ONE: So I was reading this book about the genealogy of pygmies in the
TWO: You were reading a book about the genealogy of pygmies in the
ONE: Yes.
THREE: There are pygmies in the
TWO: Genealogically.
THREE: Ah.
ONE: Don’t you want to ask me why I was reading about pygmies in the
THREE: I rather assumed you were attending a midget convention in
TWO: They prefer “little people.”
THREE: I prefer supermodels, but we can’t have everything.
ONE: Well the library sent me the wrong book from the thing.
TWO: You meant to read about the genealogy of slightly larger people, then?
ONE: No, I wanted the biography of the man who invented paperclips.
THREE: I can see the confusion.
TWO: Why does the library even have books about the genealogy of pygmy paperclip inventors? Who reads that?
THREE: He does.
ONE: No one does, that’s why they’re in the book thing.
TWO: The book thing.
ONE: The book depository.
TWO: Are they all planning to assassinate John Kennedy?
THREE: That’s repository.
ONE: What?
THREE:
ONE: No, I think it’s depository.
THREE: No.
ONE: No, it’s depository. It’s where you deposit books.
THREE: No, it’s where you reposit… Well okay that doesn’t make sense, but that’s still the word.
TWO: Actually, it’s both.
ONE: What?
TWO: I just looked it up. Depository and repository are synonyms.
THREE: Who thought that was a good idea?
TWO: Probably somebody got it wrong once and was too embarrassed to correct it.
THREE: So he declared the other word a synonym?
TWO: Yup.
THREE: I didn’t know you can do that.
TWO: You can’t. This guy had enough books that he needed a freaking deposit-reposit-thing, though, so he was probably pretty important.
THREE: You know what I’d like?
TWO: What?
THREE: A book suppository.
ONE: …ew.
TWO: Well, you could more literally tell someone to shove a book up their ass.
THREE: And it would certainly make it easier to cram for a literature exam.
ONE: Frankly I prefer the old-fashioned method.
TWO: Studying?
ONE: Osmosis. Now excuse me – I need to go take a nap on top of my copy of Pygmies Of The Pacific Northwest.
THREE: Okay, but if you try my way? Don’t return it to the library.
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