Witness this, a common scene in the Mexican cantina - a man suddenly convulses and spews his food all over the terracotta tiling.

'Jesus! Jesus! What's wrong?' asks his concerned wife.

'Que?' asks the man.

'What's wrong? - 'que pasa?' in our language... well the Spanish language. What happened with our indigenous Aztec language?'

'That's another issue, Conchita. Let's deal with this one first. Waiter? Waiter, take these beans away! They're undercooked. Tastes like they've only been fried once.'

The Mexicans kicked off re-using things with their refried beans. They won't go anywhere near them if they've been fried only once.

Just recently we reached the final frontier of recycling. Supermarkets now stock '100% recycled toilet tissue'. An unsavoury thought at first, using someone else's discarded bog roll... (Continued at www.tinybangtheories.com)

I liked this very much!