On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gautam John [29/08/08 18:40 +0530]: >> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:35 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> its a politeness thing. And not Asian >> You don't have to ask if someone has eaten to be polite, yes? > I wonder if there's a culture somewhere where the question is "have you > crapped today?" > > 1. The guy's eaten - obvious deduction from that question > 2. His digestive system works fine - sense of physical well being etc etc
The good Doctor Shastri is a gastroenterologist, IIRC. So he probably *does* ask his patients if they have crapped already. :-) Thaths -- "I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode. I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down'." -- Homer J. Simpson
