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Entry from July 21, 2021
“What did the worm say when he fell in a plate of spaghetti?”/“Orgy!”

Spaghetti can look like worms—or more specifically, a worm orgy. “Desda el punto de vista de una lombriz, un plato de espaguetis es una orgia” (“From a worm’s point of view, a plate of spaghetti is an orgy”) was printed in the 1998 book Patas arriba: La escuela del mundo al revés (Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World) by Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015).
     
“What did the worm say when he fell in a plate of spaghetti? ‘Orgy!’” was posted on Twitter by Sickipedia_Feed on August 16, 2011. The joke originated on the Sickipedia website. “What did the worm say when he fell in a plate of spaghetti?  ‘Orgy!’” was posted on Twitter by funny humour on August 17, 2011.
   
“a worm crawls out of a plate of spaghetti and says, ‘man, that was some orgy..!’” was posted on Twitter by Bryan Nester on December 18, 2013. “A worm crawls out of a bowl of spaghetti and says ‘Now THAT was an orgy’” was posted on Twitter by James on March 10, 2014. “A worm crawls out of a bowl of spaghetti and says: ‘That was one hell of an orgy!’” was posted on Twitter by Broken Puppet on July 19, 2020.
   
         
Wikipedia: Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Hughes Galeano (Spanish pronunciation: [eˈðwaɾðo ɣaleˈano]; 3 September 1940 – 13 April 2015) was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, “global soccer’s pre-eminent man of letters” and “a literary giant of the Latin American left”.   
     
Google Books
Patas arriba:
La escuela del mundo al revés

By Eduardo H. Galeano
Montevideo, Uruguay: Ediciones del Chanchito
1998
Pg. ?:
Desda el punto de vista de una lombriz, un plato de espaguetis es una orgia.
(“From a worm’s point of view, a plate of spaghetti is an orgy.”—ed.)
 
Newspapers.com
16 April 1999, Santa Fe (NM) New Mexican, “Triumph Over Oppression” by Ruth Lopez, pg. P-58, col. 5:
Eduardo Galeano: (...) Inevitably one situates oneself in a point of view in order to see reality and everything depends on this point of view. According to what the worms have told me, from their point of view, a plate of spaghetti is an orgy.
 
The Village Voice (Bew York, NY)
Conscientious Objector
by LENORA TODARO
November 28, 2000
(...)
In Galeano’s new book, Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World (Metropolitan, 358 pp., $24), the concerns that seep into each of his books are on full display: the way the powerful trample the powerless, multinational corporations upend the less privileged, and dictators and democracy erase history and pesky citizens.
(...)
Galeano writes from the point of view of a working-class boy, self-educated, at once wounded and wise, with a survivalist’s appetite for life. “Point of view is essential to writing, to life,” he says, leaning forward on his hotel couch while in New York to read from Upside Down. “I used to say that from the point of view of a worm, a spaghetti dish is an orgy.”
       
Google Groups: alt.humor     
Earthworm
Miss Ann Thropy
Dec 19, 2002, 8:54:12 AM
What does a worm say, seeing a dish full of spaghetti?
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Oh, dear, an orgy!!!
 
Twitter
Alvaro Videla
@old_sound
“orgy!” screamed a worm, and jumped over a spaghetti dish…
5:26 AM · Apr 29, 2009·Twitter Web Client
 
Twitter
GRendon
@gmr_181
The most random quote from a college text “From the point of view of a worm, a plate of spaghetti is an orgy.” Eduardo Galeano… lol
5:47 PM · Apr 29, 2009·Twitter Web Client
 
Twitter
yury casas
@yuvicara
From the viewpoint of a worm, a plate of spaghetti is an orgy.
5:25 PM · Jul 18, 2009·Twitter Web Client
 
Twitter     
Paul Saxton
@PaulSaxton
Did you hear about the worm who fell in a bowl of spaghetti? He thought he was at a Roman orgy.
3:50 AM · Sep 3, 2010·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
Sickipedia_Feed
@Sickipedia_Feed
What did the worm say when he fell in a plate of spaghetti?
“Orgy!” http://bit.ly/nu2sqF
1:32 PM · Aug 16, 2011·twitterfeed
 
Twitter
funny humour
@funnyhumour
What did the worm say when he fell in a plate of spaghetti?  “Orgy!”
3:42 AM · Aug 17, 2011·UberSocial for BlackBerry
 
Google Books
5,000 Great One Liners
Compiled by Grant Tucker
London, UK: Biteback Publishing
2012
Pg. ?:
What did the worm say when he fell in a plate of spaghetti? ‘Orgy!’
   
Twitter   
Bryan Nester
@Bryan_Nester
Replying to @AnnaKendrick47
@AnnaKendrick47 a worm crawls out of a plate of spaghetti and says, “man, that was some orgy..!”
1:42 AM · Dec 18, 2013·Twitter Web Client
   
Twitter
James
@hiroshigeee
A worm crawls out of a bowl of spaghetti and says “Now THAT was an orgy”
5:02 PM · Mar 10, 2014 from Kaw, MO·Twitter for iPhone
   
Twitter
A smol birb
@_TheDeveloper_
”@ohmyj0y: A worm crawls out of the spaghetti and says “that was some orgy!”” #FTFY
1:47 AM · Apr 18, 2014·Twitter for Android Tablets
 
Twitter
Benny Boysel
@benjiboysel
a worm crawls out of a plate of spaghetti and says to another, “man, that was some orgy!”
3:54 PM · Dec 29, 2014·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
Eli Vlahovic
@prettyph3nom
What did the worm say when he fell in a plate of spaghetti? “Orgy!“
2:15 PM · Nov 10, 2019·Hootsuite Inc.
   
Twitter
Broken Puppet ☕
@java_assassin
A worm crawls out of a bowl of spaghetti and says:
“That was one hell of an orgy!”
6:52 PM · Jul 19, 2020·Twitter for Android
 
Reddit—Jokes
Posted byu/CJ200516 July 20, 2021
A worm climbs out of a plate of spaghetti and says…
that was one hell of an orgy

Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityFood/Drink • Wednesday, July 21, 2021 • Permalink


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