Another snippet...
They were roughly triangular, with cartoon-style heads at the middle of the flat edge at the top of their bodies. One was red, the other blue.
"Oh, great," Eimi groaned. "Tweeldedumb and Tweeldedumber."
"Those are not our names!" Whichever one said that, he sounded upset.
"It's bad enough that Megabyte gets our names wrong; you don't need to make it worse!"
"Well, he doesn't actually get our names wrong."
"True. He does know what our names are."
"He just calls us by each other's names."
"And that really annoys me."
"I was just about to say that."
"Well, I did just say that."
"Hey, the funny-looking sprite might be new here."
"So he might not know what our names are?"
"That was what I was thinking, yes."
"Then we had better tell him."
"You start."
"Why do I have to start all the time?"
"All right. I will start." The blue one turned toward me and announced, "I am Slash."
I raised an eyebrow. "You don't really look like him. Is your friend named Axl?"
Eimi facepalmed.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
They were roughly triangular, with cartoon-style heads at the middle of the flat edge at the top of their bodies. One was red, the other blue.
"Oh, great," Eimi groaned. "Tweeldedumb and Tweeldedumber."
"Those are not our names!" Whichever one said that, he sounded upset.
"It's bad enough that Megabyte gets our names wrong; you don't need to make it worse!"
"Well, he doesn't actually get our names wrong."
"True. He does know what our names are."
"He just calls us by each other's names."
"And that really annoys me."
"I was just about to say that."
"Well, I did just say that."
"Hey, the funny-looking sprite might be new here."
"So he might not know what our names are?"
"That was what I was thinking, yes."
"Then we had better tell him."
"You start."
"Why do I have to start all the time?"
"All right. I will start." The blue one turned toward me and announced, "I am Slash."
I raised an eyebrow. "You don't really look like him. Is your friend named Axl?"
Eimi facepalmed.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012