fouille, fouille, fouille

fang's previous experience of africa was limited to a screening of the 1992 french soft-core porno, Joy en Afrique. everything was true. aside from the absinth debacle, which left jerry with a large amount of explaining due to his students, the only uninteresting thing was a discussion of the similarity of the words in pidgin, chinese and czech for beer. some insight may be gained by lookin at the etymology of the English word:

O.E. beor of disputed and ambiguous origin, but prob. a 6c. W.Ger. monastic borrowing of V.L. biber "beverage."