> -----Original Message----- > From: tsmith26@comcast.net [mailto:tsmith26@comcast.net] > Sent: 19 November 2003 02:03 > When is the drinking season? I would have thought in the fall > when hard cider would have been available but then Sept. was when > they were in court so there goes that idea. Could be the meaning > of unseasonable was something different then we understand now. > Tom Tom, Thurmon, & unseasonable drinkers everywhere, I figure they would have used "unseasonable" in a wider sense than "untimely". The meaning would have been stretched to encompass "inopportune" meaning inappropriate to the moment or to the occasion. They would have regarded drinking excessively always to be unsuitable to the occasion and therefore inappropriate behaviour. For "unseasonable" read: inappropriate, unsuitable, unreasonable. A modern day example would be, "He admitted having had an unseasonable relationship with that woman!". :--() Best .. Chris