Is this thruthiness?

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:29 AM -0600 1/23/06, Paul Johnson wrote:
>Paul Johnson
>
>http://bangalore-bosun.blogspot.com/2004/12/henri-camou.html
>
>>
>>       Henri Camou
>>
>>Henri Camou was a skilled draughtsman living in early 19th century
>>Perigueux, until he lost his favourite pencil, the Austrian-made Flage
>>II Spezial. Having searched high and low for many hours he finally
>>realised that the pencil was right in front of him all the time,
>>standing in a pot containing 15 other identical Flage II Spezial
>>pencils. It was at this moment that Camou realised the potential
>>military application of making something hard to see by blending it
>>into its surroundings. He called this new concept "Camou-Flage", and
>>despite dying in steam some three years later, he has never looked back.
>>_
Heh heh.  Clever of M. Camou to arrange to be named after the
pre-existing "camouflet", but since one meaning of the noun is 'smoke
blown in one's face', it does seem appropriate...

L

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