With the extra 30% in your retirement account, you can buy your own crumpets.

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Somebody is paying for all those crumpets, and they figured out who: Investors themselves, in the form of fees.

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Detectives like Poirot and Miss Marple solved murders in a much more elegant fashion - often over tea and crumpets.

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What have I told you about the correct way to butter crumpets?

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Why not break for tea and crumpets between sets as well?

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More recently, another PBS hit, "Downton Abbey, " was parodied in "Upside Downton Abbey, " a video where British muppets have trouble drinking tea and eating crumpets because, well, they're upside down.

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You know, not to discuss my age, but I was little then, but it strikes me that the conversations about the Civil Rights bill probably weren't, you know, all tea and crumpets.

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And our meal at 21212 deserves every spike of its sparkler - it's a humorous and clever romp without losing sight of deliciousness: plates look like elaborate puzzles, ingredients deliver snort-making surprises like parchment made from mushrooms, or smoked salmon with fingernail-sized buttered crumpets, all in a room that looks like Shrek's pulling parlour.

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