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Ildhund - 01 Dec 2008 17:24 GMT

A reader of the community newsletter I edit has objected violently
to a regular (satirical) columnist's use of this denomination for
one of our councillors. Does anyone know when, why and in what
context it was first used publicly? None of the Google quotes I
could find looked at all original.

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Molly Mockford - 01 Dec 2008 17:44 GMT

At 17:24:30 on Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Ildhund <jnllb@removemsn.com> wrote in
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>A reader of the community newsletter I edit has objected violently to a
>regular (satirical) columnist's use of this denomination for one of our
>councillors. Does anyone know when, why and in what context it was
>first used publicly? None of the Google quotes I could find looked at
>all original.

Jeffrey Archer's wife Mary was famously described as "fragrant" by a
besotted High Court judge who seemed to think that she therefore smelled
truthful. Whether that has any relevance or not, I have no idea!

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