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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Subject: Re: Czechatismo e Dvorakismo
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D Gary Grady wrote:
 
> "In Czechoslovakia there lived a man named Antonin
> Whose last name can't be spelled, much less pronounced" ...

The version of this I learned was:

"The passengers will please refrain
From using bathrooms while the train
Is in the station -- Darling, I love you."

The first 2-1/2 lines used to be announced at every stop on
U.S. trains, a practice sufficiently accounted for by the
design of train toilets, which dumped their wastes
directly on to the track.

-- 
John Cowan						cowan@ccil.org
			e'osai ko sarji la lojban
