Cato Institute

[realisticphish]

totally random, but does anyone else laugh when they hear the Cato Institute mentioned, because they imagine Inspector Clouseau's houseboy teaching students how to attack people?

[cosmik debris]

1. I spent too much time studying Latin

When I hear Cato I wonder if they are talking about Elder or Younger.

[LeftishBrit]

2. I hadn't heard of this Institute until very recently on DU..

but having had to study Roman history at school, I associate it with Cato the Elder. Ugh. The Latin for 'Jesse Helms' or possibly for 'Ahmadinejad' or... there are lots of possible modern translations, unfortunately.

[HamdenRice]

3. Wasn't he the Green Hornet's driver/kick ass sidekick?

As a kid, I thought the Green Hornet tv show was too violent to watch -- and I wasn't particularly sensitive to tv violence.

If memory serves me correctly, his sidekick was named Cato or Kato and was played by a young, but already incredible, Bruce Lee.