AIBU Books Game Part Eight

[ElephantsAndMiasmas]

Post an AIBU from the point of view of a fictional character (from novels/nursery rhymes/plays etc) and everyone tries to guess the book and/or the character.

Everyone welcome to play/time-waste as much or as little as they please :)

AIBU to be protective of my DD?

Treacle are there seven of you? Or five of you including a dog?

Elephants is your dad marrying you off to someone posh played by Ben Affleck?

...I just think some people want to make up their own rules.

Unruly, are you playing some sort of game? Are people cheating?

No idea on yours, Elephants, MCP!

...I don't know how many of us there are - only my small section. But I think this girl will be an asset, although she's a bit odd...

Are you part of the Order of a well-known firey self-perpetuating bird, Treacle?

Unruly, are you supposed to be having fun? Or is it Serious?

No Ben Affleck involvement in mine, though am intrigued as to what that might be?

...If only I were a bay and could go into the monastery like my brother. He says I should educate myself by writing this diary, but god's thumbs, it is a dull life to be shut up here waiting to see which mouldy-breathed suitor my father will bring me next...

Treacle, is she Scottish? Does she speak French fluently? If so, she could be an asset, I reckon.

(Unruly, I was also thinking Secret Seven!)

Elephants - a bay???

I was wondering about her too, CJ!

...Not a bay, a boy. Forgive my poor spelling, but I am not to be educated like some girls, just married off. Even though at 12 I'm far too young IM not very HO...

Ah I thought I'd got that but I see everyone else has too :( can someone do a special one just for me like you would if a four year old was playing?

...I assure you I never play games. They want me to change my plans just because they were unaware of them - well I won't. Too much is at stake.

Eh Unruly? I'm not sure anyone's got anything, recently. I certainly haven't! :)

You sound like one of those bridezillas who is annoyed with her sister threatening to give birth on the wedding day, even though the wedding was there first :o

Hmm... totally clueless on both of yours at present!

...She works at the same company as me, but I'm not sure how loyal she is. But her code-cracking experience would certainly come in handy...

Hmm, are you working in a big country house in the middle of winter?

...I am working in a big country house - it's not winter though. I only came down for a conference and they kept some of us here...

Ah no - I thought Charlotte wotsit - Mr lovemeselfsenseless Faulks. Am bamboozled as per then.

...the plans have been there for ages. People need to make themselves aware about things which concern them. It's not my job.

Hum, are you some kind of builder/developer? Am thinking about plans which get hidden away displayed in council planning departments for no bugger all to see.

No idea on yours Treacle!

...If I can't be a peasant I want to be a crusader like my uncle George - he's riding off into battle, so glamorous. While I just sit here reading about boring virgin martyrs in my book of saints...

Do these plans involve demolishing a planet, perhaps? Or were they hidden away in a cupboard with the sign "Beware of the Leopard" on the door?

Grrr! Was just about to say 'Do I need a towel?'

Treacle, you are being very Enigmatic but I know it's not that. MCP!

...I'm sure the girl I'm trying to recruit knows about Enigma - after all, her code-breaking product does really well with kids...

Dash it all I thought i was being most cunning. A battered guidebook with the words 'Don't Panic' written in large friendly letters on the cover to Treacle.

Curses!

Well I didn't get it, Unruly. :o Am there I was talking about planning permission and all.

No I kinda thought you had got it a bit because that's exactly what happens to the plans to demolish the Earth to build an intergalactic highway and then the vogons are all 'well you should have objected under subsection 6 - it's not our fault if you didn't know' IIRC.

And it's funnier for me because dh is a planner - albeit one who sorts out your new skyscraper rather than your neighbour's fence - and teasing him about Section 106 of the Town and Regional Planning Act just does not get old :)

...and PopCo are trying to get her to work on their new project now, with us...

hellooooo

No-one's ever going to get mine, clearly.

...if only these saints could give me something to look up to. But even my own namesake, Catherine, just got killed! Hardly a role model for a 12 year old girl. I suppose I'm going to have to accept my fate and marry this snaggle-toothed suitor, especially after I used his money to free the poor bear at the fair...

hellllooooo!

Not sure anyone's going to get mine either, although there was a VERY big (and googlable) clue in my last post...

And could your other name possibly be Birdy?

OMG treacle I LOVE YOU. Yes that's my nickname. I may even have done it before , but everyone needs to buy this book for their DDs.

Are you working for, er, PopCo then??

I am indeed!

Phew.

Next time I will do something easy, like AIBU to want to marry off all five of my daughters?

OK, maybe not THAT easy.

I've never heard of that book before - will add it to my Amazon list (love it when they cost £0.01 second-hand, I must say.

PopCo is definitely worth a read, btw - it's a sort of code-breaking treasure-hunting anti-corporate fable with lots of exciting stuff about maths and veganism in it.

Can I have my chocolate without cream, please?

Your book sounds brilliant, will look it up on ye olde amazon shoppe.

Sprinkles?

AIBU to boast about my skills?