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 ...
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.
***Reminds me of that smelly cook in “Monte Walsh”.***
Cook:(speaking of another ranch) “How was the cook?”
Cowboy: “Nothing like you!”
Cook smiles.
No wonder the German officer in THE DEVIL’S BRIGADE ordered American cigarettes.
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!
France’s first horror film was titled “The Unsmellable Man”.
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!
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.
WHAT WERE THEY MADE OF? FRENCH CHEESE?......
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