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To: smokingfrog

And when exactly did “fishmonger” become an insult?


11 posted on 10/03/2014 9:43:51 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

50BC Gaul


13 posted on 10/03/2014 9:57:13 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (In Soviet Russia, Police say "please" when demanding papers.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

I’d say that insult would be a reference to the distinctive odor a fishmonger would have had in Shakespeare’s day.


15 posted on 10/04/2014 3:32:54 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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