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Date Posted: 02:23:18 10/15/05 Sat
Author: Celebaelin
Subject: Re: Can it be babies?
In reply to: anom 's message, "Re: Can it be babies?" on 10:27:10 10/14/05 Fri

'Splained as follows:

They're from Triangle.

I'd finished writing the post and had written "Whadya think" to invite comment and realised that this is what Spike says to Olaf in this bit

OLAF: Barmaid! Bring me stronger ale, and some plump, succulent babies to eat.

XANDER: I'm gonna run and get Buffy. (Pats Spike on the shoulder) Or maybe you could fight him.
SPIKE: Yeah, I could do that, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much.

OLAF: (pointing at Spike) You there! (walks up to Spike and Xander) Do you know where there are babies?
SPIKE: (to Xander) What do you think, the hospital?
XANDER: What? Shut up! (to Olaf) Um ... listen...

so I added the 'the hospital' in parentheses as a kinda lame 'in' joke.

Then when I tried to post the whole thing was thrown back at me because there was no title (and no Name either come to that) and rather than spend time, energy or even a moments thought* I just went with another line from the same scene to top and tail it as it were, following on immediately from the lines above comes

OLAF: I find myself very hungry. And when I'm hungry I grow short of patience.
XANDER: Well, we can take care of the hungry, so how's about you just sit down in one of the ... sturdier chairs, and we can ... have a calm talk and something to eat.
OLAF: Can it be babies?
XANDER: Well, not so much.
OLAF: (disappointed) Oh.

/'Splainy>

Oh, and as regards commiseration with Anya and the tongue holding, yep, you could read it that way quite happily but it's still hardly the sign of a thouroughly despicable minion of eeeevillll is it? On a scale of one to ten I'd give it one.

*there are LOADS of Wagner gags in addition to Huneker's bot mot perhaps "Music is better than it sounds" would have been better, if equally as obscure

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Mark Twain

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