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The Koala Tea of Mersey is not Strained is a play on Portia's speech in the Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare): "The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven". The Porsche reference was a play on "Portia". All very confusing! 
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All very confusing! But very erudite. Hats off to you, sirs!
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I assume, TEd, that the operators of the Mersey Tea Rooms were anarcho-syndicalists. This would explain why they served tea made from Koala Bear, rather than from the leaves of the teaplant. They would, of course, be following the dictum of P-J Proudhon, who declared, "All proper tea is theft."
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"all proper tea is theft" P. J. Proudhon. I had to look him up.
roudhon, Pierre Joseph (1809-65), French writer and political theorist, sometimes referred to as the father of modern anarchism.
Proudhon was born in Besançon on January 15, 1809. Belonging to a poor family, he received scholarships that enabled him to study and to write. In his pamphlet What Is Property? (1840; trans. 1876), Proudhon condemned the abuses of concentrated economic power and private property. His radical theories made him popular as an anarchist thinker, and he was elected to the constituent assembly after the Revolution of 1848. In the assembly, his proposal to levy antiproperty tax on rent and interest was defeated. He also attempted to found a people's bank at which credit would be provided to borrowers without interest.
"Proudhon, Pierre Joseph," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Thank you, Dr. Bill. 'Tween Rhuby's Proudhomme fellow and tsuwm's Blanshard, my education be increasin'--can't recall ever learning about these 2 gen'lmen. Thank you, you-all--I'm a-gettin' me some enjoys out o' that.
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Dear Jackie: your turn to enlighten me. I could not find anything relevant about "Blanshard".
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Reminds me the story of poor Toulouse-Lautrec, who at one time was so penurious that he traded one of his paintings for a pair of used Levi 501s. Some time later the house where he was staying was consumed in flames, and Lautrec fell and was knocked unconscious while fleeing the conflagration. When he came to he asked if the firemen had been able to save his palette and brushes. "Alas," replied his friend, "You have nothing, Toulouse, but your jeans."
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It is a little known fact that that gentleman took up painting only after he was forced to leave, in disgrace, his earlier career as a construction engineer for the french national railroad. His work seemed satisfactory initially, but after several years began to badly degrade. Upon inspection, the engineers discovered that his crews had had driven only 1/3 of the normal number of stakes-per-mile to secure his rail-lines to the underlayment, so that the improperly secured rails shifted and spread after trains had pounded over them for a few years. The repairs were costly -- and an audit reveled that this thief had requisitioned funds for the full complement of stakes (though using only 1/3 to that number), and had simply pocketed the extra money.
He resigned in scandal and disgrace -- and to escape the notoriety of his name, adopted a new name for himself. But his family and close friends, of course, knew that he was the engineer who had made Too Loose Le Track.
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Well, I can't, really, Dr. Bill. I do know he was a 20th-century philosopher. tsuwm can explain more fully, I'm sure. By the way, either everyone got my play on words, or was too polite to point out my "mistake" in mixing Proudhon with Paul Prudhomme. Homme = fellow, don'tcha know?
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