saucering tea

[George Thompson]

> On 9 Mar 2011, at 6:00 PM, George Thompson wrote:
>
>> I'm sure that this topic was batted about here recently, but the ADS-
>> L archives do not seem to cover very recent material, so I can't
>> confirm my memory.

Discussed in 2008??!!

Confirms Thompson's Law, that things always happened much longer ago than I think, but still, 2008?

I had searchd the archive for "saucer", but did not notice this, either becaue I was fixated on a recent discussion, or because the 2008 discussion contained "saucered" and "saucering", but not "saucer".

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.  Working on a new edition, though.

----- Original Message -----
From: Garson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM>
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011 0:53 am
Subject: Re: saucering tea
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

> In 2008 Ben Zimmer initiated a thread on the ADS list by posting about
> pouring coffee into a saucer to cool it. His note pointed to an
> article in the New York Times "After the Imperial Presidency" dated
> November 7, 2008. Here is an excerpt:
>
> "Why did you pour that coffee into your saucer?" Washington reportedly
> replied.
> "To cool it," Jefferson answered.
> "Even so," Washington said, "we pour our legislation into the
> senatorial saucer to cool it."
>
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ADS-L;7NSNhw;200811092313420500B
> Short version:
> http://goo.gl/u5k5z
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/magazine/09power-t.html
> Short version:
> http://goo.gl/7xC0q
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Barbara Need <bhneed at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Poster:       Barbara Need <bhneed at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject:      Re: saucering tea
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> >
> > There does not seem to be a discussion of this, at least not by
> > searching for saucer tea--There is a reference in May 2010 (Wilson):
> >
> > though *we* always used "deaf" in our household, *many* very close
> > relatives and family friends used "deef," a phenomenon almost as
> > startling as seeing these same people drinking coffee and tea from the
> > saucer after pouring it from the cup.
> >
> > And another in July 2010 (also Wilson) about his reaction to hearing
> > someone younger than he using _for to_:
> >
> > the way that seeing East-TX country cousins pour coffee from the cup
> > into the saucer and then drink it from there caught my eye.
> >
> > Barbara
> >
> > Barbara Need
> > Ithaca
> >
> > On 9 Mar 2011, at 6:00 PM, George Thompson wrote:
> >
> >> I'm sure that this topic was batted about here recently, but the ADS-
> >> L archives do not seem to cover very recent material, so I can't
> >> confirm my memory.
> >>
> >> In any event, the practice is alluded to in "Etiquette BLues", by
> >> The Happiness Boys, receorded in the mid or late 1920s,
> >
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