True Story.
DW and I were visiting some friends. One of he women had a teenage daughter who happened ot be on a dinner date and who was expected home soon. Sure enough, she arrived on time with her boyfreind in tow. She enteed the house by way of the kitchen, where we were all sitting and talking. It was at this point that I spouted the funniest sentence of my lifetime. I personally regretted it later, for it embarrassed both the young man, and the young woman terribly, and I felt very bad. Here's how it went.
Young couple walk into the door.
Chief: "I now what you two have been doing."
Friend's Daughter, in a challenging but playful tone: "And what would that be?"
Chief: "You two have been out masticting."
Both friends instantly howled with laughter, for they had enough medical knowledge to know that what I said was accurate, if misleading to a pair of teenagers who had never heard the word masticating.
That poor girl turned so red that her skin was almost crimson, as was her embarrassed date. Later, I explained to her that masticating describe the act of chewing food. She was mad at me for a while.
In my defense, I was only 26 years of age, still prone to water balloon fights, water hose fights, scaring campers in the middle of the night (they also had teenage boys and camped back in the woods on our property, with my permission, I made sounds like a bear. The mother had a 22 rifle with her and told me the next day that she had heard a bear in their camp, and that if she hadn't gotten so tangled up in her sleeping bag, she would have shot it. I kept her pickup truck between me and the camp when I was acting out my shenanigans.
The young lady eventually forgave me, and we laughed about the masticate incident as she grew older. But it was so funny when it happened, to everyone but her and her boyfriend.
Anybody else play a joke on someone that was extremely funny, but not for the mark?
Seeeeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North