On (12 Sep 06) Cindy Haglund wrote to Malte Schmidt...
 CH> CH> to be credited for everything anyway! 
 CH>
 CH>  MS> Do they?
 CH>
 CH>  Yeah well it seems that way ....  usually sexual. And pastries of
 CH> course! :) And the bread and the wine! :) and the Blue Cheese! :)

Calling it a "french kiss" wasn't a credit -- it was an accusation of
depravity towards the entire French nation.

Anything particularly carnal(aka. hell-driven) was deemed "bad" and the
French, as a nation, were all deemed spiritually reprobate, so the
french kiss got its name!

Other nations became common names, too, also because of prevailing
prejudices, like Welsh-anything or Dutch-anything, meaning
unsophisticated (eg. Welsh comb(running your fingers through your hair);
Dutch Auction (diminishing prices, daily, to appeal to those who won't
pay a good price today if they can wait for a better one tomorrow);
Welsh Rabbit (a meatless cheese dish), et al.

Because I care,
|<+]::-)  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


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