....It was an impossible situation, like the 1984 Olympics. But Father is an overawing man who always obtains what he desires.
“Shapka,” he said on the phone to me, who was at home enjoying the greatest of all documentary movies, The Making of “Thriller,” “what was the language you studied this year at school?”
“Do not dub me Shapka,” I said.
“Alex,” he said, “what was the language you studied this year at school?”
“The language of English,” I told him.
“Are you good and fine at it?” he asked me.
“I am fluid,” I told him, hoping I might make him proud enough to buy me the zebra-skin seat coverings of my dreams.
“Excellent, Shapka,” he said.
“Do not dub me that,” I said.
“Excellent, Alex. Excellent. You must nullify any plans you possess for the first week of the month of July.”
“I do not possess any plans,” I said to him.
“Yes you do,” he said....
Well, Scourgie, I was out of town. Then I was "saving" this thread until I caught up.
Then, of course, I had to read through it to make sure it was REALLY YOU. After the paparazzi incident (scandal??) regarding your quotes getting out in the press, you were quite the hot potato around here. Then, just like that, you were gone, with no way to get ahold of you. So many impostors....
I mean, look at your profile page -- if a gal had to go on that alone, I'd have to say, AGAIN, "NO, that's NOT Scourgie! Who are you and what have you done with him? Bring him back! I want those 'Good Times!'"
But, I digress. Welcome back, as many seem to have vetted you. I don't know if there'll be a next time, though -- I mean, imagine! "The FReeper Formerly Knows As Do Not Dub Me Shapka Broham" ??
*sighs*
C'mere, ya big lug! Welcome back!