[dr_lew]

Yes, a little puzzling though, because in Japanese twenty is "two ten", thirty is "three ten", etc. in strict analogy to english, actually. The only thing I can suppose is that he construed twenty as "ten ten", and went from there.

But Gargantua could keep no better countenance than to burst out bellowing like a cow. He hid his face in his cap, and it was no more possible to draw a word from him than a fart from a dead donkey. - Rabelais

[bannie]

Somehow the sound of “ten ten ten” simply sounds funny.

:-)