Lewis Black thinks he knows why people have aneurysms. (For those without a medical dictionary handy, that’s when a blood vessel in your brain explodes without warning, causing instant and traumatic death.) He believes that it can be caused by hearing a sentence out of context that makes absolutely no sense. Throughout the day, you continue thinking about this sentence, trying to put it into some context that will give it meaning. If you cannot find a proper context, and you cannot stop thinking about this sentence, then eventually BOOM! your brain explodes.

As an example of this phenomenon, Black cites an experience he once had in a mall. He passed a couple of young women, walking in the opposite direction, and overheard one of them say, “If it wasn’t for my horse, I never would have made it through that last semester of college.” Don’t think too hard about that one, I don’t want to be responsible for the sudden deaths of all my friends and family.

Well, I was walking to work this morning, and I passed a couple of young gentlemen walking in the opposite direction. One of them says, “It blows air straight up your asshole, and you’re just like, stop.” I thought about it for a second or two, then, realizing the situation, turned around to ask them what they were talking about. But it was too late! They had already turned a corner, and I couldn’t find them.

Fortunately, just as I could start feeling the vein in my temple start to throb, I headed to the bathroom. And that is where it hit me. This guy must have done a study abroad last semester, and he was talking about using a bidet.

So with that context, I can pass along another one of these crazy sentences. Thank God I took French in high school, or I’d be dead right now.