Why Americans feel no compulsion to learn foreign langua

[David K. Merriman]

At 10:18 AM 03/30/96 -0500, Alan Horowitz wrote:
>> From: David K. Merriman <merriman at 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? 

Why do you think they make those government instruction manuals so thick? :-)

Dave "Adak - where suicide is redundant" Merriman
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