You should have seen the buttons he chose, big brass things that must have
covered about half the cuff. I imagine paort of the deterrence effect was
having the buttons stick to the person's nose - sort of the same effect you
get when sticking your tongue on some frozen metal.
larry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Ashworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 11:23 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: I almost forgot to mention, "yay me!!"
>
>
> OK .. I fail to see how a button on a cuff could prevent
> such. I mean .. I
> wipe my nose quite often with .... um .. never mind. What a
> smart man that
> Frederick was!!
>
> Todd
> -----
> Spitting is such a disgusting habit!
> I know of a worse one.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 3:58 PM
> Subject: RE: I almost forgot to mention, "yay me!!"
>
>
> > Todd,
> >
> > Wait 'till you hear the one about the buttons on cuffs.
> They were intended
> > to help stop the boorish sots, i.e., the typical Prussian
> soldier, from
> > using their sleves to wipe their noses. Frederick the Great
> had a thing
> > about snot, or so it would seem.
> >
> > larry
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Todd Ashworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 2:25 PM
> > > To: CF-Community
> > > Subject: Re: I almost forgot to mention, "yay me!!"
> > >
> > >
> > > Oh great .. so it's a snot rag. Lovely.
> > >
> > > Todd
>
>
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