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Are you willing to form a coalition with Iced Tea drinkers? Your Inquisition is doomed to failure otherwise
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why would you drink tea when coffee exists
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that's fine with me 'cause out there they have coffee and not some little podunk Earl Gray who the hell even is Earl
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Earl is a landed title in British aristocracy... It's like a count.
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Like that doll on Sesame Street that teaches people how to add and subtract? What's that got to do with tea!
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Counts were lords of what is known as a Countea (aka County). These were areas set up by the various european powers specifically to administrate the collection of tea taxes. The lords had to keep "count" of all the tea in the Countea, thus they were known as counts.
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However, the old Norse word for count is "Jar" (pronounced Yar). The counts in formerly Norse territories ended up known as "Jarls", or in modern english, Earls.
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Am I getting this right Helen? You are the expert on the middle ages
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240+ years on and Brits and Yanks are still in a lather over tea-related blasphemy.
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