Tea

[Lauren]

Nurse!

[Peffkitten]

George Orwell
"I had a very sick dog...that I had picked up from the pound. It wouldn't touch a bite of food, it wobbled when it walked, and slept all of the time. This went on for a week. Then I got a wild hair to give my doggy some green tea. Then I put in the utility room with its food and milk, and the family left to go to church. When we got back, every bit of the doggies food was eaten, with no other culprits in sight. And it was wagging it's tail for the first time after a week of being sick and near death. The doggie has eaten ever since and is thriving very well."


I: Do you want a cup of tea Withnail!?
Withnail: No.
From "Withnail and I"

"...A cup of tea excels the real..."
Lian Ya Tang(1878-1936)(Chinese poet during Qing Dynasty-Zhong Hua Min Guo,from "Tea",in 1933-35

"...at last, I entered the world of tea..."
Yuan Mei(1716-98)(Chinese poet during Qing Dynasty,qian long-year) from"Tea-Drinking",in 1783
submitted by GAKUSI(handle-name)

"I'm not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour."
Lu Tung

"What do you want? Tea, coffee, or ... me?"
From the film "Working Girl"

"We all had a cup of tea and felt fine"
Hemingway

"I'm afraid this tea's pathetic. I must have used these wretched leaves about 20 times. It's not that I mind so much. Tea without milk is so uncivilised"
Colin Blythe (played by Donald Pleasance) - The Great Escape

"And I want a tea cozy. I don't know what a tea cozy is, but I want one!"
Buffy Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Don't try to offer me anything
What it comes right down to baby
Don't tempt me; I'm where I wanna be
Cause on the eighth day, God made sweet tea
Certain things in life I like to savor
Watchin' clouds and waitin' on the rain
If you ever question my behavior
Just a taste will make you feel the same now
lyrics from Cravin' Melon (Red Clay Harvest) "Sweet Tea"

"Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on."


Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea.

The tea party is a spa for the soul. You leave your cares and work behind. Busy people forget their business. Your stress melts away, your senses awaken... from Alexandra Stoddard

Snook: I'm not feeling very much like eating, Bill. I think this constant wet weather's got into my bones. I find it quite hard work to drag my feet along.
Smith: A nice mug of tea'll soon put you right, Alf. You mustn't go sick - this evening of all evenings! I tell you what we'll do, Alf. I've got a bottle of really good Scotch in my room. I managed to pick it up! It's been the only bright spot in our stay here. When we go in to supper, we'll pour a double into your mug of tea. Hot tea and whisky is a good mixture when you're feeling under the weather. It's helped to put many a man on his feet again.
from R. L. Taylor "A Modern Don Juan"

"If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty"
Japanese Proverb

"I've learnt a lot form drinking Brooke Bond tea."
John Lawrence from Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

"If he thought to himself, such a machine is a virtual impossibility, then it must logically be a finite improbability. So all I have to do in order to make one is to work out exactly how improbable it is, feed that into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea...and turn it on!"
from Douglas Adams "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Hugo Drax, villian of Moonraker (1979), to James Bond
"You have arrived at a propitious moment, coincident with your country's one indisputable contribution to Western civilisation - afternoon tea".

International Tea Convention - Kochin September 5 2000
"Tea is such a magical product - perhaps even the eighth wonder of the world..."

[Peffkitten]

La Rouchefoucauld wrote in 1784
"Throughout the whole of England the drinking of tea is general. You have it twice a day and though the expense is considerable, the humblest peasant has his tea, just like the rich man".

William Cobbett was infuriated by the fact that the average labourer spent something approaching a third of his earnings on tea, and denounced the beverage as a wicked waste of time and money. He wrote in Cottage Economy in 1822; ' The tea drinking has done a great deal in bringing this nation into the state of misery in which it now is, it must be evident to every one that the practice of tea drinking must render the frame feeble, and unfit to encounter hard labour or severe weather, while . . . it deducts from the means of replenishing the belly and covering the back. Hence succeeds a softness, an effeminacy, a seeking for the fireside, a lurking in the bed, and, in short, all the characteristics of idleness.

If a man say unto thee that he thirsteth, give him a cup of tea.
O'Donnell


"After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the shell-shocked fragments the previous day had left him with. He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. The way it functioned was very interesting. When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. The Nutri-Matic was designed and manufactured by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation whose complaints department now covers all the major landmasses of the first three planets in the Sirius Tau Star system."
Douglas Adams

"Mistress Weatherwax a bit poorly, is she?" said Hodgesaargh, coming in.
"I think you could certainly say that, yes."
"Oh dear. Want some tea?"
"What?"
"It's a nasty night. If we're stopping up I'll put the kettle on."
"Do you realize, man, that she might get up from there a bloodthirsty vampire?"
"Oh." The falconer looked down at the still figure and the smoking anvil. "Good idea to face her with a cup of tea inside you, then," he said.
Terry Pratchett

"All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter."
Joseph Addison, 1711.

A man without a mustasche is like a cup of tea without sugar.
Famous English expression

Turlough: I quite miss that brown liquid they drink here.
Will Chandler: Ale?
Turlough: No. Tea.
Will Chandler: What be tea?
The Doctor: Oh, a noxious infusion of oriental leaves containing a high percentage of toxic acid.
Will Chandler: Sounds an evil brew, don't it?
The Doctor: True. Personally, I rather like it.
The Doctor Who story "The Awakening"

"The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently, and nothing can be done, and no move made, until "a nice cup of tea" is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not so tea-conscious. World-peace conferences would run more smoothly if "a nice cup of tea", or indeed, a samovar were available at the proper time."
Marlene Dietrich

"In the south, you can't marry a man until you know how his mama makes sweet tea."

"Tea is a cup of life"
Great-grandma Jewel

"For if I could please myself I would always live as I lived there. I would choose always to breakfast at exactly eight and to be at my desk by nine, there to read or write till one. If a cup of good tea or coffee could be brought to me about eleven, so much the better. Tea should be taken in solitude …"
CS Lewis ~ "Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life"

[Peffkitten]

HOW DO READ THE LEAVES
"you need to drink a cup of tea before, then squeeze a small hole and drop enough tea leaves to cover a one Euro coin into your tea cup. Hold the cup in your left hand and turn it three times anticlokwise. This spreads the tea around the cup. The cup is read clockwise from the handle. The symbols near the handle show recent events or events about to happen. Symbols at the bottom of the cup represent your emotions. Around the rim of the cup is the happy zone indicanting social plans and possibilities." All right, but the meaning? " ..... the major symbols are the following: Alligator: is a warning; Arrow: pointing up means your luck is improving; pointing down means your luck is bad; Bag: predicts a gift; Bed: emotional contentment; Bell: you will hear news about a problem; Boat: money is arriving; Bone: be careful; Cake: a party; Car: a new job or a powerful sexual symbol; Circle: complete shows that a project will be finished; broken shows that a project is unfinished; Compass: a change of direction in your life; Ear: listen for unexpected opportunities; Lamp: an unexpected celebration; Palm tree: you are in a creative period; Pear: good sign for love; Pirate: forecasts adventures; Question mark: warns you must be careful; Triangle: (upside down) means bad luck."

[Peffkitten]

Different ways of saying "making tea"

"Meshin'?"
(South Yorkshire)

"Weting the tea"
(Rural Ireland)

"Having a brew"
(Manchester)

"Hot drop"
(Cork)

[Lauren]

Peffkitten said:

Different ways of saying "making tea"

"Meshin'?"
(South Yorkshire)

"Having a brew"
(Manchester)

I thought it was Mashin'... And doesn't everybody say having a brew?

[Peffkitten]

I obviously have unreliable sources

[Lauren]

Peffkitten said:

"If he thought to himself, such a machine is a virtual impossibility, then it must logically be a finite improbability. So all I have to do in order to make one is to work out exactly how improbable it is, feed that into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea...and turn it on!"
from Douglas Adams "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

I should re-read that book.

[Nicôle]

Am I the only person who doesn't get the "tea" thing?

[Peffkitten]

Yes, it's all part of an Anti-Nicole Pro-Tea Conspiracy

[Lauren]

Shhhhhhh!

[Peffkitten]

shit

[Lauren]

And it was going so well!

[Peffkitten]

[Lauren]

That face! Awwwww