--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
<snip>
> >   'Behold the nose that mars the harmony
> >   Of its master's phiz! blushing its treachery!'
> >   --Such, my dear sir, is what you might have said,
> >   Had you of wit or letters the least jot...
> > 
> > --Edmond Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"
> 
> Beautiful!

Old-fashioned, but fun.  I suspect the original
French is full of puns and wordplay that the
English translation doesn't even hint at.

They sure knew how to do insults in those days...






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