One - [Voice]
Jan. 21st, 2010 05:45 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
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[And suddenly, there's a slow, deep, gravelly voice.]
Er... dis is Sergeant Detritus of der Ankh-Morpork City Watch. I hear dat rank does not mean much in Confoo- Confoodoh- dis place, an' since I am an Agent-wif-a-capital-A, just call me Detritus. I am livin' in room four-oh-five, an'...
[Detritus trails off. There's the sound of something big and heavy shuffling around. When he speaks up again, it's slightly muffled.]
'Scuse me, where's the imp in dis fing?
[The answering voice- probably a clerk or some such- is barely audibleand sounds much like the grown-ups from Peanuts.]
There's no imp? How can people on the uvver end of dis fing hear what I am sayin' if there's no imp carryin' the message?
[Mwah, MWAH mwah mwah?, says the clerk.]
...
[Mwah?]
So you are sayin' dat I am havin' to put the imp into dis Gooseberry myself?
[... mwaaaaagh!]
Er... dis is Sergeant Detritus of der Ankh-Morpork City Watch. I hear dat rank does not mean much in Confoo- Confoodoh- dis place, an' since I am an Agent-wif-a-capital-A, just call me Detritus. I am livin' in room four-oh-five, an'...
[Detritus trails off. There's the sound of something big and heavy shuffling around. When he speaks up again, it's slightly muffled.]
'Scuse me, where's the imp in dis fing?
[The answering voice- probably a clerk or some such- is barely audible
There's no imp? How can people on the uvver end of dis fing hear what I am sayin' if there's no imp carryin' the message?
[Mwah, MWAH mwah mwah?, says the clerk.]
...
[Mwah?]
So you are sayin' dat I am havin' to put the imp into dis Gooseberry myself?
[... mwaaaaagh!]
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Date: 2010-01-22 04:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-22 05:01 am (UTC)It's a small metal cylinder dat you use to commit battery? Dat's not any better, mister.
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Date: 2010-01-22 05:06 am (UTC)No no no no no. The small metal cylinder is CALLED a battery, and it works the same way these... "imps" you talk about do!
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Date: 2010-01-22 05:28 am (UTC)[Give him another moment, folks.]
So... you gotta remember to give these "batterys" food an' a coffee break every coupla hours, too, huh?
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Date: 2010-01-22 05:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-22 05:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-22 06:06 am (UTC)...
Yes. Yes. Magic. That's it exactly.
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Date: 2010-01-22 06:16 am (UTC)You know, easy as one of dem roundish pastry fings you bake in an oven.
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Date: 2010-01-22 06:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-22 06:31 am (UTC)