At a Denny's restaurant in Normal, Ill., five farmers and an insurance agent having coffee complained of the price of gas.
"You know, this is, excuse me, a damn fine cup of coffee," Special Agent Dale Cooper famously says to a waitress in cult TV series Twin Peaks.
In Chicago, Phelps recalled, he was walking, with no cap to cover his bed head, in search of coffee with his agent Peter Carlisle, and "I'm not kidding you, every single person was turning their head and doing double takes".
In a 2005 account published by NBC News, Williams said that the encounter came about after he met a Secret Service agent "who spilled like a cup of coffee" and told him where the pope would be passing.
Agent Cooper loved a damn fine cup of coffee, as everyone knows, and he wasn't averse to a damn fine suit either.
Why give up a perfectly good Saturday night with my dog to meet a sexy, fall-loving agent of the LORD at a coffee shop four towns away (so he wouldn't know where I lived, stalk me, kill me and arrange my body in his trademark ritualistic pose) and who doesn't know to drop the "e" before adding "ing" in his taunting notes to the police as they investigate my murder?
L: Coffee cups at the gift shop of the Salish Lodge, printed with Agent Cooper's signature one liner "a damn fine cup of coffee".
Wassmer had popped into the offices of her literary agent when she brushed past a temporary secretary offering her a cup of coffee.
In the Twin Peaks pilot Agent Cooper holds his hand the same way and states "that is a damn fine cup of coffee".
And Coffee…lots of coffee.
