From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Les Albert pounded on thar keyboard to tell us   
   > On Sat, 27 Aug 2022 12:28:37 -0400, Xho Jingleheimerschmidt   
   >  wrote:   
   >> On 8/11/22 12:36, Les Albert wrote:   
   >>> On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 07:14:13 -0700 (PDT), "artyw2@yahoo.com"   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> Was Mona Lisa considered hot when Da Vinci painted her?   
   >   
   >>> Maybe. It is said to be a painting of Lisa Gherardini, but nobody   
   >>> knows for sure.  And I read somewhere that the enigmatic smile is   
   >>> actually showing a swelling of the face due to an abscessed tooth.   
   >>> Others have said Mona Lisa's mysterious smile was caused by an   
   >>> under-active thyroid gland.  Hypothyroidism can cause swollen hands,   
   >>> thinning hair and a lump in the neck, all visible in the portrait,   
   >>> according to researchers.   
   >   
   >> I've also heard speculation, I don't know how serious, that it was a   
   >> self-portrait of Leonard as if he had had an innie rather than an outie.   
   >> Xho   
   >   
   >   
   > Who is Leonard?   
   >   
   > Les   
      
   That kid from Vinci, isn't it?   
      
   /dps   
      
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