From: hjkhjkhd@hhhh.com   
      
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   > ...I wonder if anyone can beat this: I just bought a 1944 edition of   
   > *Burma Surgeon* by Gordon Seagrave. Lots of pictures, a big map of   
   > Burma, a hilarious chapter called 'The Plague' in which the good Dr.   
   > Seagrave contracts the bubonic plague, and even some musical notation   
   > for an old Karen song. Is it good? Nga m'thi, nga m'thi...   
   >   
   > Here's a sample:   
   >   
   > "The Nagas travel in groups from the same village, keeping step as   
   > they walk in single file. At every step one or another lets out a   
   > grunt, each grunt in a different key, up and down the line until each   
   > has had his grunt, and the leader begins again. It makes a weird tune   
   > something like this:   
   > Leader  Unnhh   
   > No. 7  Hump   
   > No. 3  Ugh   
   > No. 8  Heep   
   > No. 2  Hic   
   > No. 5  Hah   
   > No. 6  Ho   
   > Nos. 4 & 9  Hay"   
   >   
      
   RACIST!   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)