There is an old joke that I have always found hilarious and about 50% of people find this joke

uproariously funny the other 50% think it's the dumbest thing they've ever heard.

And how you react to it will be a good indicator

for how you react to the origin story of Homer's Iliad. So you may be wondering what on earth this joke has to do with the homeric cycle and the myths that Homer tells Nelia and the Odyssey.

Well I will get to it, I promise. But first let me tell the joke. So guy walks into a bar and his head is shaped like an orange.

Now the bartender, rather justifiably, is curious about this. He's not seeing a person with an orange for a head before,

but he feels that it would somehow be impolite to ask, just straight up, why is your head an orange?

It's sort of like asking, you know, why is your head in orange? It's sort of like asking you know why are your

eyes so far apart. So he keeps his cool, serves the guy his drink, serves him

another after that, and gradually as the evening wears on the bartender's curiosity just gets the better of him.

And he says, I'm so sorry if this is rude.

But I have to know.

I don't see many people whose heads are fruits, why is your head an orange?

And the guy says, well, there's a story behind that.

You see, one day I was walking down the beach and a treasure chest washed up like

out of one of the stories you know like out of a pirate story and I opened the

treasure chest and in the treasure test there is a lamp

And the lamp looks like something right out of Disney's Aladdin. So what do I do? Well of course I just rub the lamp and out pops a genie I swear to you and says I will grant you three wishes so I say really is that a thing I didn't know that was real

genie says absolutely anything you want I, I wish for a billion dollars.

Genie snaps his fingers, second treasure chest washes up on shore. I open it up

$1 billion in cold hard cash.

So we say, this is amazing. I, I, I, dollars in cold hard cash.

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