English Majors, Unite! - I

English Majors, Unite! - I love this one,, via Volokh:

"A man is on his first visit to Boston, and he wants to try some of that delicious New England seafood that he'd long heard about. So he gets into a cab, and asks the driver, 'Can you take me to where I can get scrod?' The driver replies, 'I've heard that question a thousand time, but never in the pluperfect subjunctive.'"

Sure, maybe a little inside. But I'm the guy who, when asked by my German professor to conjugate the German word for "to Stay", responded "Blieben, Blob, Gebloben", and have broken up in gales of laughter for the past twenty years every time I recall it.

I need a job.

Posted by Mitch at September 17, 2003 08:33 AM