CAN WE TALK?

It is indeed; don't you feel grateful when you win the acclaim of bodily orices?

Oh yes, im most grateful arent i? only it doesnt happen often, ears in particular are usually very angry with me for making copious amounts of nonsensical noise.. which tends to aggravate them, doesnt it?

Aren't you two quite the pair? Have you been making friends? Can't we always use another one or two good ones? Might I suggest you sing 'Moon River', Annifa/Audrey?!

You make lots of nonsensical noise? Why? Like what? Don't you feel that they should be grateful that you're giving them company?

Do you know that Annifa and I used to manage a company, Dev? Oh, you should sing a song first, should you not?

Did you really? What kind of company?
Psssst, Annifa, what's drom- really like?!
I'd sing, but I have no requests! (Oh, do I?)

We didn't really, though I have an inkling that we did in the past life; wouldn't you agree? Perhaps it's just the Parisian air affecting my head?

Your conversation does make you sound almost as if you were 'separated at birth', doesn't it? Do tell, drom-, how is Paris today? I just love your descriptions, don't I?!

Maybe Annifa is my evil twin, who is so evil that she's years younger than me ? I am sure that we met somewhere; perhaps she was the one who started talking about making a version of Romeo and Juliet with Arnold Schwarzenneger in it at Wakefield Westgate?

Do you? I am surpised, but I do thank you (of course[?!]) I'll write up more about Paris today, shall I? Do you know that I've been stuck inside, though, as I can't support heat well? O, I wish that it would rain tomorrow, do you know? Are things nice where you are?

oh no!


Ooh, it looks as though my evil secret of evilness is no longer secret, does it not?

Was I not desperately trying to hide this fact from you all? Am I not greatly shocked that I my facade of joviality has been seen through? Did I not think that I was remarkably clever in keeping my evil guise from you all this time? Maybe I was starting to get a little arrogant, and let a little evil slip through whilst looking the other way.. pretending to be intrigued by some pretty flowers.. yes I think that's what has happened, don't you?

Drom-, has it not been unseasonably nice weather in Michigan? So much so that crops that typically grow well in the hot humid days and cool nights are languishing, namely tomatoes and corn. Hasn't it been in the 70's to low 80's and low humidity? Don't I just love it?!
Annifa, Aren't we just way too perceptive around here?
Alas, though evil as you may be, we will still accept you here and allow you to continue to post. Isn't that nice of 'us'?

How could you believe that you could trick your own twin, especially considering how more experienced I am? (Yes, isn't that a nicer way to say that I am o--, well, I'm still young yet, aren't I?) Bah, anyway, I will help you with your plans, good Annifa; once I figure what they are, which is the problem, isn't it?

Am I glad for you, Dev? You are very lucky with cool nights; do you know that it is so hot here that I need a shower, and it's nearly three am? Have your children been enjoying the break?

Yes, drom-. They're loving it, aren't they? Do we not go to the beach and do more fun things together because it isn't so unbearably hot for me? Do I not wish it was cooler where you are? Isn't it just so tedious and energy consuming? Don't I hope the fall weather comes soon for you so that you can get some relief?
Am I leaving for Chicago in a couple of hours?! Is there so much to do and so little time? So, what am I doing on the computer? Am I getting a little workd done and saying 'See you later' to my a2k friends? Do I not know whether or not I'll be able to get online once I'm there?!

O, no, do you know that I hope that you get onto one, so that we can talk? Have you any plans of things to do while there? Is it long to get to Illinois from where you are? Do you know that I thank you for your wishes, and that it's cooler today but still too hot?

See you soon, hopefully?

Don't I hope so too? It depends on my sister's computer and how much time I have, doesn't it? Won't I spend most of the time helping take care of the baby? Don't we plan but a few jaunts? I never know with my sister and brother-in-law what we will do, do I? Isn't she a chaplain at a hospital on maternity leave who has a nursing degree and isn't he a writer for the paper the Chicago Tribune? Don't I find them a fun and interesting couple? Don't I hope I can get back on soon? 'Bye for now! <sob!>

dev, will you be sharing Chicago stories when you return? (I hope!)

Do you know that I both second Smog's hope, and think that your sister and brother-in-law sound really interesting? Do you know that I have often been puzzled by the in-law system? If your sister marries a man, and he becomes your brother in law, isn't that like saying that he is your sister's brother?

You don't look a day over 25, do you?

Are you going to help 'good Annifa'? I am most appreciative, am i not? Does this mean i'm good now? Oh that would be a relief, wasn't i beginning to think that being evil was a little tiresome? Do I not believe that small rodents are much better at being evil than personages such as myself?

Or does this mean that I have an evil side and a good side? Would this not make matters highly confusing? ....more so?

I don't, do I? Well, I am closer to being twenty-five than someone who's thirty-one, don't you know?

Don't you know that I will help you indeed? Why, evil can't be tiresome, can it? Wait until you have spent th--, some time being a good twin; won't you see that you had it lucky then? Perhaps this means that you are neither 'good Annifa' nor 'bad Annifa,' but rather 'morally ambiguous Annifa?' -- what could this entail?

Before we go any further and become lost (and rather confuzzled in my case) in the discussion of my moral ambiguity and suchlike jolly tittle-tattle, I feel the need to correct this statement, don't I?

Was it not I who managed the company, whilst Drom made the tea?


:wink:

If that's what she wants to think, I suppose that we should let her think it, right? Do you know -- as you should -- that I think that you'll find I managed the company whereas you had to do all those PR meetings with 'Hazel yaks' or something? What was that all about, anyway?