Saturday, February 11, 2012

Bar code


An  Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Latvian, a Turk, a  German, an Indian, several Americans (including a southerner, a New  Englander, and a Californian), an Argentinean, a Dane, an Australian,  a Slovakian, an Egyptian, a Japanese, a Moroccan, a Frenchman, a New  Zealander, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Guatemalan, a Colombian, a  Pakistani, a Malaysian, a Croatian, a Uzbek, a Cypriot, a Pole, a  Lithuanian, a Chinese, a Sri Lankan, a Lebanese, a Cayman Islander, an Aleutian Islander, a Ugandan, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Uruguayan, a Czech, an Icelander, a Mexican, a Finn, a Honduran, a Panamanian, an Andorran, an Israeli, a Venezuelan, a Fijian, a Peruvian, an Estonian, a Brazilian, a  Portuguese, a Liechtensteiner, a Mongolian, a Hungarian, a Canadian, a Moldovan, a Haitian, a Norfolk Islander, a Macedonian, a Bolivian, a Cook Islander, a Tajikistani, a Samoan, an Armenian, an Aruban, an  Albanian, an American Indian, a Tamil Indian, a Greenlander, a Micronesian, a Virgin Islander, a  Georgian, a Bahaman, a Belarusan, a Cuban, a Tongan, a Cambodian, a Qatari, an Azerbaijani, a Romanian, a Chilean, a Kyrgyzstani, a  Jamaican, a Filipino, a Ukrainian, a Dutchman, an Ecuadorian, a Costa  Rican, a Swede, a Bulgarian, a Serb, a Swiss, a Greek, a Belgian, a Singaporean, an Italian, a Norwegian, and an African walk into a bar . . .

"Sorry," says the bartender, scanning the entire group crowding the bar,
"I can't serve you without a Thai."