From: Charles Bell <quester@eskimo.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 20:02:31 +0800
To: Alan Horowitz <alanh@mailhost.infi.net>
Subject: RE: Why Americans feel no compulsion to learn foreign langua
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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