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To: Ish who wrote (182316)	2/22/2006 4:02:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<After a fishing trip with some Baptists, I found them to be tea-totalers at the liquor store but back at the cabin they sure polished off several bottles of my booze.> I suppose you mean teetotal rather than teatotal. A nice cup of tea is what I'm going to get after this, and I'm sure Baptists are into a good brew. I was a waiter at the Sorrento in the early 1970s, which was a ballroom/restaurant/function centre on the slopes of One Tree Hill in Auckland. There was a beer strike. Kiwis drink beer. There was a fizzy wine called Cold Duck which acted as a replacement. The Baptists [I am sure it was the Baptists but it's possible it was another religious group, but it was definitely a religious group - not Catholic, Presbyterian, Protestant, Anglican, 7th Dayers, Mormon or other that I can think of] had a ball there. By the end of the evening, I had never seen such drunken behaviour. I was quite surprised. I thought Christians were kind of goody two shoes. The women's toilets were well vomited. People were not violent or anything, but certainly "having a good time". I don't think of myself as a prude, but I guess I've become more so in recent years. dictionary.reference.com I'm comfortable with chaos and people doing their own thing. At the time, I was not shocked, but fairly disgusted. They drank the Cold Duck in the same quantity that they'd drink beer, I guess. Hence the mess and high levels of drunken women, and of course men. Mqurice

To: Ish who wrote (182316)	2/22/2006 4:24:32 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

After a fishing trip with some Baptists, I found them to be tea-totalers at the liquor store but back at the cabin they sure polished off several bottles of my booze. Reminds me of something one of my Mormon friends told me years ago... He came around one time all happy and cheerful and being a sucker, I asked him what was going on.. He told me that the Mormon Prophet had just issued a new revelation.. Of course, I asked "What did he have to say?".. "He said all mormons can now talk to one another in the liquor store...".. :0) Hawk