Nora: (hearing commotion) W-w-what's going on?
Storyteller: Well, nature abhors a vacuum...but Gonzo seems to like them.
Erin: Mmm...(thumbing through book) Hey, I've got a joke: Did you know that Marcel Proust wrote a cookbook, in addition to his other books?
Storyteller: Really? What was it called?
Erin: A la recherche du Pain Perdu.
(Storyteller cackles)
Nora: I don't get it.
Erin: It's a play on "A la recherche du Temps Perdus," In Remembrance of Things Past. And pain perdu is French toast.
Nora: Oh, oh...(winces)
Erin: (sighs) If I have to explain it, it's not funny - but my French professor got a laugh out of it. (gets up) On another subject, I got us a new teapot.
Storyteller: Oh, let's do see it.
Erin: (goes to kitchen, returns with pot) Here it is, one nice big round blue one, which I unearthed in Finders Keepers.
Nora: Looks good.