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[AuxCableAngie]

I am Groot

[Josiah the Carrot Stick]

Are you? I somehow find some issues in that statement.

[Manalive Smith]

Hmm, I’d never thought of it that way.

[Josiah the Carrot Stick]

Is she really Groot? Or is she Angie masquerading as Groot? Perhaps she is Groot masquerading as Angie? Perhaps she is someone entirely different masquerading as both?

[Manalive Smith]

It’s decided. Angie is the Phantom of the Opera.

[Josiah the Carrot Stick]

Or that.

[Manalive Smith]

Who knows where she’ll strike next!

[Josiah the Carrot Stick]

Probably the socials.

[Josiah the Carrot Stick]

I’m really not sure what’s up with the dude with the monocle, top hat, and moustache.

[Josiah the Carrot Stick]

Did I spell moustache wrong?

[Manalive Smith]

Mustache is the Americanized spelling. Moustache is British.

[Josiah the Carrot Stick]

Oh, jolly good.

[Manalive Smith]

You are closer to the Atlantic than most of us. Britain’s just a hop, skip, and a jump away.

[Manalive Smith]

What dude with a monocle?

[Manalive Smith]

Angie is doubtless composing music and murders even as we speak.

[Manalive Smith]

I wonder if half her face is disfigured and she can speak French. I’ll really be happy with just one out of the two.

[Josiah the Carrot Stick]

Oh, you know, the chap on the socials. He looks right odd.

[Manalive Smith]

Well sink me, he is a right odd fellow. I must say you sound raaather like a hare at present.

[Manalive Smith]

It would explain why you so love carrots.

[Josiah the Carrot Stick]

I say, you’ve got a point there, wot wot?

[Manalive Smith]

A point? I can’t say I do dear chap, fresh out of pencils.

[Josiah the Carrot Stick]

Oh, that’s rather a pity. Have you botched all of them?

[Manalive Smith]

(I’m going for my best Scarlet Pimpernel, but I can only sound so vacuous. Just insert awkward wheezy laughs after every sentence in your head).

[Josiah the Carrot Stick]

(I’m afraid I’ve never read it…)

[Manalive Smith]

Raaather. Goodness, I can’t seem to keep them properly pointed, which is rather a pity.

[Manalive Smith]

(I’ve only seen the movie and heard songs from the musical, but I’ve heard good things about the book. It’s a dense writing style, but I plan to read it at some point before I die).

[Josiah the Carrot Stick]

(I’ve read the Scarlet Letter, which I found rather deplorable.)

[Manalive Smith]

(It’s basically one of the world’s earliest superhero stories).

[Manalive Smith]

(I had to read that as well. I can’t say I was terribly impressed, or that the story stuck with me well. The Scarlet Pimpernel is a fictional hero who rescues aristocrats from the guillotine using disguises and ingenious plans during the French Revolution, but to throw people off the scent he acts like a complete idiot in real life).

[Manalive Smith]

(But the author doesn’t tell you who the Pimpernel is until later in the story. It would be like not finding out that Bruce Wayne is Batman until partway through Batman Begins).

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