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5th in the Prester John series
| [Serious Announcer] | ...and so we join our Fools again... |
| [Silly Announcer] | ...why, be they coming apart? He! He! |
| [Babbel] | ...so they communicated by slap-dancing and farting... |
| [Battel] | No! Stop! No more fart jokes! |
| [Babbel] | What be wrong with fart jokes? |
| [Battel] | Fart jokes are the Bottom Line in Humour! |
| [Quibble] | But Shakespeare used Bottom! |
| [Bottel] | So do we all! |
| [Babbel] | I be glad we be not in the West Kingdom. |
| [Quibbel] | Why be that? |
| [Babbel] | In the West Kingdom, they indulge in such arcane practices as (whisper) "Page-Stapling Meetings"!!! |
| [Quibbel] | Ooohhh!!! |
| [Bottel] | Painful!!! |
| [Battel] | (reading) I think we've been insulted. That old crystal gazer called us a Coterie of Fools. |
| [Quibbel] | Greetings Lady Lucrativa. |
| [Bottel] | What be the latest news from Gelder Grabber? |
| [Lady Lucrativa] | Count Gelder be come from fean Abbey where Vicount Fredrich of Mikelgate resides. |
| [Bottel] | And how be all the little sheep? Still waiting to be fean? |
| [Babbel] | He be selling illuminated books of hours for 50 gold pieces... |
| [Lady Lucrativa] | It be traditional that the moneylenders quarter be near St Michael's Gate... |
| [Quibbel] | Yes, but that be the most expensive part of the city... |
| [Bottel] | Hmm... the money lenders quarter also hath best oiled postern gate hinges of any of the city gates. |
| [Lady Lucrativa] | We be starting a Branch of the Moneyers Guild to distribute very low denominaton tokens that will be distributed as alms. |
| [Bottel] | To aid the orphanage I presume... |
| [Lady Lucrativa] | I hath a friend that can make the dies for a trifling 500 gold marks... |
| [Bottel] | And dost thou still believe that Prester John is beset by barbarians who refuse to acknowledge the Divine Right of Kings? |
| [Lady Lucrativa] | Of course! |
| [Bottel] | Hmmm... |
| [Babbel] | I hath a new joke. |
| [Bottel] | Pray DO tell us, we just cannot wait! |
| [Babbel] | What do you do with an elephant with three balls? |
| [Long pause] | |
| [Babbel] | Walk him, and strike out the rhino! |
| [Longer pause] | |
| [Quibbel] | But, that be not funny. |
| [Babbel] | They seem to think that be funny over here. |
| [Battel] | Must be a local joke. |
| [Bottel] | Like Count Gelder... |
| [Babbel] | Have you heard of The Subduction of the Innocent? |
| [Battel] | Noooo... |
| [Babbel] | Subduction leads to Orogeny! |
| [Pause] | |
| [Battel] | Who said that? |
| [Babbel] | Well, it be another local joke I suppose... |
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