Jeremy Bornstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 06:14:57AM -0700, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: >> I wonder if there's a culture somewhere where the question is "have you >> crapped today?" > > I was told once that the now common (in the USA anyway) "How are you?" > was a shortened form of "How are your bowels?"
A quick web search doesn't turn up any claim to that effect in the usual dictionaries and such. Dunno whether that means anything, of course. Perry
