Things wrong with us.
Sent at 3:07 PM
_Liss: The last 3 hours of the day are always the hardest.
me: yep, boring, and time is all drowsy and slowed down. Time itself naps at about 4pm.
This explains the success of the English-
they had tea, you see
_Liss: Dammit, I drank all my tea already.
me: Used the extra time, and nearly took over their visible surroundings.
That's why it's called "Tea Time"
It's not time FOR Tea, but rather time FROM Tea,
crafty cockney bastards.
This is why the revolutionary Boston tea party was so damning, you understand.
_Liss: odds bodkins, you astound me.
me: they stole literally thousands of man hours from the Brits and dumped all that time in the sea-
and laughed!
So, obviously,here we have the origin of the phrase "time flies",
it also goes splash, but that part lost out to the laughing.
me: Now the British had always hidden their secret tea practices under guise of "gentlemanly warfare" wherein they would actually take breaks from battle, to have tea.
Rarely did their foes also have tea, and so they tended to lose a lot.
Thence comes the saying "mister tea pities the fool" this was how they taunted their opponents, while maintaining the code.
_Liss: Are you going to share this secret with the world?
me: The Tea Secret? Hh heavens no.
The English would eat me for breakfast, another code. They become quite noticeable when you know about the cipher.
Yes the great mystery of Tea Time was in fact by revealed by a priest who served as adviser to the early papacy.
He was later known as Father Time.
He actually became addicted to it himself, Father Time that is.
To the caffeine, I guess. In those days it was a big deal.
In any case he eventually went mad and had to be jailed.
Rumor has it that Father Time always managed to smuggle tea into his cell, and get I don't know, buzzed off it, he'd eat it raw. And drink it, but like HARD Drinkin'.
Even this has spawned a common modern phrase - "doing hard time".
He died near the jail, mad with the Tea Time.
Thinking himself full of "all the Time in the world" he ran right off the edge of a cliff.
It wasn't fun.
And so?
Time did not fly.
But he did go splash.
_Liss:HA!