Yeah, Patrick. And people pronounce it 'totaller' while if read as
spelt it sounds oddly like 'toddler'.
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2008/6/4 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>:
> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tee+totler
>
> http://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=POETICS;YRravA;19970418152725-0400
>
>
> hi dave my old totler
> cheers P
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> Subject: (protective charm) Snap
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> The art of looking sideways
>
> Buy junk, sell antiques. You Golden Meanies.
> To gaze is to think: with your left eye, totler.
>
> Bratya, recall that saying, and those Russian nights
> glozing by the campfire: he lies like an eyewitness
>
> or Andy Warhol, bean-machine, when two's a crowd
> and three's a celebrity party. The brazen imagist.
>
> Technique's a thing: I use it for my print cuttings.
> Found it! And they all lived unintelligibly thereafter.
>
>
>
> (a found and not found poem: some phrases are based on quotes from
> other sources given in 'the art of looking sideways' by alan fletcher.
> Others are not. 'totler' is a non-existent word that is cited as
> having no cited definitions)
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>
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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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