tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-6189825512868243172008-05-09T04:51:00.000-07:002008-05-13T06:10:46.784-07:00<span style="font-weight:bold;">BATH</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">, n. </span>A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">The man who taketh a steam bath<br />He loseth all the skin he hath,<br />And, for he's boiled a brilliant red,<br />Thinketh to cleanliness he's wed,<br />Forgetting that his lungs he's soiling<br />With dirty vapors of the boiling.<br />—Richard Gwow</span></blockquote><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2008 Update: </span>Baptism by lather. According to Lutheran theology, each is good for a life.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11152564-618982551286824317?l=bitterbierce.blogspot.com'/></div>Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753071669562594194noreply@blogger.com16