My sister-in-law, a professional storyteller, was in Europe speaking at various libraries. Later, she called her mother and told her that she’d just given a speech for 250 librarians.
“Great,” said her mother. “How much is that in American money?”
–David Rumpeltin in the July 2009 Reader’s Digest, page 175
Reminds me of an old 3 Stooges’ film. The uncouth Stooges, when
informed by a suave butler that a certain vase “goes back to Louois
XIV, retorted by saying. “That’s nothin’ ! We have a bed that goes
back to Sears Roebuck the twenty-third !”