all text in italics have been translated from french for your english reading pleasure

my advisor: you teach me english! that make you my mistress!
me: (awkward face)
my advisor: no? is it not called mistress?
me: errrr…. a mistress is when you’re married, but you keep a girlfriend… who you… meet with
my advisor: ahhhh, like Monica Lewinksy!

me: come with me back to my (lab)room. The RNAse-free tubes are there.
advisor: you just asked me to go back to your bedroom with you.