Sounds like something she'd say

Along the lines of "The problem with France is they got no word for entrepreneur." Attributed to Bush Jr. who never actually said that.

It's a joke I can use without even smiling to appear stupid. 

It's hilarious when you do.

Some friends were playing hearts and I sat apart drinking a Coca-Cola. 

One huge guy, 6'4" named Hugh, odd innit, was talking about Tarot cards but kept 

pronouncing tay-roh. 

Tayroh, tayroh, tayroh, tayroh, tayroh, tayroh, tayroh, tayroh,  the whole time.

A hush fell over the table as they examined their newly dealt cards.

I piped up apparently sincere deadpan.

"Well, I don't anything about Tay-roh but I did read some Emerson." 

A moment elapsed as they processed my nonsense along with arranging their cards. 

Then the whole table of players cracked up laughing hysterically because they're all philosophical types. They couldn't believe they just heard something so stupid, missing the entire discussion about occult divination cards.