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Two new insightful and probing questions from Eeyore:

Q:  Which 7-11 Slurpee flavor has the most caffeine?

A:   Well, from the context of your question, I can only assume that a) you work in the IT industry, since only IT type folks ever ask questions regarding increasing their caffeine intake and, b) you already know the answer.  Therefore, this must be an actual test of my knowledge, skills, and googleability.  However, I think I can get this, without trying too hard, or using Google™.  Since 7-11™ sells almost all brands of sodas on their shelves, you may think this would be difficult.  But, I seem to recall that they only offer the PepsiCola™ brand of sodas as Slurpees™, and, as I further recall, Mountain Dew™ has the most caffeine of the PepsiCola™ brands, I can only conclude that the Mountain Dew™ flavor Slurpee™ (from PepsiCola™) would have the most caffeine. 

I now will need to hear from you as to the veracity of my answer, and would rebut with two questions of my own:

1.  Without googling, can you tell me what the ASCII code is for "™" used so liberally above and:
2.  Do you think I can get 7-11™ and PepsiCola™ to pay me a sponsorship fee for so blatantly advertising their products?

His next question

Q:  What is the national tipple of Mexico ???

A:  I think here good ol' Eeyore is trying to trip me up on the definition of 'tipple'.  While tipple has etymological roots meaning 'barkeep', its more familiar common usage means 'to drink (especially alcohol), by habit or to excess, or drinking alcohol frequently in small amounts'.  Therefore, the obvious answer is, and can only be, DeKuyper™ Sour Apple Pucker.  Since we all know those crazy Mexicans are junkies for a nice, sour apple liqueur. HAH!  Just kidding.  In fact, the answer is obviously Tequila, which takes us back to the original question.  Instead of focusing on the word 'tipple', we should instead be focusing on the word 'national' as it pertains to Tequila.  This is actually a quite timely question (as I'm sure he knows), since right now there is a debate raging between the US and Mexican governments regarding the usage of the term 'tequila' in regards to a liquor made from the Blue Agave plant.  Mexico wants to prohibit American manufacturers from bottling Tequila.  They are claiming it as a national Brand(™?) and want to protect it.  The US, on the other hand, would like to keep as many jobs as possible here, and also would like to take advantage of the economy of scale realized when Tequila is mass transported in containers, then bottled here.  (Man...wouldn't you just LOVE to come across the crash where a 45,000 gallon tanker truck full of Tequila began spilling its contents?) 

A decent article on the Tequila bottling debate can be found here.

Keep 'em coming kids.