Vitanuova for 2004 October 17 (entry 1)

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Petitioning ourselves into obscurity? >

OK, I'm going to try to convert one of those Latin jokes into an English joke.

Q. How are lawyers like this fruit salad?

A. They both spend hours stewing in ius.

Henry Beard was actually able to translate English jokes into Latin jokes that were still funny. For example, he has an amusing Latin rendering of the baseball chant "we want a pitcher, not a glass of water".


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