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?

ooh, yes please

Hmmm... you could be a bit U - or are they very special skills? Are you good at magic? Or killing people? Or maths?

AIBU to sneak off?

Do you have a recipe for aforementioned pot pie? I am in a mist of confusion even trying to imagine what a pot pie might be. :)

Sneaking off...hmm, are you supposed to be guarding something? Or waiting for your captor to return?

...it's none of those things. It's something that a lot of people do, but I am the best, and I know I am. I could pass any test...

I'm not quite sure how a pot pie differs from a normal pie, to be honest. Aren't most pies made in pots? It's like describing things as 'pan-fried'. What else would you fry something in? Eh? Recipe here although I faddle around with the veg/cheese types for a bit of variety.

Um... the best at cooking? The best at lying? The best at spitting? I have that song from Beauty and the Beast running through my head now (No one's slick as Gaston, No one's quick as Gaston, No one's neck's as incredibly thick as Gaston's... etc etc)

argh

...I'm supposed to be helping. But I'm tired and need to sleep...

Lost, lost, lost ...

Thanks, treacle!

Elephants, you wouldn't be planning an apparently ludicrous race to prove how good you are, would you?

Think I started one that I never pursued, back in December, along the lines of:

AIBU to tell the truth? It might hurt an old friend, but I can't let this carry on ...

I feel that my knowledge of Disney songs is somewhat lacking Thanks for the pie recipe, it sounds lurvely. I am living on soup at the moment and it makes me feel a bit toothless.

Ooh CJ, yours is back! Hmm, are you worried about doing something illegal?

...It's not a race exactly, more of a competition, head to head sort of thing...

My new year's resolution was to eat more soup! In fact, I think I'll make some this morning. Any good recipe ideas, anyone?

CJ, is your friend being cheated on?

Elephants, MCP!

...Well, I had my nap, and now I'm lost! I can't see the others anywhere. I hope they haven't sailed off without me...

That is probably the best new year's resolution ever! Will have a ponder about recipes :)

Um, can't remember your exact circumstances, but is it possible that you are a naughty-sounding merchant, who has accidentally been abandoned by his own crew?

...gulp. Slightly scared now, my boasting has been heard in the loftiest circles, and now I'm to be put to the test properly. Here goes...

...Not a merchant, no. In fact I never wanted to be on this stupid boat in the first place. But I have no idea how we're ever going to get home...

Hmm. Has the king heard about your boasting, then?

...Not the king, it's far more serious than that! Anyway, now we're having the competition, I'm really getting into it, and possibly being a bit cheeky...

Are you not on your own then, treacle?

...Well, I am at the moment - the others are all off looking for provisions. And now it's raining - maybe I'll go and hide in this handy cave...

CJ I meant to give you a slightly tatty dressing gownas an honorable mention for my past one. Hope it fits. Incidentally my predictive text had that as a 'slightly tarty dressing gown' - let me know if that's going to work better. :)

treacle are you about to meet someone with fewer eyes than the norm?

Elephants NIMCP!

Am very glad the raft is populated again. :)

'last one' not past one.

...Wow! I've just discovered I'm lying on a pile of treasure...

MCP everyone!

ooh lovely treacle

NIMCP on all of yours...

...I've discovered my artistic effort is going to be a bit of a rude dig at my competitor, or rather her family...

Still NI on everyone's - more clues please?

...and I seem to have turned into a dragon! Help!

Yours sounds brilliant treacle, I wish I knew what it was.

Sadly, I am illiterate. I meant to put "...I've DECIDED my artistic effort is going to be a bit of a rude dig at my competitor, or rather her family... :o"

Anyway, moving on.

..Yippee! I won the competition. But my competitor (maybe her helmet got in the way) seems rather annoyed. Perhaps I shouldn't have chosen her dad's adultery as the theme of my piece...

Unruly, ta for the dressing gown

NI on Treacle's, but Elephants, yours is making me twitch. I'm pretty sure those bods on Olympus are involved, but I can't get a grip on the context ... You're not Atalanta, 'cos that was running ... I reckon your competitor was probably Athena, but who the hell are you?!

CJ, is she an evil queen?

Elephants, no idea on yours but it sounds quite exciting!

I can't believe noone's guessed mine yet! If you actually haven't read it I'm going to have to tut at you

...at least I can be helpful as a dragon, catching goats and so forth. But I don't think I'll fit on the Dawn Treader...

Good twitching, CJ. More clues on yours, please :)

I haven't read it treacle

...oh dear, she's furious that I was better and she's started beating me up and demanding that I concede. Frankly, I'd rather kill myself than admit defeat...

Consider yourself tutted at, Elephants! And go and read all the Narnia books as a penalty.

NI on yours or CJ's - MCP!

This was the story that I would have to squint my eyes up to read because I couldn't look at the illustration

...That's it, I'm going to hang myself instead of agreeing that she won...

At last!

Never mind, Elephants - one day you will have a very, very famous descendant called Charlotte who will prove how clever you all are and be beloved of children everywhere.

No, not an evil Queen. Although she is in a position of some authority and influence - and that's what worries me ...