Re: [b] -- The BRAIN

[Nick Mailer <nickm@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:13:34PM +0100, John Walker wrote:
> From: "Victoria Hiley" <karbonis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > John, what *precisely* is the difference between biting your nails and
> using
> > your teeth to bite them off?
> 
> Biting one's nails is a phrase used to describe the nervous or compulsive
> habit of gnawing away on finger nails, almost unconsciously. It is a
> continuous process, causing people to have no nails, and eventually chew
> down to their elbows.
> 
> Mine is a practical solution to a real problem - nails becoming too long.
> Scissors are clumsy and pointy, and as such I'm not allowed to use them
> without the supervision of an adult. Biting them off is a quick and simple
> way to shorten them when the occasion is right.
> 
> But I will quite happily do it in public without apology.
> 

Indeed. It's the most effective way to deal with long nails, and the
neatest. Using nail clippers leaves them all harsh and cubist, like an
upset Picasso daubing.


 bit selfish i should be a fishmonger a h ha ha hah ha 


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