OT: Bidets (was: British Editions (a question))

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 8554

Amanda Lewanski wrote:

> On an only marginally related but humorous note, I am told by old
> classmates from my high school, Winston Churchill High School in San
> Antonio, that they got some interesting reactions to the "WC" on their
> class rings and baseball caps and such when they were in Europe. Who
> knew it stood for water closet? Who in Texas even knew what a water
> closet *was*?
> 
> --Amanda, who's heard a bidet described, too, but never seen one....

(To the tune of "That's Amore" by Dean Martin)

"When you're common and poor and don't know what it's for
That's...a bidet.
It's an issue of class
It's for washing your--" [and here it ends for taste reasons.]

--John, whose French teacher told a funny anecdote about asking for "le
compartiment d'eau" on a school French exchange.

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