August 2009
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Yeah, yeah… enough already…
Posted by John on 03 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: heard
“I just love the word ‘asymptote’. I mean, how many words have ‘m-p-t’ in them?”
- John, after just having used “asymptotically” in a sentence at lunch with Dave
“Um… ‘empty’?”
- Dave, John’s best-work-friend (or work-best-friend, or… whetever), after about five seconds of thought
“Okay, other than that one…”
- John, somewhat embarrassed
“Scrumptious?”
- Dave, again after about five seconds of thought
“Okay, okay…”
- John, giving in
“My name is Humpty, pronounced with a Umpty…”
- Dave, singing, refusing to accept my surrender
“Okay, so anyway, as we were saying…”
- John, dragging the conversation back on track
Dave nods to acknowledge that we can continue the conversation and abandon the hunt for “m-p-t” words
“You’re still thinking, aren’t you…”
- John, after another five second pause, exasperated but laughing
“Verklempt?”
- Dave, now laughing as well, secure in his total verbal domination of the moment