Tiggy’s Word Of The Day – Teetotal
Great Aunt Tiggylina Butternut-Mynge and her Temperance Society chums eagerly await World War I.
7. Teetotal
The superhuman ability to abstain from all alcoholic beverages.
I tried being teetotal once. I went to a bar and drank only tomato juice. I drank so much I spent the rest of the night vomiting bright red fountains of spaghetti sauce. Even worse, I was sober enough to remember it.
Kids, just say NO to vegetable-based liquid refreshments.
Sorry to hear of what happened to you, but
it never happened to me that way. I’ve never had any allergy against any vegetable liquids.
Ha! I love that sign. In fact, I can think of a few words to switch out with “alcohol”. Tee heee.
Thanks for joining my “ends” discussion at BC!
LOL – sounds like a horrible night! And I don’t think it’s alcohol that stopping those women from being kissed. Just sayin’ 🙂
And now you see why so many red-blooded Englishmen left Blighty to built the Empire (in very far-off lands).
So that’s chocolate cake and tomato juice off my shopping list…
Tomato juice is nasty, and “teetotal” is a hilarious word. How did they come up with that? It has nothing to do with abstincence. Tee? Total? “Undrinker” makes more sense.
Just for you JD, I looked up the word on that source of reiable information Wikipedia…
“…attributes the word to Dicky Turner, a member of the society, who had a stammer, and in a speech said that nothing would do but “tee-tee-total abstinence”.
Maybe Dicky was just du-du-drunk.