Re: CHAT: Worse Greek 102 (was: Bad Latin 101)

> Date:         Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:47:18 -0600
> From: Andrew Chaney <adchaney@...>
> On Tuesday, February 6, 2001, at 03:48 PM, Patrick Dunn wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>
> > > Well, I don't know how big the fad was. But my favourite video rental
> > > place had about three of them, and they were always displayed on the
> > > 'specialty' shelf right next to the sf/horror section. (Hmmm... they
> > > can't have been too popular, then, if they were always on the shelf).
>
> > *blinks*  Wow.  In America all pornos are kept, without exception, in a
> > dusty back room with a curtain and a big sign warning youngsters that they
> > shouldn't go on lest they be traumatized.
>
> In this corner of America, pornos are kept in seperate buildings owned
> by different copmanies and are not found at all in any of your average
> video stores or rental places.
Well, this was in Denmark --- and the store specialized in parallel
import of videos without Danish subtitles, so they simply didn't allow
under-18's to get a rental card.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)