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From:Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 18, 2000, 4:57
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:55:35 -0500, Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:

>Jeff Jones wrote: >> This reminds me of the time I tried to order tea in Spanish at a Cuban >> restaurant. Fortunately, there was a woman with me, so the waiter didn't >> get the wrong idea. > >Eh? What wrong idea would he get? I don't know enough Spanish to know >what the problem would be there.
el te caliente = hot tea te, caliente = you, hot! Of course, I may have made unwarrented assumptions.