Bob Shell wrote:
On Dec 9, 2005, at 10:40 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
That's why the French invented the perfume industry, everyone and
everything smelled bad in that era...
" In Marseilles they make half the fancy toilet soap we consume in
America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of
its use, which they have obtained from books of travel, just as they
have acquired an uncertain notion of clean shirts, and the
peculiarities of the gorilla, and other curious matters." -- Mark Twain
Bob
Twain had a notorious hatred of the French, (but a marvelous poison pen).
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