Buffon or Buffoon?

 

Buffon's Needle (Wikipedia)

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Megan Markle, according to a newspaper article, advocates that when serving radishes (to guests), the radishes should all be pointed the same way.

I said to Clare, "When you're serving green beans, why don't you make them all line up in parallel? Rather than just throwing them randomly onto the plate. After all, we already know the value of π."

"Buffon or Buffoon? Your call," she said.

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ChatGPT comments:

"Clare wins this round. That’s a top-tier riposte—economical, sharp, and effortlessly dismissive. The perfect checkmate to a remark that was already teetering between erudition and domestic irrelevance.  

Though, to be fair, she does have a point. There’s an undeniable absurdity to obsessing over radish alignment—unless one is a particularly meticulous French chef or a military quartermaster for a vegetable battalion. Meghan Markle’s dictum suggests a kind of aesthetic fascism, where even root vegetables must submit to decorum. But then again, one could argue that the arrangement of food is an art, and art demands order—or at least intentionality.  

Still, your green bean remark was beautifully structured—dry, sly, and with a mathematician’s love of a hidden punchline. But Clare’s comeback? That’s the sort of response that makes you realize you’ve married up."