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Smelly French family 'ordered to leave Musee d'Orsay'
Telegraph UK ^ | 4:37PM GMT 29 Jan 2013 | By Ian Sparks

Posted on 01/30/2013 1:52:25 PM PST by Red Badger

A French family were ordered to leave one of Paris's most popular museums because their body odour was annoying other visitors.

The couple and a young child were on a free trip to the Musee d'Orsay with a charity that supports hard-up families.

As the group browsed a room with paintings by Van Gogh, security guards told them they had to leave the building because people were "complaining about their smell".

The worker with the Act for Dignity charity said: "I argued with the security man, telling him the family were all decent and properly dressed.

"Not a single other person had complained about us so I refute the idea that it was their smell.

"We moved on to another room, but we were again met by four museum guards who ordered us out of the building."

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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To: CatherineofAragon; heartwood

I haven’t even lived in a house with a tub since I was 11, and have showered exclusively(and daily) since then. But people who don’t wash at all are repulsive.


41 posted on 01/30/2013 5:41:24 PM PST by darkangel82
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To: Veto!
Could have been worse. I "experimented" with:

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42 posted on 01/30/2013 5:59:57 PM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: TADSLOS

***Reminds me of that smelly cook in “Monte Walsh”.***

Cook:(speaking of another ranch) “How was the cook?”

Cowboy: “Nothing like you!”

Cook smiles.


43 posted on 01/30/2013 6:19:04 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Click my name! See new paintings!)
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To: PowderMonkey

No wonder the German officer in THE DEVIL’S BRIGADE ordered American cigarettes.


44 posted on 01/30/2013 6:22:21 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Click my name! See new paintings!)
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To: darkangel82
According to this 1880 book you ONLY need one quart of water for a bath.


45 posted on 01/30/2013 6:42:15 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Click my name! See new paintings!)
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To: Red Badger

I have some Latino friends who quite some years ago took a trip to France.
At the hotel reservation’s desk they picked up THEE ordor while asking for directions.

They were flabbergastd (these Latino ladies are impeccably groomed and outfitted - all the time).
They were startled, and started speaking in Spanish about the problem.

Later that evening, upon returning from sight-seeing, my friends heard the same (woman) hotel clerk speaking to someone - in Spanish!!!
Busted! LOL!


46 posted on 01/30/2013 6:55:03 PM PST by USARightSide (S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
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To: USARightSide

France’s first horror film was titled “The Unsmellable Man”.


47 posted on 01/30/2013 7:03:08 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: PowderMonkey

I could never pronounce Gaul-oises. Impossible to ask in stores, compelling as the ad is, with its promise of great times, good looks, high fashion and big hair. So exciting!


48 posted on 01/30/2013 8:09:52 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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To: Red Badger

I worked with a French intern, in the 80’s, in Calif. One day she showed me an ad for deodorant, and asked me what it was (she was about 25 years old). I explained it to her, then she asked me why people would spend money on such a thing. Lucky for her, she lived with a Frenchman, so her “eau de body, cigarettes, & black coffee” was not a fast track to solitude.


49 posted on 01/30/2013 9:32:12 PM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: Red Badger

50 posted on 01/30/2013 9:40:44 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Veto!
But not for long, as I was accused of smoking old sweat socks.

WHAT WERE THEY MADE OF? FRENCH CHEESE?......

51 posted on 01/31/2013 6:26:51 AM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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