MISTER MYSTERY RESPONDS

It depends on what kind of tea and what kind of future we are talking about. Green tea is reliable as long as the cup is not too inclined when drinking it. On the other hand, I strongly advise against red tea, since its predictions are always disastrous and involve bloodshed. As for the future, if we talk about the immediate future (no more than two minutes) tea-leaf reading is reliable. Even so, the best tea-leaf readers can make mistakes. https://blog.feedspot.com/funny_blogs/

Weird things. Once I pretended to unmask a famous clairvoyant. I went to his office and, after scrutinizing his crystal ball, he informed me that he saw a camel reading "The Capital" by Karl Marx. I could not help but laugh and told him to look better, that it would probably be a hunchback. But he insisted that the hump was that of a camel. Then I resumed the laughter and exclaimed that it would be a communist camel. The man was very indignant and threw me out of his office. He thought I was making fun of him, which was absolutely true. I and my colleagues at Brookhaven National Laboratory spent a whole day cracking up at the expense of the clairvoyant's vision. That reaffirmed me in my conviction that clairvoyance was a pure hoax. But the next Sunday I went to work overtime, and at the gates of my lab I found a camel with his head down, apparently reading an open book lying on the floor. You will understand my perplexity. I picked up the book with trembling hands and ...