...at the one (Thai) restaurant where I work now, where they have a large group come in, and it's all like later-stage grad students, and it turns out that one of them had just finished his entomology dissertation on bees, and they had all come out to celebrate:
After I ask if that meant he "bee smart" and then right away I de-fang the obvious joke and ask if people make jokes like that a lot with them, the one says that yes, they hear jokes like that around the lab all the time, stuff like "be nice" etc., and then I ask if they get called "worker bees" at the lab, and another one says yes, they hear that all the time from their PI, he calls them little worker bees, so then, finally, I observe that it would be nice if their PI was a gay guy, since then they could go around calling him "the Queen."
. . .
(At that their eyes just got wide and they all kind of got silent, and then one [white] [female] chuckles and is like, "That's good.")
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