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Sam: The National Hellenic Museum has a new exhibit with a twelve-foot-tall Trojan Horse that kids can climb around in.
Boss: No! Don't do it!
Sam: That's awesome!
Boss: People died in the Trojan Horse!
Coworker: Wait, I thought they used it to invade?
Sam: I'm pretty sure at least one dude died. Didn't Laocoon or one of the other Trojans stab the horse and some guy died silently, thus proving how awesomely stoic he was? Or Odysseus strangled him, I can't remember.
Coworker: Why would he do that?
Boss: Either way, what a great addition to any playground.

Date: 2011-11-15 06:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] twirlynoodle.livejournal.com
Your workplace wins.

Date: 2011-11-15 06:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] valancy-joy.livejournal.com
LOLs. And I thought my workplace was good when I emailed off sick yesterday and my supervisor responded, "Get Better. Will see you anon." :)

Date: 2011-11-15 08:19 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I am on the internet too much. I first read that as "anonymous" and wondered how you could work that way. How cool would it be if, at your workplace, you could choose to be officially you or anon when you needed to do things you weren't quite sure would work out?

Date: 2011-11-15 11:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] valancy-joy.livejournal.com
Anonymousness would be an awesome super power for work!! :)

Date: 2011-11-15 11:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spectre-infanta.livejournal.com
I'm afraid I have it worse than the above anon. I've been staring at your comment for 5 minutes and I still can't figure out what 'will see you anon' means! :D;;

Date: 2011-11-15 11:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] valancy-joy.livejournal.com
Whoops! :) just assume anon = soon, or tomorrow. It's literally "in one" ...sorry you were confused!!!

Date: 2011-11-16 12:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bakaknight.livejournal.com
I thought 'anon' meant you were vaguely threatening in Shakespeare-talk (which is why the phrase 'see you anon' cropping up in Hot Fuzz felt like an immediate giveaway of plot to me).

Date: 2011-11-15 07:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bookwormsarah.livejournal.com
I wonder whether I can wangle one of those for work... I run a transport museum connected to a steam railway and although we don't *usually* go back that many years...

Date: 2011-11-15 07:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capedcrusader92.livejournal.com
We had a big wooden Trojan horse in my elementary school playground. To the best of my knowledge no children were ever stabbed while playing in it.
Edited Date: 2011-11-15 07:11 pm (UTC)

Date: 2011-11-15 07:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lots42.livejournal.com
"Goddamit, Georogio! I told you to stop farting!" *strangle, strangle*. "Anyone else want to stink up the horse? I thought not."

Date: 2011-11-15 07:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] firynze.livejournal.com
I...I...I desperately want to go play around inside the 12-foot Trojan Horse now.

Date: 2011-11-15 11:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ysabet.livejournal.com
Gods, me too. I want to make whinnying noises and bang two coconuts together.

Date: 2011-11-16 03:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] utopia83.livejournal.com
Me three...And dress as a greek warrior.

Date: 2011-11-15 08:25 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Ah, if my rememberance of torturously translating texts on the subject is accurate, nobody died IN the horse. There WAS one who had to be forcibly shushed when he wanted to answer Helen, who was trying to get anybody in it to come out by imitating the voices of the mens' wives.

Date: 2011-11-16 01:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
That could be it. I couldn't find any sources for the stabbing, anyway...

Date: 2011-11-15 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fleshydisguise.livejournal.com
I should investigate this...

Date: 2011-11-16 01:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
If you do find references to a stabbing, let me know!

Date: 2011-11-15 09:18 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] brewsternorth.livejournal.com
"Perhaps if we built a giant wooden badger..."

Date: 2011-11-15 10:39 pm (UTC)

Date: 2011-11-16 12:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eofs.livejournal.com
For years and years I had that image so firmly stuck in my head that I couldn't understand why the Trojans even let it in, it looking so crappy. It was only comparatively recently that I realised that I was letting a comic film dictate my image and that maybe, just maybe, it wasn't accurate.

But to this day I still instantly picture that particular Trojan horse whenever the matter arises - such as this very post.

Date: 2011-11-15 09:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karadin.livejournal.com
It's Ancient Fandoms Discussion Time!

Date: 2011-11-15 11:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jwaneeta.livejournal.com
Good banter in the workplace is above rubies. I congratulate you on your job.

Date: 2011-11-16 02:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] behindblue-eyes.livejournal.com
And I thought my job was interesting when I spent twenty minutes discussing the proper plural for "octopus" with about five of my coworkers. Trojan horse conversations trump that, for sure.

This seems to be the place for you, Sam. Continue on in your awesome job.

Date: 2011-11-16 12:25 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
The Greek plural of 'feet' would be 'podes'. So, "octopodes." [Warning: This is only true for classic majors who are insufferably attached to Attik Greek, forsaking all language change, including derivation over Latin loan words.]
However, as the singular 'octopus' is implicitly plural (One 'eight-leg', rather than 'eight legs')one could concievably make an argument for a zero-morph plural: 1 octopus, 2 octopus, a marauding horde of octopus. [This argument works best with drunk linguists. Not supported by any literature.]
As an English noun, of course, one must accept the anglicized "Octopuses" regardless of how aesthetically and etymologically displeasing it may be. [This argument works best with English majors; alcohol and the OED may be factors.]
Everybody can agree (English sticklers and classical etymology sticklers and probably also biologists) that "octopi" is RIGHT. OUT. [Rampant elitism is a deciding factor. Booze and dictionaries are just boni. Drunk mathemticians love it - but just because they like pi.]
Frat boys prefer "octopussy". [This is not an argument but a bad misogynist joke fueled by testosterone and booze. Not to be used in class, for it has none.]

Date: 2011-11-16 12:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] infelixsoror.livejournal.com
This comment is perfect. I want to print it out and stick in to my noticeboard and just point to it the next time this argument starts among my collection of drunken students.

Date: 2011-11-16 02:23 pm (UTC)

Date: 2011-11-16 10:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annemjw.livejournal.com
Best reply ever. Clearly my Greek needs work, I for some reason thought the plural of foot was indeed 'podae', mea culpa.

I'm not sure what else to say except 'I agree'? :D (Well, and that I'm an English and Classics major, which leaves me in terrible coniptions over this argument.)

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