Why Americans feel no compulsion to learn foreign langua
Charles Bell
quester at eskimo.com
Sun Mar 31 04:02:31 PST 1996
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
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