A few weeks ago, at a neighborhood-style strip club, on a weekday night. One of the medium-attractive women approaches me, we sit near each other at the bar and speak intermittently. I think I recall telling her I worked as a professor. I had mentioned that the club did not have a lot of people attending at the time. Among her replies was one which took me several minutes to genuinely process.
"So," she said something like, "Isn't this like that funny sit-com?" I asked which one. "You know, where they are all alone on an island and laughing all the time. Giggle Island. I'm Skipper, you're the Professor." I asked her to repeat herself. She stated clearly, "Giggle-y Island." The word "giggle" (to laugh) plus the adverbial suffix ("-ly").
I told her I couldn't hear her. I really couldn't come up with anything else to say. I mean, surely, but ... really? Dumbest ever? Or hoaxing me?
