The Nauga is actually native to the Naugatuck river valley in Connecticut, found mostly near Naugatuck, where they were hunted to extinction for the manufacture of cheap luggage and furniture.
-----Original Message----- >From: William Robb <[email protected]> >Sent: Jan 15, 2009 12:37 PM >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: OT - No More Plane > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "frank theriault" >Subject: OT - No More Plane > > >> The other big celebrity death of the day, Mr. Roarke: >> >> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090114.wmontalban0114/BNStory/Entertainment/home >> >> I've read a few other obits and bios. None of them mention my most >> enduring memory of the man, shilling Chrysler Cordobas with seats of >> "Corinthian Leather". > >Well, the CBC just played the soundtrack to the Cordoba commercial and made >honorable mention of Khan. >Thankfully, they failed to mention Fantasy Island. > >> >> I was crushed when, years later, I discovered that there's no such >> thing as Corinthian Leather, that it was a plastic fake. My world has >> never been the same since... > >Corinthian Leather is not fake. It is taken from the hides of Naugas, which >are an animal related to the Gnu. >They are native to the Peloponnese area of Greece. Corinth is the nearest >center of habitation, and is where the hides of the Nauga were cured and >prepared for shipment. > >Now you know. > >William Robb > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow >the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
