[TriLUG] OT - Tea, Earl Grey, Hot

[Chip]

Just one time, I wanted him to sip it thoughtfully, perform a full-on
spit-take, and sputter "This is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea!"

-Chip-

On 9/5/07, Magnus <magnus at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> Matt Frye wrote:
> > Some of you may know what I'm talking about, but wasn't there a big
> > TriLUG-style flare up on the TNG mailing list a few years back about
> > whether the correct syntax was "tea, earl grey, hot" or "tea, hot,
> > earl grey", etc?
>
>
> Furthermore, was Picard refusing cookies from the Enterprise food
> replicators or something?  Why would he have to specify the variety of
> tea he wanted and relative temperature every single time he wanted tea?
>
> Also, it would have been a wonderful nod to DNA if Picard asked the
> replicator for tea and ended up consuming all of the Enterprise's
> computer resources for the duration of an episode while the computer
> figured out how to replicate a really good cup of tea.  And of course
> this puts the Enterprise crew into some sort of unspeakable peril.
>
> "Ensign Agrajag, I want you to beam down with the away party..."
>