If coffee is called "a cup of joe", tea should be called "a cup of james"
If coffee is called "a cup of joe", tea should be called "a cup of james"
Don't you put my name on that disappointing hot leaf water.
17But your name is literally James Tea Bag
38Dammit, you stop that.
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At least it's not a cup of Thames. 🤮
15A cup of Rosy
5For anyone who doesn’t know that’s Cockney rhyming slang. Cup of Rosy Lee rhymes with Cup of Tea. But they often omit the last word so it becomes a Cup of Rosy.
Another one is Apples which is slang for stairs. Since the full rhyming slang is Apples and Pears.
5Also, a very common one.
"Blew a raspberry."
Raspberry tart, fart.
3Most people don’t know that “let’s get down to brass tacks” is a rhyme for “let’s get down to the facts” as well.
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Why James? It isn't short for anything like Joe is
3What is Joe short for (in the coffee sense) in your mind? I know there's a few theories, and the jamoke one seems the most plausible to me.
3It isn't that Joe is short for something coffee related, it's that it's short for Joseph, whereas James is just short for James
Afaik, like you said, joe as in coffee doesn't have a confirmed etymology. I tend to think the jamoke origin is most likely, though I've known a few Navy vets of the era claim up and down that that's the origin that's true (the Josephus Daniels alcohol ban story). I sure wouldn't disagree that that's where they ran into the term, but it isn't definitive either.
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Joe is short for Java, so a cup of ta ?
2So perhaps “A cup of Jim” for tea?
2Makes sense to me!
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Cup of Alastair
3236ml of James, to be exact.
2Cup of dick
2Cup of Ahh
2Cup of 2 girls.
Because tea is shit.
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