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New page: {{GR PbP Text}} ==Page 385== '''the smell of freshly brewed mate'''<br /> ''Yerba mate'' is the national drink of Argentina. It is also popular in Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil. ...
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'''the smell of freshly brewed mate'''<br />
''Yerba mate'' is the national drink of Argentina. It is also popular in Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil. It reportedly creates a mental state of wakefulness, focus and alertness reminiscent of most stimulants, but lacks the negative effects typically created by other such compounds, such as anxiety, diarrhea, "jitteriness", and heart palpitations. According to the classical Argentine way, the act of drinking yerba mate is a highly stylized, ritualistic process:
:The gourd is filled two-thirds of the way with moistened mate herb. Hot water is then poured into the gourd. The person sucks the mate water out of the gourd with the bombilla, with the strainer holding out the actual mate leaves. When the water is gone, the gourd is refilled by the server with hot water and passed to the next person in the group. When that person finishes, the gourd is handed back to the server for another refill. [http://www.zonalatina.com/Zldata109.htm]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate From Wikipedia article]
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'''Gaucho Marx'''<br />
The pun is obvious enough, but it just might derive from John Frankenheimer’s ''The Manchurian Candidate'' (1961). The main character, the humorless Raymond Shaw (Lawrence Harvey), calls attention to the pun as the first joke he’s deliberately made.
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==Page 385==
'''the smell of freshly brewed mate'''<br />
''Yerba mate'' is the national drink of Argentina. It is also popular in Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil. It reportedly creates a mental state of wakefulness, focus and alertness reminiscent of most stimulants, but lacks the negative effects typically created by other such compounds, such as anxiety, diarrhea, "jitteriness", and heart palpitations. According to the classical Argentine way, the act of drinking yerba mate is a highly stylized, ritualistic process:
:The gourd is filled two-thirds of the way with moistened mate herb. Hot water is then poured into the gourd. The person sucks the mate water out of the gourd with the bombilla, with the strainer holding out the actual mate leaves. When the water is gone, the gourd is refilled by the server with hot water and passed to the next person in the group. When that person finishes, the gourd is handed back to the server for another refill. [http://www.zonalatina.com/Zldata109.htm]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate From Wikipedia article]
==Page 386==
'''Gaucho Marx'''<br />
The pun is obvious enough, but it just might derive from John Frankenheimer’s ''The Manchurian Candidate'' (1961). The main character, the humorless Raymond Shaw (Lawrence Harvey), calls attention to the pun as the first joke he’s deliberately made.
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