
*wasn't aware they made little smoking jackets for toddlers*
Yes. In my mind, Archie and all his family all wear smoking jackets, smoke those big pipes like Sherlock Holmes and spend most of their day in the library reading Dostoevsky and drinking brandy
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Yes. In my mind, Archie and all his family all wear smoking jackets, smoke those big pipes like Sherlock Holmes and spend most of their day in the library reading Dostoevsky and drinking brandy

You know, the ones with the tassles hanging off that are like little silky soft fezzes. Fezzes? Fez?
The mental picture of this is stunning.
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The mental picture of this is stunning.


but I think it should just be fez, like sheep and fish.
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What is this madness?
have you asked them?
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have you asked them?

193 preferred Kit-e-Kat with tuna chunks.
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Together we can make it happen. Petitions usually work, don't they? Of course they do.
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sadly no, hats are not for me. But I have a pocket watch if that suffices
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and waggle your eyebrows.
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there is silence apart from the gentle rustle of pages.
ENTER Gruntfuttock, TGA's aging retainer
Grntftck: Lord Architect, there is a Buxom, Redheaded urchin of disreputable aspect at the door carrying a whip and large cucumber, she claims she was summoned.
TGA: Ah yes, the good Captain, send her through to the back bedroom, the family will be joining her there. Refreshments at 2 please Gruntfuttock, wear the blindfold as usual.
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ENTER Gruntfuttock, TGA's aging retainer
Grntftck: Lord Architect, there is a Buxom, Redheaded urchin of disreputable aspect at the door carrying a whip and large cucumber, she claims she was summoned.
TGA: Ah yes, the good Captain, send her through to the back bedroom, the family will be joining her there. Refreshments at 2 please Gruntfuttock, wear the blindfold as usual.

where you accuse me of being both a cad and a bounder.
And possibly a misbegotten rogue.
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And possibly a misbegotten rogue.

It may even require calling you a footpad and a ne'er-do-well also..
;-)
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;-)

though if you bite your thumb at me I shall be most irked.
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Of course I am expecting that you have access to one, should the need arise.
Er....yes.
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Er....yes.

As I recall I first discovered it in a layby on the Ballspond Road.
It was covered in verdigrees.
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It was covered in verdigrees.

edit: Buxom, red-headed urchin is a lovely way to describe me. Thank you!
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maybe I was mistaken.
There is a distinct lack of RTH reference materials online. This should be addressed.
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There is a distinct lack of RTH reference materials online. This should be addressed.

'...of disreputable aspect' it is such a vague yet damning phrase.
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it's best to be vague about my disreputability (is that a word?) before the watershed.
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*recites in head*
I don't remember you quoting from it before, but somehow the fact that you wot of Rawlinson's End drops into place like a jigsaw piece in the jigsaw of the universe.
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I don't remember you quoting from it before, but somehow the fact that you wot of Rawlinson's End drops into place like a jigsaw piece in the jigsaw of the universe.

I'll have you know, sir.
/Silver Service trained blog
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/Silver Service trained blog

I have never met a more gentlemanly gentleman than our own Mr Gruntfuttock.
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you treated me like a proper lady, it was a lovely change from the usual.
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for the dangerous trip to Derby, and was happy to be of service, ma'am.
*bows*
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*bows*

like clothing?
something very large is happening outside my flat
*investigates*
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something very large is happening outside my flat
*investigates*

What ARE you talking about?
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like that time with the landslide
but it turned out to be fog
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but it turned out to be fog