On 10/31/2011 7:09 AM, sf wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 07:04:26 -1000, dsi1
> > wrote:
>
>> Paper towels are
>> probably not made for a soak in drinking water but they work fine as a
>> coffee filter - well, the cheap ones do anyway. I guess it all depends
>> on how desperate you are to have a cup.
>
> I've heard that people use paper towels when they run out of paper
> filters; but I usually think ahead and have a new box on hand and the
> one time I didn't - I wasn't desperate enough to use a paper towel.
>
>

I don't have a tight rein on my desperation nor do I think ahead i.e.,
I'm a male slob.