Re: RFC 7168 on The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA)

Elwyn Davies <elwynd@dial.pipex.com> Wed, 02 April 2014 13:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: RFC 7168 on The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA)
From: Elwyn Davies <elwynd@dial.pipex.com>
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On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 15:06 +0300, Yoav Nir wrote:
> 
> On Apr 2, 2014, at 2:58 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Ole Jacobsen <olejacobsen@me.com>
> > 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. 

.. and of course the rancid yak butter...

/Elwyn

> The real issue that the tea was “weak, bordering on homeopathic”:
> 
> 
> http://what-if.xkcd.com/79/
> 
> 
> We can’t have that.
> 
> 
> Yoav
> 
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>