For people like me, who didn't get it: Euripides: a greek philosopher who'se name sounds like the phrase " Did you rip these?" Eumenides: a tragedy by Aeschylus that sounds like the phrase " Will you mend these"

I love it.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It helps if you give them a really cartoonish Italian accent. 🤌

[–] lime@feddit.nu 16 points 2 months ago

yeah, i just read them as "eury-pi-des" and "eury-many-dees" which really didn't work at all

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 4 points 2 months ago

Thanks, would've taken me a long time to figure it out without this.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, didn't work for me.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 6 points 2 months ago

Did you try paying it better?

[–] Mim@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 months ago

Wearing pants?!?

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago (3 children)

on closer inspection i believe this story to be fake because the ancient greeks did not wear pants.

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's also from the show Frasier

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

damn they had that in athens?

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Definitely. You don't win that many Emmys without total saturation.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Nope, it was a spartan show.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Why are you inspecting pantless Greeks?

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

An ancient greek walks into a strip club

"Epictetus"

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

I'm too Greek to understand this joke

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago

Ancient Greeks: This is a joke?