On 8/8/2014 10:36 AM, notbob wrote:
> On 2014-08-08, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>
>> it, but the goal is to clean up, not store a contaminated cloth towel
>
> I always liked the observation by the Japanese Tanaka character in the
> James Bond book, You Only Live Twice, who sez something to the effect,
> "We do not understand the Western concept of the handkerchief and why
> anyone would carry around bodily expulsions like prized possesions".
> Good question and the reason I've never carried a hanky.
>
> nb
>
LOL, nb! I don't understand handkercheifs, either. It's so last
generation. Someone has to wash them and you can bet it's not the
person who insists on using them.

Jill