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Bat-Mite wrote:

"I visited my mom's office the other day, a client from Bolivia gave her a box of Coca tea (ya know, the plant they use to make cocaine ... and tea apparently).

I didn't know you could use it for that ... well, you learn something new about tea everyday.

Anyway, should I start calling the Betty Ford clinic, or buy boxes for you, guys?"

Mike Carey wrote:

"When I was in Peru on holiday about fifteen years ago, we were all advised to chew coca leaves with bicarbonate of soda to combat altitude sickness. It's meant to give you an energy rush. But actually it turns out that what it gives you is a mouthful of slightly foaming leaves."

Great way to meet girls, then.

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Originally posted by strafenkinder:
Red bark tea , is that rooibos?

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Yes, that's what its called.

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Bat-Mite wrote:

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Originally posted by TyphoidDave:
Great way to meet girls, then.

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Or great way to scare off those pesky mountain goats.

Guy: YAAAAAHHHHH!!! I have rabbies and a coca plant growing in my mouth!! YAAAAHHHHH!!

Goat: God help us! Please take my money and go away, Mr.Tourist."

Sandmouse wrote:

"As far as Lucifer and tea, the buzz is that it's Snapple's Peach Iced Tea that he fancies."

Sandmouse wrote:

"As far as Lucifer and tea, the buzz is that it's Snapple's Peach Iced Tea that the Bright One fancies."

Yum, I'm partial to that myself.

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Adrian Brown wrote:

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Originally posted by Sandmouse:
As far as Lucifer and tea, the buzz is that it's Snapple's Peach Iced Tea that the Bright One fancies.

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What colour does that stuff go when you put it in Absinthe ?"

A glistening fecal brown, maybe?"

Sandmouse wrote:

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Originally posted by Adrian Brown:
What colour does that stuff go when you put it in Absinthe ?

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Oh, yes...a lovely zoo brown. Same as with laudanum. Funny, that. Nice and murky. The thing is, you get to save on sugar cubes. "

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

In answer ot Food Eater Lads question this thread is simple a stream of tea fueled consciousness.

strafenkinder wrote:

"On the subject of rooibos, it was a bit funny. Though as it tasted like watered down prune juice, the packaging described the color of the sunset. To me it just sounded too much, rooibos looks like what urine would look like after eating blood sausages and red wine the whole day.

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Papercut Fun wrote:

I'm going to veer off topic for a minute (is that even possible on this thread anymore?) and ask a question that I think some of the Brits on the board may be able to answer.

About 8 years ago Judge Dredd made his move to North America via DC Comics when DC launched him in two series...one that was an ongoing (though I think they messed with his timeline) and one that was (also an ongoing) made up of rotating creative teams. Given his popularity I was wondering why the books didn't last. Did DC lose the licence on the character? Did they mess him up turning off his dedicated fans? Who owns Judge Dredd anyway?

Now I'll go drink some tea to get me back in the frame of mind that I should be in on this thread.

grant-is-god wrote:

I always loved drinking tea with my grandmother everyday when I was a child after reading. But I guess thats what grandmothers from Manchester are supposed to do with the American grandchildren they find themselves with.

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I think the DC Dredd comics were yanked because no bugger was buying them. The film probably had something to do with this, but the fact that the comics were terrible as well can't have helped.
I think the character's a property owned by Rebellion (2000AD's current publishers), or licensed by them from Egmont (2000AD's prior publishers, who acquired all of Fleetway's intellectual property years ago). I may well be wrong, though."

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Originally posted by Papercut Fun:
I'm going to veer off topic for a minute (is that even possible on this thread anymore?) and ask a question that I think some of the Brits on the board may be able to answer.

About 8 years ago Judge Dredd made his move to North America via DC Comics when DC launched him in two series...one that was an ongoing (though I think they messed with his timeline) and one that was (also an ongoing) made up of rotating creative teams. Given his popularity I was wondering why the books didn't last. Did DC lose the licence on the character? Did they mess him up turning off his dedicated fans? Who owns Judge Dredd anyway?

Now I'll go drink some tea to get me back in the frame of mind that I should be in on this thread.

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As someone who bought the first 9 issues of that book, I feel like I can at least comment...

I think poor sales killed the book, pretty much, IIRC, and hard core Dredd fans shunned it because it was too different, which didn't help. DC just seemed to want something out there to take advantage of the movie, and it showed.

If you look at the book now (which I did, recently, while digging through one of my comic boxes the other day) you'll raise an eyebrow at the talent that worked on DC's Dredd, including Powers' Mike Avon Oeming and Promethea's J.H. Williams III, both among the tops in the field now, but both starting out then and it showed. The other artists were an undistinguished, anonymous lot and have faded into obscurity, or into better paying jobs...

The main reason I bought the book back then was because it was the very next thing Andrew Helfer scripted after the abrupt cancellation of his brilliant Shadow book with Kyle Baker. I was hoping for more of the same, but sad to say Oeming (at that stage of his career) was no Baker and Helfer didn't distinguish himself either.

Script wise, JD was fair to good. Art-wise, poor to fair. Nothing about this book excited anybody, so I'm pretty sure DC let it die because of the resulting poor sales. The licensing rights might have expired about that time, too, I can't say...and I'm sure DC wouldn't have wanted to renew them anyway.

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Papercut Fun wrote:

"Thanks guys...I never read past the first issue of either book but I know John Wagner and Alan Grant worked on the second book, ""Legends of the Law"" I believe it was called, and they are no strangers to Dredd. I forgot the movie came out around that time."

Roxane wrote:

T-E-A

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

Sweet Jesus on a cracker!!! I just realit that TEA is an anagram for EAT!!! I may never be able to look at the world in the same way again!!! I don't even know if I'll be able to stop ending my sentences with exclamation points!!!

strafenkinder wrote:

Has anyone tried mixing strong tea with weak coffee on ice? It tastes interesting.

And one final thing: let's all rally for a MAKI Mini-series next year!

Papercut Fun wrote:

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Originally posted by Lord_Savaunt:
Sweet Jesus on a cracker!!! I just realit that TEA is an anagram for EAT!!! I may never be able to look at the world in the same way again!!! I don't even know if I'll be able to stop ending my sentences with exclamation points!!!

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Fret not Lord S. Just think of it as an anagram for ATE. That way you're all nice and full and ready a relaxing evening with a hot cup of earl grey.

It took us 40 pages to start making word jumbles out of this three letter word. I can't help thinking there's a team of scientists out there tracking our progress and comparing us to school children in China. ""The Chinese kids got to the word jumble in 22 pages, but they haven't even touched on marmite yet. Facinating.""

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Lord_Savaunt wrote:

GEETERED OUT RATS LISTENING TO JOHN LENNON!!! You're right!

By the way I got an idea lookin at another thread. Mike should put the word teabags into a storyline title. That way he could use the word teabags in a TPB title.

At the very least I think after all this time with the thread still going we should have the word put into an issue somewhere. By the way Mike are you still doing the thing for thousandth post where people get to choose a word for you to put into an issue.

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

Holy Hyphenated Dumptrucks with coked up driver making snipey comments to passengers on acid.

Just realized that tea can also become eta. Estimated Time of Arrival. I don't think I'll be able to sleep again... ever.

Maybe you should go and lie down for a bit, Greg."

Papercut Fun wrote:

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Originally posted by Lord_Savaunt:
By the way Mike are you still doing the thing for thousandth post where people get to choose a word for you to put into an issue.

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I forgot about that. What were the last fan-selected words that worked their way into the series and what issues were they?

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Bat-Mite wrote:

"And with the letters in TEA you can also spell AET, babylonian god of chocolate pastries and goat shaped toiletries. He is the brother in law of Pharamond, who married his sister Cindy.

Ok ... I made all that up .. I just wanted to sound interesting. sorry"

Mike Carey wrote:

"Well I was convinced.

Hadn't given much thought to that old thousandth-post rule for a while, Greg. I think the last word to go in was md's, which appeared in (I think) #27. It was meant to be in #20 but I screwed up and had to come round for another pass.

I think there definitely needs to be some sort of ceremony for the thousandth post on this thread. Let's give it some thought."

matrixport wrote:

"How about the poster's name on a teabag label appearing somewhere within the Lucifer series. That way it would be recorded for posterity...

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Papercut Fun wrote:

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Originally posted by Mike Carey:
Is there much of a market in used tassles? If not, you might just as well keep them on until they're needed.

On top of the tuxedo, of course...

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Maybe at the thousandth post I can finally take this tuxedo off? Huh, Mike? Please? I'm beginning to resemble Swamp Thing and I'm pretty sure something's growing inside the right pantleg and knawing at my calf muscle? It speaks only in whispers but I know it's there.

And the moral of the story is ""be careful what you win on this board"". The prizes are great but never painless to collect.

But I love the teabag/name suggestion. ""Papercut Fun's Herbal Experience"". I think it sounds like a winning start-up business.

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Mr. Gage wrote:

"I can see it. A close-up, of a hand in the process of dipping a tea-bag into a cup. The little label-tag is clearly visible. Off-panel, somebody is saying something incredibly menacing, in an utterly offhand way.

Yep. That's Lucifer for ya. "

Adrian Brown wrote:

"As we approach this landmark Tea-lennium, I wish to relate a story that connects tea with Mike's home town and his profession.

There is a secret ancient tea house in London. It's very discreet and not the sort of place you find in the Time Out Good Tea Guide. But the connoisseurs know where it is, and many have gone there to sample the famous speciality teas. As you all know, I am not a tea drinker, but this true story was related to me by a friend who ""stirs with a clockwise spoon"" as the saying goes.

My friend had been to the shop once before at the invitation of one of the Kree Ming Tea family of Limehouse, and so was invited to a special induction event for potential new members who had passed the first test.

There were five candidates for enrolment.
An elderly Cambridge don, invited after the nomination of his grateful students who recognised that many years of good tutelage had been enhanced by his supportive pot of tea.
A young whizz kid from the city, who thought that her wealth garnered from playing the stock exchange ought to entitle her to exclusive treats. And she had always eschewed the corporate drinking of coffee from multinational coffee shops.
A silent, but shifty-looking man dressed in black. He was said to have opened the first tea shop on the A1, but he did not realy look old enough.
A camp, plum-voiced art critic, for whom this would be the ultimate testimony to his superiority.
And my friend.

They would be set two tests.
The first was to make a simple cup of tea using traditional tea pot and strainer.
They all followed the ritual to the iota.

The second test was to select one of the speciality teas from the Tea Library and make a cup for the senior master of the tea academy.

The first candidate stepped up to the shelves and selected an African Beech Leaf tea, which he brewed in a copper urn, and served with lemon.
""Excellent"", said the Master.

The second candidate liked the look of the Japanese Willow bark Green. She followed a tea ritual she had seen in one of her power meetings with her Tokyo bosses.
""You have learned well,"" the Master said.

The third candidate took a simple packet of PG Tips, but prepared it with such art and finesse that the Master smiled and said, ""Sometimes beauty can be found in simplicity.""

The fourth candidate stepped forward with a harrumph, and scanned the shelves. He considered what the others had chosen, and thought he would impress the Master with an exotic tea with Commonwealth connections. He read the label. ""The best leaves are plucked by domesticated Koala bears in the late Spring from Eucalyptus trees in Tasmania. They are dried at sea as the cargo is shipped north to England, arriving in the Liverpool docks six months later. The produce is taken to the local tea factory, where it is finally packaged for distribution to the finest shops"".

""Yes"", he thought, ""this will do the job.""
The Master watched as the candidate put two teaspoons of the leaves into the already warmed pot. He let it stand for 127 seconds precisely. And then he began to pour into the master's cup through an antique gossamer strainer.

""NO ! NO !"" The Master exclaimed.

""The Koala Tea of Mersey is not strained !"""

Bat-Mite wrote:

"Don't know about the tea master, but I certainly wouldn't drink anything made with tea leaves picked by an animal that eats his own feces. (I'm obviously talking about the Koalas)"

Adrian, that was painful. Well done. :)

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Mike Carey wrote:

"The koala tea of....?

I'm sorry, Ade, but now I have to tie you to the mouth of a cannon and light the fuse. Is Friday alright?"

Invisigoth wrote:

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Originally posted by Adrian Brown:
""The Koala Tea of Mersey is not strained !""

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Get that cannon ready, Mike. And here I thought there was going to be a punchline about your friend picking out some wonderful tea and then drinking it himself.


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Adrian Brown wrote:

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Originally posted by Mike Carey:
The koala tea of....?

I'm sorry, Ade, but now I have to tie you to the mouth of a cannon and light the fuse. Is Friday alright?

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Yes. Bring your own cannon. While I'm at it, does anyone know how to grow flowers using a sweet sandwich spread made from desert rodents ?"

No idea. Is that another pun?

A cannon is too good for him.

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Bat-Mite wrote:

Two posts to go

Bat-Mite wrote:

"Well, I hope nobody steals it while i'm typing.

You know why I should win?

Cause my last name is ArTEAga ... it was destined to be so."