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Latin:  No Longer a Joke *
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Latin:  No Longer a Joke *

Kevin and Marilyn Ryan

Julius Caesar strolls into a Boston bar, gives the bartender a hard look and says, "Give me a martinus, straight up, three olives." The bartender is confused and says, "Sir, are you sure it's not a martini that you want?"  Caesar looks him dead in the eye and growls, "I want a martinus.  If I wanted a double, I would have said so!"

It's a joke and if you don't get it, you can blame the Progressive Education Movement which over many decades has transformed a pretty good public school system into a national embarrassment.  One of Progressive Education's first targets was the teaching of Latin, which had been a curricular staple in schools for two thousand years.

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