Bob Torres American podcaster
Source: Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights (2007), p. 25
“As for hair in the nose, it is picturesque, and with a little practise it can be made to quiver, like the antennae of one of the more intelligent and sensitive insects. Anything which gives interest to the gloomy, immobile pan of the average Canadian should be cherished and not extirpated with circular scissors.”
The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (1949)
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