Their gift registry, with Thomas Goode of Mayfair, included matching $ 16, 000 water and milk pitchers, a $ 14, 000 silver teapot, a $ 10, 000 sugar sifter, a $ 5, 000 hallmarked tea strainer and a 26-piece fine bone china coffee and tea service for $ 22, 000.
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A spoof of " Brief Encounter " in which a problem in a nasal passage leads to romance, is a high point, as is the rendition of a signature Bloolips song, " Why Must the Frock Go On ?, " which features Bette in a batwing-sleeved dress fringed with tea strainers.
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Some deeper tea strainers can also be used to brew single cups of tea, much as teabags or brewing baskets are used-the strainer full of leaves is set in a cup to brew the tea, and then removed, along with the spent tea leaves, when the tea is ready to drink.
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The site also sells oolong tea sets from China, including an eight-ounce teapot, two cups, a nine-ounce glass pitcher, a bamboo scoop for leaves and a tea strainer ( $ 58, or $ 93 with optional thermos ), and green tea sets from Japan ( $ 65, or $ 98 with thermos ).
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Positioned in enemy waters and lacking standard medical equipment, Lipes performed a successful appendectomy using kitchen instruments such as spoons and tea strainers . " Doc " Lipes, as he was called, had no formal surgical training and just three years of medical experience as a hospital lab technician at the time of the surgery.
