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Box of chocolates
Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 10:30 am
by mart
Apparently towards the end of the Victorian era it was common practice for husbands to assume they must have infected their wives with Syphilis. They didn't tell them but gave them chocolates containing the medication of the time.
Is that the origin of giving your girl friend/partner/wife a box of chocolates when you are feeling guilty?
Mart
Re: Box of chocolates
Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 2:24 pm
by jj
Funny, you never see this in the Cadbury's ads, 'buy our choccies, and stave off syph', do you?
I think in future I'll just say it with flowers........
Re: Box of chocolates
Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 7:59 pm
by Deuce Bigolo
I never give chocolates as gifts so I'm safe
I wouldn't be so sure about Flowers...they are edible after all
Plastic flowers maybe...you can use them again and again and again
Theres a message in there somewhere
cheers
B...OZ
Re: Box of chocolates
Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 8:55 pm
by jj
"I never give chocolates as gifts so I'm safe".
Well, no, they'd melt in Oz, wouldn't they?
Mind you, if Dibsy has his beef smoked much more, the resultant by-product heat will send Britain's temperature soaring, too. That, and the steam coming out of my ears.........