Q: soixante neuf

[Wilson Gray]

It must have been the middle '50's, when I first heard that one. But
it didn't strike me as funny till it finally dawned on me that the
square root of 69 is, *in fact*, 8-something.

-Wilson

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Paul <paulzjoh at mtnhome.com> wrote:
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> paul johnson wrote
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> In the early sixties was the first time I heard the joke: "What's the
> square root of 69?"
> "8(ate) something"
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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