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Actual conversation at work:
(context: we have new clients, and they got everyone small trophies* that basically said "Thanks for working for us!")
COWORKER: Getting this trophy makes me feel like Homer!
ME: *blank stare* *tries to think how this could relate to a guy who's been dead a few thousand years*
COWORKER: It's like getting a reward for nothing!
ME: Oh, Homer simpson?
COWORKER: Well...yeah.
ME: I thought you meant the Greek writer.
COWORKER: Who?
ME: He wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey.
COWORKER: *blank stare* Yeah, I just like getting things.
*A coworker commented on the trophies having actual marble bases and my immediate thought was "That will be the murder weapon!" and then I reminded myself that my life was not a mystery novel.)