AIBU Books Game Part 5

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Now we've made it to a fifth thread!

As before, we frame an AIBU from the point of view of a character in a book 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.

New thread, new AIBU...

AIBU to set all my sights on getting a rich husband?

I think I can guess, CJ. Do you have to clean the mud off their pickaxes too? And I bet there are loads of used hankies lying around...

...he's actually pretty scary. And I don't like the look of those purple spines at all...

Finally! Treacle,you are of the rodent persuasion,and it's just as well you are clever or you'd have been dinner!

[bemused]

Treacle, did you see it on the TV at Christmas? 'Twas very good - and I should know, I've had to watch it at least 10 times since then, as DD2 is addicted!

PS Polly, it's The Gruffalo. Why, didn't you know?

Hooray! Was wondering how much longer I could drag that one out for...

Yes Pol, I did see it on TV and thought it was really good - although I have to say that my main knowledge of it is from my godson who can recite the whole thing from memory

AIBU to forget to buy her a present?

how did i not get that?
cold has dulled my brain (excuse)

treacle, forget accidentally or on purpose?

...Oh no, it was an accident - but somehow I always seem to forget about her...

Ooh can i join in please? Enough lurking!

CJ - did you in fact give a rather large clue as to your name in your post of Mon 04-Jan-10 18:50:50 ?

Spot on, Elephants, and welcome to the thread! I think I was being too cryptic for my own good ...

Can't believe I missed the Gruffalo too.

MCP!

Welcome, Elephants! And congratulations for de-lurking

Treacle, I think you should change your name back. In fact, I think you should change it to CarrotSticksandLowFatHoumus because every time you post I get hungry.

Anyway - was it her birthday?

Oh thanks Treacle and CJ!! Lovely to join in at last.

Is Treacle's the only one going at the moment?

Treacle - do you forget about her existence altogether? Is it because she's very small?

Hi all! (and hi, ElephantsAndMiasmas - please do de-lurk and join in,the more the merrier!)

Treacle,is this just you forgetting,or other family members too?

Thanks for the reminder, CJ - is this better?

...No, it's only me forgetting, and she's not that small! It's just that I'm more interested in her friend...

See everyone has already said hello while I was sitting in a daze forgetting to hit post!

llandb has one running too,involving a ghost family and gravy- MCP llandb!

AIBU to turn him down?

Hi Pogle! That depends really? Was he asking you for something very rude, or just for your hand in marriage?

Treacle - did you have to borrow money to buy the present, by any chance?

Just for my hand in marriage - he really isn't the type to ask for something very rude...

Must go and hoover before it's school run time - see y'all later!

Pogle, that depends - will your mother react well? Or your best friend, for that matter? (Actually, yours could be any one of a number of books - so let's go for the most obvious first ).

Hello, Elephants! Good name - am I missing a reason behind it?

Yes Pogle - is this likely to provoke long-term silence from one of your parents?

Thanks Pol, it's from a Stevie Smith poem called 'Lady "Rogue" Singleton' which ends:

I am not a cold woman, Henry,
But I do not feel for you,
What I feel for the elephants and the miasmas
And the general view.

Rather apt for Pogle's current AIBU in fact.

Actually Pogle, is your maiden name rather birdy?

While I'm taking over the thread, AIBU to tell my son to talk to strangers?

Ah - I love that poem, Elephant!

Afraid I've totally given up on the ghostly gravy family...

Pogle, are you in love with someone else? I really think we need MC here!

Elephant, that depends - how old is he?

...Fortunately I'm quite well-off. Mind you, soap is not really that expensive, even if you buy lots of it at once...

Pogle, going for a different angle (although along the same lines) - do you actually want to turn him down or are you being influenced by your overbearing family?

Treacle - I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. MCP!

Elephants - are you in a bleak post-apocalyptic landscape?

AIBU to seduce the delivery boy?

I love it too, so brisk - you can just imagine Henry's face.

Cor no idea of the soap-wanting woman Treacle - supposing she is human that is?

That's the thing, he's only little, but i think he needs to get out more.