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Old 04-07-2011, 10:22 PM   #10096
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One dyin' and a burying.
One dyin' and a'buryin'.
One dyin', six carrying me...
One dyin' and a'buryin'.

Yes, it's true... I died last night from KTS (Kleenex Tissue Suffocation.) I sneezed and blew my nose so many times that the used tissues built up to critical mass and suffocated me! Somehow, my caring wife slept through it all, no matter how loud I moaned trying to wake her up to console me.
Damn... Well at least I'm not coughing any more, but my nose is falling off.

Only Yorkshire tea and rice this morning. I'm far too weak to make anything better.



How can I get well if I died last night! Sheesh!



NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER! If you never give up you WILL succeed eventually. I don't understand why you haven't already, but here's one more trick.. "Lipton's Instant Iced Tea." You can get it with lemon and sugar, sugar only, and straight. I buy the straight stuff when I'm abroad (can't get it here in Japan) and oddly enough, it's tastes pretty good to me! It shouldn't. It's Lipton, so it should really suck big time, but I like it. Go figure. I came back from Florida this winter with five bottles of the stuff.



Just to check... did you also boil the tea bags? Or did you boil the water first, THEN add the teabags when it was off the flame? You should NOT boil the teabags.


More tea... more tea... more tea...


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Ok, Bleccchhh. to Lipton's instant. No, no, no! Even MY plebian taste buds won't tolerate that.
No, I didn't boil the teabags (and it was loose tea, anyway). I did the "usual" method for hot tea, poured the water from the kettle over the tea (which was in my Pyrex bowl). I let it steep til it *should* have been concentrated, strained it, sweetened, and diluted, but it's still nondrinkable. Something about my proportions is off, I think.

I can make regular Southern style iced tea, using Lipton's, Tetley's, Luzianne's, or generic tea bags all day long, and I could probably do it in my sleep, too. But when I try to do it with premium loose tea, it's AWFUL.
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Old 04-07-2011, 10:37 PM   #10097
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Old 04-07-2011, 10:47 PM   #10098
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Old 04-07-2011, 11:11 PM   #10099
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Something about my proportions is off, I think.
I can make regular Southern style iced tea, using Lipton's, Tetley's, Luzianne's, or generic tea bags all day long, and I could probably do it in my sleep, too.
Teabags tend to use much less tea than when we make a loose leaf brew. How about trying it once more, using 1/2 the amount of tea?

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Pearls before swine? (ducking and running)


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Old 04-07-2011, 11:13 PM   #10100
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Old 04-07-2011, 11:23 PM   #10101
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Old 04-07-2011, 11:51 PM   #10102
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Old 04-08-2011, 12:52 AM   #10103
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Teabags tend to use much less tea than when we make a loose leaf brew. How about trying it once more, using 1/2 the amount of tea?



Pearls before swine? (ducking and running)


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I think I'm laughing too hard to throw anything or chase you! I hate to admit it, but it is entirely possible you've hit on something there. NOT that that is going to stop me from seeking revenge...when you least expect it!

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Take that instant tea with you when you go...
Come on, Betty...we'll go over here in this corner and plot revenge... if we can stop laughing long enough!

Oh, and by the way, Stitchawl: You type really well for a dead guy...
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Old 04-08-2011, 03:18 AM   #10104
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I've noticed now that with two different items, caviar and powdered green tea, that I can't tolerate the really high quality stuff, but love the floor sweepings of both! $4 jars of caviar instead of $75 jars (same size) and powdered tea found in chain restaurant sushi shops rather than the matcha used for formal 'Cha No Yu' tea ceremonies. It's gotta be trash for me to like it!
Too bad that wasn't the case with girl friends. Think how much money I would have saved?!?

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Old 04-08-2011, 04:31 AM   #10105
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Old 04-08-2011, 04:33 AM   #10106
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Old 04-08-2011, 07:56 AM   #10110
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