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<div>At 12:47 PM -0400 4/16/01, Mark_Mandel@dragonsys.com wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Laurence Horn
<laurence.horn@YALE.EDU> writes:<br>
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>>>>><br>
> In any event:<br>
> Dropping hairpins--letting tender nuances into
conversation to<br>
>see if someone is simpatico.<br>
> "He won't come to tea
again"--self-explanatory.<br>
<br>
I wonder if this wouldn't have been a reference to the T of
T-rooms,<br>
or at least a pun on that, rather than just a reference to the<br>
literal taking of tea. Maybe that's an anachronistic take on
it, and<br>
I don't have my Bruce Rodgers on me, but I suspect "T-room"
was<br>
already extant in '67, at least in New York.<br>
<<<<<<br>
<br>
I suspect I know what "T-room" means, but I'd rather not
leave it at that. Definition, please?<br>
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<div>T (for toilet) room, also tearoom, or teahouse: 'public
toilet'</div>
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<div>Whence e.g. "tearoom trade" (Bruce Rodgers,<i> Gay
Talk</i> (1972)) = 'men who dig [note the pub. date] getting blown in
public lavatories', "tearoom queen", etc.</div>
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<div>larry</div>
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