Some years back, I was at a birthday party for the friend of some friends of mine, in the cold part of the year. The birthday boy, who was barely an acquaintance of mine, was a deputy under Davidson County (N.C.) sheriff Gerald Hege at the time. In other words, not exactly a wandering son of the Ivy League, if you get my drift.
Imagine my surprise, then, when I got a gander at one of the birthday presents, a sweatshirt which bore the legend:
"SI HOC LEGERE SCIS, NIMIUM ERUDITIONIS HABES."
I took one look at it and burst out laughing on the spot. What the sweatshirt said -- in Latin, no less -- was,
"If you can read this, you're over-educated."
And, to this day, I don't know which was funnier: that the recipient couldn't read the thing, or that I could.
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