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# INT: TGA's LIBRARY NOON, The family are reclining in leather armchairs reading.
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.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:34, archived)
# Aging?
How very dare you, sir...

Why I may even....



;-)

(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:36, archived)
# Is a vintage flounce
where you accuse me of being both a cad and a bounder.

And possibly a misbegotten rogue.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:41, archived)
# Oh, I should think so.
It may even require calling you a footpad and a ne'er-do-well also..

;-)
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:45, archived)
# excellent
though if you bite your thumb at me I shall be most irked.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:47, archived)
# Well, I shall refrain from doing so, in that case.
:)
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:49, archived)
# Aging retainer?
He's not Scrotum!
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:37, archived)
# I *so* mis-read that.
;-)
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:38, archived)
# As in your name is not.
Of course I am expecting that you have access to one, should the need arise.

Er....yes.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:39, archived)
# Quite.
*goes rather red*
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:40, archived)
# I luffs Round the Horne
As I recall I first discovered it in a layby on the Ballspond Road.

It was covered in verdigrees.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:39, archived)
# Ohhhhhhh, I was referring to Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End....
edit: Buxom, red-headed urchin is a lovely way to describe me. Thank you!
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:40, archived)
# I was sure there was a scrotum the butler in Round the Horne...
maybe I was mistaken.

There is a distinct lack of RTH reference materials online. This should be addressed.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:43, archived)
# There may well have been
it's a damn good name for a butler.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:44, archived)
# I was particularly proud of the
'...of disreputable aspect' it is such a vague yet damning phrase.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:45, archived)
# To be fair
it's best to be vague about my disreputability (is that a word?) before the watershed.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:46, archived)
# Ah yes, old Scrotum, the wrinkled retainer.
*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.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:54, archived)
# Hahaha
Gruntfuttock is a great name for a butler
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:37, archived)
# :D
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:39, archived)
# are you any good at buttling?
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:39, archived)
# I can buttle with the best of 'em
I'll have you know, sir.

/Silver Service trained blog
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:41, archived)
# He won't let girls carry things/open doors etc.
I have never met a more gentlemanly gentleman than our own Mr Gruntfuttock.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:41, archived)
# bless you, pickle...
*hugs*
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:44, archived)
# It's all true
you treated me like a proper lady, it was a lovely change from the usual.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:45, archived)
# I was charged with your care and protection
for the dangerous trip to Derby, and was happy to be of service, ma'am.

*bows*
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:47, archived)
# *claps wildly and throws roses*
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:49, archived)
# girls not to carry things?
like clothing?


something very large is happening outside my flat

*investigates*
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:44, archived)
# o_O
I hope it's a giant marshmallow man?
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:48, archived)
# I think it was fog
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:50, archived)
# I've never been so let down in my entire life
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:51, archived)
# Oh Nibes, you're like a gorgeous little conundrum.
What ARE you talking about?
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:48, archived)
# there was a big noise
like that time with the landslide

but it turned out to be fog
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:52, archived)
# But of course.
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:54, archived)
# Bastards!
I had to leave the office as I couldn't hold in the stifled laughter any more!

My colleagues thought I was having a fit!
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:41, archived)
# next time you read something funny
remember not to read it

then nobody will try and give you the Heimlich manoeuvre
(, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 10:49, archived)