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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 01:41:43 GMT
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- From: Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
- Subject: Damned Americans
- Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- OK, what idiot started the perfumed perfume-ad fad? My nose has been
- blocked up all evening and I didn't realise why until I got to that
- page of the Times' colour supplement and was hit by the whole strength
- of the damn thing. I had to rush to the kitchen holding it at arms
- length to bury it at the bottom of a large black plastic trash bag.
-
- Do you think I could take them to court for assault of the senses?
-
- G
- PS I used to think perfume was totally useless but I realise now just
- how useful a social indicator it is - knowing someone is the sort of person
- who would wear perfume saves weeks of fruitless conversation. Now if
- only the religious and astrological types were that quickly identifiable...
-