>Taxation of tea? Didn't know Yanks drink tea! The few times I've been in the
>States and ordered a cup of tea with my breakfast, I've got a confused stare,
>followed by "Oh, of course, you're English!" Exactly the same in Canada, too.
How things change in a couple of hundred years! (I'd read that Princess Diana
preferred coffee in the morning!)
Of course, the English always complain when we make tea for them that we don't
make it properly! (I knew I should have taped that segment of Ainsley Harriott!)
Laura G.
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>Dean
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>Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 12:13:42 -0700
>From: "Simmons, Reid W" <reid.w.simmons@intel.com>
>Subject: RE: Running out of Petrol
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>Richard;
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>I think it's called a "tax revolt". As I recall a while back we Yanks did a
>similar thing to you Brits over the taxation of tea, a lot of which wound up
>in Boston Harbor no doubt damaging the ecostructure there. Now I'm not
>suggesting that you Brits dump petrol into the Thames or similar body of
>water in protest over the tax, but... well, you get the picture. :-)
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>Reid
>'79 Spitfire (original owner)
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