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Tea-Upon-Ice Brews Up a Wiki-Firestorm!

Posted by Ocelopotamus on December 14th, 2007 at 10:18 am

What a thing to wake up to! Following hot on the heels of yesterday’s post on the subject of tea-upon-ice, Grendel has drawn my attention to the fact that some unknown reader of this weblog has now created a Wikipedia entry for tea-upon-ice.
I am gobsmacked, flabbergasted, tiggywinkled, prattpaddled, chunderflapped, pussintuttled, argybarged, and various other polysyllabic […]

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A Note on the Text of the 10-Second Interview

Posted by Ocelopotamus on December 13th, 2007 at 12:33 pm

Grendel from Earthgoat, always an attentive and keen-eyed reader, has written to gently chide me for conforming to a certain lowbrow usage in my 10-Second Interview post.
The question in question would be this one:
Pepsi or Coke?
Iced peppermint green tea.
Since that post and its comments are a fair way down the page at this point, […]

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Tea-Upon-Ice Now Available in Restaurants

Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 15th, 2007 at 7:32 pm

It is astonishing sometimes, when you have a truly good idea, how quickly it will be adopted by the rest of the world.
For example, you loyal readers of Ocelopotamus will surely remember my “tea-upon-ice” idea from last week. (Idea is too small a word, really. Discovery? Breakthrough? Epiphany?)
And I’m sure you all have been […]

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I Share This with the World

Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 10th, 2007 at 9:38 am

I have, in the kitchen of my own home, concocted the most marvelous refreshment.
Having made some hot tea by the normal infusion method, on a whim I poured the tea over some cubes of frozen water, thus lowering the temperature of the tea and transforming it from a steaming hot beverage into a refreshing chilled […]

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