On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:45:11 -0500, "modom (palindrome guy)"
> wrote:

>On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:15:56 +0100, "Ophelia" > wrote:
>
>>Giusi wrote:
>>> "ChattyCathy" > ha scritto nel messaggio
>>> ...
>>>> Giusi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Who fills wine glasses to the top?
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, the check is in the mail. It's in zlotys.
>>>> Kewl. It might just might cover a ticket to Macbeth in Warsaw. I
>>>> just love those witches... don't you?
>>>>
>>>> Now
>>>> --
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Chatty Cathy
>>>
>>> There is a bus from here to Poland that costs ?16 each way that the
>>> hired caregivers use to go back and forth every 90 days. I am going
>>> to take it with them soon. Really, it seems silly not to. I've
>>> never gone anywhere on a bus, so 24 hours ought to satisfy that
>>> curiosity.
>>
>>Feh! You'll never want to do it again!! I did it.... once. Years ago I
>>took a coach to visit friends in former Yugoslavia. Never again!!!
>>
>Back when I was young and immortal and Richard Nixon was newly
>ensconced in the White House, I took a bus from Dallas to Mexico City.
>In Brownsville we switched from a US bus to a Mexican bus. I learned
>a lot about my mortality at night outside Ciudad Victoria riding
>behind the driver as he switched the lights off on the hilly curves so
>he could see the lights of the oncoming traffic. But later that night
>in the mountains of central Mexico, when the transmission fell out of
>the bus and our driver fixed it in the dark and changed his uniform
>out in the chaparral so he wouldn't look like a grease jockey after
>his ordeal, I learned a lot about maintaining your dignity in the face
>of mundane troubles. The guy was a mensch.
>--
>
>modom

i wonder if there's a word in spanish for 'mensch'? maybe they use
the yiddish, too.

your pal,
blake