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Rhonda: Hey, Noseboy.
*pointedly ignoring her*
Rhonda: A-HEM.
*scowl* Do you really have to keep coming up with new insults to address me?
Rhonda: You're right. It's more economical to keep using the old ones since they still work.
Grrrrrrr...
Rhonda: That Lockmonster guy had a birthday. I'm taking over a ping-pong set for him. You wanna come along?
The...the furry blue guy?
Rhonda: You left out cute, friendly and adorable.
Monsters have such odd standards.
Rhonda: So does our newsroom, but you still have a job.
Argh! *folds his voting ballot and tucks it into his jacket* Fine. At least he doesn't seem to have the horrible habit of eating people like the others...
Rhonda: So you're boning up on the candidates and stuff, huh?
Merely educating myself. A good reporter knows
what questions to ask of
whom, after all...and I may get the opportunity to ask them!
Rhonda: You? On what parallel planet is that happening?
*even deeper scowl* Funny, rat.
Rhonda: Seriously. No debates, stump speeches, or hand-clasping is going on
anywhere near here! And I know you don't have the creds to get a press pass to tour on anybody's bus, so what gives?
Well, they...they might...*cough* um, possibly, become lost. Those GPS things can be confusing. And maps aren't always up-to-date.
Rhonda: Now why would any of the major candidates have reason to travel anywhere NEAR-- *beat* You sent the freaks to switch the interstate signs, didn't you.
*turning red* Ahem! Uhm. Er. What? I mean no. I mean why would you imagine such an outlandish thing?
Rhonda *eyeroll* Come on, MacNeil. Let's go say happy belated to Grover.
*they head over to Kathy's to drop off a cute furry ping-pong ball and two paddles*
....
meanwhile, on an interstate somewhere...
Blue *jerks lower jaw over entire head* Ulp!
Pink: Ulp!
*cars zoom by. The Martians are hanging by various appendages upside-down from an overhead sign*
Pink: AwwwWWWww. Erp. Mm. See wrench.
Blue: Awww. See wrench. Mn. Yip. Yip yip yip. *tentacles his partner an eyeball-shaped wrench*
Pink *wobbles as he tries to levitate the bolts off the sign* Mur-mur-mur-mur-mur. Awp. Yip.
*sign crashes to pavement. Horns blare. Tires screech. Sounds of crashing metal and skidding rubber and angry yells from below*
Pink: Oh oh.
Blue: Uh-uh uh-uh! Nooope!
*they gulp their jaws over their eyes. After a moment, Blue peeks*
Blue: Awww. Look look look.
Pink: Aww?
Blue: Mmm. Par-a-med-ic. Yiiiiip. yip yip yip yip yip.
Pink: Awwwww. Par-a-med-ic. Noi-sy. Uh huh.
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