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Re: CHAT: A pretty bad language joke :]

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Sunday, April 1, 2001, 5:28
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. ========================================= A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language. [J.G. Hamann 1760] =========================================