Nice and Interesting ...Pretty good. - Tea and Coffee

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Stephen Vandecasteele <vand195550 at ...> 
wrote:
 
> --- On Fri, 1/9/09, P. Alexis Nguyen <alexisnguyen at ...> wrote:
> 
> > From: P. Alexis Nguyen <alexisnguyen at ...>
> > Subject: Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Nice and Interesting ...Pretty good. - Tea and 
Coffee
> > To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 6:49 PM

Geoff:
 
> > > Silly question but why call it a water kettle?
> > That's what kettles are for  surely. And electric 
> > kettles have to be considereds ince there are so
> > many of them.
 
Ali:
 
> > I'm not really sure.  I've only ever heard water
> > kettle.  I personally just say that I'm boiling water, 
> > making tea, putting on some water (which is rarely 
> > accurate since I technically "plug in," not put on
> > anything), etc.  I can't really recall the last time I
> > used the term kettle when not in reference to popcorn.
 
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> Steve:
> 
> Steve says this topic is becoming redundent.

Geoff:
Just in passing, the standard UK comment will be along the lines 
of "I'll go and put the kettle on". There is even an old nursery rhyme 
which begins "Polly put the kettle on..."

Talking about things becoming redundant, Steve, your computer 
seems to persist in putting in umpteen unwanted "> >". I sent a 
lot of them off for an extra half day off when I wrote this reply. 
Perhaps a quiet word in the ear of your CPU?
:-)