A young man from Maine went off to Oxford in England to get educated. He came from a poor family but managed to scrape enough money to go. His father, a laborer, not easily impressed, (a reverse snob actually) got a letter from his son. In it, was a photo of the boy who had grown a mustache and beard. The boy wrote, "How do you like my mustache and beard? my friends tell me I look like a count." the old man says to his wife, "Look at this, he's in college and still cant spell."