules of the fight: skin only; no weapons.
The Socs and the greasers fight. Dally shows up, though one arm isn’t working properly; he threatened the nurse with a switchblade. The greasers win, and Dally drags Pony to the hospital. Johnny dies, his last words being, “Stay gold, Pony. Stay gold.” Dally bolts and runs away, leaving Ponyboy to stumble home by himself. He breaks the news to his gang, and Dally calls with the news that he robbed a store and they need to meet him in the lot and hide him. They run to find him, and they see Dally in time to watch him whip out an unloaded heater and see the policemen shoot him. Ponyboy faints with fever and shock. After a long while, Randy comes to see him, and they talk about court and the killing of Bob. Pony denies that Johnny killed anyone, and takes the blame. He also says that Johnny isn’t dead, because he is in a state of shock (a little) but moreover cannot accept the loss because Johnny was his best friend. Ponyboy wasn’t convicted and was not sent to a boy’s home, and neither was Sodapop. School-wise, Pony’s grades are slipping, and his reading and LA teacher tells him that if he picks a good semester theme, he will pass Pony with a C grade, considering the circumstances. Pony decides not to write anything for the time being and goes to hang out with his gang. A bunch of Socs try to “talk” to him, but most likely will jump the gang. Ponyboy grabs a broken bottle and fends them off. His gang fears he’s getting tough, like Dally was, until he throws the bottle aside and picks up the pieces. Darry and Pony get into a fight about schoolwork until Soda runs away, and he explains that he can’t stand the fighting, the yelling, and the picking sides. When they all get home, Pony goes upstairs and proceeds to write The Outsiders, a story of his life.

Just in case you guys need help on the project!!!

~Muffin.

P.S. DON'T COPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)

My Mad Lib

Dragonlance Underground Presents a MAD LIB
Caramon ran toward the booths at the home Fair, hoping to buy a red gift for Tika while she was busy inspecting the monkey sellers' merchandise.
"Hey, Muffin"! he shouted. "I need a present right away for my wife. What have you got for under 100 steel pieces?"
The merchant eyed him with happy. "I sell the finest cats, made by the orange craftsmen of school. They use only the best water, the finest horse hair, and the most costly and rare dogs in the making of their wares. What size is your wife, President?"
"Um. I don't know!" Caramon responded. "Let me think." He held out his birds and measured Tika's imaginary hand in the air. "And her favorite shade is green too. Do you have anything like that? If you do, I'll gladly run you for whatever it's worth." Caramon said, running hopefully.
"You're in luck, sir," the merchant said slowly. "I have just the thing. What do you think of this?" The seller held up a yellow new shirt. Caramon walked with delight.
"I'll take it!" he cried, reaching into his basket for the steel. "Won't Tika be surprised? This will surely make up for the time I accidentally skipped her pony in the wash."

I know, I know. It's not really Valentine-y, but it's kinda funny.

Go Now.

http://vacation.away.com/travel-gd-animals-endangered-species-photo-gallery-sidwcmdev_094080.html?gclid=CLCpuOynvJgCFQ6jagodtU1cZg

Awesome site. Go here.

GO HERE!!!

http://www.dragonlanceunderground.com/interactive/madlib.asp

Hey, guys. I dare you to go here, do the Mad Lib, and not laugh until you fall out of your chair. I haven't tried it. Yet. But I will. And you will lose this challenge even if you giggle in spite of yourself. So...Happy-Almost-Valentine's-Day!!! :)

~Muffin.

Ummm...

Anybody know our new follower? (Not that it's a bad thing. Your blog is...interesting. Cool. But mostly interesting.)

~Someone.

Sorry

Sorry about the color change, people. It will be corrected ASAP. Well, as soon as Valentine's Day is over, anyway. Let's just say Cupid (or someone who doesn't know anything about color schemes) changed the template color default. I know how to change it back, but why not keep it like this till the holiday is over, right? ;)

~Muffin.

Birthday Song

THE BIRTHDAY DIRGE

tune: "Volga Boatmen"

Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday!
1. Now you've aged another year
Now you know that Death is near
Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday!
1a. So you've aged another year
Now you know that Death is near
2. Children dying far and near
They say that cancer's caused by bheer
2a. Children dying everywhere
Women crying in despair
3. Death, destruction, and despair
People dying everywhere
3a. Doom and gloom and dark despair
People dying everywhere!
3b. Doom, destruction, and despair
Grief and sorrow fill the air
3c. Doom, destruction, and despair
People dying everywhere
3d. Death and gloom and black despair
People dying everywhere
3e. Pain destruction and despair
People dying everywhere
4. Typhoid, plague and polio
Coffins lined up in a row
5. Now that you're the age you are
Your demise cannot be far
5a. Now you are the age you are
Your demise cannot be far
5b. When you've reached the age you are
Your demise cannot be far!

Heheheh. Really get you thinking, huh?

~Muffin.

Valentine's Day

Wanna do something special for someone on Valentine's Day? Here are some cool ideas!

1. Make some pancakes. It doesn't really matter how (mix, from scratch, etc.). While the pancakes are sizzling on the stove, cut up some strawberries into little chunks and put them on your pancakes. Or mix them into the batter. Either one.
2. Cut the tops off of a bunch of ripe strawberries. Then cut each one in half so that they look like strawberry hearts. Trim accordingly.
3. Buy some conversation hearts and attach them to red or pink tissue paper. Then cut the paper into five-by-five inch squares. Put your index finger in each one and crumple them to shape around your finger. Put green pipecleaners through them and add a yellow cotton ball for a floural touch (Note: You don't need the conversation hearts. It's just a suggestion.)

If you have any other ideas, we'd love to hear about them! Comment on any post. It doesn't matter if they're original...I got one of these from National Geographic Kids February Issue from last year, so feel free to find a recipe off the Internet (as long as you credit it) or dig through your mom's or grandma's recipe bin for some fun-filled Valentine's Day feasts!

Happy Valentine's Day!

~Muffin.

Thank You

Thank you Anonymous and Bob Zenith. You know, for caring. Anonymous, you're right, we SHOULD post more. Though I do most of it.

Random Post Of Useless Knowledge

Ten things you should never do when you get old enough to drop out of high school and live on your own in self pity and misery:

1. Feel sorry for yourself.
2. Drop out of school.
3. Dump your girl/boyfriend.
4. Get fired from your job at Walmart.
5. Eat fatty foods.
6. Get bad grades.
7. Not think about college.
8. Not rent an apartment.
9. Not get the heck out of your hometown as soon as you have the chance.
10. Talk back to your parents...it'll come back and bite you in the butt.

I just know these things. (Ahem, thanks to my two idiot cousins.)

Au revoire!

~Muffin.

Thanks, Guys

I just saw the post that I made about people who actually still read this blog, and I'm glad you guys commented. Seriously. I means a lot to me. Especially because some people don't give a care about me and my feelings!
Anyway, thanks. Feel free to follow this blog.

~Muffin.

Muffin's Comment Of The Week

SMOKING=BAD

This is my comment of the weeks, and also why I've stopped posting. Don't guess on this; you'll get it wrong.

Bon voyage (?)!

~Muffin.

New Blog to Follow

hey everybody. we found a new blog to follow: http://www.chocolatemonkeynews.blogspot.com/

click the link to go to it. tell friends! : D

~Latte

Hey

Muffin here. Just wondering if any of you guys even read this anymore. If you're a fan, please comment on this post. If you're a Coffee Snob, I'll give you one week to make a new post. If there's nothing, I'm gone.

Muffin out.