From: “David K. Merriman” <merriman@arn.net>
To: Alan Horowitz <alanh@mailhost.infi.net>
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From: "David K. Merriman" <merriman@arn.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 19:51:50 +0800
To: Alan Horowitz <alanh@mailhost.infi.net>
Subject: RE: Why Americans feel no compulsion to learn foreign langua
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At 10:18 AM 03/30/96 -0500, Alan Horowitz wrote:
>> 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?
Why do you think they make those government instruction manuals so thick? :-)
Dave "Adak - where suicide is redundant" Merriman
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