A Conversation for The Feline and Fiddle
The Maverick Table
153745 Posted Jul 23, 2001
They're after me!
*looks around nervously at all the faces in the bar*
What have I done?!
*whispering*
Listen, all of you who visit the Maverick Table, I had my vengeance but it cost me and everyone I come into contact with on h2g2 their secrets! They'll Moderate everything you say and do if they knew I was there, somewhere, in some conversation.
There isn't much time! Argh!
The Maverick Table
153745 Posted Jul 23, 2001
Everything will become clear when I get this God-forsaken article finished and printed in the Post. It will reveal the truth, and I have put my life at stake in writing it.
But I have said too much...
For now, act as inconspicuous as possible, but a word of warning:
If you see the semiotics lecturing shed burned to rubble, and my ashes spread atop it, do not be alarmed. Hopefully they won't get to us too soon, and if they don't, then the shed and I have died for a good cause.
That being said, let's act naturally and do what we always have done here; drink ourselves to sleep.
*orders twenty-five 
, finishes them all, orders another twenty, and begins to drink away*
The Maverick Table
153745 Posted Jul 23, 2001
*orders several 
, and a 
, crawls under the Maverick Table, pulls out a notebook and pen from his satchel, and resumes writing the article*
The Maverick Table
153745 Posted Jul 24, 2001
*from under the Table*
Menza, how's it going?
I haven't spoken to you in a while...
The Maverick Table
153745 Posted Jul 24, 2001
*walks back in after having a very long discussion with the Semiotics Lecturing Shed. orders seven , a couple rounds of , eight 
, and also a few *
The Maverick Table
Dizzy H. Muffin Posted Jul 24, 2001
[YK enters. Er, just to get a visual idea of him, he looks best drawn Animé style. He has a spiky hairstyle similar to that of Cloud from Final Fantasy 7, or Gary from Pokémon, except that it's black. He is wearing blue jeans and a red jacket over a black H2G2 T-shirt. He is wearing a lightsaber and a blaster at his belt and there is a short, grey horn sticking out of his forehead]
[YK] Huh ... [looks around] I feel almost like this is Orwellian ...
The Maverick Table
153745 Posted Jul 24, 2001
YK!
Nice of you to drop by! 
This is the Maverick Table, where drinking is merry and free. When you are at the Table, vast and dangerous amounts of intoxicating beverage goes down like ginger beer, though I must warn you...you will still get a hangover in the morning...
*looks around the bar suspiciously making sure no one is suspecting anything, and then says in a low, almost inaudible voice*
Act natural... 
The Maverick Table
153745 Posted Jul 24, 2001
*Yossarian suddenly breaks into a coughing fit*
Cough,cough,cough,cough,cough,cough,cough,cough,they're watching us,cough,cough,cough,cough,cough,cough...
Sorry about that.
*clears his throat and goes through a few *
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Dizzy H. Muffin Posted Jul 24, 2001
[YK] So, what do you think about that war we're having agaisnt Eastasia and Eurasia? I hope Big Brother manages to pull us through.
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153745 Posted Jul 24, 2001
This is a topic of which I know little to nothing about... 
I'd like to hear about this, though, if you wouldn't mind explaining.
What does a crappy realtv television series have to do with wars in the far east and the Yugoslavian area (East Europe)?
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Dizzy H. Muffin Posted Jul 24, 2001
[YK] Have you ever wondered where they got the name "Big Brother" from? Have you ever heard the catchphrase "Big Brother is watching you" and wondered what that's a reference to? You have most definitely not read "1984" by George Orwell. Do so. It depicts ... an Orwellian universe.
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153745 Posted Jul 24, 2001
Ah.
The only thing I've read by Orwell was, "Animal Farm," though I do remember hearing about how Big Brother was coined from, "1984"...
Ever read, "A Clockwork Orange," or, "Farenheit 451?"
The Maverick Table
153745 Posted Jul 24, 2001
*an enormously built, hairy Frenchman enters the bar, walks over to the Table, and puts his frightningly large hand on Yossarians shoulder*
Monsiuer Prefect, you are coming with me...
*he clubs Yossarian in the back of the head, knocking him unconscience, and drags him by the leg out the door*
Help... *Yossarian gasps as he is pulled into the cold, night air*
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Dizzy H. Muffin Posted Jul 24, 2001
[SFX: Summoning zing. The large man is blocked by a large, demonic being who looks like a Minotaur with green pants and firey orange hair, named Ifrit.]
[Ifrit] No he is not.
[[Inferno]]
[The man is blasted by a stream of fire. He drops YP, who isn't even singed. YK joins them]
[YK] Nice work. Mind if I take over? [draws and arms lightsaber and blaster, pointing them at the Frenchman]
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Dizzy H. Muffin Posted Jul 24, 2001
[YK explains what happened and Ifrit disappears.]
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153745 Posted Jul 24, 2001
Ah.
I told you those bastards were merciless...
Anyway, 'A Clockwork Orange' takes place in the near future where culturally the world resembles the Victorian Era, except with an incomprehensible amount of gang violence. Kubrick made it a movie in the 70s. Quite disturbing, but well made nonetheless.
Farenheit 451 was written by Ray Bradbury. It depicts a future where intellect has gone down the toilet. Firemen burn books, and the book in general shows the horrors of censorship.
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purplejenny Posted Jul 25, 2001
greetings funsters!
*Arrives wearing not too much make up, not too much clothing.*
Phew its been a hot, long day...
You really should read 1984. Its full of great and scary concepts. Big Brother - constantly watching everyone (hmm a bit like CCTV. Or 'reality' TV. 
) Room 101 - the room that contains your darkest fears (Orwell used to work at the bbc i believe - in room 101, apparantly) Newspeak - the process of changing and eliminating lanugage to make 'thoughtcrime' (dissent) an impossibilty. There simply werent words like that left - language dumbed down to the point of uselessness. Newspeak words are too simple things can be only be 'good' 'bad' 'doubleplusgood.' Doubt, dissent and thought are discouraged as the language is squiched.
The Ministry of Truth, where Winston worked as a censor - constantly rewrites history to suit the status quo. The status quo is constantly changing since it suits a totalitarian state to be constantly at war. The MINIPAX the ministry of peace, is in face the ministry of war. And most feared of all is MINILOVE - the ministry of hate where winston faces torture for his thoughtcrimes.
(wooo) Takes big chug of
U got any bottles of budvar?
pj
x
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purplejenny Posted Jul 25, 2001
aplogogies for th many typos. Hope u get my meaning. For face read fact, and please make up your own punctuation.
Like i said, long day...
pj
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