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Apple QuickTime movie  |  2002-08-15  |  4.8 MB  |  320x240  |  15fps  |  57 seconds
Transcription: I always think it's funny that we say we want to go to the washroom when we may or may not wash. But it's when everybody seems to know and we all use it and we know what we mean. On the same vein, I think when people say they want to relieve themselves, we all know what it means but again it's We could say, relieved of what? Anxiety. And I find in our culture too, it's when we people, when someone dies, we say they passed away and often think, where did they pass away to? But we all know what it means and we all use those words. But I don't think we often think of what we're actually saying.