NZLWN Quiz

[gabba]

That's really interesting. Thanks for that! Looks a bit like an icky mess, but definitely cloud like.

 The description storm glass made me think if a storm in a teacup, and that lead to tonight's question...

What is the origin of the term "storm in a teacup"?

[gabba]

And the answer to last nights question

For a normal rainbow, violet is on the inside curve of the rainbow, s from inside to outside it is violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, or vibgyor

I'm told that for a double rainbow the colours are reversed on the inside rainbow, so the pattern will bee from inside to out

Roygbivvibgyor

[Babs]

Storm in a teacup is something or some event that has been exaggerated

[gabba]

Yes, but where was the expression derived from?

[Babs]

I dunno its just a fuss about nothing, probably two old ladies years ago were having a cuppa and one got her knickers in a twist over some trivial bit of their conversation, and the other old dear said ' Maud you are like that sailor who came to see you years ago and you said, after he had gone, that he was a bit like a storm in a teapot!'

[gabba]

....sort of.....

[Babs]

Or kind of..........

[beteljuice]

It's the apparent magnitude of the 'ripple' when the tea cup (which used to be more like a deep dish) is disturbed.
Looking into the cup the waves seem large and significant, but taking a visual step back it's much ado about nothing.

[Babs]

It came from the days of round boating racing and one of the boats was called Teacup and was racing one called Teabag when they both got caught in a huge storm. A huge whirlpool developed and the Teacup got caught in it and the sailors on the Teabag were unable to save them and warned future sailors not to end up like the Teacup who got caught in a storm hence the name of the race that was dedicated to the lost boat and crew, the Storm in a Teacup trophy!

[gabba]

Lol loving the creative answers, but unfortunately not right. I'll post the answer up tonight

[Babs]

There were these two guys who frequented their local hostelry called, you guessed it, The Windy Saucepan, ( fooled weren't you!). One dark and stormy night and to get out of doing the dishes, they set off to their local for a well earned beer or three, they were walking as it wasn't far away.

When they arrived there was a huge kerfuffle going on as the brewery owners were trying to change their local tipple plus the name of the pub itself. Buxom Bess the barmaid calmed things down by suggesting to the brewery representative that they hold a competition for the name change, this was agreed to and the customers were given three weeks to come up with a suitable name.

Our two lads were all for this and ended up imbibing far more than they should have that night and arrived home to their respective partners to have tea cups flying passed their ears.

Three weeks passed and everyone gathered in the pub the hear the results of the competition. Much to their surprise but not to ours, the two lads won with their entry called The Storm in a Teacup which came about from the stormy greeting they had both got on arriving home previously plus the teacups that were thrown at them!

[gabba]

....close but not quite

Tempest in a teapot
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Storm in a Teacup (disambiguation).


Carl Guttenberg's 1778 Tea-Tax Tempest, with exploding teapot
Tempest in a teapot (American English), or storm in a teacup (British English), is an idiom meaning a small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion. There are also lesser known or earlier variants, such as tempest in a teacup, storm in a cream bowl, tempest in a glass of water, storm in a wash-hand basin,[1] and storm in a glass of water.


Etymology
Cicero, in the first century BC, in his De Legibus, used a similar phrase in Latin, possibly the precursor to the modern expressions, "Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo ut dicitur Gratidius", translated: "For Gratidius raised a tempest in a ladle, as the saying is".[2] Then in the early 3rd century AD, Athenaeus, in the Deipnosophistae, has Dorion ridiculing the description of a tempest in the Nautilus of Timotheus by saying that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan.[3] The phrase also appeared in its French form "une tempete dans une verre d'eau" (a tempest in a glass of water), to refer to the popular uprising in the Republic of Geneva near the end of the 17th century.[4]

One of the earliest occurrences in print of the modern version is in 1815, where Britain's Lord Chancellor Thurlow, sometime during his tenure of 1783–1792, is quoted as referring to a popular uprising on the Isle of Man as a "tempest in a teapot".[5] Also Lord North, Prime Minister of Great Britain, is credited for popularizing this phrase as characterizing the outbreak of American colonists against the tax on tea.[6] This sentiment was then satirized in Carl Guttenberg's 1778 engraving of the Tea-Tax Tempest (shown above right), where Father Time flashes a magic lantern picture of an exploding teapot to America on the left and Britannia on the right, with British and American forces advancing towards the teapot. Just a little later, in 1825, in the Scottish journal Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, a critical review of poets Hogg and Campbell also included the phrase "tempest in a teapot".[7]

The first recorded instance of the British English version, "storm in teacup", occurs in Catherine Sinclair's Modern Accomplishments in 1838.[8][9] There are several instances though of earlier British use of the similar phrase "storm in a wash-hand basin".[10]
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[Babs]

Bit like Flash in a pan or Much ado about nothing!

That answer was so boring my last explanation was much better lol

[gabba]

Ahem, agree with that!

Tonights question., something to ponder over while you relax over the weekend.

What process occurs to make bubbles in beer?

[Babs]

Fermentation otherwise known as Great Uncle Phil's bubble machine

[gabba]

Sorry, no. Remember this is a quizz about weather related topics ( loosely!). I don't imagine fermentation occurs in the atmosphere, but the answer to this question does

[Babs]

Atmospheric gases like carbon dioxide

[gabba]

nope - this is a natural process that also occurs in a glass of beer, to form the bubbles. I am worried if Great Uncle phils bubble machine is the natural process involved

[intrepid]

Bubbles appear in beer because someone oopens the bottle/can and the sudden drop in air pressure is what causes the bubbles to get large enough to appear, at which point they then rise to the top of the beer.

[Babs]

Yeah what he said! I don't have a technical/mechanical/weather related brain like you guys do so sometimes could we have an easy question or two pleaseeeeeeee