So I was telling A. about how I was buying new curtains, because my puppy decided to rip the Venetian blinds off my windows. Here’s the text message conversation that followed:

A.: If it weren’t for the Venetians, it’d be curtains for all of us!

J-Ho: Yay. You get 6,003 points for that one.

J-Ho: Did I say 6,003? I meant 600,000,000,003.

A.: I do what I can.

J-Ho: It took me a few readings to realize exactly how funny that joke is. The answer is extremely.

J-Ho: Like, the pun works on its own, but then I picture the Venetians and how proud they are of their contribution to the world.

A.: Can you really picture a Venetian? I can’t.

J-Ho: They look like greasy gangsters, but they’re wearing togas and holding blinds up with one hand, and they’re giving the world the finger with the other.

A.: Can the leader be yelling, “Slats, motherfucker!”?

J-Ho: He has to be! I didn’t have audio in my vision before, but that’s absolutely what he’s yelling.

J-Ho: This is going on BC.