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LaReina del Perros - 30 Dec 2006 17:31 GMT

http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2006/12/how_to_stay_beautiful_at_any_a.html

"For 40-year-old supermodel mom Cindy Crawford, a mix of milk and
water misted on the face eschews a dewy fresh look..."

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rzed - 30 Dec 2006 17:56 GMT

> http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2006/12/how_to_stay_beautiful_at_an
> y_a.html
>
> "For 40-year-old supermodel mom Cindy Crawford, a mix of milk
> and water misted on the face eschews a dewy fresh look..."

Well, there you are. She wouldn't want that at her age, now, would
she? Something with a little more character, I think. Laugh lines.
Crow's feet.

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tinwhistler - 30 Dec 2006 22:43 GMT

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> > "For 40-year-old supermodel mom Cindy Crawford, a mix of milk
> > and water misted on the face eschews a dewy fresh look..."

> Well, there you are. She wouldn't want that at her age, now, would
> she? Something with a little more character, I think. Laugh lines.
> Crow's feet.

[snip]

Donna's intro to AUE's humorous (humourous) rules has "eschew
obfuscation" - that advice hasn't been chewed over by WB's
"Extra TV Staff" yet, apparently.
http://www.alt-usage-english.org/humorousrules.html

Aloha ~~~ Ozzie Maland ~~~ San Diego

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Jeffrey Turner - 30 Dec 2006 18:06 GMT

> http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2006/12/how_to_stay_beautiful_at_any_a.html
>
> "For 40-year-old supermodel mom Cindy Crawford, a mix of milk and
> water misted on the face eschews a dewy fresh look..."

That's the look she gets when someone goes "eschew" all over her face.

--Jeff

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"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already
earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him, the spinal cord would fully suffice."
--Albert Einstein

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LFS - 30 Dec 2006 18:25 GMT

Yuck! Forget the howler, she must smell pretty nasty after a while.

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HVS - 30 Dec 2006 18:26 GMT

On 30 Dec 2006, LFS wrote

>> http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2006/12/how_to_stay_beautiful_at_a
>> ny_a.html
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> Yuck! Forget the howler, she must smell pretty nasty after a
> while.

Pah; moms have been doing this for yearas.

Mind you, it's not usually "milk and water misted on the face" --
just milky spew and spittle burped on a shoulder.

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Discussion Groups / English Usage / December 2006

Eschew That Dewy Fresh Look!