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On Monday, February 11, 2019 at 1:45:43 PM UTC-10, wrote:
> On Monday, February 11, 2019 at 5:25:48 PM UTC-6, dsi1 wrote:
> >
> > I always would see my granny with those vacuum bottles thingies. They're called "air pots." It seemed to be quite a cumbersome thing when I was a little boy. Obviously, it was an artifact of a culture that valued hot water.
> >

> I was on jury duty a few years ago and all of us prospective jurors sat in large
> room. They used two Bunn coffee makers that brewed directly into these 'air
> pots.' It was great idea to keep the coffee hot without it sitting on a burner
> to burn the brew. However, two of these pots were not enough to satisfy the
> yearnings of 50-60 people. I craned my neck to see how one of the court clerks
> took the pot apart to make the coffee. After that when the pots were quickly
> drained dry by the other prospective jurors I made coffee and I was a popular
> girl that day for sure. Hahahahaaaaa


Thanks to your quick thinking, OJ got himself acquitted!