You can tell he was a spy

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  • ISN
    ISN Posts: 1,700
    but due to the brainwashing he had received by Pakistan's secret police, he totally forgot about his matriculation in the premier classical music school in Calcutta where he had learnt ancient rhythms and renditions, and where if he had ever returned there, he would have been mobbed; it was like a void in his memory - hence the famous phrase, engendered by his life, 'the black hole of Calcutta'.......
    ....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Or was it the slack pole of cold butter?
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Jocelyn and Mary Ann knew each other from somewhere, I could see the spy surmise, rubbing his chin: he craned in near to hear the ends of Jocelyn's words as if to detect a faint Czech accent.
  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    Jocelyn and Mary Ann knew each other from somewhere, I could see the spy surmise, rubbing his chin: he craned in near to hear the ends of Jocelyn's words as if to detect a faint Czech accent.

    Realizing that this made him appear interested, he quickly picked up a Wall Street Journal and pretended to read.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    It was when he saw the word "Prague" from a page on international espionage reflected in an ashtray that things started to make sense: eugarp!!!
  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    Eugarp Shimmlefitty--his long-standing nemisis from his Bolivian task force days.
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  • Eugarp Shimmlefitty--his long-standing nemisis from his Bolivian task force days.

    The question was, was he still in league with the Bolivians?
    If going right is wrong, I don't wanna go right!
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    He certainly still had that curious walk, with the hip shift that earned him the nickname Shimmyshimmy back in those sailors' bars he was said to frequent: if only he could get to shake his hand for a secret twitch of his signet ring in morse code against the palm, then he'd know for sure.
  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    What excuse could he possibly find to shake the Shimmlefitty's hand?
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    He tried to remember the moves to an old thighslapping dance they did in the officers' mess, involving wet eels.
  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    Grabbing a menu, he skimmed the seafood selection, only to be disappointed when he saw they only offered dry eel.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    He knew there was nothing else for it but to ask to inspect the guy's ring, which, given the rumours, shouldn't be too problematic.
  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    Sliding off his stool, he approached his old nemesis with what could only be described as the swagger of caution.
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  • steppenwolf
    steppenwolf Posts: 164
    ...and then he broke into a dance he learned as a teenager back in louisville; to be inconspicuous.
  • ISN
    ISN Posts: 1,700
    and, sidled over to the guy to get a look at his ring, as his legs flailed out in contortions he hadn't exercised since he was 15, and which made think of his mother, the notorious Madame X.....of Savannah
    ....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    ISN wrote:
    and, sidled over to the guy to get a look at his ring, as his legs flailed out in contortions he hadn't exercised since he was 15, and which made think of his mother, the notorious Madame X.....of Savannah

    But nevermind that.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I plucked up the courage, slinked over to Shimmy and whispered "My budgerigar just ate a whole tomato."
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    The spy looked shocked at my intervention.
  • steppenwolf
    steppenwolf Posts: 164
    He dropped the book he was reading, How to Butcher an American Sentence by J.F. Limpah, into the breadbasket on the table.
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    At this point, he'd had enough of inaction and decided to do something important.
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