On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 15:06 +0300, Yoav Nir wrote: > > On Apr 2, 2014, at 2:58 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Ole Jacobsen <olejacobsen@xxxxxx> > > wrote: > > As any Brit will tell you: ice has absolutely NOTHING to do > > with tea, so it would be out of scope. > > > > > > Sat-too-long-and-is-still-hot is, if I recall, known as > > "stewed" and anyone responsible faces possible deportation > > from the UK. A very serious matter indeed, almost as serious > > as refusing to obey the rules of a queue. > > > > > > Oh we have discovered over the years that people have the oddest > > ideas on how to make tea. > > > > > > Here in Boston there was a group that made tea with salt water some > > years back. Turned out the only solution was kicking them out of the > > empire. > > > The problem with that tea was not the salt. That turns out to be > customary in Mongolia. The real issue that the tea was “weak, > bordering on homeopathic”: > > > http://what-if.xkcd.com/79/ > Nice! And it addresses the failure to boil the ocean (unlike certain WGs)! ;-) /E > > We can’t have that. > > > Yoav > > >