On Sunday, August 17, 2014 12:41:43 PM UTC-7, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 8/17/2014 11:41 AM, Janet Wilder wrote:
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> > First, your hands are clean after washing them with soap, so, unless you
> > are failing to properly wash your hands, it is no less unsanitary to use
> > a cloth towel than a paper towel.
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> In theory, but not in practice. If you were correct, a towel would
> never need washing.
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In the 70s, humorist Bruce Jay Friedman wrote The Lonely Guy's Book
of Life, where he covers the bath towel issue. (Sadly neither in
print nor online). If I recall correctly, he wonders how a clean
towel applied to a clean body could ever get dirty. If it starts
to smell off, simply invite a cute girl over to shower. That will
freshen it up for the next several days.