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AIBU Books Game Part Eight

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 16/11/2010 12:49

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?

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Pogleswood · 18/02/2011 10:24

Hey,chaps!
Need MCP from everyone,please,
I assume that if you are fed up with sexual harassment you are not simply wanting to be left alone with your sorrows,Elephants? Is the new job going well,apart from the camping on sofa with no books aspect? Smile

What's wrong with your Kindle,then,Treacle?This is the big downside I can see to them -once you have a book you should be safe,unless your house burns down,but I can think of far too many things that could stop me reading a much loved book electronically...

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 18/02/2011 11:36

Yeah it's going well thanks Pogle :)

I agree with you on Kindles btw. One drop of water and wham! the books are gone.

...No, I don't have any sorrows, except for all these girls chasing after me. And now someone seems to be lurking in the woods out of sight...

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steamedtreaclesponge · 18/02/2011 11:55

Elephants, you are in exactly the same situation as me. Just moved back to London for work last week and am currently sharing a friend's bed and raiding her flatmate's wardrobe for work clothes.

Pogle, the screen on my Kindle just broke - totally unexpectedly, I didn't sit on it or anything. However, Amazon were great and sent me a new one which arrived the next day.

MCP, everyone!

Erm... I've totally forgotten which book I'm doing Blush

Will be back once I've had a think.

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 18/02/2011 12:07

Oh not you too treacle! I've PMed you btw being nosy :o

...Great, another lissome young thing after my body. She just ran out of the woods and launched herself on me. I'm sure IWNBU to tell her to naff off?

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Unrulysun · 18/02/2011 12:22

Sorry to hear about suitcase living although it all sounds terribly exciting and spontaneous tbh. Are you in good bits of London at least? Have you lived here before? Bugger me but London's brilliant!

I can't think of anyone but the Lynx effect guy Elephants?

...as for me I think this guy coming up behind me, 400 pounds of pure muscle, means to do me a damage. Without really thinking I shall meet his fist with my elbow, disabling him, then follow with a knee to the groin...

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 18/02/2011 12:30

It is quite spontaneous (where shall I sleep tonight- who can tell?! etc) and very exciting :) I've lived in London before but keep getting jobs in other parts of the country and having to leave! Not sure about good parts of london, seem to be mainly staying around the district line which is quite nice. It's a better class of floor around there, y'know :o If you know of anyone with a room to let, do let me know!!

You sound frightfully heroic, do you get a lot of bruisers attacking you, that you effortlessly disarm? Hmmm, are you a paid soldier? Or more of a renegade?

ROFL at lynx effect guy!

...Well I told her to go off and get knotted, but she still seems to be hanging around, I can hear her sometimes. It sort of reminds me of the time when this bloke fell in love with me, and ended up killing himself over it. I mean, understandable perhaps but still surely a little OTT?...

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Unrulysun · 18/02/2011 13:26

I have to confess that, despite now living at one end of it, the District is one of my least favourite lines. It's above ground for one, and always delayed and people are very rude although I think that's because they're all tourists being rude to blend in iyswim :)

...I don't really talk about it (or anything) much. But yes, Forces. Military police actually. Ma'am are you being pursued by bad guys? 'Cos I can beat 'em up but good...

Unrulysun · 18/02/2011 13:34

That's come across as really sniffy when what I meant was innit weird how different lines are different and gosh what an exciting time you're having Elephants. Forgotten how to express myself using the...erm..wordy thingies. :)

steamedtreaclesponge · 18/02/2011 13:47

Are you Narcissus, Elephants?

I'm house-hunting tomorrow - just called 31 estate agents in my lunch hour

Unruly, no idea about yours, but you sound terribly manly

Have remembered mine now...

...I'm sure he's the one who's been sending me threatening letters, I can't afford to let him live if he knows my secrets...

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 18/02/2011 14:04

:o Unruly. Yeah, sure...

31 estate agents!!! Eek.

What kind of secrets? And do you think you'll manage to commit the perfect murder?

...Yes, Narcissus is the name, and you'll be pleased to hear I've finally found someone worthy of my affections. He's playing a little hard to get at the moment but I'm sure it's only a matter of time. Thank goodness that wittering nymph is managing to keep it buttoned most of the time so I can concentrate on my beloved...

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steamedtreaclesponge · 18/02/2011 14:48

...Well, it won't be my first murder. I need the blood sacrifices, you see...

Pogleswood · 18/02/2011 16:26
Shock Here's me reading peacefully down the thread and suddenly...blood sacrifices???

You are still BU,I'm afraid - maybe you do need the blood sacrifices but you can't just kill whenever you fancy.So are you undead? Mentally unstable? (both?)

Military police,Unruly? Nope,no help.Is this "man as island" philosophy of yours going to be challenged at all?

MCP,both!

steamedtreaclesponge · 18/02/2011 16:42

...I don't kill many people. Mainly just those that won't be missed. My churches won't be as powerful otherwise...

Unrulysun · 18/02/2011 18:27

Blimey, estate agents and devil worship, not sure I want to be on this raft anymore.

I think the two of you should get a flat together in Bloomsbury. You could swan about on sit-up-and-beg bicycles about pretending to be Woolf, spotting literary blue plaques and holding regular 'salons'.

I was indeed military police ma'am but now I travel around the United States helping the helpless. All six foot six of me. By heck am I hunky.

PoledrathePissedOffFairy · 18/02/2011 22:59

You're very modest, Unruly Grin (whereas I am just a leetle bit pissed).
MCP, everyone.

Life sounds ver' exciting for you young 'uns in London. Good on you!

Unrulysun · 19/02/2011 18:41

Quite Poledra. The highlight of my week was making some scones with extra sultanas in them :)

...six six, can kill a man in 14 ways without thinking about it, my mother's French and clearly Unrulysun is the only one who reads this kind of low budget fiction...

steamedtreaclesponge · 20/02/2011 08:56

Unruly, I don't know who you are but I'd like to Wink

...Anyway, people need reminding of death. You'd think they'd all entirely forgotten about the plague and the Great Fire...

Unrulysun · 20/02/2011 20:28

Are there Fingerposts involved Treacle?

...I am rather sexy if I do say so myself (not that I would have such a shallow thought). Normally I ponce about North America hitching lifts in a manly fashion til I find some abused women or something then I kick seven shades of the proverbial out of some menacing henchmen, defeat the evil doers, rig up a makeshift bomb, drink some very strong coffee and back on the road again.

steamedtreaclesponge · 20/02/2011 20:37

Wow. I need to know who you are, sounds like my kind of trashy literature!

...No Fingerposts here, just lots of plans of my churches for Christopher Wren to look at. My apprentice Walter did some of them but since he went mad and killed himself I've had no-one to help me...

Unrulysun · 21/02/2011 08:21

Ahhhhhh, by the power of google my extraordinary literary knowledge I have it Treacle. But I really can't say it as I am not allowed to read that author because of the throwing things and the shouting during the 'Chatterton' incident of '94. :(

I don't think anyone's going to get mine. I'll hold on for a bit though.

Pogleswood · 21/02/2011 14:01

Throwing things and shouting? Go on - tell us more,!

I've got the feeling that I should know yours,but as I've had that feeling before and been very wrong I don't attach too much importance to it...you don't sound terribly modern,if you don't mind my saying so - are you?

steamedtreaclesponge · 21/02/2011 14:06

Go on, Unruly, spill the beans Grin

...I'm not modern, no. Or am I? I think my doppelganger might be...

Pogleswood · 21/02/2011 14:17

And my google skills (honed to a truly stupendous level by this thread Grin...)now suggest to me that you have ice blue eyes,dirty blond hair,multiple scars,lots of medals and sound really,really scary....Actually your entire family sound quite intimidating.
Jack is a nice name though!

Pogleswood · 21/02/2011 14:20

That's to Unruly,by the way,not you Treacle!
Though if you are six foot whatever with ice blue eyes etc then perhaps I can get brownie points for yours as well?? Smile

Unrulysun · 21/02/2011 21:49

I can't stand the author of Treacle's. I really really can't stand the way he writes, looks, presents on TV. He makes my skin crawl. :( hence the throwing things and the shouting because I had to read 'Chatterton' I think for t'degree.

And yes. A sawn-off shotgun (slightly spattered with evil doer on the rhs) and one Purple Heart to you Pogle and, ladeez, if you haven't met Jack Reacher and you are in the mood for a...ahem...'palate cleansing' novel, may I recommend him to raft dwellers?