>The Smoking Room< The Second Storey

[Ella, Aerial Musketeer]

poo thats not fare i have never drunk to excess in my life i will do you a deal if i drink my lemonade can i then have some?

[Xenos]

haha i am underage you see

In that case, a lemonade for you, miss!

And a donkey.

The first thing that popped in my head when I read that was:

Performing on a stool we've got a sight to make you drool
Seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

We'd like to make it know, the exhibits that were shown
Were exclusively our own, all our own our own!

...

Aye, I listend to FAR too much prog growing up...

[The Corsair]

Songs are a fantastic way to describe bars, wether in depth or not
There's an old man sitting next to me
Making love to his tonic and gin

[Fairley B. Strange]

Well then, let us hope that, unlike Miss Ella, that G&T is of legal age.

Fairley: Barkeep! I'll have a Scotch - and since now we're treating our drinks like they were the fairer sex, make it "ex-child-star" style.

Barkeep: Sir?

Fairley: Eighteen years old, single, and wasted by being mixed up with lots of Coke and Ice.

[Fairley B. Strange]

poo thats not fare i have never drunk to excess in my life i will do you a deal if i drink my lemonade can i then have some?

Perhaps if you sit up straight and drink your lemonade politely, when we get to him, you can have the drunken scorpion for your very own little pet, m'dear.

Oh, and no licking the scorpion until you're old enough to drink.

[The Squire]

Ella The Aerial Musketeer

Ella to the Barkeep in Guadalajara:

"Por favor, señor, soy musketeer. Me gusta una limonada. Y por mi amigo, el escorpion qui se llama Panchito, se gusta una Reposada de Mezcal!"

[Ella, Aerial Musketeer]

poo thats not fare i have never drunk to excess in my life i will do you a deal if i drink my lemonade can i then have some?

Perhaps if you sit up straight and drink your lemonade politely, when we get to him, you can have the drunken scorpion for your very own little pet, m'dear.

Oh, and no licking the scorpion until you're old enough to drink.

damn there goes my plan 
*sits up straight and drinks her lemonade an i more lady like fashion*

Ella The Aerial Musketeer

Ella to the Barkeep in Guadalajara:

"Por favor, señor, soy musketeer. Me gusta una limonada. Y por mi amigo, el escorpion qui se llama Panchito, se gusta una Reposada de Mezcal!"

did you draw that just for me 
i quiet like it at any rate

[Grymm]

haha i am underage you see

In that case, a lemonade for you, Miss!

If we're on UK laws and your parent/guardian is with you you can drink as long as they buy it, but not in the bar area, the balcony is okay though or the garden, plus it's a club and not public so yes you can drink. 

[Ella, Aerial Musketeer]

haha i am underage you see

In that case, a lemonade for you, Miss!

If we're on UK laws and your parent/guardian is with you you can drink as long as they buy it, but not in the bar area, the balcony is okay though or the garden, plus it's a club and not public so yes you can drink. 

HORAY
*dose a dance*
now who wants to be related to me?

[Fairley B. Strange]

How did the piano-player suddenly get replaced by that guy with the "duelling banjoes"? 


Well, since we're effectively in loco parentis here anyway - and we're probably more loco than parentis - it might be safer if you try auditioning for the "spunky young girl sidekick" job instead of looking for a daddy...

[Ella, Aerial Musketeer]

How did the piano-player suddenly get replaced by that guy with the "duelling banjoes"? 


Well, since we're effectively in loco parentis here anyway - and we're probably more loco than parentis - it might be safer if you try auditioning for the "spunky young girl sidekick" job instead of looking for a daddy...

i be thinking you have a point
so for my next question
who can i be a sidekick for?
i can fight and know how to shoot almost any gun you give me
i can learn how to use a new weapon quickly
i can drive many an air ship
and i am (relatively) good at spotting a potential enemy

[Herr Döktor]

Always room for another minion...

[Ella, Aerial Musketeer]

Always room for another minion...

i am will not stand for being a mind numbed minion to do the dirty work i will be a sidekick and nothing less

[Herr Döktor]

What about minion with special responsibility for all the other minions?

[helios]

Unfortunately, there's not an awful lot of work out there in my line. Ask back in about thirty years, around the time the apocalypse is scheduled. I might have a position open then.

Until then, I believe it is gin time for me!

[Ella, Aerial Musketeer]

What about minion with special responsibility for all the other minions?

im still a minion
and just how many minions do you have

[Fairley B. Strange]

Well, my plans preclude your employment in my next endeavours, although I presume you'll still frequent the club once you find your niche as a sidekick.
It's nothing personal - it's primarily due to my plans to subsequently write a history of the adventure, and involving a slip of a gal would preclude it's publication even by Dicky Burton's literary society, which would reduce it to only being distributed by mail-order in plain brown wrapper from some sordid garret on the Continent... or so I've heard, of course...

So here, have a small nip to warm you on your job-hunting - sip it slowly, in case it propels you to take on an unsuitable position - while I try to rescue the little blighter  from his bottle, singlehanded if I must.

[Mr Peter Harrow, Esq]

How did the piano-player suddenly get replaced by that guy with the "duelling banjoes"? 


Well, since we're effectively in loco parentis here anyway - and we're probably more loco than parentis - it might be safer if you try auditioning for the "spunky young girl sidekick" job instead of looking for a daddy...

Underage, "young girl sidekick" only!

[M. H. Pennypecker]

What is it about banjo players anyway?
Are all of them degenerate socially retarded misfits?
Or is it just most of them?

I think its that twangy sound of that music that drives them insane. That and the chronic nose picking. You cant expect rational behavior from someone whose finger is stuck to the second knuckle up their own nostril.

I don't mean all banjo players are knuckle dragging mouth breathing morons, just a large segment of that thankfully dwindling population just might be.

About the only thing worse would have to be accordion players and of course mimes.

[helios]

Those are fighting words, my good man, and you might want to redact them. We don't abide by fighting words here.

[M. H. Pennypecker]

Well, then of coarse I retract them fully.
my apologies to all banjo players accordion players and of course mimes.

[Fairley B. Strange]

I do believe the perception of the banjo as the 'musical' instrument of the degenerate classes is based on it's mathematical symmetry.

Six strings, six fingers, six teeth... QED.

[M. H. Pennypecker]

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When will it rain do you think, Monday?

[Rockula]

I do believe the perception of the banjo as the 'musical' instrument of the degenerate classes is based on it's mathematical symmetry.

Six strings, six fingers, six teeth... QED.

I'm gonna make you squeel like a pig, boy!

[helios]

Well, then of coarse I retract them fully.
my apologies to all banjo players accordion players and of course mimes.

For that, I thank you. I am none of the above, myself, but I know many fine people who are. And at least one of them would have fought you, with another playing the theme to Deliverance whilst he did so.