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Michael Plant

3/3/06

>
> Mydnight wrote:
>>> Well, is it true? I don't see worm dropping puerh actually brewing into tea,
>>> just sludge...
>>
>> It's a myth among pu'er drinkers that when the tea gets really old that
>> some insects can get inside of the tea and then die. Some people say
>> worms...some people say moths. In my experience, I've never seen it in
>> reality; only in some old men's rambling fables (usually in Cantonese).
>> heh.
>
> I found a small stone in one of my bricks of 2004 "1336th Anniversary
> of the Thai Calendar" that I bought via Ebay on Mike Petro's recco.
> I'm kind of ticked ... it's got to weigh at least a gram, which means I
> got 249 grams of tea in this brick, tops.
>
> Oh well ... I just tell myself it's my "lucky puer stone". Maybe I'll
> get it tumbled/polished and put it on a chain someday. I just hope I
> don't find more stones in the other three bricks ... won't find out for
> at least ten years.
>
>
> stePH

stePH, I've yet to get the brick, tuo, or bing that was exactly the
advertised weight. This includes some damned old cakes. I chalk it up to
variation unless I'm buying a small number of grams. Lucky Pu'erh Stone, eh?
I'm almost jealous that I didn't get one.

Should I tell you how realitors measure square footage in apartments and in
houses for sale?

Michael