Christian

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Sun May 23 16:48:38 EDT 1999


At 03:12 PM 5/23/99 -0500, you wrote:

>
>A term of  derision, yes. "Little christs", no. More like "smelly ones"
based on the
>association of the odor of the oil thought to be used in the process by
which those
>"of the 'anointed' became so.

This begs the question- did they smell any worse than any of the other
unwashed hordes?  If it does signify some such thing, wouldn't it be a
compliment rather than an insult since someone being anointed would be
anointed with something nice smelling... and thus they would actually smell
a bit better than their hog slaughtering, slack jawed, knuckle dragging,
mouth breathing, filthy neighbors...

best,

Jim

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