Kitty Florey, 66, a writer and editor from Hamden, Conn., said that her morning routine — a cup of tea, a single slice of toast and crosswords with her cats — was still suffering from the loss of the New York Sun crossword, and she wonders what the future will bring.
In February of this year, as Arsenal were cantering to a routine FA Cup win over Sutton United, the non-league side's reserve goalkeeper Wayne Shaw made the seismic error of tucking into a pastry-based snack on the touchline.
Philby had other less damaging routines: a cup of Russian tea at 7am and English tea with milk at 5pm, drunk from a fine porcelain cup.
In the early eighties, the prison reported three felonies a day, bloody incidents with spears and match bombs and blow darts and zip guns, not to mention routine "gassings" — cups of fermented urine and feces hurled in a guard's face.
"How did you know I'd do it?" The exchange between Mike and Jimmy after episode six's "bump 'n' dump" Marx Bros coffee cup routine is a good moment to unpick.
He said he had been sent to Villeneuve by Oracle's racing team designer, Manolo Ruiz de Elvira, and that such information-gathering missions were "routine" in the Cup world.
Their lovely harmony is accentuated by a hand clap cup routine, which brings back fond memories of mess hall antics at summer camp though the songs were much different.
In print, the comics are as much a part of many people's morning routines as a cup of coffee.
Then there's the old routine of borrowing a cup of sugar from the lady next door.
Thus, for many Americans, quickly identifying and moving contribution-seeking emails into trash or spam folders has become as much a part of their morning routine as a first cup of coffee.
