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(I helped save b3ta! printmeister http://tinyurl.com/c8s8fd5 for titanic T's, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 16:08, archived)
# *puts kettle on*
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Scunner She’s a he, technically, but she’s scalding hot, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 16:09, archived)
# Woo! And yay!
Although, shouldn't it be "tea and tiffin?" I thought tiffin was something you ate, not a word for tea time.
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 16:12, archived)
[challenge entry] I think you may well be right.... I'll also just drop this here!
(I helped save b3ta! printmeister http://tinyurl.com/c8s8fd5 for titanic T's, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 16:26, archived)
# Aw, aren't they lovely!
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 16:37, archived)
# Wikipedia says: you are wrong
I have never even heard of Tiffin, TIFFIN? Since when?
(RottenDotCotton Captain of the Dutch Rudder, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 16:31, archived)
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(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 16:45, archived)
# It's a Hindi word I believe
or one of the fifty million other Indian dialects. It's used in England to refer to a kind of chocolatey-biscuity-cakey thing (and it's absolutely smashing) but in Mumbai/Bombay/whatever they're calling it these days restaurants do 'tiffin boxes', which are metal tins with curry and rice that are delivered to workplaces at lunch time. Sort of the Indian equivalent of the sandwich run. I think the word literally just means 'lunch' or something similar.


EDIT: Oh it's actually an English word after all. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffin
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 17:43, archived)