Sentence to think about :   S'accepter vieux et moche, c'est du renoncement ; se voir fringant et désirable alors qu'on est vieux et moche, c'est de l'absence de discernement. Que faire, donc, quand on est vieux et moche ?   Soulignac
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The fanciful namings

We have just discovered a new anaesthetic superior to the cocaine and less dangerous than it: it names the "stovaïne".

Now it get its name from English stove, furnace, because a mister Fourneau discovered it.

Another mister Fourneau, entertainer, translated his name into Latin: fornax and returned it to Russian "Xanrof". What a beautiful matter that to know several languages! We put them all in contribution! So the fuchsine was invented by a mister Renard, in German fuchs.

No more sly than that!

Anonymous text published in Nos Loisirs [Our Leisure activities],
4th year, #21, in May 23rd, 1909.


Creation date : 03/08/2006 @ 15:38
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