Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Boston waiters just love to play god.
And to screw you with scarcely a nod.
When I said I hate fish
And I asked for a dish
Of spaghetti, instead I got scrod. 

Based on the suggestion: “'scrod' as a pluperfect subjunctive”  

From this joke: A traveler who is a huge fan of seafood arrives in Boston for the first time.  He leaves the airport and hails a cab.  After he gets in, he excitedly says to the cabbie, "Hey, I'm new in town.  Can you tell me a good place to go to get scrod?"  The cabbie replies, in a thick Boston accent, "Pal, I've got to congratulate you.  I've heard that question a lot over the years, but that's the first time I've ever heard it in the pluperfect subjunctive."

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