While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Dave Croft rolled
initiative and posted the following:

> "Rick Chappell" > wrote in
> message ...
>> Dog Ma 1 (reply w/o spam)> wrote:
>>
>> > I conclude that "English" style tea must
>> > have been divinely intended for consumption at sub-zero
>> > elevations. That pretty much narrows it down to the Dead Sea
>> > or Atlantis.
>>
>> Mr. Ma, you are one of this forum's most brilliant
>> theatheologists. I was once interested in high-pressure
>> tea (but more secularly motivated) and tried to get an
>> Israeli rfdt reader to go to a spa on the Dead Sea, make tea,
>> and report. He never did, as far as I know. But even the Dead
>> Sea would give us only a single data point. Does anyone
>> have access to a hyperbaric chamber? Although I work at a
>> hospital, we don't treat many bends cases in Wisconsin.
>> Rick.
>
> Hi Rick. Have a read of Douglas Adams page.
> (He wrote The Hitch hikers Guide to the Galaxy)
> http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/000492.html

It's not his page, it's only a quote. But it's a darned good quote.

If it has been his page, it would have been on
http://www.douglasadams.com/ instead.

> He not only covers our attitude to the temperature of water
> needed to make the correct English Tea but also covers the
> problems of doing the same at different heights.

Yes, well, "attitude" is everything.

> He can probably advise you of how to do it in another Galaxy.

The unfortunately truth of the matter is that short of a seance,
Mr. Adams won't be advising anyone on anything anytime soon. His
"Infinite Improbability Drive" ceased functioning in 2001.

--
Derek

The best leaders inspire by example. When that's not an option,
brute intimidation works pretty well, too.