I believe it’s called Master of All Masters, where the master fills the new servant’s head with nonsense, just to find it repeated back, accurately, in an emergency. Do you “know” this one? Have you memorized the nonsense?
Asking, partly because I’m curious and want to know, and partly because I want to try building a poll under the new system. BTW, no, I have not successfully memorized the tale.
Well, that story reminds me of a favorite joke we passed around the schoolyard:
Billy came in from playing outside and asked his mother, “Mom, what does bastard mean?”
Billy’s mom, not wanting to tell Billy about illegitimate children said, “It means people,dear.”
Billy came in the next day and asked, “Mom, what does shit mean?”
Billy’s mom blanched, “Oh, um…It’s a kind of food, dear. It’s what food becomes, sort of…”
Billy came in the next day and asked, “What does fucking mean Mom?”
Billy’s mom thought quickly, “It means getting dressed, dear…sort of, like before getting dressed.”
That Sunday evening, the in-laws came over for dinner. Billy swung wide the door and said, “Boy, you bastards are early. Anyway, shit’s on the table, and Mom and Dad are upstairs fucking.”
I remember reading it when I was a kid. It was in a compilation of old children’s stories that somehow wound up in our family’s collection of books. I’ve never come across any other reference to this story in the nearly 60 years since, until this thread. And I certainly never had any reason to memorize it.
