When I was a kid, I had this idea that I would have a beard when I got older. I thought it'd be nice to rub my chin.
As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.
Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.

