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« Reply #350 on: January 09, 2012, 03:10:27 am » |
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« Reply #351 on: January 09, 2012, 08:39:20 am » |
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I start wondering where all these automatons and wei.. ehm, unusual people come from?
Or is that a secret?
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. (Cecil Beaton)
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« Reply #352 on: January 09, 2012, 11:32:38 am » |
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so will there be nibbles at the meetings.. you can't have a meeting with out a good selection of nibbles
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« Reply #353 on: January 10, 2012, 12:49:06 am » |
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*Treads on a clockwork scarab beetle carrying a single malt extract glazed peanut.
"No, there are no nibbles here...no meetings. There is quite clearly nothing going on in this room."
*Watches out of the corner of the eye as a single clocktopus tentacle slithers under the tablecloth. Winces slightly. Finally manages to find a lump under the rug with left foot and depresses it.
SQUEAK!
*Smiles weakly.
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« Reply #354 on: January 10, 2012, 05:34:02 am » |
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OUCH! What'd you do that for? *pushes back rug and climbs out trapdoor*
That's the third hat I've smashed this week. *looks around at not so secret crowd*
Why does SHE have unsightly tentacle bruises on her face, what are you doing with that melon baller and where is that perfectly slimey creature think he's going?
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« Reply #355 on: January 10, 2012, 11:29:30 am » |
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Who, me? I'm not going anywhere, I was just putting this completely innocent looking lump-hammer back on the sideboard.
*drops said hammer delicately upon an errant tentacle sliding out from behind the furniture*
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« Reply #356 on: January 10, 2012, 11:44:45 am » |
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I say! Look what I've found!
*holds a tiny baby clockwork octopus on her hand*
Isn't it cute?
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« Reply #357 on: January 10, 2012, 12:43:48 pm » |
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*hand instinctively reaches for the lump-hammer again*
Ooooh, yes, isn't he just so cute? Can I hold him for a while...?
*eagerly holds out the hand that isn't tightly gripping the hammer, smiling sweetly*
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« Reply #358 on: January 10, 2012, 01:26:12 pm » |
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*looks suspicious*
No! He's mine! Find your own!
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« Reply #359 on: January 10, 2012, 01:34:22 pm » |
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*looks at Ms Adler's delightful face, noting the bruising brought on by the earlier octopus osculation episode...
*thinks - "some people never learn"
"Ms Adler, would you not prefer a nice cup of tea? Tell me know, I wonder if I know a relative of yours - Irene Adler is her name"
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"wee all here are much troubled with the loss of poor Thompson & Sutton"
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« Reply #360 on: January 10, 2012, 01:45:11 pm » |
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She's no relation, in fact, though I have of course heard of her. Adler is a pretty common name. It means eagle, did you know that?"
*smiles dreamily at her little octopus*
"A cup of tea would be lovely of course!"
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« Reply #361 on: January 10, 2012, 01:50:03 pm » |
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"Yes, I did know that Adler was German for 'eagle', I read about it in a naturalists cook book. So, tea, milk or lemon and how many sugars would that be?
And for the octopussy, can I get it something, like a nice, tight fitting tank or Mr.Stange's lump hammer to play with? I say, should it tick like that?"
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« Reply #362 on: January 10, 2012, 02:01:27 pm » |
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Milk and two sugars please - oh, really, it's ticking! How adorable!
*the little octopus starts to crawl, while the ticking gets louder*
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« Reply #363 on: January 10, 2012, 02:23:54 pm » |
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Yes, of course! Milk and two sugars. I may be a little while, quite a trek to the kitchen you know and the staff are insisting that they don't actually work here - a statement I can easily believe!
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« Reply #364 on: January 10, 2012, 07:18:32 pm » |
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(Thoughtfully) "Melon baller...it's a melon baller..."
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« Reply #365 on: January 10, 2012, 07:21:33 pm » |
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*sets the tiny clocktopus on the floor, where it crawls to the middle of the room and starts sprouting a pair of antennae*
Oh look! It tries to communicate I think!
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« Reply #366 on: January 10, 2012, 07:23:52 pm » |
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*Rushes over to the tiny thing and traps it.*
"Clocktopus baller! ...has anyone ever seen a Clocktopus ball? How does that song go? I always forget the lyrics...
At the clocktopus ball, the clocktopus ball..."
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« Reply #367 on: January 10, 2012, 07:28:10 pm » |
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Wasn't that
"I'd like to be,
under the sea
in a clocktopus's garden,
in the shade"?
Or was that a different song?
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« Reply #368 on: January 10, 2012, 08:22:41 pm » |
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"That could be the one....although I thought it went more like:
"I'd like to sigh,
high in the sky
in a clocktopus's pie,
in the glen"?
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« Reply #369 on: January 11, 2012, 12:48:29 pm » |
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Hmmm, so the mini-Clocktopusses, Clocktopii - whatever - have appeared after the big one gets pried loose from it's comfy spot in the Private's noggin... and suddenly Miss Adler goes from being almost suffocated in a terrifying tentacle attack, to thinking that they're cute and cuddly pets... just after it was covering her nose...
*leans closer and listens to check if she's ticking yet*
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« Reply #370 on: January 11, 2012, 01:02:04 pm » |
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I do beg your pardon? Why are you staring at me like that?
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« Reply #371 on: January 11, 2012, 07:22:05 pm » |
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*Closes the door whilst swinging a stethoscope and ominously twirling a vegetable peeler...
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« Reply #372 on: January 12, 2012, 12:07:27 am » |
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« Reply #373 on: January 12, 2012, 01:27:09 pm » |
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*brushes dust off jacket
*cough
*looks up and wonders if sky has always been there or was it only recently a very pretty Regency ceiling...
"I expect somebody heard that - we are definitely a Not So Secret Society now and half of it is not out in the street and the other half, not a little way downwind!"
*cough
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« Reply #374 on: January 13, 2012, 01:08:47 am » |
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"Quickly all - to the basement!!"
*Flings open trapdoor and dives headfirst downwards....
CRasH! TinKle! Boom! Thud!
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