Heh.

[icepixie]

Is it a sign that I've been working on this paper for too long if I find, "...as time went on people began to realise that it might be a matter not only of tea-growing, but of tea growing in Assam and adjacent States!" really funny?

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[spleeny.livejournal.com]

Probably not, because I find it funny as well. But that might just be because of the words "Assam" and "adjacent," as well as the exclamation mark. Because ! = comedy.

[icepixie]

Not to mention the fact that it's a pun. (Tea-growing...tea growing... *ba bump ching*)

(And ! totally equals comedy.)

[spleeny.livejournal.com]

And we all know that I loves me some puns!

Only with better grammar than that.

[fiara.livejournal.com]

And I feel really stupid because I don't get it...*cries* Maybe in French?

[icepixie]

Grammar, schmamer. Who needs it?

[icepixie]

He's referring to the fact that the British East India Company had started transplanting seedlings of the Chinese strain of tea when the realized that there was an Assamic strain of the tea plant already growing in the area. So "it might not be a matter not only of cultivating tea on estates, but of tea growing wild in Assam." Make sense?

[spleeny.livejournal.com]

Well, Granpar would probably like to have Grammar around. :)

[icepixie]

Ow.

[spleeny.livejournal.com]

I know. And yet, I'm proud of that joke.

[icepixie]

Because you're Satan.

[spleeny.livejournal.com]

Dude. I'm not Satan. I don't have a pitchfork. Or a goatee.

[icepixie]

That's easily fixable.

[spleeny.livejournal.com]

Well, the pitchfork is. But it is impossible for me to grow a goatee, so it would have to be a fake one, and those fall off.

[icepixie]

So?

[spleeny.livejournal.com]

So I'd be a pretty silly-looking Satan with my goatee hanging off.

[icepixie]

Beauty is only skin deep. You'd still be all Satany inside.