On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:40:16 UTC, "Ivor Jones"
<ivor@despammed.invalid> opined:[color=blue]
> "{{{{{Welcome}}}}}" <bhx___spam@trapped___hotmail.co.uk>
> wrote in message
> news:Tsfhh.17880$k74.1557@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk
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> [snip]
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> > I don't drink coffee, can't even stand the smell - YUK.[/color]
>
> Ah, you are missing out on one of life's greatest pleasures, even greater
> than that of baiting Dexter ;-)[/color]

A REAL man makes his tea from Turkish coffee.
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> > Now tea, I drink litres of the stuff every day, with a
> > dash of milk and sugar.[/color]
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> Litres..? Are they those funny foreign measurements..?[/color]

Worse than funny. To use them, you have to know how to multiply and
divide by ten. They are insidious -- the integrity of the British
currency would be threatened if just anybody could figure out what the
Hell a Guinea is. Much better that one's weight is described as e.g.
twelve stone and 37 pebbles.

--
Stan