h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I wanted both a cup of and a glass of this morning. However, pouring your orange juice into your tea will not make the process of imbibing more efficient, because it will go down the drain.

I can see the logic though - after all lemon tea is very common. . .

No no no, I didn't do it intentionally - I picked up the wrong bottle. I thought I was putting milk in it! Oops...

I thought you were trying to invent a new niche tea

If only I could claim that - but I'm afriad it was just my own absent mindedness.

It was probably more likely Mr Vip distracting you wasn't it? Go on, you know you want to blame him

That was one thing I liked about milk bottles, you rarely poured orange juice into your tea. Nowadays, our fridge has cartons of various flavours of fruit juice, cartons of soya milk and cartons off cow juice juice. All the same size and shape. Just different colours or shades. I can understand that they may be easier to pack and transport, but please, can't the people who make these decisions think

"You know, people will be reaching for their first cup of tea of the day, and they won't always be wide awake. Rather than making that first pleasurable hit of caffiene addiction a chore, let's make it obvious that this is a milk container, and this is an orange juice container. I think they may thank us for this small boon."

And I would thank them. I may even write them a letter saying "Thank you." Rather than the one that's permanently half penned that says other things about them.

Makes me wonder if this is how Irish coffee started.

Nah, that was completely different.

That started back during the potato famine, a lot of irish had to migrate to places like london and america to get work. And they were worked very hard. The hours were horrendous, usually starting before dawn and finishing when it got too dark to continue. Because of this, they didn't have time to sit down to their previous breakfasts, so they came up with the idea of getting the two courses, coffee and whiskey, out the way in one go. After a while they found that they could get it out the way quicker by drinking it as they walked through the streets to work, starting the trend of threatening to scald fellow commuters that had a revival in the 80s and seems to have stuck.

All of the above is complete rubbish, but I like the idea

i am sure irish coffee was discovered when it was cold
irish coffee warms you twice

this is ever so slightly off topic but.............

M-I-L once cleaned her teeth with pile cream, thought it was the tooth paste

by 'pile cream' surely you don't mean what i think you mean?

yup! Hemmorrid................. I still snigger with joy whenever I think about it