# Note to Georgia legislators: leave the comedy to the experts **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 27, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409 "2003-03-27T00:02:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/1 "2003-03-27T00:02:11Z")
[Sweet tea law](http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/politics/0303/26tea.html) This is SUPPOSED to be funny. It isn’t. These fuckers actually filed this bill. If it were truly a joke, they wouldn’t have wasted time doing it, just suggested it. I understand trying to lighten things up in these troubled times, but this is just stupid. Get your overpaid asses back to work. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/2 "2003-03-27T00:21:13Z")
Your tax dollars at work… Unbelievable. “Let’s not worry about roads or schools or prisons or jobs or that boring stuff. Let’s pass a tea law.” If there’s any sense in the electorate, these bozos will be out of work next election. ---
**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/3 "2003-03-27T00:22:14Z")
Yep, people are fucking nuts. (It’s amazing how often that phrase is perfectly appropriate these days.) ---
**Author:** ![Priam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@Priam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Priam)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/4 "2003-03-27T00:29:34Z")
Lets throw all the tea into the harbor! It’ll be a fun day out for all the kiddies! ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/5 "2003-03-27T00:39:46Z")
Morons… ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/6 "2003-03-27T01:40:24Z")
I like **Priam’s** idea. I’m going to Savannah and slinging tea all over the port. **Mr. Blue Sky** , are you really surprised at anything that comes out of that clown school laughingly known as the Georgia General Assembly? I mean they recessed for almost a month so Sonny boy could trot around the state and tout his 58 cent tax increase on tobacco and figure out how they’re going to resolve the really burning issue of a fuckin’ flag! Nevermind budget shortfalls, dwindling tax bases, providing basic human services and all that trivial stuff. Let’s spend the session talking about sweet tea and flags. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/7 "2003-03-27T01:41:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by swampbear \* > \*\*I like **Priam’s** idea. I’m going to Savannah and slinging tea all over the port. > > **Mr. Blue Sky** , are you really surprised at anything that comes out of that clown school laughingly known as the Georgia General Assembly? I mean they recessed for almost a month so Sonny boy could trot around the state and tout his 58 cent tax increase on tobacco and figure out how they’re going to resolve the really burning issue of a fuckin’ flag! Nevermind budget shortfalls, dwindling tax bases, providing basic human services and all that trivial stuff. Let’s spend the session talking about sweet tea and flags. :rolleyes: \*\* Lemme tell ya, I’m fucking swollen with pride. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/8 "2003-03-27T04:36:15Z")
Sweet tea should be mandatory in restaurants! And Lime Rickey, too! Mmm, Lime Rickey. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/9 "2003-03-27T04:43:29Z")
And malt liquor! Can’t have lunch without a cool 40 of Colt .45! Har har. Actually, having spent about half my life in Georgia, I’m surprised they found a restaurant that doesn’t serve sweet tea down there. Poor me, out here in Memphis, where the waiters smile brightly and say, “No, just unsweet, but…” (apparently thinking I don’t know this) “…you can sweeten it yourself!” “Never mind,” I say testily, “I’ll have _water_.” ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/10 "2003-03-27T12:26:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > **If there’s any sense in the electorate, these bozos will be out of work next election.** Well, I guess we can rule that out then. Anyone for tea? ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/11 "2003-03-27T14:36:57Z")
Hey, I had this idea myself! Unsweetened tea is just nasty. I think it should be illegal for any restaurant south of the Mason-Dixon line to serve instant tea, too. It just ain’t right! ME ---
**Author:** ![Satyagrahi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@Satyagrahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satyagrahi)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/12 "2003-03-27T14:59:40Z")
Would someone please take pity on a poor, beknighted northerner and tell me what the hell you’re talking about? I drink tea. I drink a _LOT_ of tea since I despise the taste of coffee. Earl Grey, Constant Comment, occasionally some green tea. I follow the British guidelines: loose tea in a ceramic infusor, fresh, cold from the tap, boiling water poured over it and allowed to steep for a few minutes before the infusor is removed, then _ **and only then** _ is sugar and lemon or cream added. I gather that you’re talking about something other than adding a sweetener before drinking. I’ve tried chicken-fried steak (I still have nightmares) but I missed sweetened tea. Could someone please enlighten me? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/13 "2003-03-27T15:13:01Z")
**Satyagrahi** First off, iced-tea is very popular in the south. Sometimes refered to as ‘The house wine’. So we are not talking little cups of hot tea but large glasses of iced-tea. Now some restaurants would have two versions of iced tea with one of them being a pre-sweetened version. And let me tell you, it’s pretty sweet. Imagine about 6 little sugar packs dissolved in an 8 oz glass. Personally I like to sweeten my own tea as I only want about 2 or maybe three packs of sugar in my glass. Oh and if you had nightmares about CFS you probably had some sort of damn yankee version of the food of the gods. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/14 "2003-03-27T16:06:20Z")
Iced tea, **Satyagrahi**. Once tea is iced, you can’t easily dissolve sugar in it. (It simply falls to the bottom of the tea glass). Southerners don’t drink their tea in coffee cups. Tea goes in tall glasses full of ice cubes. And they don’t put milk in it. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/15 "2003-03-27T17:59:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by \*\*shelbo \*\*\* > Yep, people are fucking nuts. Again ‘idiots’ is misspelled. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/16 "2003-03-28T00:02:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Satyagrahi \* > **Would someone please take pity on a poor, beknighted northerner and tell me what the hell you’re talking about?** Imagine iced tea with enough sugar in it that you can’t taste the tea anymore. Blecch. _gags_ ---
**Author:** ![Kitfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@Kitfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitfox)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/17 "2003-03-28T00:08:56Z")
It’s true… I’d suspected it for a while, but now it is confirmed. People will bitch about anything… ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/18 "2003-03-28T01:03:17Z")
Southern sweet tea is something I might drink for dessert. Not with a meal. They do NOT drink it in Texas, to the best of my knowledge; I grew up largely in Texas and while I drank lots of iced tea, it was never presweetened. Ick. At least I got out of Georgia – now I’m in Louisiana. _thinks about what little she knows of Louisiana politics_ Uh-oh… ---
**Author:** ![callie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@callie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/callie)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/19 "2003-03-28T02:10:33Z")
Do you mean that there are actually restaurants in Georgia that **DON’T** serve sweet tea? 😃 I have to agree with **Mr. Blue Sky** though - that was an incredible waste of time and money (not to mention embarrassing). Callie - who currently resides in the second largest city in the aformentioned state and enjoys a glass sweetened ice tea with at least several meals a week. ---
**Author:** ![jawjaboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@jawjaboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jawjaboy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409/20 "2003-03-28T06:37:56Z")
whomever screwed up my reply is just like U of Tenn and U of FLA ., Nothing sucks like a BIG ORANGE! now that I have your attention, this tea issue just shows that moronical REPOOblicans have their Democratic counterparts. But we’uns out in west jawja rarely hear about such trifles 'cause our Knight RiDDA newspaper- the 12th Street Rag- misses the fun stuff. I’m sure that if he hasnt commented on it, Atlanta-based columnist Bill Shipp can find the time. Now dont make fun of our Guv’nr Sonny Boy, he cant hold a candle to bro Lester Maddox. lest we forget. unless sonny decides to ride around Grant Field (or say, inside the Phillips Arena, backwards on a unicycle before a national television audience). my recommendation is that we send the ghost of Lester to Iraq to entertain Saddam. He’d probably die laughing. Lester could always hit him with a pickrick drumstick. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-to-georgia-legislators-leave-the-comedy-to-the-experts/164409.md?page=2)