[52981] in Cypherpunks
RE: Why Americans feel no compulsion to learn foreign langua
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Horowitz)
Sat Mar 30 10:34:43 1996
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 10:18:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Horowitz <alanh@mailhost.infi.net>
To: "David K. Merriman" <merriman@arn.net>
Cc: Steve Gibbons <steve@aztech.net>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960330003531.00682704@arn.net>
> From: David K. Merriman <merriman@arn.net>
> >restroom-finding in a few languages.
>
> The second necessarily follows from the first :-)
While deployed to a remote radar station on an isolated island,
supplied solely by periodic but unreliable airfreight sorties, I oft found
myself wondering: which is the more acute emergency.... to run out of food
or to run out of toilet paper?
