So Bill received his air shipment today...

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...and, it being Bill, it included a bunch of books he carted with him to the other side of the world, intending to read them. (That he didn't get a chance to read any is another story altogether.) Anyway:

Bill: I've got a biography of Scipio Africanus.
Me: Is he Irish?
Bill What?
Me: Skippy O'Africanus?
Bill:
Me:
Bill: I'm teaching Andrew history.

(A little later:)

Bill: Who names a general "Skippy" anyway?