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Greek Joke

So I have a dramatized version of Friday night real life made-up joke for you:

We are currently studying Rome in school, but we just finished with Ancient Greece. So my sisters and I have all the Greek Myths and cultural habits in our heads. This is how the other night played out at one point:

I had just finished trying to explain to my sister, why the Greeks would hug each others knees in greeting to request something. {they do it as a greeting but also to put themselves below someone else. They usually put themselves below someone because they were going to ask them for something.}

So my sister, combining our Greek and Roman history, hugs my knees and says, “Aeneid some ice cream.” [I need some ice cream.]

xx

arizona

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