This was my extraordinary witty greeting to Viv who came to visit just as I was putting on some favourite music.
This reminds me of other Do You Like and similar jokes that relate to cultural misunderstandings. If they are meant to deflate pretentiousness or highlight ignorance I'm not sure. Usually the setting is some formal dinner party or the like.
Let's start with the literary.
Do you like Frost?
No, it plays havoc with my delphiniums.
Do you like Kipling?
I don't know I've never kippled.
Do you like Joyce?
Not much, but her sister's a corker!
Do you like Amis?
(reply with nudge and wink) I like several misses!
This doesn't work well today as it has a rather Victorian ring to it and reminds me of bound copies of Punch.
Have you read Marx?
Blimey! How did you know! You must be a doctor.
Enough!
I must now go and do some job applications and await your own contributions to this rich vein of humour. If I get some good ones I will post a picture of the second Red Team snail to have come home. What adventures he/she must have had. If only snails could talk!