On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Perry E. Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > 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. > Well, Perry, both those sentences of yours contain all the bowels....so I guess they are fine. Deepa.
