"hey, danny boy! whatcha serving tonight?" cardigan hollered at his friend as he entered the Pub.
"lentil soup," blake replied. "with some of burkie's french bread."
"that's sounds divine," cardigan rubbed his hands together, then accepted a beer from danny. "thank you, sir." he walked back to join the others at their regular table.
"hey, gavin! sierra's sister is here," marian called out to him.
cardigan's eyes twinkled as he extended his hand toward the young woman. "gavin cardigan at your service, miss."
"foxy charles, sir, and the pleasure is all mine," came high-pitched reply accompanied by a flurry of fluttering lashes and sparkling teeth.
"what brings you to town?"
"i live here. i'm usually too busy to hang out all the time like you guys, but it's spring break."
"oh? what's your major?"
this innocent question was greeted by laughter, high-fives, and the passing of a $10 bill from taylor to Mysterious Lurker. "she's a professor, cardigan," sierra grinned at him.
cardigan lowered head to sip his beer. "i knew that," he muttered. "i meant, what do you teach?"
"anthropology."
"huh. i see. well, that's certainly, uh, interesting."
"you'd be surprised," foxy winked.
blake saved cardigan's bacon by bringing the soup and bread over. "here you go, mate."
"hey, danny! can i have that bacon you just saved?" sierra reached over to grab blake's shoulder.
"huh?"
"oh, sierra. that's just an expression. 'to save somebody's bacon' means to help someone out of a tricky situation, or pull their ass from the fire," foxy explained.
"oh. phooey." sierra pouted.
"burkie and i should include that one in our textbook, though. that's a good one," foxy reached into her bag for a pen and notebook to write it down.
"you and burkie are writing a textbook together?" the Lurker asked.
"oh, no," sierra and marian groaned at the same time.
"yes," foxy explained. "it's for his course on American Popular Culture for Immigrants and First Generation Americans. it's a brilliant course, you know."
"yeah, we've heard," sierra muttered, swiping a piece of bread off cardigan's plate.
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Ooooh, I don't think Sierra knows yet that her sister, Foxy, is in your latest chapter. And she's putting a class together for FOBs? Too funny...
A professor and a co-author? Awesome.
HAHAHHA so fanny is "foxy"... that's hilarious... sorta doesn't quite talk like that in real life, though... and who is "s.a. hephzibah"? can't figure that one out either...
i don't think you've had the pleasure of meeting special assistant hephzibah...
i hope cardigan realizes he proably doesn't stand a chance with foxy...
what's this "real life" stuff you keep referring to? this are all FICTIONAL characters, i tell you. fictional!!!
cardigan is hopeless....
when grief for fiction's idle words
more real than human life appears,
reflect that life itself's a dream,
and do not mock the reader's tears!
touche! how long have you had that one in your pocket waiting for a chance to use it? :)
nay, i mock neither the reader's tears nor your well-placed quote! 'tis a responsibility i take quite seriously to consider the needs of my readers: they inspire me, and their larger-than-life personalities find a a bit of refuge in my characters, who are honored to be inspired by such as you and would never knowingly mock or demean their fleshy counterparts, and therefore make sure to never imitate too closely out of fear that their fleshy counterpart may take revenge on their handsome creator and force him to diagram this sentence as pushishment for his careless disregard for propriety and failure to maintain that delicate balance between reality and fiction, inspiration and imitation, funny and not-so-funny.
HAHAHHAHAHA you TOTALLY pegged me dude! I've been waiting like 15 years to use that one. I like your half-real half-imaginary characters, I'm mainly just amused at the idea of these characters' real selves actually behaving as their fictional characters do... wait... confused... oops... anyway.
finally read the latest update! :D
i don't think marian needs the pop culture course. :)
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