I (twitch) just (twitch) get (twitch) enough (eyes rolling)enough caffine.

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Ugh...my stomach is cramping just thinking about it! Seven? Ugh!

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check out this site: death by caffine. http://www.energyfiend.com/death-by-caffeine/
it calculates the amount of a cafinated beverage of your choice it would take to kill someone, based on body weight. there is also a listing of caffine content of various products.(beverages, mint & gum)
it's quite interesting to compare your favorite drinks...

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Once evening when I was in jr. high school, I helped out at a PTA meeting by pouring the coffee. Being a bored teen, I helped myself to samples throughout the meeting. As a result, I was wide awake and crawling out of my skin until sunrise. It was at least 30 years until I could even stand the smell of coffee again.

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Caffeine poisoning used to be pretty common with diner waitresses who'd spend their whole shift jazzed on coffee and cigarettes so as not to lose the tips from taking a lunch-break. They'd power through pots of the stuff, and get kidney and liver damage.

I am a big fan of double espresso, but the most I've ever had "back-to-back" was three, and I was pretty close to being able to vibrate my way through solid objects at that point.

The note about Robbie Williams 36 cup / day habit is chilling, if true.

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I have been a barista for eight years, and this really isn't that much espresso. I assume this happened because of her young age and body weight? I have consumed loads more than this, but I have built up a tolerance in years as a coffee whore. The customers in my cafe will sit hours sipping quad con pannas all day. Who knows, I guess she just needed to build up her tolerance.

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I think that Brillat-Savarin has some tragic anecdotes of coffee overdoses in his "Physiology of Taste" ("Physiologie du Goût"). And it's a wonderful book (especially M.F.K. Fisher's translation) - well worth the read!

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maybe i just have an extremely high tolerance for caffeine, but that doesnt seem like a lot. i once had 9 8oz cans of an energy drink called Sun Tzu (Red Bull equivalent, nearly 700mg caffeine in one sitting). i was a little twitchy and didn't get to sleep till the next night. but i felt no ill effects. i regularly consume about 200mg of caffeine daily and it has little effect other than helping me focus. but like i said, maybe i just have a high tolerance.

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