Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site uiucdcsb Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!mcdaniel From: mcdaniel@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: YABS Message-ID: <8700212@uiucdcsb> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 13:35:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.8700212 Posted: Sun Aug 11 13:35:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 06:47:09 EDT References: <546@tekigm.UUCP> Lines: 23 Nf-ID: #R:tekigm.UUCP:-54600:uiucdcsb:8700212:000:890 Nf-From: uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA!mcdaniel Aug 11 12:35:00 1985 An American official was talking to a French official; he was presenting the U. S.'s case for the extradition of Roman Polanski, the director. "He slept with a 13-year-old!" cried the American official. The Frenchman looked at him cooly, and replied, with obvious boredom, "A 13-year-old *what*?" /* Written 2:25 pm Aug 6, 1985 by johnm@mako.UUCP in uiucdcsb:net.jokes */ Seen on the back of a VW rabbit driven by a, of course, young blond. --------------- | I Brake for | |Men in Shorts| --------------- /* End of text from uiucdcsb:net.jokes */ A young blond *what*? Since blond is a French loan word, it is one of the few English words (like fiance/fiancee) to add "e" to make a feminine form, the car must have been driven by a, of course, young blond *man*. 8-) (Further linguistic discussion should go to net.nlang.)