#mocha java jive

[sohannabarberaesque]

So imagine the radio receiving Honey and Sis' surprise shortwave worldcasting station while having the old exercise with the Mocha-Java Jive....

[sohannabarberaesque]

Honestly, your typical (or is that atypical?) Hanna-Barbera Funtastic prefers a simple cup of your basic coffee, even if, at times, chicory or roasted barley and rye are added to pad things out, more than any of the fancier schtick from Starbucks, Caribou or Dunn Brothers.

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As the janitor in a haunted house, single mom Abby Jenkins has many contacts with the living and the dead in the small Pacific Northwest town of Sunset Cove, which puts her in a perfect position to solve local mysteries. Or so she thinks. Hired to find diamonds hidden in a haunted manor she gets help from a Viking ghost with existential issues. Will she survive? This book contains bad-boy ghosts, mischievous magic, and a woman who knows what she wants in a Viking hayloft.

A fun and spooky novel that will make you laugh and have you staying up late! I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and am anxious to see what the author has in store for us next!💜

Quinn Bellandini loves her life in Savannah, Georgia, where she runs her grandfather’s B&B with her sister, Delilah. From baking fresh scones and serving up grits every morning to ensuring the guests see the best of their historic city, Quinn can’t imagine doing anything else—even if it means dealing with nuisances like the occasional malfunctioning commode. But when Quinn drops by the local restaurant owned by her friend Drew Green, and stumbles upon a murder, her whole world comes crashing down.

Drew’s brother was always a little surly, but Quinn can’t imagine that someone disliked the prickly chef enough to kill him. The police, on the other hand, don’t believe that Quinn was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Before her guests can even digest the next morning’s gourmet breakfast, Quinn learns that she and Drew are suspects.

Drew thinks they should do some investigating of their own. Quinn is pretty sure she’s better suited to playing hostess than amateur sleuth. But with Delilah as her cynical sidekick, Quinn starts looking for the real killer—before she gets put away faster than you can say “sugar.”

Don’t miss Caroline Fardig’s thrilling Java Jive mysteries, which can be read together or separately: DEATH BEFORE DECAF | MUG SHOT | A WHOLE LATTE MURDER | BREW OR DIE | MURDER OVER MOCHAS

  I just loved this cozy mystery!!! This was a fantastic start to an enjoyable series that many will love! I love stories that are based in the south.! Living in Charleston, SC, I am an hour from Savannah and have visited often! I love the descriptions of the setting in this story, the fun characters and steady paced plot! When I read the Java Jive series, I just knew this would become an instant favorite! Caroline Fardig is an author that should not be missed! I want to thank the publishers and NetGalley for providing me with an eARC I exchange for an honest review. I appreciate this opportunity and all views expressed are my own.

Tucson, Arizona is a place for runaways. Everyone came from somewhere else and has a story about what they left behind.

Delilah arrives on her brother’s doorstep with a secret. She hasn’t seen him in five years. He ran away from their family long ago for reasons no one talks about and she still doesn’t understand. The stress of raising his teenage daughter alone sometimes makes David envious of his deliberately childless friends, Tim and Sara, but they’re runaways too, harboring secrets of their own. Blood & Water tells their stories and traces the deep connections between this unlikely group of friends.

This novel is about family, in its various manifestations: the one you’re born into, the one you choose and the one you create.

Wow! This book was absolutely sensational! With coming from a troubled and traumatic past and my current situation, I could relate to this story in many ways. This story was very well written with a fast paced plot that many would enjoy. So many of the books I read from this genre end up being the same thing, different people in the jist of it all but this story is a custom told tale that will surely win the hearts of many! I highly recommend this book.

Linda Curtis was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness and is an unquestioning true believer who has knocked on doors from the time she was nine years old. Like other Witnesses, she has been discouraged from pursuing a career, higher education, or even voting, and her friendships are limited to the Witness community.

Then one day, at age thirty-three, she knocks on a door—and a coworker she deeply respects answers the door. To their mutual consternation she launches into her usual spiel, but this time, for the first time ever, the message sounds hollow. In the months that follow, Curtis tries hard to overcome the doubts that spring from that doorstep encounter, knowing they could upend her “safe” existence. But ultimately, unable to reconcile her incredulity, she leaves her religion and divorces her Witness husband—a choice for which she is shunned by the entire community, including all members of her immediate family.

Shunned follows Linda as she steps into a world she was taught to fear and discovers what is possible when we stay true to our hearts, even when it means disappointing those we love.

This book was fantastic!!!😍 It was beautifully written and powerful! As someone who lost themselves and was hurt because of being kicked out of my church, I could relate in some ways to this book. I loved and appreciated the honesty this book had to offer and I highly recommend this book to others!

She’s more modest than Ms. Blaise, but peels more than Ms. Emma. She out-vamps Vampirella, but she’s sweeter than Honey West. She put the mod in model, and the bangs in bang-bang. Now the world can know the truth: her classified adventures back in 1951 Hollywood have been declassified. Dynamite, David Avallone and Colton Worley are proud to present The Secret Diary of Bettie Page, in handy comic book form. This volume collects Issues 1-4 of Bettie Page and an exclusive short story illustrated by Joseph Michael Linsner, originally published in Playboy Magazine, with an introduction by writer David Avallone.

A Fantastic and fun graphic novel featuring the one and only Bettie Page! I thought this book was fun and made me laugh on a few occasions. I definitely recommend this to those who love Bettie Page!💜

It’s love that makes a family

When a boy confides in his friend about bullies saying he doesn’t have a real family, he discovers that his friend’s parents—a mom and a dad—and his two dads are actually very much alike.

Dr. Michael Genhart’s debut story is the perfect resource to gently discuss discrimination with kids. This sweet and straightforward story shows that gay families and straight families and everything in between are all different kinds of normal. What makes a family real is the love that is shared.

A conversation between two kids at school uses real-life examples, like how their parents got married, to show readers that gay is another kind of normal and that same-sex parents are just like other parents when it comes to loving each other and loving their kids.

This was a fantastic book and many can learn from this read. Either children or adults can benefit from this story. As a woman in a diverse family where my children have two dads and two moms, I think books like this are important for us to learn that ‘Love is Love’.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog, my Loves! I can’t wait until I get to spam  visit all of your amazing blogs! I have missed you so much, my amazing and talented friends. I feel the blogosphere is more like family. You guys are amazing!! Xoxox Yay for trying to catch up on my backlist! *hides in shame* Please Lord, help me catch up. My ass is so far behind, I almost forgot I had one!

  Book Buffet, All You Can Read Part 3 As the janitor in a haunted house, single mom Abby Jenkins has many contacts with the living and the dead in the small Pacific Northwest town of Sunset Cove, which puts her in a perfect position to solve local mysteries.

[thelittleredheadedmusician]

Jives and Java

For the final day of Cassiestephkara Week the prompt was Favorite Troupe. Now I couldn’t think of a favorite troupe besides the high school au and I wanted to keep that as a verse for me to play around with more later. As such this is a mesh of a coffee shop au, a meet cute, and an identity reveal. Can also be found here on ao3. Rated G; 1,723 words Cassiestephkara

Steph knew she had to find a summer job but she was hoping to avoid working as a barista. As usual, her luck didn’t quite hold up so she found herself wearing a baseball cap and apron, working a cappuccino machine for the summer. Tim had offered to get her a paid internship at WE but she was still averse to him doing and buying things for her. Though he insisted on coming to her for his coffee and tipping extra, but it was a small, family owned shop with quality brew and pastries so Steph didn’t mind him doing that.

One afternoon as she was wiping down tables the bell over the door jangled causing her to glance up. Tim waved at her as he walked in, trailed behind by two boys and a pair of blondes. Steph’s coworker motioned that she was to come take Tim and company’s order. She grabbed her towel and weaved her way between the tables to behind the counter.

“Hey there Timbo,” she said with a grin. “What can I do ya for?”

Tim smiled and searched his pockets for his wallet. “When do you go on break?”

“Whenever I want. Why?”

“I want you to meet my friends, you know, outside of uniform,” Tim gave her a conspiring wink. Flipping out one of his credit cards he just asked for his usual and whatever the others wanted. She tapped his extra-large black coffee and chocolate croissant into the system and wrote Timmy-boy onto a cup with a little bat, because she thought she was clever. He went off to find a table and the tall dark-haired boy came up to the counter.

“Welcome to Jives and Java! How can I help you? And don’t bother paying, Tim’s already got it covered,” Steph gave her most charming grin as he studied the menu.

“Hi, yeah, uh… I have no idea what I want,” he admitted with a slight grimace.

“Well, do you like sweet or bitter?” Steph asked brightly.

“I’ve got it Kon,” the blonde with curly hair laughed. “Whatever Tim got, give him the exact opposite.” The others all laughed and Steph smirked.

“Well, I normally do that too so I’d go with the cotton candy frappe,” Steph suggested.

The boy wrinkled his nose but the other girl smiled. “I’ll take one of those!”

Steph tapped in the order. “Can I have a name for the cup?”

“Kara, K-A-R-A,” The girl spelled as Steph scribbled it down. On a whim, she drew a heart after the girl’s name.

“Can I have a decaf macchiato with whole milk?” the other boy asked and Steph bobbed her head. “A medium?” Steph grabbed the proper cup and uncapped her sharpie once again, patiently waiting with the tip just above the paper. “Bart. As in Bartholomew. But just the first four letters,” he told her, rapid fire. She wrote it down and added a squiggly lightning bolt on the end. Placing the cup in line on top of the machine she turned back to the last boy, who was actually the first.

“Can I have a cinnamon apple tea? That’s for Conner with an E-R at the end. I know, lame,” he chuckled.

Steph wrinkled her nose and shook her head. “Nah, your order is actually the easiest and so my favorite,” she shot the group a smile. She hadn’t realized that Tim was going to introduce her to his Titan friends, well introduce Steph seeing as how Batgirl already knew them all. Since taking their orders she knew exactly who they were, three of them didn’t wear a mask anyway.

The final girl had finished studying the menu and came closer to the counter. “Can I get a large caramel mocha and a strawberry crepe? For Cassie,” she smiled warmly and Steph returned it. Scribbling the name down she added a star over the I and at the end. She finished ringing everything up and swiped Tim’s card, passing it to Cassie.

Her coworker had already started on the drinks so Steph plated the pastries and grabbed her own cotton candy frappe. “I’m going to go on break then.” Her coworker just shrugged as Steph grabbed the tray and walked to the back corner where the teen heroes had commandeered a table.

She handed out the drinks before flopping into the booth next to Tim, slurping her pink and frothy drink up her straw. Tim practically inhaled the first third of his coffee before realizing that everyone was waiting on him to make introductions. Steph knew she could just introduce herself but she liked forcing the boy blunder to be social. When he realized that he was who they were waiting on he settled the paper cup on the table and self-consciously ran his finger over the black ink of his name. His eye caught on the bat and he shared a self-deprecating grin with her.

“So, this is my friend Steph. Steph these are my, uh, camp friends. Kon, Kara, Cassie, and Bart,” he pointed to each in turn.

“Camp?” Steph asked with a raised brow. “Tim. Really? Camp.” His cheeks colored and the others squirmed uncomfortably. Steph waved her hand at them. “Relax. I know. My only question is, where’s Tam?”

Tim swallowed his coffee quickly before answering. “She’s on vacation with her family. I thought you knew?”

“Practically and actually a Wayne are two very different things,” Steph responded dryly.

Kara’s eyes widened. “No way,” she whispered.

Steph laughed and nodded. “So, what’re you lot doing in Gotham? You know we have strict rules around here.”

“We know he’s off world right now,” Cassie smirked. “Tim said we had to check out the best coffee shop in Gotham, while we could.”

“He also said that it had the best look barista in all of Gotham too,” Kon said with a wink. Steph nearly whacked the back of her head on the booth she laughed so hard. Tim’s eyes narrowed to half Batglare™ level at his best friend. Kon was able to shrug it off but suddenly doubled over with an “Oof!” From Bart’s laughter and the girls’ grins they had apparently elbowed him in the stomach simultaneously.

“I like you friends,” she stage whispered to Tim.

“We like you too! I mean I do, uh like you that is,” Kara stopped as her face reddened.

Bart smiled at her before turning back to address Steph. “You ever in Cali let us know!”

“Trust me, I will. No way I can afford a hotel out there on these tips,” Steph laughed.

“You’re more than welcome to crash in my room,” Cassie said with an easy smile.

“Thanks! I’ve got to head back,” Steph said. She finished her frothy pink drink and slid out of the booth. “I get off at three if you guys are still in town and wanna hang?”

“We were going to head back to the manor and play video games,” Tim said as he looked at the table for their responses.

“Why don’t you guys game and Kara and I can meet Steph and hit the shops?” Cassie suggested.

Everyone nodded and Steph grinned. “Ok! I’ll meet you here at three then,” she said before walking back to the counter.

***

Steph stuffed her apron and hat into her messenger bag as she waved to her coworkers. Cassie and Kara were waiting patiently outside the shop. Kara with her sundress and Cassie with her jean short overalls and crop top, they looked like any two teenagers hanging out on a warm summer afternoon. Not a single Gothamite passing by would have guessed two of the most powerful people in the world were right there playing Pokemon Go. Then again, they didn’t realize the true night life of their first family either.

“Hey guys!” Steph called as she walked towards them.

They both raised their heads from their phones and smiled at her. Kara waved it toward her excitedly. “Look! I caught an Eevee! I know they’re not much of anything but I think they’re adorable. I have about 10 and every evolution,” Kara trailed off as her cheeks started to turn pink.

“Kara, I’m not the type to judge one on their favorite pokemon. Now what team you’re on is another story entirely,” Steph raised her eyebrows imploringly.

Cassie burst out laughing. “Valor all the way!” Steph gave her a victorious high five as Kara’s cheeks turned a deep red. “She’s on Instinct,” Cassie said.

“Aw. That’s actually really cute. Don’t tell anyone I told you this, cause he’d totally kill me, but so is Dami.” Steph clapped Kara on the shoulder. The other girl just looked at her incredulously. “On my own grave I swear it!”

Cassie winced at that. “I don’t mean to be rude but uh, are the death jokes necessary?”

“As Jason says, ‘They’re a coping mechanism’,” Steph shrugged.

Kara exchanged a concerned look with Cassie. Steph noticed Cassie pursing her lips back at Kara. If she knew Cassie better than Steph would have been able to see the concern in her expression too.

“Why don’t we go hit the shopping district? Tim left me his card so we can have some fun,” Steph said, trying to dispel the slight chill that had fallen over the three girls.

“Ok,” Kara said with a bright smile.

“I’m always down to spend Wayne family money,” Cassie smirked.

The three girls left the front of the coffee shop and headed downtown, their blonde hair fluttering in the wind. The rest of the afternoon was a whirlwind of fun. Cassie told them all about her mom’s latest exhibition in Peru and how she had been helping in her free time. Kara talked about moving to the Kent farm and helping with the chores. Feeding the newborn calves was her favorite. Steph entertained them with tales from the coffee shop. Regaling crazy costumers, crazy orders, and just plan odd encounters.

By the end of the day the three had made plans to meet again, this time to go Pokemon hunting in San Francisco. Steph had been so glad that Tim had introduced her, Stephanie Brown that is, to Cassie Sandsmark and Kara Danvers. Hanging out as Batgirl, Supergirl, and Wonder Girl was certainly fun, but as three average girls was ten times better.

[frankiebow]

New Java Jive Mystery and Character Interview: Murder over Mochas by Caroline Fardig

New Java Jive Mystery and Character Interview: Murder over Mochas by Caroline Fardig

A blast from the past gets Nashville PI and coffeehouse manager Juliet Langley in hot water in this explosive mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Death Before Decaf.

As a newly minted private eye, Juliet Langley has sworn to leave homicide to the authorities, limiting the scope of her investigations to cheating spouses and dirty business partners . . . like her ex-fiancé, Scott…

[sohannabarberaesque]

What else can pacify any Hanna-Barbera Funtastic type better than the old Mocha-Java Jive in the morning?

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#Giveaway ~ Southern Double Cross (A Southern B&B Mystery) by Caroline Fardig... #books #CozyMystery #readers

Southern Double Cross: A Southern B&B Mystery by Caroline Fardig

About Southern Double Cross

Southern Double Cross: A Southern B&B Mystery Cozy Mystery 3rd in Series Publisher: Alibi (February 11, 2020) Print Length: ~260 pages Digital ASIN: B07W3J7QFC

The USA Today bestselling author of Southern Discomfort and Southern Harm returns to the delightful B&B in Savannah, Georgia, where trouble always seems to be checking in. LONGER SYNOPSIS COMING SOON

About Caroline Fardig

CAROLINE FARDIG is the USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR of the Java Jive Mysteries series and the Lizzie Hart Mysteries series. Fardig’s BAD MEDICINE was named one of the “Best Books of 2015” by Suspense Magazine. She worked as a schoolteacher, church organist, insurance agent, funeral parlor associate, and stay-at-home mom before she realized that she wanted to be a writer when she grew up. Born and raised in a small town in Indiana, Fardig still lives in that same town with an understanding husband, two sweet kids, two energetic dogs, and one malevolent cat.

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Southern Discomfort: A Southern B&B Mystery by Caroline Fardig

About the Book

Southern Discomfort: A Southern B&B Mystery Cozy Mystery 1s in Series Alibi (March 6, 2018) ASIN: B071K4DV7W Will be up on GoodReads soon.

Southern hospitality meets deadly deception in the start of a charming new mystery series from the USA Today bestselling author of the Java Jive novels.

Quinn Bellandini loves her life in Savannah, Georgia, where she runs her grandfather’s B&B with her sister, Delilah. From baking fresh scones and serving up grits every morning to ensuring the guests see the best of their historic city, Quinn can’t imagine doing anything else—even if it means dealing with nuisances like the occasional malfunctioning commode. But when Quinn drops by the local restaurant owned by her friend Drew Green, and stumbles upon a murder, her whole world comes crashing down.

Drew’s brother was always a little surly, but Quinn can’t imagine that someone disliked the prickly chef enough to kill him. The police, on the other hand, don’t believe that Quinn was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Before her guests can even digest the next morning’s gourmet breakfast, Quinn learns that she and Drew are suspects.

Drew thinks they should do some investigating of their own. Quinn is pretty sure she’s better suited to playing hostess than amateur sleuth. But with Delilah as her cynical sidekick, Quinn starts looking for the real killer—before she gets put away faster than you can say “sugar.”

About the Author

  CAROLINE FARDIG is the USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR of the Java Jive Mysteries series and the Lizzie Hart Mysteries series. Fardig’s BAD MEDICINE was named one of the “Best Books of 2015” by Suspense Magazine. She worked as a schoolteacher, church organist, insurance agent, funeral parlor associate, and stay-at-home mom before she realized that she wanted to be a writer when she grew up. Born and raised in a small town in Indiana, Fardig still lives in that same town with an understanding husband, two sweet kids, two energetic dogs, and one malevolent cat.

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ARC Review - Murder Over Mochas by Caroline Fardig

ARC Review – Murder Over Mochas by Caroline Fardig

Title – Murder Over Mochas: A Java Jive Mystery

Author – Caroline Fardig

Publisher – Alibi

Genre – Mystery

My Rating – 4/5

SYNOPSIS

As a newly minted private eye, Juliet Langley has sworn to leave homicide to the authorities, limiting the scope of her investigations to cheating spouses and dirty business partners . . . like her ex-fiancé, Scott O’Malley. When Scott shows up unannounced at her…

[sohannabarberaesque]

Seems as if a certain Dottie has started taking up the old mocha-java jive just to maintain alertness in service to Clue Club.

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[sohannabarberaesque]

With The Banana Splits and the manager of some "old school" motel over the complementary morning coffee

THE MOTEL MANAGER: I do have to admit that I may have heard about that rather sick movie treatment you received ... but I never watched it. FLEEGLE, taking a sip of the old Mocha-Java jive: Which is rather gratifying, I have to say. And besides, we're the sort just out on a road trip to rehabilitate our good name and repute after that tasteless movie. DROOPER: I have to admit Fleegle has the right idea there; that movie was certainly AWFUL, to say the mildest about it possible! SNORKY: [Rather blatant honking which Drooper translates as "And I concur!", not to mention the innkeeper being rather stunned at how Snorky could drink coffee through his trunk] FLEEGLE: Just another amazing trick of Snorky, if you ask us for anything positive! BINGO: And you wonder where this coffee came from to explain how good it could get, for starters!

[rdubaton]

Nothing is better than a delicious iced coffee after a good sweat sesh. Java Jive in Cary offers a variety of coffee, smoothies, milkshakes and homemade pastries made with love by the owner, Cheri. They also sell local artwork, Larry's coffee beans (10% off on Sundays!) AND they're dog friendly. My go-to order is a Thai Iced coffee for me, an iced mocha for my husband and a homemade buttermilk scone to split. 📸: @mcclallen / on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BX24aZzhqif/

[sohannabarberaesque]

That's Top Cat for you--

TOP CAT, spotting a sign at a Farmer's Market coffee place proclaiming "Drink Coffee--Do Stupid Things Faster With More Energy": And who wouldn't, to be honest about it?

A BARISTA OF SAID COFFEE PLACE: Yes, sir; how may I help you?

TOP CAT: Just your basic cup of medium-roast joe, please; I'm just the sort as isn't going for anything fancy in my coffee.

CHOO-CHOO: That's telling him, TC; besides, it was about time to go back to the simple things about the old mocha-java jive.

TOP CAT, somewhat stunned by Choo-Choo's presence: Chooch, how did you wind up here, to begin with?

CHOO-CHOO: I have to admit I was suffering a fit of ennui back in the alley, so I decided to come up this way.

TOP CAT, somewhat resignedly: I won't hold it against you, Chooch....

[sohannabarberaesque]

Just picture your favourite Hanna-Barbera Funtastics as are forever fond of the old mocha-java jive being rather passionate about their coffee habits, even to the point going for buying their coffees whole bean, grinding them as required--and taking the pour-over route (as in Chemex or Melitta) for the brewing thereof.

[sohannabarberaesque]

Unlikely "meeting of the minds" have we here, no?

(As in a cheesy-looking coffee bar on the Sunset Strip, to set the scene)

TOP CAT, rather stunned himself: Is that none other than Hokey Wolf I am sitting next to?

HOKEY WOLF, equally stunned: Who did you think I was, TC, Mildew Wolf?

TOP CAT: Uh, Hokey Wolf ... rather amusing we could meet.

HOKEY WOLF: And who wouldn't, come to think of it, especially when we consider ourselves to be in that vein of a certain Serjeant Ernie Bilko, whatever became of him?

TOP CAT: I do acknowledge, Hokey, that we happen to be, shall we say, "kindred spirits" when it comes to making a fast buck or two, and being in that grey area between legitimacy and scam!

HOKEY WOLF: And regular doses of the old mocha-java jive can't help but provide some worthwhile inspiration and stimulation!

TOP CAT: But on the other hand, being with Peter Potamus' diving company--

HOKEY WOLF: Believe you me, TC, such offers some respite most serious and worthwhile from the old routine ... and who could resist the feeling of being underwater, besides?

TOP CAT: I couldn't, too ... nor would my clowder, especially on Catalina Island!

HOKEY WOLF: Now, Catalina Island--THAT would have to be worth killing some serious time in!

TOP CAT: Who wouldn't agree? Who WOULDN'T agree?!!

[sohannabarberaesque]

(Mise en scene: The inevitable haunts of Yogi Bear in and around Jellystone Park, as in the tourist picnic areas. And for some reason, Smarter-Than-The-Average "himself" finds a pot of what appears to be coffee on one of the picnic tables in the camping area. Yogi pours himself a mug of the brew and then, spitting some out--)

YOGI BEAR, somewhat miffed: What exactly is this brew, to begin with? It tastes rather grainy, almost like treacle!

(Not far off--)

RANGER SMITH, somewhat sarcastically: Yogi--?!!

YOGI BEAR, getting into that "deer-caught-in-the-headlights" look whenever Ranger Smith comes by: What exactly is it, Ranger Smith, sir?!

RANGER SMITH, the tone turning a little more serious: In case you were wondering why that coffee tasted a little funny ... it was actually Postum!

YOGI BEAR, stunned: And what exactly was the point of leaving a pot of Postum on the picnic table when I was expecting the old mocha-java jive, Mr. Ranger, Sir?

RANGER SMITH, getting to the point: Postum, incidentally, is a grain-and-molasses coffee substitute.

YOGI BEAR: "COFFEE SUBSTITUTE"?!!!

BOO-BOO, essentially the deus ex machina under the circumstances: You heard what the ranger said, Yogi! That wasn't actually coffee ... it was Postum!

YOGI BEAR, somewhat indignant at the revelation: So what exactly was the point of laying out a pot of this, uh, Postum on the pic-a-nic table for my morning coffee, Mr. Ranger, Sir--?

RANGER SMITH: I decided to put on that pot of Postum (the voice getting more and more unnerving) TO SEE IF YOU WERE PAYING ATTENTION TO PARK RULES AGAINST BEARS GETTING INTO THE TOURIST PICNIC AREAS!!

YOGI BEAR, sensing that the guillotine is about to fall any moment now: Urp--!!

RANGER SMITH, still playing the battle of wits: And need I remind you that I remain prepared to send you over to some second-rate zoo if--(his mobile phone goes off, and he obligingly answers) Ranger Smith speaking ...

YOGI BEAR, as an aside and sensing that the Ranger has been distracted to other business: Well, whaddya know--off scot-free once again!

(Boo-Boo goes into "faceplant" mode at the news)