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- From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
- Subject: Re: Men's Cologne and Other Proof of Satan's Existence
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 02:33:05 GMT
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- In article <LARRY.92Jul21135958@peak.psl.nmsu.edu> larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes:
- >
- >There's a good short book around called Class (can't recall the author)
- >which talks about such things, in a very interesting fashion.
-
- Fussell, Paul (1983). *Class*. New York: Ballantine Books.
- ISBN 0-345-31816-1
-
- A must have for any peever. A modest excerpt:
-
- To achieve even greater ugliness, the prole will sometimes wear
- his cap back to front. This places the strap in full view
- transecting the wearer's forehead, as if pride in the one-size-
- fits-all gadget were motivating him to display the cap's
- "technology" and his own command of it. President Reagan wore
- a prole cap while in performance once atop a tractor in Peoria.
- It looked natural.
-
- Last year Fussell also came out with the book *Bad*. It's pretty good,
- particulary in the way in which peevesome and tacky things are
- arranged for easy reference, but for the most part it comes off as
- a watered-down version of *Class*.
-
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-
- >And, I had this suite-mate
- >in college, who used it as "instant shower", as he called it. He put on
- >his shirt of three days, with the armpits rotting out, and proceeded to
- >drench the armpits with Right Guard, sprayed on the outside of the shirt.
- >Instant shower. Rotten.
-
- Hmmm. I've always heard that's called a "cowboy shower."
-
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