On 3/07/2012 8:51 AM, George wrote:
> On 7/2/2012 5:02 PM, pavane wrote:
>> "Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Mark Thorazine wrote:
>>>>
>>>> At the Asian supermarket where I shop almost
>>>> every day, the stockers seem to be about 100%
>>>> Hispanic, while the checkers are about 50/50
>>>> Hispanic and Asian. I find the Hispanic checkers
>>>> tend to have a good command of English, while
>>>> the Asians are more hit-and-miss. Perhaps the
>>>> latter make up for it with Asian language skills
>>>> or maybe they're cut some slack because they're
>>>> somebody's cousin. Some of them don't seem to
>>>> understand English at all.
>>>
>>> Asians don't need language skills... if they needed language skills
>>> they'd have a real alphabet instead of etch-a-sketch pictures. Asians
>>> are good at math... all Asians need to know is how to count money...
>>> who do you think invented the abacus? LOL
>>
>> Egyptians, Sumerians and Babylonians, about 3000 years
>> before the Chinese. Why do you ask?
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus
>>
>> pavane
>>
>>
> Shelden is the only one left on aol and clearly their search feature is
> really broken...
>
I think it's Sheldon that's really broken.

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