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Wed Aug-13-08 10:50 PM
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totally random, but does anyone else laugh when they hear the Cato Institute mentioned, because they imagine Inspector Clouseau's houseboy teaching students how to attack people?
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| cosmik debris
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Wed Aug-13-08 11:23 PM
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| 1. I spent too much time studying Latin |
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When I hear Cato I wonder if they are talking about Elder or Younger.
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| LeftishBrit
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Thu Aug-14-08 05:07 AM
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| 2. I hadn't heard of this Institute until very recently on DU.. |
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but having had to study Roman history at school, I associate it with Cato the Elder. Ugh. The Latin for 'Jesse Helms' or possibly for 'Ahmadinejad' or... there are lots of possible modern translations, unfortunately.
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Thu Aug-14-08 06:23 AM
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| 3. Wasn't he the Green Hornet's driver/kick ass sidekick? |
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As a kid, I thought the Green Hornet tv show was too violent to watch -- and I wasn't particularly sensitive to tv violence.
If memory serves me correctly, his sidekick was named Cato or Kato and was played by a young, but already incredible, Bruce Lee.
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