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Again same as last time. but how did people trim their finger nails down before they came also?
Quote from: Simulated on 05/01/2008 22:44:30Again same as last time. but how did people trim their finger nails down before they came also?In the late 15th early 16th century the ' better ' classes would employ a person called a " Digit-Enabler " or 'Mauler' as they later came to be known as .It was their function to bite the nails when the employer was usually ' doing their duty '......The ' Evacuous Trimmngs ' were collected and every year , on the birthday of the person whose fingernails they were, a ball of the trimmings would be presented to them held together with the spittle of rats and brittle/hardened fat of pigs.It was here that the game of ' fetch ' was created as it was indeed the dogs of these bourgeois materialistic types that would continue to bring the ball back once it has been thrown.