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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD (15) is reading "The Odyssey" for school. I am a professor of Greek literature, so I may be biased, haha. But I adore this book, maybe more than any book I've ever read. DD has...different views. She regularly announces that she hates or thinks it's bad, and that's okay, she can have her opinions. But she often makes jokes about its apparent poor quality and has even taken to mocking Homer. Yesterday she claimed at dinner that "Sabrina Carpenter could have written The Odyssey but Odysseus couldn't have written [i]Bed Chem[/i]". This is starting to seem to me that she's trying to get under my skin. Why is she doing this? If she doesn't like a book that's fine, but why this persistent need to make fun of the book that plays a large foundation in my career? [/quote]

I'm impressed that your daughter reads ancient Greek at age 15![/quote]

Fairly certain that was the point of the post. One of the best VBAs I have read in a while. [/quote]

What does that mean?[/quote]

It is the best veiled brag alert I have seen in ages.

Oh, my kid is smart enough at 15 to be in a class where they are reading The Odyssey and also precocious enough to be baiting me by slamming it, which happens to be my favorite book.

Come on, now, it’s bloody brilliant. [/quote]

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