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Over the years we've answered a lot of your questions about words and phrases that have to do with going to the bathroom.

We've talked about euphemisms like I have to go see a man about a horse or that Victorian

era locution I am going to pluck a rose or my favorite I'm going to visit Miss White. We've also talked about the origin of

the word biffy a word for outdoor facilities and we've discussed how the word John came to be a

synonym for that bathroom destination.

Recently though we received an email that's left me puzzled. It's from Marge in Chula Vista, California.

Marge writes, my brother and I have been reminiscing about our childhood spent in an old house in New Hampshire during World War II.

My mother always called toilet paper Tilly tickets.

Now that's capital T I L L L Y and capital T I K E T S T I T I C E T S Tilly tickets.

She continues, we don't have a clue where that expression came from.

Our memory was that when we were out of Tilly tickets, we used the old scratchy patterns, the kind used for sewing.

Ew. Well, her question made me squirm and not just at the thought of using an old Macals pattern back

there.

I have to admit that I'm stumped, tilly tickets.

So we're hoping you can help.

Have you ever heard toilet paper called Tilly tickets and if so did

you ever hear a story to explain that name if you have let us know the address is

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