“If you can read this bumper sticker, you are both very well educated and much too close.”

Latin for All Occasions (1990)

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Si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis popinquus ades.

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American writer, co-founder and editor of National Lampoon 1945

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