From news.spc.edu!news.new-york.net!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!fugue.clari.net!funny-request Sat Jan  3 01:43:06 1998
Xref: news.spc.edu rec.humor.funny:7460
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
From: chai@uiuc.edu (Ian Chai)
Subject: English
Keywords: original, chuckle
Approved: funny-request@clari.net
Path: news.spc.edu!news.new-york.net!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!fugue.clari.net!funny-request
Message-ID: <Sbf5.5709@clarinet.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 98 19:30:01 EST
Lines: 14

Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages,
it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and
goes through their pockets.
                                                -- Eddy Peters

Not only that, instead of the money, it escapes with the pocket lint.
                                                -- Don Roberts

[From Dr. Ralph Johnson's Patterns Discussion Group, as witnessed by me]
-- 
Selected by Jim Griffith.  MAIL your joke to funny@clari.net.
Sponsored by ClariNet Communications Corp.  (http://www.clari.net)
If you post instead of mailing, it screws up the reply-address sometimes.
Attribute the joke's source if at all possible.  A Daemon will auto-reply.