Laager and Limehouse - Archive 20091018


	Archive 20091018
You are here: Laager and Limehouse >> Archives >> Archive 20091018 URL: https://laager.firedrake.org/archive/20091018.html

		Elizabeth
		Ginny
		Henry
		Steve

[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...