Re: CHAT: The bong, or bog, or pit, or excretorium

At 21:31 17.6.2000 +0200, daniel andreasson wrote:
>John Cowan wrote:
>
> >The odd thing is that it hardly matters what word you use for this
> >location.  Indeed, it is sometimes enough just to look at a waiter
> >or bartender inquiringly.
>
>Not even that. When I was in France in April, I went inside a
>restaurant and I didn't even look at the waiter. He pointed
>at the gent's before I'd even seen him.
When I was in Rome years ago I went into a church in search of one.  I was
met by a priest who looked like "what on earth does he want *here*?"  In
that instance I didn't remember the Italian word, so I thought priests
should know Latin, and said "Ubine latrina est?"  Quoth the priest: "Ach
so, dass ist da drueben!" (pointing)  Guess everybody who looked like
hailing from north of the Alps was a German to him!



/BP

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