Re: [NTLK] Newton usage in the bathroom

From: DON (don_at_dcphotos.com)
Date: Fri Jan 04 2002 - 13:58:41 EST


> LOL, but all Americans on this list, a bathroom is where you have your bath
> and a toilet is where's your, well.... toilet.
> If you want to go even further in the prude recesses of American culture you
> might start calling it a restroom too, except that you risk to get
> hemorrhoids after a while that way.
>
>
> Robert Benschop
>
Actually, most American homes have the bath and/or shower in the same room
as the toilet. And FYI, a restroom is what we Americans call a place to
relive one's self, in a store, or other public place where there IS no
bathtub or shower, just urinals and/or toilets.
Don

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