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Lord_Savaunt wrote:
No need to apologise Crisp. We just recently had someone pull off a quintuple post!!!!! So I think we can forgive a treble (at least it wasn't a trible).
No info on the thing with the thing about the thing. That meaning I don't know how to make tea smoked chicken and didn't see that show (probably has something to do with not living in the UK). Good luck.
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Vagabond wrote:
"Hmm. Now I must figure out how to post a Tribble.
T-Dave, belated congrats.
I've good news myself. On Sept. 20, my girlfreind and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary. She gave me a penguin. (Well, 2 actually, but the other was some days later and an impulse buy).
I gave her a ring.
The ring.
The One Ring To Rule Them All!!!
Erm. sorry. The doctor says the new meds should take affect soon.
But back to my story. I gave her a ring. And asked her a question. And, of course, she said yes.
So if all goes according to plan, by this time next year I will be married.
On a tea-related note, the weather's made my asthma act up. And since I'm too poor to buy meds, I've drinking copies amounts of caffine. Some as Coke, but much of it as tea. (Coffee, unfortunatly, does not seem to get along with me any more. Which is too bad, as the coffee's free.)
But now I must go drink copious amounts of beer. Happy Hallowe'en!"
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Mike Carey wrote:
"Happy... well, happy first of November, I have to admit. Halloween went by with just one grinning pumpkin and one trick-or-treater to mark it.
Vagabond, that's great news about you and your lady. Congratulations. Just tell me the honeymoon isn't going to be at Mount Doom? :) "
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Lord_Savaunt wrote:
" Or at the tower in Isengar.
Anyhow I just hit the 6th month Anniversary of living with my girlfriend. Yesterday she even got me a PS2 and a copy of GTA3.
I think I need a cup of tea. :) "
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grant-is-god wrote:
"Great news Vagabond. I hate to say it, but if it ever came time for me to take the one knee pose, I'd start bluddering like a lost child at the zoo.
Halloween was fun. The John Waters idea didn't really work. No one knew who the hell I was trying to be. I ended up being an 80's New Waver. Evil Dead 2 was amazing though.
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grant-is-god wrote:
"Great news Vagabond. I hate to say it, but if it ever came time for me to take the one knee pose, I'd start bluddering like a lost child at the zoo.
Halloween was fun. The John Waters idea didn't really work. No one knew who the hell I was trying to be. I ended up being an 80's New Waver. Evil Dead 2 was amazing though.
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grant-is-god wrote:
"Great news Vagabond. I hate to say it, but if it ever came time for me to take the one knee pose, I'd start bluddering like a lost child at the zoo.
Halloween was fun. The John Waters idea didn't really work. No one knew who the hell I was trying to be. I ended up being an 80's New Waver. Evil Dead 2 was amazing though.
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"Congratulations, Vagabond!"
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congratulations Vagabond.
i hereby nominate myself as the best-bestman.
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quote:
Originally posted by Lord_Savaunt:
Anyhow I just hit the 6th month Anniversary of living with my girlfriend. Yesterday she even got me a PS2 and a copy of GTA3.
you have a girlfriend who gives you videogame consoles as a gift for your anniversary? man, i wish i have your luck with girls. i mean, my luck with girls are limited to being treated as a little brother or sumthin. i even bought a blow-up doll but the doll just wants to be friends with me. teabags can be used to cure athlete's foot. just wet the bag and rub them on the part of your feet that smells. "
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-Bruce wrote:
I've come to suspect that Tea Bags is actually an escaped book from Lucien's library.
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quote:
Originally posted by -Bruce:
I've come to suspect that Tea Bags is actually an escaped book from Lucien's library.
then it's going to be more of a collaboration. TEABAGS - by The Lucifer Messboard frequent posters I wonder if Lucien has already met Meleos, like sit over a cup of tea and discuss books. "
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It'sd a bit belated, but congratulations Vagabond.
(Here's a deeply inappropiate place to try out my new sig.)
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When she comes she moans another's name..."""
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Food Eater Lad wrote: " quote:
Originally posted by Mike Carey:
Happy... well, happy first of November, I have to admit. Halloween went by with just one grinning pumpkin and one trick-or-treater to mark it.
Vagabond, that's great news about you and your lady. Congratulations. Just tell me the honeymoon isn't going to be at Mount Doom? :)
Forgive my ignorance, but is Halloween a big deal in England like it is here in USA? ------------------ Faith Kills My tax money supports the opression of the Palestinian people. No money for Israel."
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It isn't in Scandanavia and Australia, so I doubt it is in England. Hong Kong and Japan have kind of picked up on it as a fun thing to do for little kids, introduced by expats. ------------------ Do some good in the world: United Nations on-line Volunteers.Proud dad of Imogen Solbritt Stewart, born 30 09-2002."
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kind of like the deal with the easter eggs and easter bunny, they were practiced out of fun instead of relevance.
although the eggs and the bunny both symbolize birth and reproduction (but that's a far cry from easter's = ressurection)
is there a teabag feast?
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Papercut Fun wrote:
"I'm doing a play with a girl from England who is experiencing her first year in North America. She said that the only thing that threw her for a bit of a loop about Halloween here is that we'll dress up as anything and everything, while in England it's still a predominantly ""witches, ghosts, goblins"" type of dress up."
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Lord_Savaunt wrote: " quote:
Originally posted by Neilencio:
you have a girlfriend who gives you videogame consoles as a gift for your anniversary? man, i wish i have your luck with girls.
i mean, my luck with girls are limited to being treated as a little brother or sumthin.
i even bought a blow-up doll but the doll just wants to be friends with me.
teabags can be used to cure athlete's foot. just wet the bag and rub them on the part of your feet that smells.
Well I used to be in your shoes Neilencio so I know where you're coming from. Diana is actually my first girlfriend. Prior to that it was just one night stand, hookers, and crazy girls that think they're friends are vampires and satan wants their soul (not kidding with that last one byw). I think it took meeting a tea drinking woman that doesn't mind dating a man younger than her son (even if only by a few months) to get things on the right track."
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grant-is-god wrote:
"My grandmother and mother are English. I think I remember my mother telling me about something like Halloween that they did. Giforks (sp) Night, or something like that. She told me how they would go to peoples houses dressed up to ask to scrap wood for huge bonfires they would do. I grew up in Australia and it isn't that big of a deal there.
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Liadan Savaunt wrote: " quote:
Originally posted by Neilencio:
you have a girlfriend who gives you videogame consoles as a gift for your anniversary? man, i wish i have your luck with girls.
i mean, my luck with girls are limited to being treated as a little brother or sumthin.
i even bought a blow-up doll but the doll just wants to be friends with me.
teabags can be used to cure athlete's foot. just wet the bag and rub them on the part of your feet that smells.
What are you looking for? Lord Savaunt found me at a kissing booth (raising funds for charity). I didn't think anyone would pay to kiss an old, fat woman like me. But here comes my lord, plops down his money and gives me a kiss to curl my toes! After having read some Sandman and Lucifer books, I realized I resemble Despair, only with better hair. In many ways, older is better. Look outside your box. Develop an ability for small talk. Make the woman feel you're interested in her (and her satisfaction). You never know, you may find one of your friends will become something more. Oh, and my Lord says to pass on my favorite teas are Jasmine and Camomile, sweetened with a bit of honey."
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Liadan Savaunt wrote:
" By the way Nielencio, if there's to be a teabags holiday then it should be on 06-24th. I think the reason for this would be obvious."
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that's because it's my birfday on the 23rd.
i should be the official teabags mascot.
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Grant, that's ""Guy Fawkes' night"", named after Guido Fawkes, who tried to blow up the house's of parliament. Sadly, the only coherent political protest in British history didn't work out, and he met with a terrible fate, which is celebrated by burning his effigy every fifth of November. I think it was some sort of pagan midwinter thing before Fawkes took precedent, though I've also heard it said that it was an anti catholic thing of long standing, and they used to burn effigies of the Pope.
It's more associated with children throwing fireworks at each other than people dressing up in costumes, though."
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macleanalan wrote:
"lol @ the fireworks throwing, very true if stupid...
Hallowe'en is short for All Hallows Eve or the day when the dead are supposed to rise from their graves and spirits roam the Earth. Or something like that. It's the day before All Saints Day (I think) so I guess they have to get the evil stuff out of the way before they can do their holy thing...
Anyway, it only seems appropriate to me therefore that people should dress up in spooky costumes rather than just anything and everything. I myself dressed up as an undead hunchback for the local party.
I think in America people often try to forget the pagan roots behind the occasion so it turns into a fancy dress party rather than a full witch-a-rama. Not that people particularly like to remember the other connotations over here but 'it's grim up north' as they say...
To put it succinctly, Hallowe'en is not as big a deal over here (UK) as it is in America.
Back to the teabags though, has anyone ever tried smoking tea? I did once when I was at scout camp, we were too young to try cigarettes and hadn't yet graduated to smoking cooked banana rind (don't ask). It all seemed rather pointless actually but never mind...
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macleanalan wrote:
"lol @ the fireworks throwing, very true if stupid...
Hallowe'en is short for All Hallows Eve or the day when the dead are supposed to rise from their graves and spirits roam the Earth. Or something like that. It's the day before All Saints Day (I think) so I guess they have to get the evil stuff out of the way before they can do their holy thing...
Anyway, it only seems appropriate to me therefore that people should dress up in spooky costumes rather than just anything and everything. I myself dressed up as an undead hunchback for the local party.
I think in America people often try to forget the pagan roots behind the occasion so it turns into a fancy dress party rather than a full witch-a-rama. Not that people particularly like to remember the other connotations over here but 'it's grim up north' as they say...
To put it succinctly, Hallowe'en is not as big a deal over here (UK) as it is in America.
Back to the teabags though, has anyone ever tried smoking tea? I did once when I was at scout camp, we were too young to try cigarettes and hadn't yet graduated to smoking cooked banana rind (don't ask). It all seemed rather pointless actually but never mind...
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Papercut Fun wrote:
"Movie recommendation time: Bowling for Columbine, the new documentary by Michael Moore. It's alternately disturbing and hillarious, and at least scratches the surface of something that should be examined a little deeper in American culture, Guns and fear. Moore's always a bit self serving, but contrasting humour with violent images and statistics he definitely gets a few important points across.
Living in Canada I was naturally struck by the 20 minutes or so he dedicated to some of our border towns (and my city TORONTO! YAY TORONTO!) and the differing viewpoints of Canadians and Americans. Some very telling stuff. With much of our country becoming ""Americanized"" Moore actually spent some time on a local station saying that this movie is probably more important for Canadians to watch than Americans as a kind of warning not to go 'too far'.
I've always felt that you can tell the main difference between Canadians and Americans just by looking at our countries mottos. The US motto is ""Life, Liberty and the Persuit of Happines"". The official Canadian motto is, ""Peace, Order and Good Government"". Notice the independence vs collaborative emphasis in both? I'd never be so brash as to say one is better than the other, but it's amazing how two countries so alike in so many ways can trace a major difference right back to how each chose to define itself in the beginning.
Anyway if you know Moore's work, you know you won't get an unbiased view on the issue, but he does back his arguments with facts and many of them are telling indeed. Check it out. Hey...does England have an official motto....""God Save The King/Queen"". Does that count?"
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Mike Carey wrote:
"Well our current motto is ""whatever you guys want to do is just fine with us"". :)
I'm going to pick up Bowling for Columbine as soon as it's available on video over here. I hear only good things about it."
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macleanalan wrote:
"I loved Michael Moore's TV Nation when it was on over here. I get the feeling that for a while at least he was better known outside of the US than in. Then again I have no idea who knows of him in the US, so again - speculation...
I'm currently trying to make my way through this thread from the start and I'm on page 13. My arse is numb and my eyesight is getting fuzzy. I'll tell you if I'm blind by the time I get to the end of it (I'll get someone else to press the right keys for me...)
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macleanalan wrote:
"I loved Michael Moore's TV Nation when it was on over here. I get the feeling that for a while at least he was better known outside of the US than in. Then again I have no idea who knows of him in the US, so again - speculation...
I'm currently trying to make my way through this thread from the start and I'm on page 13. My arse is numb and my eyesight is getting fuzzy. I'll tell you if I'm blind by the time I get to the end of it (I'll get someone else to press the right keys for me...)
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macleanalan wrote:
"I loved Michael Moore's TV Nation when it was on over here. I get the feeling that for a while at least he was better known outside of the US than in. Then again I have no idea who knows of him in the US, so again - speculation...
I'm currently trying to make my way through this thread from the start and I'm on page 13. My arse is numb and my eyesight is getting fuzzy. I'll tell you if I'm blind by the time I get to the end of it (I'll get someone else to press the right keys for me...)
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macleanalan wrote:
"Sorry, it froze at the posting stage and wasn't going anywhere so I posted again. I will add this though, I have had to increase the text size on my browser due to the amount of reading I'm doing..."
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Papercut Fun wrote:
"Yeah...patience is the new key word when posting on ""Teabags"". I usually post, like I'm going to do now, then open another explorer window to do any other surfing. It eventually posts, it just takes alot longer to happen these days.
Poor ol' Teabags...she's getting a little long in the tooth."
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Mac, I've not tried smoking tea myself, but some idiot I was at school with did. He maintained that it got him high, though others were more keen to blame the superglue he used to hold his earl grey spliff shut.
I'm pretty sure I'd mentioned that before at some point, but it's a big thread...
Unless you mean ""tea"" in the beatnik sense, in which case I'd imagine the majority of people around here have at least tried it."
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macleanalan wrote:
"Yeah, I found a mention of it on page 7. I'll tell you if I find it again anywhere else but I posted that before I'd read that far. I'm now up to page 17. Wish me luck!"
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macleanalan wrote:
"I've... made it through...
I... think I'm still... okay... but... I can't help... talking like... William Shatner... God help us all...
I'm afraid I only found the one previous tea smoking reference. although at this point I would like to mention the soundtrack to my Teabag initiation;
Neil Young - Decade (classic)
Filter - The Amalgamut (possibly the worst title ever but some good tunes...)
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman (the title suits them, honest it does)
Vast - Visual Audio Sensory Theatre (Very good, better than the second album - some heavy rock and some nicely chilled moments)
Bjork - Selmasongs (I love this album, epic tunes, fantastic production, wonderful voice)
Vangelis - Blade Runner (classic soundtrack)
I have concluded from this that it is much better to have chilled music on when reading, stuff like Underworld suiting the topic much more than rock.
I must also admit to having been brought up on Tetley tea. I've live in Sheffield since I was 2 (but am now at university in Edinburgh) so anything from Yorkshire is probably appropriate. Not that I'm a regular drinker, I usually end up drinking tea when my girlfriend has some.
Anyway, I'm off to go eat dinner and collapse now. If only my eye would stop twitching...
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P.S. My favourite moment in the thread so far had to be the Duck arse wiping moment for sheer absurd humour and Backwards7's strangely touching 'lost tea' posts
P.P.S. I suggest someone saves the thread soon. I see the Hal Jordan Fan Club thread is up to its fourth incarnation, let's not let this die once it gets too big to keep on the forum.
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Papercut Fun wrote:
"Congrats Alan. You are a giant among us. I would advise you stay away from heavy machinery for at least a week. Oh, and you may find yourself phasing in and out of reality for the next month or two. It's a normal side effect, but can be a bit disorienting.
I'd rather Rob locked the thread rather than let it die in oblivian. Alot of blood, sweat and wasted time went into making Teabags the grand old lady that she is today.
Now hit the showers Alan. You put in alot of effort and a good hustle today. The rest of us will carry on while you get some rest."
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macleanalan wrote:
Where are these damn auras then? And why am I seeing rainbows everywhere???
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someone help me up please.. I've.. been.. bamboozled!
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Invisigoth wrote: " quote:
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I've... made it through...
I... think I'm still... okay... but... I can't help... talking like... William Shatner... God help us all...
God help us all, indeed! James Kirk killed computers far smarter than the one running the DC Boards, just by talking to them. I beg you to consider and review anything that you might say on this board for the next few days. Teabags has been twitchy enough as it is. ![[wink]](images/icons/wink.gif) ------------------ ""When Marx said, 'Religion is the opiate of the masses,' he never envisioned television."" - Anonymous Friend"
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Invisigoth wrote: " quote:
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I've... made it through...
I... think I'm still... okay... but... I can't help... talking like... William Shatner... God help us all...
God help us all, indeed! James Kirk killed computers far smarter than the one running the DC Boards, just by talking to them. I beg you to consider and review anything that you might say on this board for the next few days. Teabags has been twitchy enough as it is. ------------------ ""When Marx said, 'Religion is the opiate of the masses,' he never envisioned television."" - Anonymous Friend"
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Alistair wrote:
"I've been reading Michael Moore's book 'Stupid White Men'.
It's a perfect exercise in how to first make a good point, and then undermine it totally by saying something stupid and ridiculous.
Case in point: He writes a sensible piece advocating Non-Violent Civil Disobedience for Palestinians, and points out how it would help both their cause and the general cause of peace in the region. Then he goes and suggests that the problems in Northern Ireland can be solved if a proportion of the Loyalist Protestant population converted to Catholicism!
Yes, duh, sure that would mean that a majority would reject British rule, but it's never, never going to happen. So, either he's trying to make a faceitious point about the Palestinian situation and suggesting that non violent protest there is as unlikely to happen as Loyalists converting to Catholicism (which unfortunatley, is probably true, but it's still more likely than the UVF hanging pictures of the Pope on their walls) or he's showing that he really doesn't understand the situation, and by doing so casts doubt on all his conclusions.
No wonder the US has turned to the repugnant right if the voice of dissent is this fractured."
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