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From: David Smallberg
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: A Classic one
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Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 15:38:08 EDT
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I've gotten some puzzled responses, so I guess I'd better explain the pun:
> Then there was the fellow who was very fond of eel. On a trip to Japan, he
> was taken to a restaurant where you could get eel dipped in egg batter and
> deep-fried. He was so delighted when the food was brought out, he
> exclaimed, "Oh, tempura! Oh, morays!"
"O, tempora! O, mores!", roughly translated as "Oh, the times! Oh, the
!, comes from Cicero's *In Catilinam*. Modern
essayists and columnists use it when decrying current social attitudes or
behaviors. I see it used only about once a year, so it's not surprising
that some people might never have run across the phrase.
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SInce this is net.jokes, not net.jokes.d, here's the obligatory joke:
Some people have a hard time accepting the research results of modern
psychologists, since their subjects are always first-year college psych class
students, hardly a representative sample of the population. I think their
results are valid, though, since fifty million freshmen can't be wrong.
-- David Smallberg, das@ucla-cs.ARPA, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das