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[vyvyanx]

I just used the last teabag in a box of fruit tea which, I noticed as I threw it away, had a Best Before date of June 1999. Given the longevity of teabags, this probably indicates that I bought it in 1998. That particular teabag has been in my life since I was a PhD student. It has seen me get three different jobs, live in three different parts of Cambridge, go out with three different long-term partners, become a Fellow, get a doctorate, have a serious operation, get married. It has existed during nearly 2 full terms of UK government, the introduction of a minimum wage, 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, the expansion of mobile phone and internet use to most of the country's population... It has been with me through all of this - and now I have drunk it.

I feel almost guilty.

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[velvetfox.livejournal.com]

When I was at university we bought a tin of economy soup that had a dent in it, and we felt so sorry for it, we gave it a name. And a face. And a hat.

And sat it on the window sill.

And one day we came home and someone had eaten him!

[zotz]

You heartless bastard. How could you possibly do such a thing, when it's been so faithful? Almost guilty? Its last act in this world was to try to give you a brief, transitory pleasure, even at the cost of its own existence, and you can't even bring yourself to feel actually guilty about it?

I despair of humanity sometimes.

I have the second album by Doctor and the Crippens, a very silly extreme thrash band from the late eighties, which has a song on it called "Extreme Noise T" which is a version of the tetley teabag theme in the style of another mad thrash band called Extreme Noise Terror, with lyrics which are very indistinct but seem to be about the continual mass murder of teabags in our society. If you ask while you're up here I'll play you it. It'll only take about 30 seconds.

[dmh.livejournal.com]

But that's the Way of the Teabag. Better to be slurped up by vyvyan than to be left growing cold on the kitchen worktop of life. "It's better to burn out, than to fade away."

[mobbsy.livejournal.com]

A fitting eulogy to one of the great survivors of teabag kind.

[eviltwinemma.livejournal.com]

Such bags as these,
infused with history
taste of events momentous -
and the antioxidants are good for your memory.