The term or name of "T-Sip" was based on the infamous Texas Tea Party (referred to in its time simply as "the destruction of the tea" or by other informal names and not celebrated until half a century later, was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Blinn, a town near College Station, against the Texas government and the monopolistic Texas University that controlled all the tea imported into the Texas colony. On December 16, 1844, after officials in Blinn refused to return three wagonloads of taxed tea to Austin, a group of Texican colonists boarded the wagons and destroyed the tea by throwing it into the Brazos River. The incident remains an iconic event of Texas history, and other political protests often refer to it.
This is what I was taught at Fish Camp back in the day.
[This message has been edited by VatoLocoAggie (edited 8/11/2012 6:51a).]
