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Tiggy’s Word Of The Day – Teetotal

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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.

 

Posted by Tiggy on Thursday, June 5th, 2008 at 7:13 pm.

6 Responses to “Tiggy’s Word Of The Day – Teetotal”

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.

Left by Seok Lee on June 5th, 2008

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!

Left by Vivienne on June 6th, 2008

LOL – sounds like a horrible night! And I don’t think it’s alcohol that stopping those women from being kissed. Just sayin’ :)

Left by DrowseyMonkey on June 6th, 2008

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…

Left by Tiggy on June 6th, 2008

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.

Left by JD at I Do Things on June 8th, 2008

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.

Left by Tiggy on June 9th, 2008

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