Sep4200910:19 am
This made me laugh (both the exchange, as well as the clarification that we are indeed meant to find it “humorous”):
“How many people work here?”
“About half of them.”
—Answer, to a journalist, of an American ambassador regarding the staff at her embassy; anecdote meant to be humorous
From John Brown.
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