I learned a new word today...

[SyberBitch]

Ok, that's too gross to even think about.

I'm labeling this as an urban legend. Nuff said.

[QueenBee]

And there is more...

Contemporary writings, including those of Pepys and Boswell, mention men employed in London churches to sweep up sootikin after services. There even exists one scurrilous account, from an anonymous source, of a tell-tale sootikin being allegedly found under - or suspiciously close to - Queen Anne's chair in St. Paul's Cathedral during the Thanksgiving service for the end of the War of the Spanish Succession.

[LuMPyPussy]

Eesh! You'd think the higher classes would have been a little better bathed back then.

[QueenBee]

Eesh! You'd think the higher classes would have been a little better bathed back then.

style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #aaaaaa"I remember reading somewhere that folks did not bathe much back then. Folks were not as clean back then. I read that is why the tradition of brides carrying flowers started---to hide the stink.

[Duchess]

I've read that the reason many of them carried those itty bitty dogs was so the fleas would stick strictly to the dog & not them...Fuckin' aye. ::laugh::

[crash]

Hah!.. I swear I thought you were gonna say so the dog would eat the sootikin before anyone noticed..

[LuMPyPussy]

I've read that the reason many of them carried those itty bitty dogs was so the fleas would stick strictly to the dog & not them...Fuckin' aye. ::laugh::

I don't know about you, but any dogs we had that had fleas didn't keep them to themselves.

[FAHQTOO]

My dog is one big Sootikin. He smells like straight up ass ::tdown::

I don't care what he smells like. I WANT HIM!!

I have always wanted one of these dogs. I suppose I could shove a glade plug-in up his ass to mask the smell.