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Vagabond wrote:

"Well, it finally snowed up here. Actually, it snowed on Friday. And Saturday. And Sunday. And yesterday. And today. And it's supposed to snow tommorow, and Thursday too.

Don't get me wrong. I love snow. I've been missing it, and I'm ver glad it's finnally here.

But now my cup of tea is very important.

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11 November - LEST WE FORGET

""It starts! It runs. It goes. It goes fast! It turns. It doesn't turn!!""
-Red Green, The New Red Green Show"

Thanks for the birthday wishes. No vodka jellies, but a lot of Cointreau, and I got home at 6. Which was interesting, as my wife gets up at 6 (she bailed out of the shenanegins at 11). She was relieved that I was sober enough to talk coherently.

Ah, snow. I've never experienced a white X-mas, Vagabond. Must be nice.

My wife told me that English tea has anti-oxidants, and is good for you! What the...? I'll have to stop drinking it!"

Mr. Gage wrote:

"Vagabond, it's hit us as well here in Lower Canada (that would be Minneapolis, MN).

Yay for the season finally changing. Yay for having a very nice autumn, which means the chances of having four seasons this year are looking better.

I took a walk the other night in a postcard landscape; the trees were frosted and glistening, the ground was powdery and gently diffused with the light of every light for miles around. I understand people who hate winter (and every year, I become one again), but I also pity them."

Mr. Gage wrote:

Good grief! Ade - I neglected to wish you a happy birthday. My belated best wishes for your next year on earth. May the road rise to meet you (but not in a falling-forward-onto-your-face sort of way).

Vagabond wrote:

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Originally posted by TyphoidDave:
Ah, snow. I've never experienced a white X-mas, Vagabond. Must be nice.

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I can remember two years when I had a brown Christmas. Last year, when we also had a brown spring & summer; and a couple years earlier, when it finally began to snow exactly at midnight on New Year's. I think that was the year the ice storm hit Montreal.

Mr. Gage - You get four seasons? Lucky you. Alberta gets two - winter and road construction.

Of course, our secondary roads are better than what Ontario claims is the Trans-Canada, so I can't really complain.

It's still snowing, though. I'd like to see the sun sometime this week. When you've only got 8 hours of daylight you really start to miss the sun.

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11 November - LEST WE FORGET

""...He screamed like a Backstreet Boy hit in the nuts with a polo mallet. They do have nuts, don't they?""
-Dennis Miller"

I'm from Perth, on the edge of nowhere, in Western Australia. Famous for Lucifer fans for being the site of the beach upon which Lucifer admired God's sunset.

I got a call from a friend there the other day. Blue skies and sun. Summer smells abound. Early 30s (Celsius). Argh. Perfect weather."

Seamus wrote:

"Vagabond, I live in southern Ontario, where snow used to be as abundant as you tend to experience, but in the last decade seems to only appear from late December to mid-March, roughly.
I myself, am not a fan of snow, and haven't been since I got my drivers liscence 10 years ago. The reason being, drivers in this area always forget how to drive on snow once they've stopped doing it for 5 weeks. The only drivers more frightening are Michiganders.
As for highway road conditions in Ontario, I know what you mean, though I've seen worse throughout the States.


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""Does the word 'Incomprehensible' mean anything to you?"" Tim Hunter-Books of Magic"

Vagabond wrote:

"Actually, Alberta's roads are better than anybody else's from what I've seen. It's having all that money. But you know when you've hit the border: the road turns to crap.

As for driving in snow, well, I drive only sporadically. Though I take my life in my hands crossing the street for the first few days. But I like snow despite it.

My ex now lives in Washington DC and has nothing but disgust for the way that city reacts to snow. She tells a story of how, last year, despite have only two snowfalls, both of which were gon by noon, there was still general dismay and a 30-car pileup. Here, it's big news if snow makes a three-car accident. (Though fender-benders are trival.)

How did we get here from tea, anyway?

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11 November - LEST WE FORGET

""...He screamed like a Backstreet Boy hit in the nuts with a polo mallet. They do have nuts, don't they?""
-Dennis Miller"

Papercut Fun wrote:

"A cup of hot tea is a stress reliever. Watching Toronto drivers pretend to know how to move about the highway when the first flakes of snow hit, is just the stresser that I count on tea to help relieve.

Y'know from the very beginning I had always hoped this thread would capture a spirited discussion about Canadian road conditions, and now it has. Brilliant! It's just a shame about the 15 degree celcius weather...ain't no snow fallin' anytime soon in this heat!"

Heat...I got married on a 42 degree Celsius day. Glorious temperature. You can feel the hot air in your lungs. I couldn't cope with snow, nor Canadian roads, from the sounds of it."

Vagabond wrote:

"Plus 15? I pity you, I really do. This isn't sarcasm. Something's wrong with the universe when you've got six hours of daylight and plus fifteen temperatures.

We're all the way up to minus four. It'd better not get any warmer, the snow will melt and then people will forget how to drive again.

I'm just babbling now. But that's okay. I'm done three out of four exams, now, and the worst of the lot is passed.

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11 November - LEST WE FORGET

""...He screamed like a Backstreet Boy hit in the nuts with a polo mallet. They do have nuts, don't they?""
-Dennis Miller"

Mike Carey wrote:

"Sorry, Vagabond. Almost missed the chance to wish you luck.

I considered ""break a leg"", but given your comments above I'd better not risk it.

Hope you ace all four papers. :) "

Yeah, good luck.
It's a funny time of year to be sitting exams, isn't it? They usually get scheduled for the summer, to maximise the stress and frustration involved in sitting inside an airless room, staring dumbly at questions you've suddenly lost the ability to comprehend, let alone answer. Is this some sort of canadian thing?"

Bit perplexed myself. Thought it was a southern hemisphere thing.

Vagabond wrote:

"This would be the end of 1st (Fall) term. April is the end of 2nd (Winter) session.

Spring & Summer sessions are only 2 months each at most post-secondary schools, though NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (which isn't my school (Don't you love nested brackets?))) runs 3 four-month terms instead.

School lets out in April so the adults can get back to the farm for planting. It picks up in September 'cause the harvest is mostly in.

Of course, most of the students have nothing to do with farms anymore, but that's where it comes from.

And Grant Mac (which is my school) is running about two weeks early this year, because the teachers' contract runs out on the 10th or 15th - so they had to be sure they were done before then.

Anyway, thanks for the fond wishes.

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11 November - LEST WE FORGET

""...He screamed like a Backstreet Boy hit in the nuts with a polo mallet. They do have nuts, don't they?""
-Dennis Miller"

Heathen wrote:

"I've been reading Joe Sacco's superb ""Palestine"" since the collection came out.

It is of course very topical at the moment and I urge everyone to take a look at it.

And there's a theme for this thread, wherever Sacco goes on his travels around Palestine and Israel, he is offered hot sweet tea with spoonfuls of sugar !

(Just like my Grandma used to make)

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Adrian Brown (London)
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BORDERLINE: international comics magazine online from the first of the month
www.borderline.mediahall.co.uk"

J'arl J'onnz wrote:

"Heathen, where would I fi Palestine? Who publishes it? I've been doing alot of research about the middle east lately and would be greatly interested in reading up about it. I'm finishing a book now about the history of the Zionist-Arab conflit(from 1881-now). Great stuff."

Heathen wrote:

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Originally posted by J'arl J'onnz:
Heathen, where would I fi Palestine? Who publishes it? I've been doing alot of research about the middle east lately and would be greatly interested in reading up about it. I'm finishing a book now about the history of the Zionist-Arab conflit(from 1881-now). Great stuff.

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It's published by Fantagraphics.
I would hope any proper comic shop would have copies on hand, but I appreciate that not everyone has a local comic that knows that trade paperbacks are the future of comics.
(see ""DC pisses me off"" thread on the Hellblazer forum for a longer-winded version of that statement).

Sorry, I digress.

""Palestine"" by Joe Sacco ($24.95 US, $37.95 Canadian - and even though I just bought it I can't recall what that means in English.)

The ISBN number is 1-56097-432-X so any book shop or library should be able to order it for you. And you would be doing them a favour, because it deserves to be in the current affairs section of all bookshops andf libraries. As does Safe Area Goradze.



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Adrian Brown (London)
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BORDERLINE: international comics magazine online from the first of the month
www.borderline.mediahall.co.uk"

Vagabond wrote:

"With an ISBN, even if a library won't order it they ought to be able to Inter-Library Loan it for you. Even if no-one else has it, LoC gets everything published in the States.

Anyway, I'm done now. Hooray, Hooray, Hooray!

Now for beer!

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11 November - LEST WE FORGET

""...He screamed like a Backstreet Boy hit in the nuts with a polo mallet. They do have nuts, don't they?""
-Dennis Miller"

Mr. Gage wrote:

"This thread is just about to hit 300 posts.

We are a strange and fascinating bunch of people. God bless us, everyone!"

Mr. Gage wrote:

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Say, there wasn't some sort of prize for #300 in the Teabag thread, was there?

-G.
(covering my bases)"

Heathen wrote:

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Originally posted by Mr. Gage:

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Say, there wasn't some sort of prize for #300 in the Teabag thread, was there?

-G.
(covering my bases)

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No, I think it was for the 301st ?"

Mike Carey wrote:

The prize is a cup of strong Darjeeling. Where shall I mail it to? Answer quickly - the envelope is dripping badly.

Alistair wrote:

"Congrats on the Hellblazer gig, Mike. Looking forwards to it."

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

And wow we're now up to 13 pages of conversation about tea. Who'da thunk it?

Say if someone should get the 2000th post on the tea thread do they get an extra prize?

A smooch from pre-Prestoed Mazikeen?

Rama Bonn wrote:

"I've been searching for Lapsang Souchong ever since . . . someone, perhaps Karon, said that it was hard to find. And I can't find it anywhere!

But I did discover an old blend that I hadn't heard of in years - Ty Phoo (Gesundheit!)

Serve it up with a Mazikeen kiss on the ol' tweety.

Rama"

Brody wrote:

" Don't know where you're looking, Rama, but if you're in the States, you can find about any tea you want at www.uptontea.com, including three varieties of Lapsong Souchong. (A Chinese friend, btw, says these do not sound like authentic Chinese words.)
And they may ship overseas, I've never had to find out."

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

With so many hip coffe bars in existence one has to wonder why there don't seem to be a lot of hip tea cafes. One also has to wonder why no one has tried to market tea as a hip alterna drink for generation-x. I'm seeing a lot of lost opportunities her.

There are two teahouses in Perth. One is called The Tea Merchant, which has an outdoor seating area, right in the middle of the city. It would be a nice place except its notorious for drug dealers. The other is in an inner city suburb called Subiaco, and is far more gentile.

Oh, and there is another called the Indiana Tearooms, which has a fantastic view, perched over Cottesloe Beach, of the Indian Ocean. (Here is an updating webcam view, if you're interested - bear in mind its summer there now:
http://www.coastaldata.transport.wa.gov.au/coastcam/live-cottesloe.html

...and its where, I suspect, Lucifer sat in the pages of Sandman admiring the sunsets). Indiana does a great breakfast, but has a limited range of teas, despite its name."

Heathen wrote:

"Someone accidentally gave me tea last week.
ptt! ptt! ptui!

This reminds me.

Mike,
I have an idea that requires a ten minute detour. It is related to this thread and is definitely worth it.
Remind me.

See you."

Mike Carey wrote:

"You interest me strangely, Ade. It's not to Neal Street East, is it?"

Heathen wrote:

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Originally posted by Mike Carey:
You interest me strangely, Ade. It's not to Neal Street East, is it?

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Of course.
Glad to see that someone with dark arcane knowledge of London's secret place is on the Hellblazer book.

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Mike Carey wrote:

" :) "

What is Neal Street East?

I was in London two years ago, and have a vague memory of its geography..."

Heathen wrote:

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Originally posted by TyphoidDave:
What is Neal Street East?

I was in London two years ago, and have a vague memory of its geography...

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It's a shopping street near Covent Garden.
There used to be a comic shop there (Comic Showcase - now on Charing Cross Rd) and there is a BIG tea shop."

Ah, not familiar with that part of London.

Apropos, though."

Spooky! I used to go to Comic Showcase when I went to London. Cue Twilight Zone theme.

psychopracter wrote:

"My boss gave each of us a little tea-set for christmas!

A bag of superior quality loose leaf tea, a strainer, and a little whichamajigger to put the strainer in after it has steeped.

My English breakfast blend, despite having a nice, full bodied flavor, is actually so mild in character that it requires neither milk nor sugar. :D



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""Ellroy spares no sensibilities. By page 25 of a long & chaotic tale, he has offended every color, creed, and kink known to man.""
~from a review of LA Confidential circa 1990~"

Heathen wrote:

Eight days since a tea post !!!???

We had a box set of speciality coffees for Xmas.