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minus-square psud ( @psud@aussie.zone ) linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-22 months agoA teetotaler is someone who abstains from alcohol Tea totaller would make a reasonable pun in a thing about the Boston tea party, but sounds like a mondegreen in other contexts In Boston tea party contexts the Bostonians would be the tea totallers presuming you accept “to total” as meaning “to destroy”
A teetotaler is someone who abstains from alcohol
Tea totaller would make a reasonable pun in a thing about the Boston tea party, but sounds like a mondegreen in other contexts
In Boston tea party contexts the Bostonians would be the tea totallers presuming you accept “to total” as meaning “to destroy”
oh the irony