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LONDON, September 14 (Reuters Life!) - “Well I think we should all sit down and have a nice cup of tea, and some biscuits, nice ones mind you. Oh and some cake would be nice as well. Lovely.”

The British Library may have raised academic eyebrows when it decided that a Web site with this mission statement should be archived among those that may be of social significance, stamping it a modern classic of British popular culture.

www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com — “a conduit for pent-up biscuit interest in the general public” according to its author, Nicey — regularly receives more than 60,000 views a week and is one of about 800 sites chosen in the past two years by the library as of possible interest to future scholars, at www.webarchive.org.uk.

There’s only a handful of moments that I remember what I was actually doing at the moment of tragedy.  September 11 is one of them.  I JUST rolled out of bed when I was told a plane crashed into the World Trade Center.  When I sat down on the couch to watch the Today Show, I saw the second plane hit.  Thankfully, everyone that I knew in the area was safe.  Everyone has a story about September 11. We may not have known an actual victim, but as we all know, what happened on September 11 could have happened to anyone of us who sat and watched the towers fall that day.  The one paper that I am most proud of talks about the news stories people remembered. September 11 is a part of our folklore that we will pass down from generation to generation… just as we have Pearl Harbor.  September 11 to me is when we lost our innocence.  Most of all, the stories we should focus on should be one of courage, faith and perserverence.  Just remember and be thankful for every blessing that comes your way.