Why Americans feel no compulsion to learn foreign langua

[Charles Bell]

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