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To: longshadow; antiRepublicrat
ABSTAINER, n., A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


252 posted on 01/19/2006 1:15:51 PM PST by Senator Bedfellow
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To: Senator Bedfellow
ABSTAINER, n., A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Priceless.

262 posted on 01/19/2006 1:23:49 PM PST by longshadow (FReeper #405, entering his ninth year of ignoring nitwits, nutcases, and recycled newbies)
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