I originally posted this in r/MaliciousCompliance, but several commenters thought it would be good here as well. I hope this isn't a re-run for too many of you.
This was years ago when my son was starting middle school. I was transporting him and a group of his new friends. One of the friends was French, and spoke French at home. My son mentioned that I had taken French in high school, and so one of his friends asked me to say something in French and see if French girl could understand me.
Before I go on, a note on parenting style: we joke around with our kids all the time. I know that not all parents joke with their children; some of my kids' friends enjoyed to a dad who makes a joke, and some would look at me like I grew a second head.
So I said to the French girl, «quelque chose». Immediately the friends turned to French girl and asked "What did he say?"
I waited, wondering whether she would join my joke.
A sly smile crept across her face as she said, "he said...something". The rest of the trip, the friends tried to convince her to reveal what it was that I had said. «quelque chose» is the French phrase for "something".
But I don’t want to sugar coat it.
You better use a Penn & Teller
He reaches into his bag and takes out a bunch of regular dinner table forks and a roll of duct tape.
He tapes several forks together to make a bridge and lays it down, allowing the two of them to get across.
When they get back to Yoda’s hovel, they find that some creature has chewed a hole in the fence around Yoda’s garden.
“Something I have for this.” Yoda says again. Once again, he takes a bunch of forks out of his bag and, using duct tape, tapes them in to patch the hole.
Yoda and Luke return to Yoda’s home, where Yoda looks through his bag. He’s used all his forks but one, he discovers.
“That’s ok Master." Luke says, wanting to be helpful. “I’ll write us a note reminding us to buy more.”
So he writes the note and uses the very last fork to pin it to the bulletin board.
He looks down at Yoda expecting pride, but instead finds a look of horror.
“Master Yoda!” he asks. “What did I do wrong?”
Yoda replies sagely, “A Jedi uses the forks for no ledge and the fence. Never for a tack!”
Something funny.
But it would probably just turn into an ANAGRAM joke,
The other 3% is when I do math
me ghosta
Tasty
cal
>You Apollo-gize
(From my son today, he has improved astronomically over the past few years.)
“Well....Soviet”
Wakanda shit is this?
Something funny
Plethora.
Thanks. That means a lot.
“Something!”, I yelled at her. Warning: use at your own risk. I was smacked with a flip flop.
Something about women
RushPutin
But no one would get the yolk.
The blind kid didn't say a word for the rest of they school year.
Thanks for letting minnow
But I didn't want to crack a joke
Laundry
MOOOO-chas gracias
"I really gotta hand it to Ya."
Mariana Trench
...would it be a broad generalization?
I tell her to stop being a small island off the South West coast of Italy.
I think it was the latter.
(Thought up this gem while trying to sleep at 3 am. lol.)
I said restaurants.
Oh
He said, "suture self."
At least she's being aww-nest.
But they don't work
I tell her, don't be a small island off the South West coast of Italy.
