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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (36310)	7/19/2004 2:21:28 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

I know you're a teetotaler. And I know you're as sane as they come. And since I read all your posts, I know you never called the Bush twins "sluts." There's a monarch on the butterfly bush outside my window. Very nice.

To: E who wrote (36310)	7/19/2004 3:40:56 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Wow. Sometimes I use the phrase 'I'm a tea toter.' Some times I use the phrase 'I'm a tea totaler'. You said Teetotaler so I decided to look it up. There are lots of on-line sites for tea totalers who are all into drinking tea. There are a few tee totaler sites for golfers. and... I found one reference to Teetotal. Looks like you are using the term correctly. So the Tee emphasises the T in Totally... interesting. Teetotal The tee stands for the letter T, not tea, and is repeated for emphasis. A teetotaler is emphatic about not drinking. It was first used in the sense of abstaining from alcohol at an 1833 temperance rally in England by a working man named Richard Turner. There is evidence that that the adverb tee-totally was in use in Ireland and the US before this (probably of Irish origin), but in a general sense--not specifically related to temperance. wordorigins.org