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Re: [LUG] Geeky Joke

 

On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 at 16:25, Neil <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Because Oct 31 == Dec 25
>
> Well, I think it a good one?
>

It would have taken a while to explain to Samuel Johnson what the line
meant, but his eventual reaction already exists in print. "To trifle
with the vocabulary which is the vehicle of social intercourse is to
tamper with the currency of human intelligence. He who would violate
the sanctities of his Mother Tongue would invade the recesses of the
paternal till without remorse."

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