Friday, May 18, 2012

Domestic comedy

“Did I ever tell you about the etymology of apple?”

“No.”

[Discourse follows on Genesis, the pomegranate, and la pomme de terre.]

“But where does the word apple come from?”

“I don’t remember.”

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comments: 3

The Subliminal Mr Dunn said...

Interesting that when I did a search for "apple" in Google, I didn't find a reference to the fruit as opposed to the company until I got to page 3!

Michael Leddy said...

I’ve had a similar experience when gathering art for teaching and doing an image search for madonna.

Anonymous said...

Madonnapple, memadame.
Nowgoogle thadabit.
Surge injuns get bighead aches
Sort sifting through such sh....