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Not so keen on peppermint - makes my stomach ache. ------------------ The Society for the Perpetuation of Independent Thoughtwww.robkamphausen.com"
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Lord_Savaunt wrote:
Well I thinks it's Official. The new endurance test for members just joining the Morningstar High crowd and want to prove how hard core they are about being laid back has been set.
Read the Tea Bags Thread in one shot your first time through. Then my son/daughter you will be a man/woman. Either that or very moggled in the bind.
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I pasted the teabag thread into a text file (this was six months ago, when it was shorter and I had far too much time on my hands), then emailed it to a friend. Haven't heard from him since."
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The Entity wrote:
"Blimey, this thread is still going? Incredible.
Anyone here tried vanilla tea? That's pretty cool. As is lapsang souchong, which doesn't get as much acclaim as it probably deserves."
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Mr. Gage wrote:
"You people are quite clearly insane. I go away for a few weeks, and the accursed thread is up to 25 pages. I mean, 25 pages.
I'm so proud of us.
(Wait... didn't I say that already, last time I disappeared for a few weeks?)"
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Mike Carey wrote:
"You did. And quite frankly, we're finding your constant disappearances a little suspicious. We think you're two-timing us with another message board. We can see the imprint of a trackball on your fingertip, and your face is flushed.
Just tell us the truth. Nothing can hurt more than not knowing."
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Its the scent of cheap perfume on his keyboard which is the give-away. ------------------ The Society for the Perpetuation of Independent Thoughtwww.robkamphausen.com"
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Oh, the deception and betrayal! Won't anybody think of the child-like message board posters? ![[wink]](images/icons/wink.gif) "
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Mr. Gage wrote:
"But... but... it meant nothing to me. Nothing, I tell you!
Ohhhh, sure. Accuse me. Blame me. Say I was weak, that I'm at the mercy of my mouse. As though I was lacking in something. I see the way you are. It's so easy for you, isn't it?
But have you thought about my needs, here? That other board has an EDIT button, for one thing. I'd hate to point out a weakness you're so keen on ignoring, but sometimes a man wants to edit his posts after he's made them. Is that so horrible?
And I can use HTML. I can add pictures! Pictures! Can you even imagine? The thrill, the freedom...
Oh, don't look at me like that. Don't--
I mean, please... you can't...
I...
I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry. Please don't be like that. I'll... I'll do better. I'll be around more. I promise. Just please, forgive me. Can you find it in your heart to do that? To try, at least?
I'm not the message-board poster I was, you know. Things change. After all, you're not the message board you were. But you still mean so much to me... I hope we can find our way through this.
No -- I know we will. We're too good together to give it up now. It'll be an adjustment. A compromise. Some changes need making, that's all.
Give me another chance?"
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ManolisV fixx wrote:
"i read the interview and remembered the old palce, but no way am i reading through this maelstrom!! :p
idon't even like tea."
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Adrian Brown wrote: "I am watching a documentary about the fab scouse phenomenon that shook the world. http://www.rutles.org/rstory2.html I do not believe that the connection between Liverpudlians and Tea can be ignored. It is an evil scouse plot to undermine the legitimate passtime of coffee drinking. ""Love Life"" indeed !"
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GLSteveW wrote: " quote:
Originally posted by Lord_Savaunt:
Well I thinks it's Official. The new endurance test for members just joining the Morningstar High crowd and want to prove how hard core they are about being laid back has been set.
Read the Tea Bags Thread in one shot your first time through. Then my son/daughter you will be a man/woman. Either that or very moggled in the bind.
Well having just read it all the way through (whew!) it was certainly interesting, funny, and definately bind-moggling!!! People who get along on a message board...what a concept! ------------------ Steve Founding member of H.E.A.T. www.steve-jen-claire.com"
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There is something quite civilised and very English but laid back about this board. The Tony Blair of message boards? ------------------ The Society for the Perpetuation of Independent Thoughtwww.robkamphausen.com"
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Adrian Brown wrote: " quote:
Originally posted by TyphoidDave:
There is something quite civilised and very English but laid back about this board.
The Tony Blair of message boards?
No, Lionel Blair and Una Stubbs actually. Although a couple of people often come over like Tony Blair's wife's TV grandfather-in-law. Cryptic fans: there is a logic to the preceding statements. I will award a signed teabag to the first correct solver."
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ManolisV fixx wrote:
who's tony blair? :\
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Trust me manolis, you're better off not knowing.
I will say this though: Tony Blair is laidback like I am gifted with natural charm and a fine command of the social graces. That is to say, not very. Not even remotely. He's a vicious poisonous little control freak, fuelled by his own poison. (Whereas I am merely rude.)
I know that Cherie's old man was an actor, Ade, but I dunno what he was in. Any chance of a clue?"
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Adrian Brown wrote: " quote:
Originally posted by D. McDonagh:
Trust me manolis, you're better off not knowing.
I will say this though: Tony Blair is laidback like I am gifted with natural charm and a fine command of the social graces. That is to say, not very. Not even remotely. He's a vicious poisonous little control freak, fuelled by his own poison. (Whereas I am merely rude.)
I know that Cherie's old man was an actor, Ade, but I dunno what he was in. Any chance of a clue?
Do you know his most famous role ?"
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Vagabond wrote: " quote:
Originally posted by ManolisV fixx:
who's tony blair? :\
He is or was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdoms. I think that the proper tense is ""was"", but I'm not sure. I'm having a brain-dead moment probably brought on by caffine-withdrawal. ------------------ 11 November - LEST WE FORGET ""One head. One brain. Good. Quick, get duct tape!"" -a freind, after a 30-hour drive accross five states looking for a hotel."
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ManolisV fixx wrote:
"i think i remember the name... i remember some newscasts, is he gay?"
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Yep. He's Bush's little catamite, but he's still in the closet and refuses to admit it."
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slam wrote:
"Y'know I never looked into this thread before. When it got to a certain length, I was sure it had evolved into some sort of random topic thing.
But it actually looks like you've been talking about tea all this time.
That's.... chilling."
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Lord_Savaunt wrote:
" Yes it is chilling, even when the conversation goes into weird corners like the question of who ton blair is and what not we always get back to tea in no time."
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Blair is so media conscious that when he drifted out of 10 Downing Street to talk about the birth of his fourth child, he ""just happened"" to be drinking tea out of a mug which had photos of his kids on it - and which made all the front pages the next day.
Look, I got tea into the topic again. :) "
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Bevis wrote:
"Blair scares me. That probably wasn't even tea in that mug (having a mug with a picture of your children on it is bad enough, having the mug just to show how caring and lover-ly you are is *very* scary). It was probably some evil witches brew or something.
Or possibly I'm just reaching a bit there...
Course Blair isn't nearly as scary as Blunkett. The man who seems to think he can get away with being a bigger Tory bigot than most of the Tory party simply because he's blind. *shudder*"
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As someone outside the UK, and who takes a fairly close interest in world affairs, the dim view of Blair exhibited here is in contrast to the generally high regard in which he is held outside the UK - which is, I think, one of the causes for complaint, that he spends too much time messing around on international issues and not enough on domestic issues, isn't it? To an outsider, Blair comes across as the person responsible for the surge in the UK economy (which may in fact just be the long term pay-off of Thatcher's economics, but lets not say that too loudly in case the rabid old goat hears us), and has presided over a resurgence in positive British nationalism. He's tackling police retirement issue, he's sniffing about the legalisation of pot, and he created parliaments for Scotland and Wales. And he drinks tea, so he can't be all bad. Of course, I don't live in England, so I'm not exposed to any Tony-isms on a daily basis. But it doesn't sound that bad (cf. Thather and Major). Certainly not as bad as the xenophobia currently exhibited by the conservatives in my home country (Australia), nor the blatant and shocking oligopolistic cronyism and bend-over-and-drop-pants-to-Beijing attitude we get in politics here in Hong Kong. ------------------ The Society for the Perpetuation of Independent Thoughtwww.robkamphausen.com"
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Has his latest little law and order initiative made the press outside of the UK? Cutting off child benefit to parents with unruly kids? Okay, this is as much Blunkett as Blair (or at least Blunkett gets to carry the can for it, and so deserves to have his furniture rearranged every day for the rest of his life) but it's happening under Blair's authority, so he can't palm all of the responsibility off onto someone else.
I'm surprised to hear he has a decent international rep, though. I'd always thought that he was perceived as Washington's fawning little ****toy. Of course, he does like to spend a lot of time out of the country, which would account for that: as soon as a domestic problem flares up, he's on the next plane to support the rest of the ****ing G8 club in some stupid bull**** or other. Death's too good for him."
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quote:
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Has his latest little law and order initiative made the press outside of the UK? Cutting off child benefit to parents with unruly kids?
Nope didn't hear about that one. Not good. quote:
Okay, this is as much Blunkett as Blair (or at least Blunkett gets to carry the can for it, and so deserves to have his furniture rearranged every day for the rest of his life) but it's happening under Blair's authority, so he can't palm all of the responsibility off onto someone else.
The last thing I heard about Blunkett was a good write up he had in tackling ultra-conservatism (read: facist conservatives) in last week's Economist. Blair and Blunkett have been copping a serve in that publication about not being able to challenge the huge civil service. quote:
I'm surprised to hear he has a decent international rep, though. I'd always thought that he was perceived as Washington's fawning little ****toy. Of course, he does like to spend a lot of time out of the country, which would account for that: as soon as a domestic problem flares up, he's on the next plane to support the rest of the ****ing G8 club in some stupid bull**** or other. Death's too good for him.
There is an element of the ""our man in London"" thing about Blair in the press, but generally its in the context of being the middle man in negotiations with Muslim and Arab countries -the UK has some strong ties in the region, still, and many more than the US, so its not something the Yanks can pull off without UK help (for political reasons as well as the incompetance of their diplomatic service). Blair is seen doing the diplomatic job the Americans can't do. ------------------ The Society for the Perpetuation of Independent Thoughtwww.robkamphausen.com"
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Keldin lauke wrote:
"When you look at a thread called 'teabags', theres always gonna be a little part of your brain that says, ""Come on, it can't really be about tea. I mean, really, its 26 friggin pages long!""
Well, apparently reality has gone askew on the Lucifer board. After starting to read I would like to say I made it through in one sitting. I was close, untill I found myself lying on the floor, apparently uncounsiouse for hours due to brain trama caused by this thread. From then on, I was often distracted from reading by my computer, which I am convinced made small laughing sounds as I read.
Anyway, my eyes hurt and my head hurts even more, but there is no more to read!
And to get both the coffee and Tea drinkers against me, I only drink Iced Tea (but not the super mass produced Lipton and other Ice tea uber-brand names)."
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I went to high tea at the Peninsula Hotel here in Hong Kong yesterday. A bloody ridiculous amount of money for some nibblies and scones, which I don't recommend, and a queue which was an hour long (its a very touristy thing to do, and the hotel itself is quite impressively colonial). But the tea was excellent. ------------------ The Society for the Perpetuation of Independent Thoughtwww.robkamphausen.com"
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Welcome Keldin! Glad you made it through this thread alive.
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Mike Carey wrote:
"Aye, homage to you, Keldin Lauke. And homage to the mind that replicates your pattern.
Can I make you a nice cup of English Breakfast? It's not iced, but I can put it in the fridge for a couple of hours."
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Ice T? He used to be good. What's he doing at the moment, anyway?"
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LOL. I don't know. Nice tangent. ------------------ The Society for the Perpetuation of Independent Thoughtwww.robkamphausen.com"
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Keldin lauke wrote:
"Odly enough, while reading an old issue of hellblazer today (a Garth Ennis one somewhere around issue 78), there was one frame with an Ice-T poster.
And Mike is soon to be the Hellblazer writer. Everything is connected, and Ice-T is at the center of everything."
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Ice T is our new god. Let's build a shrine and burn freshly plucked tea leaves in his honour.
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Body Count's in the house!
Ice mother f**kin T!
...sorry, that's the only thing I own with Ice-T on it."
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