B.C. FULLY DESCRIBED My friend is a rather old-fashioned lady, quite elegant and delicate, especially in her language. She and her husband were planning a week-long camping trip, so she wrote to a campground for reservations. She wanted to be sure it was fully equipped but didn’t know quite how to ask about toilet facilities. She didn’t want to write “toilet” in her letter. After much deliberation, she thought of the old- fashioned term, “Bathroom Commode.” But, when she wrote it down she thought she was being to forward, so she started all over again, rewrote the entire letter, and referred to the Bathroom Commode as the B.C. “Does your campground have its own B.C.?” she asked. Well, the campground owner wasn’t old-fashioned at all and, when he got this letter, he couldn’t figure out what she was talking about. The B.C. business really stumped him. after worrying about it for awhile, he showed the letter to some of the campers; but not one could…
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