In a message dated 9/14/02 12:24:22 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
wilden1@JUNO.COM writes:

<< People live in those things in the Philippines .............. Low Cost
 Housing. >>

Stanthule,

If you got off your air-cooled state (pun intended) once in a while, you
might realize that cargo containers are much too expensive to use for housing
in the Philippines. Most usable containers are sent back stateside
immediately filled w/ goods made at labor rates of $5 per day. These are
current figures by the way. Lots of containers come back empty from the US to
Asia. IIRC that is called in some circles as a trade deficit w/ Asia.

Not to be confused with the fellow from Manila who was describing a swimming
pool. "See dat pool ober der... How deficit?" There only thing most
Manilenyos say with the F sound is Filipino. Everything else sounds like a P.
For that matter, there is no normal V. So you would call out favorite vehicle
a Banagon (RVC).

BenT
<A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/bentbtstr8/myhomepage/index.html">Vanagon
Cafe</A>