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Are you at Wesleyan?
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Nope this happened while I was studying in Pamplona. The joke is that I was trying to say
piso
which is a Spanish word for floor, (
planta
is the more appropriate word) but got tongue tied and said
pais
which means country. You know the American mucking up the language implying that these backward Spaniards don't have computers, oops....
And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
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