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Erin Meister trains baristas for North Carolina-based Counter Culture Coffee and sporadically maintains the blog Meet the Press Pot from her home in New York City. Check out her series of tips for the caffeine-addicted.

Vintage coffee ads are some of my favorite things: I incessantly scan YouTube for them. The treasures I find are sometimes educational but always 100 percent charming.

Like the one above. It's probably best that the Folgers team eventually went with a snappy jingle in place of this type funny-slash-cringe-inducing piece of work, but you never know. I mean, almost anybody can tell you what the best part of waking up is, but can they also tell you that the way to lure your husband back from the clutches of "those girls back at the office" is to make a decent pot of coffee?

Jim Henson, men who walk on the ceiling and more ads after the jump.

Even though we already looked at some great commercials made in the 1980s, a post on TV Squad about a ketchup commercial starring a young, hip, ketchup-loving Matt LeBlanc is a good reminder that there were a fair number of entertaining commercials made then. Many were from Heinz, which ran a number of commercials touting how thick and rich its ketchup was - before people started to complain that it was so thick that they couldn't actually get it out of the bottle.

Free from the shackles of the shaken-not-stirred vodka martini, former James Bond portrayer Pierce Brosnan is currently starring in Bond-like ads for Portuguese beer Cerveja Sagres. The first dialog-free ad features Brosnan fixing dinner for a lady friend (model Laura Mansfield) and running out at the last minute to grab a sixer of Sangres. Realizing he has no cash, he pays the clerk with an enormous diamond. The Sangres site is loaded with music reminiscent of 007 films and even has downloadable versions of the ad (even for your iPod), entitled "Diamantes." Yahoo! News UK has more here.

If you're like me, you were so busy cooking up goodies for the Super Bowl that you missed half of the really fun part - the ads! AdJab to the rescue. They're blogging their fingers to the bone so they can dish up coverage of the advertisements for your favorite foods and beverages.

Check out Jessica Simpson vying for yumminess with Pizza Hut's cheesy bites; Budweiser rocking its usual less-taste, more-filling spots; and Coca-Cola promoting its new Vault energy drink to pump up your scarecrows (huh?). Whether or not you love the snacks and drinks being promoted, you know you love to chat about the ads!