032: AUDIO

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Charmus Jerkus.

Couldn't find the entry in my Latin dictionary, but if we were going by playground rules I'd think all the insults were a backward attempt to hit on me. Except, when he compliments my ass there's just no feeling in it.

[Someone's just amiably on the edge of drunk, chatting into his network device through the background noise of a busy bar.]

So, anyone want to let a Jerkus buy them a drink?

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voice;

[hexuality]

My Latin's a little rusty but I wouldn't turn down an offer. Even from a Jerkus.

voice;

[intheblanks]

I'm at the Blue Light. Are you allowed this side of the bar?

voice;

[hexuality]

I only work there when they need the extra help. So yes, Chase, I'm allowed on that side of the bar. Did you want me on that side of the bar?

[eiremagic]

I didn't even get a bad nickname.

[Voice]

[pinokosthewife]

Maybe it worksh in revershe too and he thinksh you have a shaggy butt. Hee!

[Pinoko, stop that mischief-making. Just because people can't see your face doesn't mean they won't know it's you.

... she also means saggy, but she lisps.]

[thermonuclear_birdbrain]

What's Latin?

Sure, I want a drink! I, uh, just got here, and I don't have much money, just a little allowance from what Miss Satori gave me back in Gensokyo, so I can't really buy drinks.

voice;

[perjured]

Has he started in on the hair pulling yet?

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You'd never stab someone in the back.

You'd shoot them in the face.

[Voice]

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[It's okay Pinoko, he's heard worse from other nurses.]

That's what I'm worried about.

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A corpse of an archaic European language, kept alive artificially by the jargon of religion and science.

>[All of this sounds like she might not be aiming for the kind of drink he means...]

How old are you?

voice;

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No, but I haven't grown it long enough for pigtails.

voice;

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Of course. But now I can't be sure the hostess is going to be up to scratch.

voice;

[hexuality]

Does it matter as long as there's drinks involved?

[eiremagic]

And have done.

The other bitch might stab someone in the back, if that's the side that was facing her when she needed the blood.

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[Yes, he - vaguely - remembers.]

Thought she didn't get out much anymore?

voice;

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Not to me.

[eiremagic]

Only on our birthday.

And even then only sometimes.

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[He thinks about that for a minute.]

Better leave the nicknames. She might hear.

By the way [He's drowned out in bar noise for a minute] you're not invited. Too many people here wanting to rub you.

[eiremagic]

Since when?

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Since half of America decided it could trace an ancestor back to the emerald isle.

[eiremagic]

Oh.

Yeah, no wonder Frankie's working a double today.

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You didn't know?

[eiremagic]

I always forget, do you think I had time for holidays with no meaning back home?

Shite, I barely had time for the ones that did matter. Moore's birthday was the only one we celebrated.

[intheblanks]

His birthday was a holiday? He must have been more important than he looked.

Just thought all the green groceries might have given it away.

[eiremagic]

It was for us.

[Pause]

You mean the green beer?