his wife years earlier bought him an antique spittoon

had a scent

was bangedup believed to be used in the day in a bar in Grass Valley or Nevada City California

Thanks babe Is this for an occasion tha slipped my mind

Cute.  Nothing slips your mind. On my trip up there last weekend, the girls’ outing, we went antiquing. I bought it there.

    I don chew

No.  But imagine this.

 

                           It’s possible when Samuel Clemens was lecturing up there he might have spit in it.

Genius

             Ya know wha

What?

Im gonna lie  Call it fact

Won’t you be . . . flummoxed . lying?

Literary license Im a storyteller

                                     Anyoull have my back

smilingshook her head

                          You do tell stories. The kids certainly benefit from your out-of-the-box perspectives.

Thank you  I believe so too

 

 

 

    Samuel Clemens.

                            Who’s that?

Just lost a couplefew points off your beloved IQ rating

                                                               Mark Twain

eyesbuggedI knew that.

Sorry  Points off the board

                              Speaking of which  Ive got a question

About Samuel Clemens?

Those points are gone tha aint cutting it

                                              Question

About Twain?

    I Q

Oh. Changing up on me.

Poor deduction

                       Idiot

Are you calling me an idiot?

No

        Im wading into your realm  Have a question

    About IQ about idiots?

Jah

        To refresh your mindsince when I told you you had no idea

Idiot  Scale zero to twentyfour

You said.

Anya immediately when to your trusty everpresent steed sidekick

    My steed?

Your phone your AI buddy

                              With a hardy Hi-O Silver  Away

What are you talking about?

You doubted me I don lie zero to twenty four you confirmed

                                                                  Your IQ scale has  zero

Thas fucked up

I had no idea.

So  Question

                   Or affirmation

    Go ahead

Arya familiar with a lumpen   L  U  M  P  E  N

No.

Lumpen  An adjective

                         The lowest most neglected uneducated segments of society

    Zero

I wouldn’t say zero.

Zombie

    Really. Zombie.

Zombie

 

The walking dead?

Zero

    Don’t you think?

Zombie   Idiot

                     The IQ tests you inveterately obsessively take

Believes in zombies

                     Zero   On the scale

1440,  reggaefriday,  14  8. 26

1545,  Wednesday,  23  9. 26

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