The jokes above about a boy not talking until the age of five are derived, I believe (possibly erroneously) from John Stuart Mill who, apparently, performed exactly that feat. His first words were reputedly voiced at dinner one day when he exclaimed, "This soup has too much salt!" One of his astonished parents inquired why he had never spoken before to which the answer came, "Until now everything has been perfectly satisfactory."!

Or perhaps it was someone else.


Steve