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Church and Tea Linked to Tolkien

By Dan on | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 | 6 Responses

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     I read a cool blog post by Jeremy Smith about a special site that will take two words and search Wikipedia to find out how many entries appear between them. For example, if you want to know how many entries are between future and hope, this site will tell you that there is one. In the entry for future, you will find a link for optimism. In the entry for optimism, you will find a link for hope. Thus, there is one entry between them.

So, I entered church and tea (the name of this site) and here’s what it said:

Church -> Born Again Christian -> J.R.R. Tolkien -> Tea

     This means that church has an entry for Born again Christian, and Born again Christian has a link to the entry for J.R.R. Tolkien, and Tolkien has an entry for Tea.  The shortest route between Church and Tea goes through Tolkien. If you know me at all, you would know that this is very cool information, because I am a Tolkien fan. Apparently, Tolkien was part of a group that often met for tea and poetry. The group was called the “Tea Club and Barrovian Society.” I did not know that he loved tea as much as I do (although, he liked his hot, and I like mine iced)!

Try it out, and let me know if you find any interesting paths!

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Dan

Welcome to Church and tea! My name is Dan. I’ve been married to Cindy for 8 years. We have two boys, 6 and 2 years old. I am currently serving a church as a student pastor and in my third (and final!) year of seminary at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.

I am a United Methodist Pastor and I love sweet tea. The two go together because I often find myself trying to solve the world’s problems over a glass of sweet tea. This will be a place where I can write some of these thoughts down.

6 responses to “Church and Tea Linked to Tolkien”

  1. UMJeremy
    UMJeremy
    Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 7:02 am | | Reply

    Great site, Dan! Glad that the hidden inkling that “yes, LotR IS the connective glue in my life” proved true for you. ;-)

    Some of my interests are marketing and hospitality, so I found your church hospitality suggestions to be very relevant. Have you seen the Starbucks Church video? The creator has a blog dedicated to several hospitality aspects here.

    1. Dan
      Dan
      Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 10:28 am | | Reply

      Thanks for stopping by, Jeremy. We do seem to have many similar interests. I’ve added your blog to my reader. I’ll be sure to check out the Star Bucks link when I get a few more free minutes.

  2. Cindy
    Cindy
    Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 9:46 am | | Reply

    6Degrees of Kevin Bacon Wikipedia style, huh?

    Yours is cooler than mine.

    Simply Cindy

    AOI: Bionix> December 4> 1969> Hurricane Camille> List of historic tropical cyclone names> Cindy

    5 clicks needed

  3. Dan
    Dan
    Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 10:18 am | | Reply

    Wow. Yours goes through a hurricane? And not just any hurricane, but hurricane Camille. That’s a biggie.

  4. Vicki
    Vicki
    Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 3:51 pm | | Reply

    That’s cool! I got (using ‘words’ and ‘cats’):

    word > language > onomatopoeia > cat
    3 clicks needed

  5. Dan
    Dan
    Wednesday, December 24, 2008 at 2:46 pm | | Reply

    @Vicki: That makes sense. Meow.

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