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- From: cheinan@access.digex.com (Cheinan Marks)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: Credit Validation
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 19:40:36 GMT
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- jiang@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Mingchang Jiang) writes:
- : Probably not as outrageous, but experiences of my own:
- :
- : (1) In my first year in US, I went to a family restaurant in North Michigan
- : for breakfast and ordered eggs. The waitress asked, "How would you like the
- : eggs to be done?"
- :
- : I replied angrily, "Of course I will like eggs!"
-
- Even us born and bred Americans do it... (pun intended)
-
- I recall going to a Rustler's or one of those chain steakhouses and having the
- conversation:
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- Order taker: How'd you want your steak?
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- Me: (In all seriousness) Cooked, please.
-