Ever had your tea leaves read?

Neither have I, but the practice has been around for millennia.

Tea leaf reading, or Tasseography, has been attributed to the Chinese, who have long held a deep adoration of tea and its beneficial qualities.

Fortune tellers began to notice patterns and shapes left in their cups after drinking tea and interpreted them as prophecies and messages of the past, present and future. The practice spread and developed during the seventeenth century when Dutch merchants introduced tea to Europe. As a cheap method of fortune-telling, it only required a cup of tea, and so became increasingly popular as both a means to tell the future and a method of entertainment.

Reading the tea leaves – the residue – of CU’s 27-20 loss to Georgia Tech can be a little dangerous.