The Laughing Maus

While surfing around this morning I wound up at the Freakonomics blog where someone is asking for modern proverbs for a book he is writing. This one was new to me.

“We have a wonderful arrangement. I do her sums, and she gives me cookies.”

— Albert Einstein when asked if an 8 year-old neighbor bothered him.

I ask you all honestly, would you share your cookies for better math scores?

The local Maus Pack is undecided. Some say: “Cookies for improved numbers? Better to have improved numbers of cookies.”

While others sit around nodding thier heads and saying: “Thanks to the rise of the internet, the cookies for equations exchange rate has improved to the point that this arrangement could be good for everyone.”

Most of them agree though: “Cookies make the world go round.” Ahem.

Why are Americans living abroad “Expats” and foreigners living inside the US “immigrants”?