Could well be off topic: better tea
 

In message , m
writes:
[]
Our Mechanical Workshop Technician in Broadcasting House used to have a
"tea swindle"
He dried out the used teabags on the radiators before re-use!!

Mike

Interesting; we used to have a "coffee swindle" at work, and I'm
interested to see the use of the word again. Ours wasn't actually a
swindle in that it about broke even (and there was nothing nefarious
going on), we just used the name. (It did tea too.)

I wonder if we can find first-use and so on, to get this into the OED
....
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)[email protected]+Sh0!:`)DNAf
** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

I didn't get the documentation for the manuals.

Could well be off topic: better tea
 

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Java Jive
writes:
If a stranger is worried about how I like my coffee, one of my
standard ways of setting them at ease is to say: "British Standards
Brown colour BS1234567, stirred three times clockwise, twice anti!"
[]
There is a BS for making tea! I've certainly seen it mentioned on
usenet before - could have been here, but more probably UMRA - but I
checked and it does exist.

BS6008: Method for Preparation of a Liquor of Tea. From 1980, later to
become ISO 3103 (Tea - Preparation of liquor for use in sensory tests).

--
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
http://flatpack.microwavepizza.co.uk/