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I've found it to be fantastic with breakfast cereal and good in coffee. Never tried it with tea.

I remember telling a coworker a few years ago that I liked milk in hot tea. She had never heard of anyone drinking it that way. Of course, it took me years of living in Texas before I got comfortable asking for "hot tea". To me, tea is, by default, a hot beverage. Iced tea, which enjoy (though not with milk), needs a qualifier.

On the other hand, the one time I went to England, I remember being on the plane before we landed and the flight attendants were walking down the aisles with their carts with pitchers of the hot stuff at the ready and thinking "I'm going to love this country!"

A couple of years ago I was on the subway and overheard two teenaged girls talking. One said "It's called iced tea. It tastes like tea but it's cold."

I recall seeing carbonated iced tea in the British isles years ago.

That sounds horrible.

My favorite "overheard on the subway" moment was when I lived in Boston and heard a female college student say the following:

"I don't know why my dad won't let me drive the Mercedes! I mean, I'm 19 years old! What does he think is going to happen?".

I love it when people answer their own questions.

I remember during the Boston meet-up of 05, a whole bunch of us got off the T at Harvard, heading for a Chinese restaurant. Pretty much each and every panhandler were better dressed than I was.

In a similar vein, overhearing conversations and social distinctions is just great. I love listening to half of a cellphone conversation.

The most enjoyable ones always go like this. "What do you mean you don't know that guy? He's your sister's babydaddy. Yah that guy, "

So everyone please air your family's dirty laundry by talking louder into your phone.

I am in cambridge right now ... and a punk panhandler is singing an opera outside my hotel room. and theres a huge crowd of j crew wearing peeps for an audience.

How long at you going to be in Cambridge, Power Boy?

I spent my first twelve years in Belmont, which is just to the west of Cambridge.

I was in Harvard Square today

Oh if I had just been distracted for another 3 minutes.

Actually, Quis, it would have to be another two hours and three minutes--but who's counting?

So it would have. I was just looking at the time stamp on your post and the time on my computer, not the time stamp on my post.

Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio: "Tempus Fugit" (A Bud Powell composition.)

"Tempus Fugit", of course, means "time flies".

My favorite variation on that is "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies prefer a banana."

Fruit flies are known in taxonomy as Drosophila melanogaster.

Ah for the simple days of my youth breeding the fruit flies to learn about Mendelian inheritance.

Many of my female friends prefer the term "fruit fly" to the more pejorative-sounding "hag" term.

I suspect that they would prefer to be called "Nancy" or "Maria" (provided they are named Nancy or Maria) to being called a fruit fly.

I think I just prefer "buddy." The androgyny makes it more mysterious.

Or you could call yourself "Pat".

I really hate it when someone is named Laurie and I have to write business correspondence to them.

I worked with a woman who was in her late 40s and went by "Candy".

Tamper, I don't think I've ever met a man named Laurie. Of course, there were a lot of names that were once more commonly male names that have more or less become female names: Ashley, Leslie, Robin and Shirley, for example.