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To: Crocodile who wrote (51381)	5/28/2000 11:27:00 AM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Just wondering. You ever see any floating islands on your canoe trips? Chunks of bog broken off and just floating along? Some with trees and solid enough to stand on.

To: Crocodile who wrote (51381)	5/28/2000 11:43:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Respond to of 71178

Sputtering my coffee at this one and endangering the old keyboard! Well, "S" might not be sufficiently narrow and patrician?

To: Crocodile who wrote (51381)	5/28/2000 11:45:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Eeeeek. What horrid-looking things. The man who invented them must be a looney. Just what shall we discuss? Since I already have a turned-up nose (those of us with turn-up noses call them retrousse, thank you very much) I can't imagine that the devices would be an improvement - make me into a gargoyle, more likely, although the chiseled-look sounds interesting. But I think wearing the things would be awfully uncomfortable, much like the way it used to feel when I would put red beans (dried, of course) in my nose, when I was a kid. And I bet the irritation of having a metal thing in your nose would cause post-nasal drip. Maybe the guy who invented them is just cynical, like the people who advertise breast enlargers in the back of women's magazines, and if you send off for them you get a jar of skin cream and two plaster hands - not that I ever did that, but I have read about it.

To: Crocodile who wrote (51381)	5/28/2000 1:43:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

Aren't styles funny. DO you remember in "Little Women" where Amy put a clothespin on her nose to try to straighten it? SHe hated her turned up nose. I on the other hand, born with my father's British profile, wanted desperately to have a little turned up nose and dimples. I wanted to be CUTE. LIke Shirley Temple. So I slept with buttons pressed into my cheek, and spent hours bending the end of my nose upward, hoping it would stick there. But it never did. ANd despite these serious physical deformities, I married a good man and have beautiful children, neither of whom got my nose. I still have it.