[TriLUG] OT - Tea, Earl Grey, Hot

[Neil L. Little]

In most southern eateries If you order tea it is implied and will be 
served with ice and sweet. Earl Gray tea is pretty good served in the 
southern manner.

Neil Little, WA4AZL
JARS Forever!!

Chip wrote:
> 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..."
>>
>>