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.
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It helps if you give them a really cartoonish Italian accent. ๐ค
yeah, i just read them as "eury-pi-des" and "eury-many-dees" which really didn't work at all
Thanks, would've taken me a long time to figure it out without this.
Sorry, didn't work for me.
Did you try paying it better?
Wearing pants?!?
on closer inspection i believe this story to be fake because the ancient greeks did not wear pants.
It's also from the show Frasier
damn they had that in athens?
Definitely. You don't win that many Emmys without total saturation.
Nope, it was a spartan show.
Why are you inspecting pantless Greeks?
Call it a torn tunic, then.
An ancient greek walks into a strip club
"Epictetus"
I'm too Greek to understand this joke
Ancient Greeks: This is a joke?