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Is your life savings a single moth? Are you afflicted with moola eyes? It might be a sign we’re in a downturn.
![Scene is a domestic room in ANCIENT GREECE. The traveller ODYSSEUS enters to meet his DAD, an old, bearded man.
DAD:
Odysseus!
ODYSSEUS:
Father!
DAD:
It’s so good to see you after all these years! How was your journey?
ODYSSEUS:
Not bad, yeah
DAD:
Which way did you come?
ODYSSEUS:
Oh... I dunno.
I just followed the sat nav
[There is a silent pause. Odysseus’s dad smiles, a frozen rictus of affability which says ‘that is not acceptable and I’ll pretend you didn’t say it’.]
DAD:
Which way did you come.
ODYSSEUS:
Um. I dunno, Dad
DAD:
Did you come via the domain of the Cyclops?
ODYSSEUS:
I think.... um....
DAD:
Through the lair of the Laestrygonian cannibals?
ODYSSEUS:
Uh....
DAD:
Past the siren song of the enchantresses?
ODYSSEUS:
Dunno, I had a podcast on
DAD:
You must've gone the Western Edge of the World way, past Scylla the six-headed monster and the Whirlpool of Charybdis...
ODYSSEUS:
Is that by the McDonald’s roundabout
DAD:
Yes
ODYSSEUS:
Yeah I did come that way
DAD:
OOOH YOU SHOULDN’T COME THAT WAY
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