Laager and Limehouse - Archive 20100530


	Archive 20100530
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		Elizabeth
		Nils

[Panel 1]
[Nils]
Why do they all want to go
camping all of a sudden?

[Elizabeth]
Um?

[Nils]
Freecycle. Everyone's asking
for camping gear this week.

They're all saying they've never
done it before, so they want
tents and stoves and beds and...

[Panel 2]
[Elizabeth]
...and mosquito-repellent
and calomine and splints
and bandages and...

[Nils]
Do I perceive that your
camping experiences have not
been uniformly positive?

Anyway, they even want stuff
for children. You'd think they'd
find out whether THEY liked it
before dragging kids along.

[Panel 3]
[Elizabeth]
Maybe they're feeling too poor
for any other sort of holiday.

[Nils]
Yeah, I saw the average
adult is now watching
more than four hours of
TV a day 'cos they
can't afford to go out.

[Elizabeth]
Where do they find the TIME?

[Nils]
What with gaming and hacking
and modelling and trebuchet-
building I don't remember the
last time I even watched a film.

[Panel 4]
[Elizabeth]
Anyway, perhaps these new
campers are planning to
expose the children on a
mountainside. Very traditional.

[Nils]
At which point they get
brought up by... you
don't have any wolves in
this country, do you?

[Elizabeth]
Not yet, though they're thinking
about it in Scotland. Just
escaped lynx, and "liberated"
mink, and if you're really lucky
the Beast of Bodmin...