Pepe Le Pew

Let us consider this quote:

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."


Sound familiar? If not, you might consider going back and paying attention in your 9th grade English class. Here's a clue----------->>>

Now indulge me if you will...

What's in a name? Well quite a lot in fact. Obviously, this particular quote is referring to Romeo looking at Juliet and realizing that her last name is Capulet and that their love would be forbidden. So by saying this famous stanza, he is saying regardless of what she is called, she is still beautiful. But nitpicky as it may seem, the fact that he is even acknowledging her last name, tells us what's in a name. 

But I'm rambling, the real reason I started typing today was to start writing about cologne. Specifically, eau de toilet, which sounds very funny. For those of us who speak minimal French this could appear to say, "Toilet Water". Which could mean that people are splashing water from their toilets on themselves...uh...gross? So does toilet mean something else in French? Well...no. 

So I did some digging and here's what I turned up: "Toilet" comes from "toilette" which from from "toile". "Toile" means, cloth or net or even clothing bag (when you add '-ette'). This then evolved over the next 150 years or so to mean "dressing room" and this usually meant it had a lavatory (which is also weird, since there is no volcano in my bathroom but: lava-tory...lava=wash, tory=place). So now, from being a clothing bag to a place where people do their "business". What a shit...I mean SHIFT! Phew, that was close! So what does it mean? Almost certainly, and I didn't look this up, I'm just inferring, Toilet Water or Water from the Toilet, means water from the dressing room. This water would be different because you would keep your "special" water in the dressing room like we do now (however, I like to call vodka my special water, but that's an entirely different nugget all together...)

Now the real issue that this brings up? Which Juliet was better looking?

....or....   ?????

Just to put this out there, the first actress at least took her top in the movie (did you know that? Ladies, you might be able to get your man to watch some quality cinema...well or a love story with that little NUGGET!)

This got a little SPICY today! Thanks for DIPPING in today!