ANST - Roman hygiene

[rio at austin.rr.com]

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:32:06 -0500, you wrote:

>Bonjour from Madelina de Lindesaye!
>
>For those interested in Roman culture, the Latin listserv
>(latin at mlists.net)  has served up some interesting posts of late.
>Being discussed are matters of hygiene, including toothpaste and the
>laundering of clothes.  I will gladly forward copies to anyone who
>desires such, but prefer not to repost the originals to the ANST
>list, as some of the practices were, well, ...disgusting.

None of these would have anything to do with the origins of the phrase
"the wrong end of the stick", would they?

Margery
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"We're the government, of course we have files."
Millenium
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