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Old November 23rd, 2010 #15
Alex Linder
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Originally Posted by ray bateson View Post
"For almost all our history as a species, being infested was an inescapable fact of life, and our forebears achieved an intimacy with nature that we can scarcely imagine. European lovers of the 17th century sometimes wrote seduction poems about a girlfriend's fleas. John Donne once petulantly complained that a flea, having bitten boy and girl alike, "swells with one blood made of two / and alas this is more than we would do." A few gallant French lovers actually plucked a flea from their lady love and kept it as a pet in a tiny gold cage at the neck, where it could feed daily on their own blood. In Siberia, according to one story, an explorer was disconcerted to find that young women visiting his hut tossed lice at him; it turned out to be their way of expressing amorous intentions. Clearly, this would not be a successful dating strategy today."
funny but doesn't fit.

we're going for unintentional comedy. the above is intended to be interesting and funny, and is, but this thread is for UNINTENTIONAL comedy.