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Kermeez Shroff
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posted May 22, 2007 05:58 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Kermeez Shroff     Edit/Delete Message
hey has ny1 of u come across tis term. not only hav i heard of tis term but also heard of ppl who actually do it following is d procedure.

the person who wants an answer to his question has to drink a cup of coffe not the normal expreeso or cappuccino but coffe made from freshly ground coffe beans. the reader then takes this cup and predicts ur future. apparantly ground coffee leaves back a trail of lines which r ten read by the coffe cup reader.

its origin is from arabia and dates back to centuries.

any one heard of this or know sum1 who practises this

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fayte.m
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posted May 22, 2007 07:30 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for fayte.m     Edit/Delete Message
You must have missed the thread about this
Through The Looking Glass
Does anyone here read coffee cups? http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum18/HTML/000483.html
BTW....
How did you choose your user name? It is an interesting name!

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InLoveWithLife
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posted May 22, 2007 11:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for InLoveWithLife     Edit/Delete Message
fayte, i think its their actual name. i know for sure that 'Shroff' is a last name in India.

Kermeez, hi from a fellow Indian

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jupitersgirl
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posted May 22, 2007 12:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jupitersgirl     Edit/Delete Message
It's very common in Turkey. Almost everyone reads it . Some people are extremely good at it of course, but it's so common that people get better at it in time (like me).

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fayte.m
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posted May 22, 2007 12:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for fayte.m     Edit/Delete Message
Very cool sounding name! I like it!

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nattie33
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posted May 22, 2007 09:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for nattie33     Edit/Delete Message
Its also common among Greeks. I had mine read in a Greek restaurant.

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BlueTopaz124
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posted May 22, 2007 09:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for BlueTopaz124     Edit/Delete Message
I had my coffee cup read by a Greek woman...she was eerily accurate

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NAM
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posted May 22, 2007 09:30 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for NAM     Edit/Delete Message
My girl is from central America

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Kermeez Shroff
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posted May 23, 2007 07:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Kermeez Shroff     Edit/Delete Message
hey fayte thankyou so much. kermeez is my real name. and shroff is my last name. i'm a Zoroastrian a very very unique and minor religion settled in india since more than 1500years. go the net u'll find more about r religion. it originated prom Persia but is entirely different from Islam. infact entire Persia was filled with Zoroastrians untill the invasion. Our Prophet is Zoroaster and in India v r known as Parsees

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fayte.m
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posted May 23, 2007 08:57 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for fayte.m     Edit/Delete Message
Kermeez Shroff
Does your last name have Germanic roots?
Or does it simply appear so because you are using the Anglo alphabet?
I love name etymologies!
Ah yes...Zoroastrianism!
One of the religions I have found many great truths in.
Its roots go back I think, some 3,000 years ago or more.
I feel Judaism, and Christianity "borrowed" from it.
It would behoove those of other faiths to read about it.
I wonder if Christians realize that the Magi are from it?
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Zoroaster was famous in classical antiquity as the founder of the religion of the Magi. His name is mentioned by Xanthus, Plutarch, Pliny the Elder, Diogenes Laertius, and by Plato in the Alcibiades. Ancient Rome estimates are dependent upon Greek mythology, and give dates as early as the 7th millennium BC, which are the dates to which Parsis subscribe.

A link here for novices to it all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster


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nattie33
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posted May 23, 2007 11:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for nattie33     Edit/Delete Message
spirit project online oracle

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nattie33
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posted May 23, 2007 11:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for nattie33     Edit/Delete Message
sorry about thet just google it

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Kermeez Shroff
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posted May 25, 2007 10:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Kermeez Shroff     Edit/Delete Message
hey fayte wats up? my name has persian roots it means d colour red. its actually a sap of red colour used for dying fabrics. and its red in colour. wow i had no idea ppl actually know about r religion. i use to think v r lost in antiquity. wow u made me feel really nice. hey i'm new here so jus wanna know wats ur sun sign?

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fayte.m
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posted May 25, 2007 01:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for fayte.m     Edit/Delete Message
Kermeez Shroff
Thank you for the etymology on your name!
And while I am not all learned in your religion;
it is;
the one I give the Most Respect to.
However I practice no religion personally,
but instead seek my own way.
I am Scorpio.
And you are?
Nice to meet you!

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fayte.m
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posted May 25, 2007 01:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for fayte.m     Edit/Delete Message
Thank you again for your name etymology!
I looked up more.
By the way....
do you like the color red?
It is my favorite color along with black!
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kermes

/kermeez/

• noun
a red dye obtained from the dried bodies of an insect which makes berry-like galls on the kermes oak.
The Kermes Oak (Quercus coccifera) is an oak in the turkey oak section Quercus sect. Cerris. It is native to the western Mediterranean region, from Morocco and Portugal east to Greece.

It is a large shrub, rarely a small tree, reaching 1-6 m tall (rarely to 10 m) and 50 cm trunk diameter. It is evergreen, with spiny-serrated leaves 1.5-4 cm long and 1-3 cm broad. The acorns are 2-3 cm long and 1.5-2 cm diameter when mature about 18 months after pollination, held in a cup covered in dense, elongated, reflexed scales.

The Kermes Oak is closely related to the Palestine Oak (Q. calliprinos) of the eastern Mediterranean, with some botanists including the latter in Kermes Oak as a subspecies or variety. The Palestine Oak is distinguished from it by its larger size (more often a tree, up to 18 m) and larger acorns over 2 cm diameter.

Uses

The Kermes Oak was historically important as the food plant of the Kermes insect Kermes ilicis, from which a red dye was obtained.


It sounds much like the Cochineal red dye!

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Cochineal is a traditional red dye of pre-Hispanic Mexico. This precious dyestuff was obtained not from a plant, but from an insect that lives its life sucking on a plant. The host plants are the flattened stems (pads or cladodes) of certain prickly pear cacti (platyopuntias, Opuntia), especially the species called nopales. The animal is a scale insect that manufactures a deep maroon pigment and stores this pigment in body fluids and tissues. Early Mixtec Indians required dyestuffs because the color of daily attire was carefully codified to signal social status. They required fast colors, i.e., those that would not fade, and Mixtecs heavily used indigo, derived from native legumes, for blues and cochineal for various shades of red.

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Cochineal, which means scarlet-colored, is famous as a dye in both the textile and food industries. When Cortez landed in the New World in 1518 and proceeded to conquer the Aztecs led by King Montezuma, he discovered a highly developed textile industry with brilliant red garments. The Aztecs produced the red dye from an insect they called nochezli that fed on a cactus called nopal. The Spaniards eventually sent bags of dried cochineal back to Spain and the red dye use spread into many countries.

Michelangelo bought it to use in paintings, the British 'redcoats' and the Canadian Mounted Police coats were dyed with cochineal red. It is thought that the first U.S. flag made by Betsy Ross had cochineal red stripes. Other famous fabrics reported to have been dyed with cochineal include the breeches of the Hungarian Hussars, the Turks' Fez and the skull caps of the Greeks. Cochineal dye replaced another scarlet dye obtained from the insect called kermes, a scale insect that feeds on oak trees.


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fayte.m
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posted May 25, 2007 01:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for fayte.m     Edit/Delete Message
Kermeez Shroff
I know I keep asking you questions but I find this all very intriguing!
How do you pronounce your last name?

And is Kermeez prounounced as Kurr, Cure, or Care?
Is the Z pronounced as a Z or an S?
Thanks!

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Kermeez Shroff
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posted May 28, 2007 01:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Kermeez Shroff     Edit/Delete Message
hey fayte. i should have guessed u r a scorpion. i love you ppl. u ppl really know life. i'm an aries. and yes red is my favourite colour. my wardrobe is filled with red. Kermeez is pronounced as Care me z Ter has to b a distinct sound of Z. wow thanks 4 sharin such gr8 information with me. hope to hear from you soon.

love kermeez

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fayte.m
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posted May 29, 2007 11:46 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for fayte.m     Edit/Delete Message
Kermeez Shroff
Thank you and thanks for sharing and giving me the correct pronunciation!!
Love
Fayte

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