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"Yeah, my guess is that there was an unexplained butterfly somewhere in the Corgi offices
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-Bruce wrote:
"Bruce knows far too much. he must be silenced.
i wonder if i can ape the Headmaster's super power...
*SNAP*
*SNAP*
Be careful with those *snaps*, young sorcerer's apprentice! After the first, I poofed into a 200 ft. jellybean - though, fortunately, restored with the second.
Neilenco, it seems you have also inadvertently awaken RED from his long, induced slumber...
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Neilenco, it seems you have also inadvertently awaken RED from his long, induced slumber...
i'm also trying to turn him into Emma Watson. i feel guilty about this but i think she's cute. i'mma invite her over for a tea party. "
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Red wrote: " quote:
Originally posted by Neilencio:
i'm also trying to turn him into Emma Watson. i feel guilty about this but i think she's cute.
i'mma invite her over for a tea party.
I'm all for the tea party, but I think my wife might be a bit miffed if I suddenly simultaneously lose and gain a few appendages. By the way, who's Emma Watson? I'm off to drink some more lovely Lipton. "
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Red wrote: " quote:
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By the way, who's Emma Watson?
Did a quick search, and Neilencio: You better check your mind. Hello, she's 12 years old! OK, she's cute, but in the same way that my niece is cute, not in any other way. I sincerely hope that when you say ""tea party"" you mean just that... By the way, she's the best actor of the Harry Potter-bunch. Obviously. "
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Lord_Savaunt wrote: " quote:
Originally posted by Red:
Did a quick search, and Neilencio: You better check your mind. Hello, she's 12 years old! OK, she's cute, but in the same way that my niece is cute, not in any other way. I sincerely hope that when you say ""tea party"" you mean just that...
By the way, she's the best actor of the Harry Potter-bunch. Obviously.
Well he never said what kind of cute but I figured he meant the same kind of cute as a teddy bear or a kitten. And what else could he have meant by ""tea party"". Honestly some people just go looking for things to freak out about :) "
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Red wrote: " quote:
Originally posted by Lord_Savaunt:
Well he never said what kind of cute but I figured he meant the same kind of cute as a teddy bear or a kitten. And what else could he have meant by ""tea party"". Honestly some people just go looking for things to freak out about :)
Remember, this is the same guy who think's Despair of the Endless is ""hot""..."
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Well if he does, then he's hardly going to go for Emma Watson is he? Far too skinny..."
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"To my horror, I just watched ""Live with Regis Philbman and Kelly Rippa"" and I think I may have actually chuckled at one of their jokes. What sign of the apocolypse (yikes! bad spelling!) is this...3rd or 4th?"
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i think ""cute"" is the word used when the subject is far from beautiful but you still care enough not to hurt him/her/it with the jagged edges of the word ""Stank-ugly""
and as for emma watson, cute is used the same way you'd say...yes, a teddy bear is cute, and yes, there's no room for sexual innuendo's when we talk about teddy bears....
and as for the tea party, that's just my way of trying to include something about tea's, didn't expect it to be interpreted in a less-than acceptable kind of way.
but now that i think about it......
aw, forget it...
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-Bruce wrote: "I've enjoyed the daily choices you've made, Adrian. I guess I could 'suggest' http://www.saint-nick.com/santa/ ... "
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Red wrote: " quote:
Originally posted by Adrian Brown:
(aw, no-one else is playing)
I'll play! Ahem THE LUCIFER TEABAG THREAD ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 9 http://www.cvc.org/christmas/science.htm "
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I only discovered advent calenders last year. Bits of sickly chocolate, and what do you do with it at the end?"
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SmilingKnight wrote: "THE LUCIFER TEABAG THREAD ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 10 http://www.homestarrunner.com/xmas2001.html This is great! ------------------ Cybertron and all it's moons belong to me!"
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Adrian Brown wrote:
Steady on !
You opened tomorrow's a day early !
Now you'll have to push the door closed and hope that Mom doesn't notice the chocolate has gone.
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Lord_Savaunt wrote: " quote:
Originally posted by SmilingKnight:
THE LUCIFER TEABAG THREAD ADVENT CALENDAR
DAY 10 http://www.homestarrunner.com/xmas2001.html
This is great!
Okay that was just freaky. "
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SmilingKnight wrote:
What? You mean you don't celebrate Decemberween?
The Strong Bad e-mails are the funniest things ever
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Adrian Brown wrote: "THE LUCIFER TEABAG THREAD ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 11 (We've had power cuts for the last two nights, so here's a link to a candle) http://www.amnesty.org/ "
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strafenkinder wrote:
Until when will this thread continue?
Just wondering.
Has it been a year old?
What are the consequences if we continue this thread for another year?
Will the board need much more space?
Will continuing this thread help us achieve our karmic fate?
And when we mention Mike Carey why does the face of Terence Stamp appear on my head?
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Lord_Savaunt wrote: " quote:
Originally posted by strafenkinder:
Until when will this thread continue?
Just wondering.
Has it been a year old?
What are the consequences if we continue this thread for another year?
Will the board need much more space?
Will continuing this thread help us achieve our karmic fate?
And when we mention Mike Carey why does the face of Terence Stamp appear on my head?
For as long as we want to talk about tea. Yes, in fact it's well over a year now. Whatever the consequences are they probably involve things that no mortal mind was meant to fathom. I don't know how much more space the board will need. Hopefully not too much. If it does perhaps we can steal that space from other boards. Probably not, but continuing to post will be fun and occasionally enlightening. Probably cause you're messed up in the head. Which of course makes you a perfect fit here."
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Sun Yat-Sen's Lost Tea and the Cultural Revolution
The first president of China, Sun Yat Sen, was a tea afficiando. So too was the deposed emperor, a teenaged Pu Yi.
The two men, one young, depowered and rigid, one old, benign and relaxed, met under tight security in the summer of 1920, and were seated alone in an isolated and small iron lace pagoda set in a colonial garden of what had been the Czar's Embassy, until abandoned the year before. The two men spent most of a day together in this quiet and pleasant intimacy. The only person who was within ear shot was a beautiful 15 year old Shanghainese girl, who both men complimented on her long eyelashes. The girl was Butterfly Wu, and went on to become a famous Chinese movie star.
In her memoirs, Butterfly Wu says the two idealogical adversaries gave her a gift: a handsome bronze tea pot from the Xian dynasty, the lid sealed in wax bearing the Emperor's calligraphic signature. They told her not to open it until the year 1988 (""8"" being good luck in Chinese numerolgy). Butterfly Wu says the two men placed a message into the pot, signed by the two of them, wrapped around a sheath of fine green tea.
Butterfly Wu kept the pot through out her years of fame, and died in 1961, in poverty arising from the Communist Revolution.
The pot was inherited by her grandson, a capricious man who sold the heirloom (without opening it, realising the seal was worth more unbroken) in 1967 to an antique dealer from San Francisco.
Before the dealer could leave the country with the relic, his shipment was seized by cadres of the Red Guards. The Emperor's seal enraged the political zealots, who threw the teapot into the Yangtze river.
Subsequent dredging of the delta by both the government and private individuals have failed to recover the teapot.
The mystery of the tea leaves, and the message form Sun Yat-sen and the Last Emperor, remains unsolved to this day. Some historians have speculated that the tea was in fact the fabled Phoenix tea, consumed only by Chinese royalty, of which none remains.
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"Bwa hah hah hah! Post number 3000 is Mine, all mine!"
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Invisigoth wrote:
Sorry. Couldn't contain myself. I always had a minor obsession with even numbers.
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SmilingKnight wrote:
"Ha! I took the next even number! And if you reply, it's on an odd number! Oh, the delicous coup...
I love the new tea story Dave, I'll be sure to tell my mom
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-Bruce wrote:
"Concerning THE LUCIFER TEABAG THREAD ADVENT CALENDAR
DAY 13
The friendly gal with Ms. Quinn:
a) hangs with the Jolly Green Giant
b) lives in Sherwood Forest
c) is a tad bit too friendly
c) is wearing a large tea bag
wait... wait... what is this THIS?! SOMEONE has opened Day 18 (yeah, the little door with the picture of a cattle lowing ...ie. moo)and pinched the chocolate!! "
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A sample of Yorkshire Tea dropped through my letter box, this afternoon.
I take this small box of ten teabags as a sign that the teagods are pleased and wish to reward me for my unquestioning servitude.
The alternative is that teas that usually only thrive in chilly northerly climates have taken advantage of the cold spell we've been having in England and have been roaming further south than usual.
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and they are getting drunk
Oh, Johnny come and save me
I believe my luck has sunk.""
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SmilingKnight wrote:
"Ok, why didn't you guys warn me it was friday the 13th? I haven't put up my Dexter's Laboratory poster yet so I need you guys to keep me informed! My stupid car broke when I was driving it to the garage to get it all ""winterized"" fluid checks and such and of course, the power stearing breaks and stuff, then the radiator wets itself in fear in the middle of the street. So, I had to go get money and call a tow truck and wait for it and then the garage was closed of course so I'm all bad grammer and take me home I guess. So all in all, it was an ironic kick to the junk.
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quote:
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I love the new tea story Dave, I'll be sure to tell my mom
Thanks. I get bored at work sometimes. I have some news. I've been commissioned to write a book. Its a law text book, but still. Title yet to be determined. "
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Lord_Savaunt wrote: " quote:
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Title yet to be determined.
Title yet to be determined. I like the sound of that. One of the best titles I've heard in awhile."
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quote:
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Title yet to be determined. I like the sound of that. One of the best titles I've heard in awhile.
Its on entertainment law in Hong Kong. "
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