Overheard in the bathroom

[bluebren_livejournal]

SUITEMATE 1: Did you ever read The Odyssey?
SUITEMATE 2: Yeah.
1: What's it about?
2. It's, um... It's where he falls in love with...
3: It's about all the obstacles that he has to... how the gods punish him...
2: Well, I read it a long time ago.
3: ...for 40 years...
1: Forty years.
2: And the dog dies. ...That's the only part I remember.
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Comments

[phrotus.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha! That part was sad, though. The dog. :(

I liked the bum that wrestles him and loses after he gets back to Ithaca, because he was named for Iris and I had a weird obsession with her.

lol

[anondra.livejournal.com]

Dude...that's awesome....

[odifyingpip.livejournal.com]

Man....Murray will never let me forget that much about The Odyssey. But hey, "rippling thighs" is very much worth remembering. :)