I don't think caffeine is the issue.  These people have serious coffee habits.  "Chemical dependency" is probably a better descriptor of their relationship with caffeine, rather than "avoidance."

Well, by the 1100s they were French enough to be Christian, speak only French, and have territorial disputes with the regular Scandinavian Vikings.  I was wrong about the refugees bit, though. They weren't kicked out of France; William the Conqueror invaded England because there was a power vacuum.  But it was okay because he had a note from the Pope that said he could.

*giggles*

hmmmm ... I'll take anyone calling Falkner, Reyes, Todd or Brady by their first names.  Not counting narration from their POV.  Unless I'm losing by too much.

Hooray for Apocalyptica!  The same people who introduced me to heavy metal cello also pointed me at Nox Arcana and Dead Can Dance, both of which are mostly instrumental but do have a very SU-ish ambience.

random others:
The Clash - London Calling
Oscar Brown Jr - Mr Kicks
Tears for Fears (actually I like Gary Jules' version better) - Mad World
Pennywise - Unknown Road
Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata

_{I was a band nerd in high school and college, can you tell? people ask me what my favorite band is and then give me funny looks when I say Bach.}

That is a slanderous lie. English is the language that got beat up by other languages and forced to assimilate their vocabularies. And, I mean, it's no shame getting invaded by the Vikings and the Romans, but being conquered by French refugees ... that's just embarrassing.

American English, now ... there's a history of stealing all the cool words from other languages.  Mostly while enslaving/committing genocide upon their speakers.

As the wise man said: English is German, as spoken by people who only speak French, and written by people who only read Latin.

A native German speaker once told me English was harder for him than Chinese. "German has rules.  Chinese has rules.  English is backwards, and all your conjugations are wrong."

maybe it wasn't intended to come out quite that color. or you could use ti to pray for healing of, uh ... frostbite? diabetes-related circulation failures? um.

now I'm worried that Hafs has been tossed into Arkham .... where they really don't, as a matter of policy that I assume would go triple for her, allow any internet access of any kind.

would have been

<continuing threadjack, sorry:

They've been, though, and ... I was about to say, they're not. But. My sister brought one of those sparkly vampire books along on a family vacation, and I read chunks of the dialogue out loud to her.  It was hilariously bad, like MST3000 bad.  She was so mad at me.

all done now.>

Sounds unlikely to me, since it seems they met at the climbing gym. If one of Tricia's relatives was also a climber, I think Daphne would have thought that was worth mentioning. Unless Tricia brought him along to pick Daphne up, and even so ... Andreoli is an Italian name.  He might speak German, especially if he does a lot of business there, or been posted there by the military.  But I don't think there are a whole lot of Italian Americans who have blood relatives born in Germany.

Except that Chaz didn't promise to kill her, when she asked him to promise way back in season 1.

from Knock on Coffins:

Cliff Scooby, shag Marmaduke, marry Snoopy.

Julius Caesar
Napoleon
Genghis Khan

mostly food.

well, shows what I know.