From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
WET occurs
5 times
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1.
... wet blanket"
-- that's what they said.
BB p.106,
To Wives
"
Joykiller,
nag,
wet blanket" -- that's what they
said.
2.
... wet blanket;
that you only want him ...
BB p.112,
To Wives
Say you do not
want to be a
wet blanket; that you only
want him to take
care of his
health.
3.
... wet brain,
perhaps within a year.
BB p.7,
Bill's Story
My
weary and
despairing
wife was
informed that it
would all
end with
heart failure during
delirium tremens, or I would
develop
a
wet brain, perhaps
within a
year.
4.
... wet-dry controversy.
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
5.
... "wet," others
"dry," still others "Republican" or ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
There would be
real danger
should we
commence to call some
groups "
wet," others "
dry," still others "
Republican" or "
Communist," and
yet others
"
Catholic" or "
Protestant."
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