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Perhaps Mike's taking some time-out from the forums.

It must be hard to write comics when people are tugging on your sleeve all day.

I am very pleased to see there is still a place for white elephants like the Teabags thread.

Mike appears to have returned to the DC Boards. Hooray, He still likes us!

Incidentally, I am drinking Organic Swirling Mist Tea. It's a white tea made from the first spring shoots. I was a bit disappointed that the tea itself wasn't white and misty as its name implies.

It's one of those teas that has a very mild flavour and tastes like you've already dosed it with milk.

cool.

just lemme know the "when"s and "who"s, and i can back-add'em (backwards, yer in now!)

Thanks Rob.

I like the cool little graphic that you've produced for the teabags thread (the direct link to the thread in the Robegories section.)

I hope we can get some more people to come over from the DC website because 69 page, off-topic posts obviously aren't going to happen on the new boards.

I've just noticed that you're the second member of your own forum. How did that happen?

He's also the first member. Greedy, eh?

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Originally posted by backwards7:
Mike appears to have returned to the DC Boards. Hooray, He still likes us!

Incidentally, I am drinking Organic Swirling Mist Tea. It's a white tea made from the first spring shoots. I was a bit disappointed that the tea itself wasn't white and misty as its name implies.

It's one of those teas that has a very mild flavour and tastes like you've already dosed it with milk.

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From the name, Organic Swirling Mist Tea must the tea of soft porn stars.

Full Flavoured Triple Action Pink and Brown Seeping Tea.

Great! One of my prayers have been answered. Now, I'm waiting for Bridget Fonda to magically appear in my bedroom and read Penthouse's letters section to me in my sleep since that's second on my wishlist.

oh! and we'd also drink tea together!

Out of her navel?

Bridget thanks you for the nifty suggestion, Dave

I'm sure she does...

I've been reading an interesting book by Georgina Ferry -

A Computer Called LEO: Lyons teashops and the world?s first office computer.

It's the true story of a company called J Lyons & Co that, at one point in the middle of the last century, managed an empire of over 200 hundred tea shops around Britain. They also produced teas, cakes and ice creams - I remember their green and gold tins of syrup. The company's no longer a going concern having been sold to Allied Breweries in 1978 and then gradually sold off in small pieces by its new owners.

Lyons were probably the first business to use a computer to manage their ordering and manufacturing and they went on to sell versions of their machine to other businesses. The computer, named LEO was produced 'in-house' with most of its components and its programming language being developed by Lyons staff.

It's incredible to think that if history had been different, Lyons might have gone on to compete with the computer giants of today. Unfortunately the company, whose primary business involved selling tea and cakes, were unable to bear the cost of developing LEO or able to field enough personnel to work on the project. Nor were they able to match the levels of investment with American I.T. companies such as IBM.

Tea as a handicap?

I have another tea short story brewing, which I will post shortly.

Are we the only ones who know about this resurrected teabag thread? I feel lonely. Where are the others?

They have washed their chipped mugs and gone home.

aw

i took down the graphic cuz i updated the icons, but ill post it heeyah, so's you'll always have the memory:

Champagne sipped from Franta's slipper...

No wonder it was so salty.

Wow, Teabags is here!

And my old posts are still here as well!

Gosh, Auntie Em, it's true...there's no place like home.

Does Tenzel Kim have any magical ways of giving all of us an all-expense paid trip inside Jennifer Lopez's cleavage?

There's not much room in there, Neilencio.

I guess we'll just have to tweak some space out of it.

ooops sorry I thought this thread was about Blow Jobs....sorry

The Vasa and the shipbuilder's tea

King Gustav-Adolfus of Sweden was a fearsome man: usually donned in black armour and seen brandishing a bared broadsword in royal portraits, he was known to his contemporaries as the "Lion of the North". He had taken Sweden from being a batlefield betwen Danes and Germans, and turned the country into a force to be reckoned with. Gustav-Adolfus had defeated each of Sweden's neighbours soundly in battle: and now, it was time to humiliate them at sea.

The King commissioned a shipbuilder to construct the largest vessel to sail the seas; the Vasa. It was to have two decks, brimming with cannon, the figurehead chased in gold, the masts as high as mountains.

The shipbuilder showed the King his plans. "Not enough cannon!" the king roared. "Build another deck!"

The shipbuilder's spirit quaked, and his knees went weak. Another deck would make the vessel unstable. But he had no choice: the fearsome king would not listen to any voice but his own.

With days left before the Vasa was due to be launched on its maiden voyage, the craftsmen were muttering amongst themselves. It was plainly apparent that the warship would list far too much. The shipbuilder suffered nightmares, envisaging himself on the rack, his family exiled to bitter Lapland. His sheets were stained with the sweat of a man who knows his doom was inevitable.

The ship neared completion. It was glorious: encrusted with gilt, three rows of fearsome cannon, and mighty anchors. From his palace in the heart of Gamlastan, the centre of Stockholm, Gustav-Adolfus summonsed the ambassadors of his rival nations. They along with the citizens of Stockholm would watch the ship's launch, and see it sail for deployment against the Danes. It would be the king's moment of glory.

The shipbuilder conducted a secret test: he had the ship lowered into the water late one night, and had his men run from one side to the other. The masts rocked like pendulums and the test had to stop lest the warship topple.

One night, the shipbuilder was walking across the deck towards the stern of the vessel, running stiffened fingers through his grey hair as he paced in desperation. An artisan from abroad had given him a bag of herbs, something which was assured to calm his plainly frayed nerves. He sipped the brew. The tea was piping hot: he winced, dropped the mug, and slipped on the wet deck, cracking his skull open.

The Vasa set sail a few days later. It travlled for less then a kilomtere before toppling into the sea in Stockholm's harbour, killing half the crew. The cost of the vessel was enormous, and its sudden loss effectively bankrupted the country.

An investigation was launched. Initally the shipbuilder's name was tarnished in disgrace: it gradually became apparent that he had acted on the orders of the king, and the investigation was abruptly ended. Deep sea diving bells were used to recover some of the cannon, but otherwise the vessel was forgotten for centuries.

Salvage efforts in the 1970s raised the Vasa from its watery grave. Amongst the items recovered were the skeletons of crewmen which were crushed under cannon (identities unknown), sealed bottles of beer (part of the ship's provisions), and dried pouches of tea (owner, unknown).

Ah, he taught you. And I see you've fixed Neilencio's posts. Stately Wayne Manor is here as Johnny Barcadi - can you wave your wand?

Incidentally, I have discovered this very appropriate site:

http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/

no no no, thats always been me.

in fact, i taught tk how to bring in these threads! quit stealin my sunshine!

(he just happened to find a way to make it, oh, 6 or 7 million times faster).

well, shoot me a PM if mike or anyone else shows up, and ill rework the thread to pop in their name.

Ok.