THE BOOK OF
GREEKS
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE FIRST BOOK OF GREEKS
More Trojan War jokes
Chapter 17
There was a Greek named Achilles, who was a cdemi-God,
2And almost immortal,
3Because his mother had dipped him in a magic pond,
4Which made him completely invulnerable to injury,
5dExcept for the one place his mother had held on to while dipping him in the water,
6Namely his heel,
7Which will figure in the punch line later.
8Anyway,
9eAchilles was a great warrior and went to the Trojan War,
10fAfter taking time out for some initial business with a dress,
11gAnd promptly fell in love with a girl,
12Who got borrowed by Agamemnon, since Agamemnon was so far away from hhis loving wife Clytemnestra,
13And this made Achilles so mad that he sat in his tent,
14Not fighting,
15While the Trojans ran up a big score against the Greeks,
16Especially a Trojan named iHector,
17Who was pretty tough,
18And didn’t know much about Achilles.
19And for this reason tactlessly killed Achilles’ best friend, jPatroclus,
20Who had dressed up in Achilles’ armor as a joke.
21Then kHector tried a ljoke of his own,
22mRefusing to give the body of Patroclus back to the Greeks,
23nWhich Achilles didn’t think was funny,
24So he got some new armor from Hephaestus,
25oProving that Greeks with foot problems stick together,
26And proceeded to scare Hector pretty badly,
27Which made Hector run away,
28Only he ran in circles,
29Three times around the walls of Troy,
30Until Achilles caught him,
31And plaughing quite loudly at his own joke,
32Killed Hector to death and then dragged him three times around the walls of Troy, thus finishing the joke in grand style.
33But then, of course, the joke was on Achilles,
34Who got shot in the heel by a poisoned arrow,
35Which made qParis titter quite a lot,
36rBecause it was his arrow.
37Nor was this the last of the jokes in the Trojan War.
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