A teabag is currently entering its second month of lying in state on a little plate by the kettle in the kitchen.
Barbara Dickinson of Rochdale placed the teabag on the little plate by the kettle in early July 2018 rather than putting it directly into the bin.
She said: “I placed the teabag on the dish as a mark of respect. It’s a part of teabag culture that they should lie in state like a little Viking on a tiny weenie longboat for an appropriate period of time otherwise they can’t enter the afterlife.”
“You can’t rush these things. We’ll put the teabag in the bin after we’ve had a proper chance to mourn it and pay our respects to it.”
“You can still go and see Lenin’s body in a glass coffin on Red Square and he’s been dead for almost 100 years. We’re toying with the idea of doing something similar with this teabag.”
“Either that or we’ll float it out to sea and shoot at it with flaming arrows.”
