>Rudy Christian wrote:
>>> Particularly if they are an immigrant from the Third World.
>
>> OK I'll admit I don't know if we are the Second World because Europe was the
>> First World and if so who decided when the count started?
>> Oh great Sages of BP help me to understand from whence I comed and where I goed.

Third World was the underdeveloped nations, who were outside
the confrontation between the West and the Communist nations.
1 = West, or "free"; 2 = Red.  Cold War terminology.

>idk R... it was just easier than writing a very long sentence describing folks
>coming from far removed global circumstances, like rain forest pygmys
>who trade in butterfly nuts or whatever to find themselves suddenly on the streets
>of NYC w/ a hawk & pointing tools. Bad enuf the natives keep wanderin' over from Ohio
>where they say the Center of the Universe is located... tho I been wonderin if
>that is actually the center of the universal joint?
>
>is this noise?

Good question ...

>whose history is it?

"Third World?"  Ours.

>is where GW shat vital to my personal culture?
>][<

Why "personal"?

Are you asking for a philosophical discussion
of the basis for historic preservation?

I would rather have people tell about 
the most beautiful crappers they have ever seen.
(One man's history is another man's noise.)
Mine were in Chester (NW England),
Trinity College, Cambridge (UK),
and a Chicago lake shore high rise.
The first two were beautifully polished solid hardwood;
the third was wicker.

Oddly enough, the one in Chester was in
the George Washington Hotel there.

See "The Loos of London" and "The Loos of Paris,"
fine little guidebooks.  In the latter, one description
starts out "The loos of Notre Dame are located
behind the church of the same name."




Martin C. Tangora
University of Illinois at Chicago
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