12:04 'wordsman and Beverly order iced coffee. Summer is great. Rob arrives and demands to know if 'wordsman is behind the penguin newspaper on the blog. 'wordsman pretends to fumble his denial and acts guilty. Beverly cracks up. 12:07 Rob is dejected --- 'wordsman obviously is not impersonating the penguins. It must be some hacker. Could it be Joe Tabbi's handiwork? Or Anne Burdick? 12:09 What's the deal with Allen? Is he ready for a Real Relationship with this French woman he hardly knows? 'wordsman says yes. Rob says maybe. Beverly says no way, Schmozay. 12:14 Beverly wants all the Olympic Track and Field men to be nude like in the original ancient Olympics. Rob and 'wordsman wince. Beverly says: Exactly! She wants to see what happens to it. Does it shrink and get out of the way? If it knows what's good for it, says Rob. |
12:18 Nude Olympics; Beverly says Nude Boxing and Rob and 'wordsman wince. Rob says Nude Archery and Beverly winces. 'wordsman says Nude Badminton and everybody winces. 12:22 Beverly is scandalized. How can 'wordsman say Allen is ready? 'wordsman has inside information: Allen's sister has two kids and Allen loves them. Beverly says: Nonetheless. Rob says Allen covets his bachelorhood. 12:30 Allen is intensely loyal with his employees. To a fault. Proof that Allen is not afraid of attachment, says 'wordsman. Employee/employer is a different relationship. Theoretically, says Beverly. They reminisce about Greta, Allen's former employee and long-time, on-and-off lover. 12: 37 Rob says Allen learned his lesson with Greta. Plus Allen's skin cancer put the scare in him. Guys have biological clocks, too. 12:42 'wordsman wants nudity to be the theme of the whole Olympics. He's very old school. Bike racing, too. Rob says the Olympics already have a theme: performance-enhancing drugs. 12:47 Performance enhancing drugs are natural --- part of human nature --- and should be legal, says 'wordsman. The true test of a national prowess is to see how jaked their scientists can make their athletes. 12:54 NASCAR is a battle between the engineers, not the drivers, says Rob; maybe 'wordsman's right. Imagine an Olympics of completely jaked, raving, jittery athletes. 12:55 Nude, adds Beverly 12: 59 Beverly thinks she, Rob and 'wordsman should get on a conference call to Allen. An intervention. Just to make sure that he's OK and not going off the deep end. 1:04 Rob sweeps up the tab. Hugs all around. Beverly will call about the conference call with Allen. |