Originally Posted By: damascus
Tut tut mister fox Bergamot is used to flavour the tea you said you like Earl grey tea. Have you never been out in company and been asked whats your poison? You must get out more! Also become a little more knowledgeable about that wonderful British beverage that you profess to take with cream Earl grey tea aficionados take it black no milk from a China cup poured from a sound earthenware teapot. I dont believe you really drink it regularly and my reasoning for this is it tells you how the flavour of the Tea is obtained on every packet I was just testing. Youre just trying to be annoying without a true in-depth knowledge of the subject as we say here Grow up! This will be my last line of discussion with your good self unless you can produce the same skill with your hands as you do with your misguided intellect!
Well hell yes- like the old 1930's ballad- "Missed the Saturday night dance, heard they crowded the floor-- awfully lonely without you, don't get around much anymore- Never heard the phrase "What's your poison, so I'll have to plead ignorance on that bon mot- Socrates perhaps- wonder if he put cream (creme) in his cup of hemlock?? If I stated that I use cream in anything I might perchance imbibe, it sure as hell wouldn't be a cup of tea-- whether Lord Earl Grey or Lord Muckingfutch either--
I am a good self, and when I put my hands to: field stripping a M-1 Garand or running a TIG build-up pass on annealed AISI 4140 with 308-16ELC filler rod, you can bet your Limey arse I know what I am doing, and do it damn well- time after time- then my hands become as the late Vladimar Horowicz when he sat down on the stool in front of the Steinway Grand in Carnegie hall- bet folding money on that- And also like your fellow Countryman, Gough Thomas, my hands are also fluent with a Winchester Model 12 pumpgun- yee olde ergonomic, perchance? I have always wanted, as the late Nash Buckingham discussed a Limey crackshot coming over with his "bespoken" pair of side-by-sides to try his skill at flighting doves- go up against a Limey on either box or columbaire pigeons in a crosswind- He can take any side-by-side he wishes, I'll take my old M12 Tournament grade 30" full solid rib that was made in 1937 and we'll have a go-care to make a wager, Laddy buck??


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