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Conversing: Communists at the Dinner Table

Ah, Memorial Day with the family:

(Kyle, sixteen, and Jacob, thirteen, are my cousins)

Jacob: You guys want to hear a funny quote from [some computer game]?

Everyone: Sure!

Jacob: [Imitating a character from the game] “When I gave him some food, he called me a saint. When I asked him why he didn’t have food of his own, he called me a communist!” [Giggling] Get it?

[Long pause, as we try to make sense of this]

Kyle: Huh. I don’t get it.

[The rest of us concur with Kyle]

Jacob: [Dejectedly] Yeah, I didn’t get it either.