Pip Pip, Tally Ho - Talk Like a Land Lubber

[Black Bart]

Croquet...is that as dangerous as invading France?

[Opsa]

Eau, it can be frightfully dangerous, particularly depending on whom you are bending over in front of! (Dear dear, I am sew naughty!)

[Pachyderm]

Lacking dactyls, I shall have to hold the blessed mallet with me trunk. I hope this is alright with the other players? Used to play with the Moderator of the Church of Scotland at Balmoral. That's where I got the blessed mallet....





WHOAAAAAAAAAHH! Madam, that is not a croquet hoop! Oh, it's you, Your Highness. Pray continue.

[pieces o nine]

I say, I am having difficulty in managing my flamingo; this "croquet" is a very difficult game indeed...

[Opsa]

Make a face like an alligator. That usually gets my flamingo to behave.


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[Black Bart]

I say chaps...we do live in strange times what what?  First one is playing croquet with Flamingoes for mallets and then one is inhabiting a blessed moving monastery...tis like 'Howl's Moving Castle' don't ch'ya know...

[Opsa]

Isn't it cunning? And the flamingos can fly alongside. But whatever shall we do about the hedgehogs? Maybe put them in a twee gondola with a hot air balloon?

[Black Bart]

What the deuce is goin on with the markets?  I really shouldn't have left my portfolio with a load of bankers!

[Opsa]

I hope it isn't the same load of bankers that I just saw driving your Bentley.

[DaveL]

By joves, the thread keeps telling me we've had noone here for 120 days. I bet those pirates are reponsible.

[Pachyderm]

Ere, even when we dun nuffink, us is gettin' th' blame! Tain't hordly fair, now, is it?


Roight, lads an' lasses, cutlasses at the reddy, we'em nut standin' fer it no moar!

[Opsa]

Eau, Pachy Dear, put down that horrid thing at once! You're making my lapdog tremble so violently that I'm starting to enjoy the sensation! 

[Pachyderm]

"Ai say Ma'am, one blushes divinely. 'Tis most becomin' dontcha know."


Twiddles the ends of his moustache in appreciation.

[Opsa]

*Tee hee*

One does have to admire a rogue!

[Pachyderm]

One would prefer "rapscallion", or even "rake". The problem with using the words "rogue" and "elephant" in the same sentence is that people start fetching guns to save their crops, and Ai don't have the figure to carry off the bullet-riddled look.