http://members.tripod.com/rkhen/realmen.htm

Hah, thanks. The scene with the RAF chatting over tea at the end of
that excellent article remind me of group meetings here.


Toodlepip,

Hobbes

I went looking for the original post in google, but it doesn't seem to be
there, so I dredged this up out of my News directory:

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From: (Morrisa Sherman)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Tea
Date: 1 Dec 1995 10:30:05 -0800
Organization: Best Internet Communications
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Charlotte: Oh, delightful!

Reynard: What is it?

Charlotte: My mother has sent us a selection of teas from
far-off Ceylon! And just in time for the holidays!

Reynard: There's no such place as Ceylon.

Charlotte: That sort of triviality never bothers my mother. I'm
going to try some right away, with biscuits and
strawberries. Which kind shall I brew?

Reynard: It's up to you. I decline.

Charlotte: You decline tea from Ceylon? But why?

Reynard: Tea is for sissies.

Charlotte: Well, yes, my sisters all adore tea, but I'm sure
Mother sent them their own assortments. She is
most egalitarian, don't you know. We needn't save
it for them.

Reynard: Not sisters, sissies! Fancypants! Dandies! WIMPS!

Charlotte: There's no need for invective.

Reynard: Oh, no no no, I did not mean you!

Charlotte: But I like tea. I am unabashedly fond of tea. Am I
not a sissy, a fancypants, a, a WIMP?

Reynard: No, no, you're a woman!

Charlotte: I fail to see the correlative.

Reynard: It's okay for a woman to drink womanly things, that's
feminine and endearing. But if a man drinks womanly
things, he's a sissy. Men should drink macho, manly
things like coffee! Good, roasted, black coffee,
black as the torments of a mans soul which he bears
stoically, black as the grim triumph of war!

Charlotte: Ah. And so which of your manly friends tells you this?

Reynard: Douglas! Now HE is a real man! He skydives and has
a four wheel drive and everything, and he drinks COFFEE!

Charlotte: Doesn't Douglas' lover Craig own the coffee shop down
the street? Of course Douglas wants you to drink coffee!
It would be good for business!

Reynard: Oh, I, um, that is, well...

Charlotte: Have a strawberry. So what do you think, Green, Oolong,
Black?

Reynard: Um, did she send any of that lovely Fragrant Jasmine
Petal by any chance?

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."