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LastLiberal in PalmSprings

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54. A guy goes to Boston on a business trip.

Thu Jan 21, 2021, 04:54 PM

Jan 2021

Since he has never been there before he wants to try the local cuisine and, after some research decides the quintessential dish (after baked beans) is a seafood dish made from a young cod fish.

As he gets into the taxi at the airport he asks the driver, "Where can I get scrod?"

The driver turns to look at him and replies, "You know, I have been asked that question many times and in many ways. But never before in the Past Pluperfect Subjunctive."

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I first heard this joke as a freshman in college (1967).

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