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From: Hugh Browton on 23 Aug 2006 04:28 On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:59:05 +0100, Peter Ceresole wrote (in article <1hkilyn.1lf0dm41jfxx2lN%peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk>): > Hugh Browton <useneth@**.not.uk> wrote: > >> Being a non-alchohol-drinker >> (hmmm, must look up the etymology of "teetotaller") requires a tolerance to >> sugar (I try not to drink aspartame either > > As a matter of interest, why not? > I try to keep down the consumption of unnaturals. 'swhy I eat butter and not margerine, sugar not aspartame, steak not nut-loaf!, etc. -- regards hugh hugh at clarity point uk point co (by the sea) (using Hogwasher) You never can truly tell when you have run out of invisible ink.
From: Peter Ceresole on 23 Aug 2006 04:56 Hugh Browton <useneth@**.not.uk> wrote: > I try to keep down the consumption of unnaturals. 'swhy I eat butter and not > margerine, sugar not aspartame, steak not nut-loaf!, etc. Ah, right. Sugar, however- unless you are desperately short of energy, and/or have the inability to metabolise ketones that I mentioned- is *much* worse for you than aspartame. 'Natural' certainly doesn't equal 'good'. -- Peter
From: zoara on 23 Aug 2006 08:17 On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:46:10 +0100, Hugh Browton wrote: > (hmmm, must look up the etymology of "teetotaller") Intrigued, I did it for you. It comes from "T-total", ie total abstinence from drink. Emphasis is placed on the word by repeating the intial letter (like "total, total abstinence"). -z- -- CAPSLOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL.
From: zoara on 23 Aug 2006 11:47 On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:44:56 +0100, Ben Shimmin wrote: > zoara <me3(a)privacy.net>: >> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:46:10 +0100, Hugh Browton wrote: >>> (hmmm, must look up the etymology of "teetotaller") >> >> Intrigued, I did it for you. It comes from "T-total", ie total abstinence >> from drink. Emphasis is placed on the word by repeating the intial letter >> (like "total, total abstinence"). > > _Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable_ has the following, which > may be of passing interest: It was, thanks. -z- -- CAPSLOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL.
From: Hugh Browton on 23 Aug 2006 14:10
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:44:56 +0100, Ben Shimmin wrote (in article <slrn.2006-08-23.14-37-17(a)candide.bas.me.uk>): > zoara <me3(a)privacy.net>: >> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:46:10 +0100, Hugh Browton wrote: >>> (hmmm, must look up the etymology of "teetotaller") >> >> Intrigued, I did it for you. It comes from "T-total", ie total abstinence >> from drink. Emphasis is placed on the word by repeating the intial letter >> (like "total, total abstinence"). > > _Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable_ has the following, which > may be of passing interest: > Thanks, both! I knew none of that! -- regards hugh hugh at clarity point uk point co (by the sea) (using Hogwasher) You never can truly tell when you have run out of invisible ink. |