References in Popular Culture
In the episode "Man Jam" of the seventh season of the British sitcom Peep Show, the fictional band "Man Feelings", with Super Hans as vocalist, play a song (title unknown) with the lyrics:
I am in loco parentis; I am the last remaining contestant on The Apprentice; I am the home-trained dentist; Ay Yay Yay Yay.
Read more about this topic: Loco Parentis
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“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man’s culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)