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[Panel 1]
[Elizabeth]
Bim?

[Ginny]
That's not very like
you. What's up?

[Elizabeth]
Steve's been talking with that
chap at the end of the bar, and
I can't make any sense of it.

All the WORDS are
English of a sort, but...


[Panel 2]
[Ginny]
Hmm... oh, it's Military.

[Elizabeth]
I've never learnt that.
Anglo-Saxon Military
yes, but not Modern.

[Ginny]
Oh all right, I'll
translate for you.

[Henry]
...no, I'm not a subbie,
I'm a skimmer.

[Ginny]
"My ship goes across the TOP of
the ocean, as is only proper."


[Panel 3]
[Steve]
Isn't it Stills these days?

[Ginny]
"I had thought that that
term was now frowned upon."

[Henry]
Still Bennies.

[Ginny]
"Much like the colloquial term for
inhabitants of the Falkland Islands."


[Panel 4]
[Steve]
Ah - you've done Penguin Patrol!

[Ginny]
"I perceive that
you have spent time
in the Falklands."

[Henry]
Oh, fuckin' aye!

[Ginny]
"Indeed so, a bracing experience."

I think that at this point
they have another drink...



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