[53006] in Cypherpunks
RE: Why Americans feel no compulsion to learn foreign langua
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Bell)
Sat Mar 30 17:10:15 1996
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 13:42:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Charles Bell <quester@eskimo.com>
To: Alan Horowitz <alanh@mailhost.infi.net>
Cc: "David K. Merriman" <merriman@arn.net>, Steve Gibbons <steve@aztech.net>,
cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.91.960330101615.7063H-100000@larry.infi.net>
On Sat, 30 Mar 1996, Alan Horowitz wrote:
>
> 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?
>
If you had studied almost any non-European language, you would have
learned the word for `toilet paper' is `your left hand and a bucket of
water.'
Charles Bell
