MAS, COM CERTEZA, NINGUÉM DUVIDA; E O SIT DOWN COMEDIAN DA PÁTRIA PODIA TER ATÉ CONTADO AQUELA (OUTRA) PIADA QUE SÓ FAZ SENTIDO EM INGLÊS

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa: o Presidente da República, nas declarações sobre as suas pensões de reforma, “quis dizer uma coisa e saiu-lhe outra”

There were these two guys having lunch one day when the first guy says to the second one, "You ever say one thing to someone when you meant to say something else?"

"How do you mean?" says the second one.

"Well last week I was at the airport in Philly and I wanted to come back here to Pittsburgh and the girl at the counter had these enormous breasts, so, instead of asking for two tickets to Pittsburgh, I asked for two pickets to Tittsburgh".

"I know what you mean", says the second guy. "Why just this morning I was having breakfast with my wife and I meant to ask her to pass the jelly but instead I said 'You're ruining my life, you stupid bitch!'"

(ouvi-a, pela primeira vez, numa entrevista com Lloyd Cole; na versão dele, era uma conversa entre dois psicanalistas, aterrados pela ideia de que, até com eles, tais lapsus linguae podiam acontecer)

(2012)