Re: CHAT: A pretty bad language joke :]
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 1, 2001, 5:28 |
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At 9:06 pm +1000 31/3/01, D Tse wrote:
>A friend of mine told me this admittedly lame language joke ...
....and also a rather ancient one.
>Q: Why do French people only eat one egg for breakfast?
>A: Because one egg's un œuf!!!
After hearing versions of that joke for about half a century, I cry
"Please, no more - un oeuf's un oeuf!!!"
Ray.
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A mind which thinks at its own expense
will always interfere with language.
[J.G. Hamann 1760]
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