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- From: garces_ro@uswrsl.enet.dec.com (JRG)
- Subject: Re: know any filipino stereotypes?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.191325.23618@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Sender: newsdaemon@engage.pko.dec.com (USENET News Daemon)
- Organization: WSLMC Sunnyvale
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:09:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.142457.7956@walter.bellcore.com>, rick@gamma.bellcore.com (Rick Martija) writes...
- >In article <1e691qINNk8a@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, vxv4@po.CWRU.Edu (Virgilio Velasco) writes:
- >|>
- >|> In a previous article, c164-ad@po.berkeley.edu (Martin Guerrero) says:
- >|>
- >|> >In article <1992Nov14.005246.2169@engage.pko.dec.com> garces_ro@uswrsl.enet.dec.com (JRG) writes:
- >|> >>
- >|> >> Here's another good one that my girlfriend mentioned to me.
- >|> >> Being from a different racial background she's wondering about
- >|> >> it. Here it goes:
- >|> >>
- >|> >> Filipinos always have a "tabo" in their bathroom. We all know
- >|> >> that we don't need them to take a bath right. So, Iknowyouknow
- >|> >> whatImean.
- >|> >>
- >|> >
- >|> >Considering the drought situation and such in some areas of the U.S., I
- >|> >think 'tabos' might actually be practical.
- >|> >
- >|> >What do you all think?
- >|>
- >|> They would. Unfortunately, based on some conversations I've had with
- >|> Americans, it seems that many of them value their showers and tub baths
- >|> too much to resort to the good old 'tabo'. Not surprising--they also
- >|> express surprise at the way I refuse to throw out my used (but intact)
- >|> Ziploc bags, or the way I always turn the lights off when leaving my
- >|> room.
- >|>
- >|> What can I say? It's a wasteful country. (No flames please! I mean
- >|> this as a mere observation, not an insult.)
- >|>
- >|> --
- >|> Virgilio "Dean" Velasco Jr., CWRU grad student & roboticist wannabee
- >|>
- >|> "Bullwinkle, that man's intimidating a referee!" | My boss is a
- >|> "Not very well. He doesn't look like one at all." | Jewish carpenter.
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- >I think you missed the real purpose of the tabo in the bathroom. Ito'y
- >ginagamit natin panghugas ng... alam ninyo na. Mahal ang toilet paper :-)
- >
- >Rick
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- Thank you Rick ! You got .........EXACTLYWHATIMEAN
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- JR Garces
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