I was in a meeting when someone mentioned that April showers bring May flowers, and of course I responded with,”Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote!”
And then I stopped, because that’s all I know of Canterbury Tales, just the “April showers” part written in Middle English.
A co-worker answered, “The droghte of March hath perced to the roote” and then proceeded to rattle of the rest of the entire canto without stopping for breath.
I laughed so hard I wheezed. I have never been so delightfully one-upped.
I mean I assume he was quoting the rest of it, he could be saying some Swedish Chef gibberish and passing it off as Middle English.
4 responses to “Co-worker Owns Me”
That is fabulous.
KC – it really did make me laugh.
F-ing Chaucer. Entirely his fault I got a lower level of honours than I deserved. Obligatory paper, hated it, kept forgetting about it, did pass the exam, just, but it dragged down my overall grade. All his fault. Have never, will never forgive or forget. F-ING Chaucer.
Big Dit – (I assume this is the Middle English spelling of Dot) – I never achieved anything but summa cum laude, and I also studied Chaucer. I see a pattern. Clearly he is spending his afterlife sabotaging educated women with his smutty unfinished Tales, the bastard.