Even as a Michigan alum, I have to admit Script Ohio by the Ohio State Marching Band is one of the best marching band formations ever.
Go ahead … make my marinara.
We’re mostly coffee drinkers, but I do make the occasional pot of tea, particularly to make iced tea. This is new to me. To confess my sins, I usually just rinse out our (glazed) teapots, but that’s more laziness and a desire not to risk that slight aftertaste of dish soap that didn’t get completely rinsed out. So maybe I’m doing the right thing by accident, (which is better than doing the wrong thing intentionally).
Any advice from tea drinkers out there?
Ceramic teapots are never dishwasher safe, and are indeed prone to retaining soap residue, which is precisely why rinsing out a “seasoned” teapot is not entirely irrational, as long as you aren’t switching back and forth between different kinds of “flavored” teas. Another disadvantage is that ceramic teapots are often so massive that they should be preheated (with hot water) before use, otherwise the tea water will be significantly cooled from the intended brewing temperature. All of our teapots are glass, which have much less heat capacity, are easy to clean (in the dishwasher), and thus do not collect any of that ugly residue.
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As the marching band spells out the name of their state in cursive, should this get a geezer tag?
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I have two cups of tea per day, one in the afternoon, the other late evening. I don’t use a pot. I have a stoneware cup/mug. I fill it about 1/4 with water, and a large measuring cup with a bit over a cup of water in it. Both go into the microwave (the horror) for a few minutes. The tea cup comes out then and sits with hot water in it while the remaining comes to a boil. The cup is emptied out then and a bag added, along with the water from the measuring cup. The cup has acquired a “patina” as I never scrub it. It gets a bit of rinsing from the warming water.
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I believe that Script Ohio was copied from the Marching Longhorns’ Script Texas. I don’t have origin dates for either, but when I was in the Marching Longhorns, I never heard of the Ohio version.
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According to Google, the Ohio State Marching Band debuted the script Ohio on October 10, 1936.
Also according to Google, the Marching Longhorns debuted the script Texas in 1957.
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Exclamation mark or exclamation point? I was taught the latter (and autocomplete likes it too).
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