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Tea: according to Julie Andrews, it is a drink with jam and bread, but I have always thought that bread, especially spread with jam would become too soggy if dunked
chaotic: a person afflicted with the annoying habit of punctuating their conversations with Cuban dance steps and the exclamation "cha cha cha!" See also: St. Vitus' Dance; Tangent.
<Just now getting the joke behind the title "Poor Richard's Alamanac.">
Plantation: athletic contest loosely modeled on Amish "barn raising": plant seed by hand over an entire field in one hour. Originally a way of helping an ailing neighbor, it evolved into a rigorous test of stamina. Tragically, not yet an Olympic event.