Mike Carey wrote:

"The shopping bill has spoken. You are the chosen one. Do you want any milk or sugar in this?

1) The Kinks actually define the place of tea in British culture in their song Autumn Almanac:

""Tea, and a toasted buttered currant bun,
All to compensate for lack of sun
Because the Summer's all gone.""

I don't think there's anything you can add to that.

2) That's a disturbing thought. Maybe the perforations had some part to play in the tea-folk's reproductive cycle.

3) Lucifer has *always* been about tea - only mostly I use cabbalistic symbols and stuff to keep this from the uninitiated.

Lin brought me tea in bed this morning, and I think I drank it by means of some atavistic reflex, because I was still asleep when I finished."