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?

you and your ginger obsession

...Sadly I am bed-ridden - or sofa-ridden, at least. I try not to be a burden, though...

Ginger is great. You know it.

Coltsfoot rock, anyone?

oooooooooooh Treacle I know who you are! At least, I do if you are painfully good, and an example to girls everywhere to lie still and be virtuous and definitely never play on swings, and you go around doling out vases to make people's beds of pain more tolerable?

What the blazes is coltsfoot rock?

And writing poems about how Pain is a great teacher? Yep, that's me!

Coltsfoot rock is great, I'll buy some next time I see it. It's like... actually, I have no idea how to describe it. They tend to sell it in old-fashioned sweet shops with lots of jars, and sometimes in health food shops. Not sure what the medicinal benefits are although apparently it has them.

Just googled and apparently it's only made in one place and has a secret recipe! How exciting.

gosh isn't coltsfoot interesting? We could see if Butterbur has any, as apparently that's one of the other names for it. And the name actually means "cough suppressant", marvellous.

Although to be a pedantic moaner, I'm not coughing, just hurting. If only there was such a thing as a painless lunchtime drop-in tonsilectomy.

Talk of tonsils always makes me think of that bit in Roald Dahl's book Boy when he has his sliced out without anaesthetic...

1. those were ADENOIDS

2. I fainted at that bit, at school.

Even though I'd already read it before and knew what happened.

You wuss

Although I bow before your superior medical knowledge

Crikey. Where's everyone?

This reminds me of a very, very obscure book (if I recall correctly, it was a vanity publication by a lecturer of a friend). I'll see if I can dig it out and AIBU it :o

As in, see whether there's the remotest chance that anyone else could possibly have read it and rendered it Googlable...

hello!

it's time this thread was resurrected, I think- although now that Elephants has full access to all my books I'm sure she'll start guessing all my AIBUs straight away!

i also found out that SGB makes badges - we should get her to do some with 'well-read lunatic' on them

AIBU in thinking she's a bit of a drag?

Well, hell- air there! I thought this had gorn completely.

Treacle, a bit of a drag, or a bit in drag??

Shoite. Bollixed up me italics right proper - sorry!

well hellair to you too!

A bit of a drag - I'm sure she'd never dream of dressing up as a man! She's far too prissy for that...

oh goodness, hello! I've just had to track this down in the far reaches of advanced search

Treacle - was that an actual AIBU or were you just asking about me? :o Obviously I will be posting AIBUs based primarily on your books...

AIBU to have frightened my colleague?

No, a real AIBU, of course!

She's no fun at all. I don't know why she won't join in with all of us...

What have you done to your colleague? Did you frighten them on purpose?

Are you behaving in a manner less than proper for young gels, treacle?

Oooh, Pimms - lovely!

...I didn't mean to frighten her really, but I did pull a knife on her...

Did she give you a fright, Elephants? I have a feeling she might be more than she seems...

...I suppose some people would think it improper. But I can't see what we're doing wrong, and if my brother approves then it must be OK...

Hmm, is she maybe a bit of a sourpuss about being the poor relation, treacle?

...It could be that, Elephants. She is so tediously virtuous.