I came up with this today and just had to share it.
I'm having a conversation with a friend of mine:
"You will never believe what just happened to me this morning."
"What"
"I was walking by the side of a road and found a lamp, I couldn't resist and I rubbed it, and out popped a genie. The genie said to me you may have a wish. So I thought a little bit and said, you know what I would like to meet Sapphos. She seems like such an amazing interesting woman I would really like a chance to talk with her.
And would you know it before my very eyes a woman appeared in antiquity style dress and of olive complexion. I was so amazed at first, but I managed to say to her, 'wow this is incredible, it's you Sapphos. I've read all your poetry I can get my hands on and I have so many questions to ask about them and you and your life and what it was like on Lesbos and all your influences and everything.'
And do you know what she said to me?"
"No what, please tell me."
"I don't know, I don't speak Greek."
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hahaha!
That's funny. Thanks for sharing! :)
Argh! I loves me a good pun. However, I think the punchline should be "I don't know. It was Greek to me".
I'm not sure if this is sexism. People who live close to college take their laundry home bedroom furniture all the time. It's making fun of college students for being lazy more than anything else.I guess you could argue it's bad because it implies that the mother is always the one who does the laundry, but I can't think of an alternative that doesn't sound awkward. Do they also have "Hi, Dad" bags?