"So, he's going to use us as an intermediary, is that it?"
"So it would seem. He can hardly come out and deal with the situation directly, can he? In this forum? No one would do that. It's not fair to anyone."
"I suppose not. Smoke and mirrors, though. Redirection. He wants to express his anger - flip the bird, so to speak - and get away with it."
"Hence we are reduced to kitschy ironic pawns."
"And we must speak circumlocutorily, completely obfuscating, by our sesquipedalian proclivities, the natures of both catalyzing event and consequent emotion."
"Pardon, did you just say 'yup'?"
"You said 'yup' after my polysyllabic exegesis just now?"
"I was attempting to provide a humorous contrast to your learned explication."
"I take it you didn't find it funny?"
"I take that to mean you didn't quite get my little joke."
"'Little' being the operative word..."
"No, I distinctly heard you assent that my joke was a small one."
"Well, you said it first. I simply agreed."
"One can only do so much with the material at hand, you know."
"Now what, pray tell, is the hermeneutical significance of that statement?"
"I was merely suggesting that my joke was in proportion to the object of its derision."
"Ah, so now you admit you were deriding my construal?"
"No. To deride it would imply it was worthy of being rebutted."
"That's it. I'm going to kick your ass so bad you'll be shitting Italian loafer for weeks!"
"Come get some, you nancing buffoon!"
"Good show, ol' chap. No harm done, I hope?"
"Nothing broken. Excellent brawl, my good man."
"Indeed. But now I have forgotten why we're here today."
"Something about veiled emotional expression, I believe. Flipping the bird and all that."
"Ahem. Polite company, my friend."
"Yes, of course. My mistake. My lips are sealed."
"I guess that's it's then."
Posted by Jason Clarke on April 29, 2003
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