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Fooles: A Quiet Day at the Market - Take 2

Last Updated: 30 Jun 2002 1502

First Published on: Thursday, 4 May 1995
Edited and Republished on: Sunday, 26 January 1997


[Serious Announcer]	The Fooles get not always everything right the first time...
[Silly Announcer]	Be the Fooles having an effect on the real Robin?
[Serious Announcer]	Would anybody notice?
[Silly Announcer]	Does anybody care?

[Serious Announcer]	I hath a small missive from Robin the author...
[Silly Announcer]	...and scribe...
[Serious Announcer]	...to read concerning the recent fiasco on the Cathedral Steps.

	Sorry, people. Sometimes I just can't tell the Fooles apart. Sometimes they even get into the wrong places, or say the wrong line. But then, it probably made just about as much sense anyway. And sorry, for bhe Bo Te, or Nob Bo Te bype error in bhe previous message. Ah, but then, you see, To Be Or Not To Be = 2 F or FF [Hex] anyway, Thus Fo Fe Or Nof Fo Fe, I suppose. Robin.

[Serious Announcer]	Think you now know why the Fooles be so stupid?

[Serious Announcer]	Market Day again. Some familar figures be (to the best of their various abilities) wending their way through the crowd. (whisper) And prithee get it right this time Fooles!

[Omnes]	Sorry! ...Battels Fault! ... Sorry!
[Battel]	Shhh!...

[Lady Lucrativa]	We could get support from the Duke, I think...
[Battel]	..but after that meeting... the Duchess be not happy with the cost of the breakages...
[Lady Lucrativa]	No, the other Duke, the one friendly with the Prince...
[Battel]	But we need to consult the Prince about it first, I think...
[Bottel]	Mush do shingsh da Cor-rekt Way! (Expansive gesture creates loss of balance, causing inadvertant stunbling motion, resulting in cacaphonous arrival at brass merchant's trestle table.)
[Battel]	Pick him up! Lady Lucrativa, you get those rolling down the steps, I've got the rest... look there be nothing broken...
[Lady de Kup-Kake]	There, there, there, put your head there and just rest for a while, you'll feel better...
[Bottel]	(muffled) ...feeling better now...
[Babbel]	[enters SL] Ah, Battel, the Duchess wants to see you about that meeting the other day...
[Battel]	Well, at least we put one over on the GRAND PUNTIFF, so SOMETHING went right this week...
[Lady Lucrativa]	There, that be the lot. Oh, that be a pretty thing I have not seen before...
[Babbel]	...he be married...
[Bottel]	No! Ish alrrrright now! Let me go! (violent extrication from de Kup's motherly clutches catapults him into nearby vegetable sellers stall)
[Battel]	Aaarghh!

Robin the Ruthless in Battel.
"The prince's best friend, who was a large if cerebrally constrained duke..."
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. - J F Garner. -

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