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Greg - 2007-09-12 13:41:06
She should be sainted, if for nothing more than the miracle of Mango Body Butter...
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Janet - 2007-09-12 15:53:02
Not to be impertinent, Greg, but I think you mean Satsuma Body Butter. And there is also this beautiful product which has on numerous occasions kept me from shaving my head in despair.
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Sharon - 2007-09-12 20:01:11
"I got your REGAZO right here, pal." Paula, For some reason I've been ruminating about the word "lap" in my language freak mind after reading today's IHOP notes. (Feel free to snooze at this point while I indulge myself.) It is so unlike the other major European languages, for example, lap is "grembo" in Italian and "Schoss" in German. It reminded me of a German class I had in college. The professor was an extremely dignified oldworld woman from a noble family. One of the students was reading aloud about a historical figure who "lived in the castle" of the queen; "lebte in der Schloss". Instead he said the guy "liebte in der Schoss" of the queen; "loved in the lap" of the queen. Our professor completely cracked up and lost her composure. that's why Schoss is one of the few German words I remember...plus the swear words, of course....
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Greg - 2007-09-12 20:17:52
Oh, the Satsuma is cool too, but the Mango stuff in particular. I have particularly keen romantic pangs that occur when it wafts on the wind when I'm walking down the street. Anita's passing brought up a long discussion today about the relative comparisons between Kiehls and Body Shop.
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Greg - 2007-09-12 20:19:47
Didn't mean to hit send... but in that discussion my passion led my co-workers to label me metrosexual... which is funny, as Paula can tell you. Only in a world of mountain gorillas would I be considered metro.
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Paula - 2007-09-12 20:50:36
OK, coming clean here: Body Shop products frustrate me. The hair conditioners are too greasy, the shampoos are ok but too expensive, the makeup is runny (b/c of their natural ingredients). HOWEVER. Their fragrances are reliably wonderful, subtle, fresh, natural, and affordable. I have been wearing various combinations of Body Shop scents since the place opened in the US, and I rarely stray.

Anyone who's ever smelled me and came away smiling has Anita Roddick to thank.
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Paula - 2007-09-12 22:58:25
Sharon: great anecdote. Isn't it the usually the case that the older a word, the less it sounds like its counterpart in other languages? Or is that the older the verb, the more eccentric its verb conjugations are?

Greg is not a metrosexual. He is just a dorkwad.
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grigorss - 2007-09-13 02:21:45
Anyone who's ever smelled me and came away smiling has Anita Roddick to thank

Thanks Anita...
a job well done.
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Greg - 2007-09-13 02:52:54
Ahem.... a very BUTCH dorkwad, thank you. I just appreciate things that smell nice.
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Sharon - 2007-09-13 20:15:22
Paula-You're quite right that the more commonly used verbs tend to be more irregular. But what I was getting at is that often English words are related to the Romance languages like French, Italian, Spanish, or to the Germanic side like German, Dutch, Swedish. But "lap" is just hanging out there. For example the word "dead" is more on the G side - tot, dood, dod, not the R side - mort, morto, muerto. "debt" is more on the R side - dette, debito, deuda, not the G side - Schuld, schuld, skuld. That's all for now from the language geek corner!
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Paula - 2007-09-13 23:51:04
Ah, got ya. That is weird!
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