Voicetesting (or, Oh God, What Am I Doing?)

[theraggedydoctor]

What's that you have there? Is that for me? Is that an application?

Oh, yes - yes, this is good.

This is very good.

Well, no, it's complete rubbish. Well, not the application. I can't tell if it's rubbish. You've hardly written a word. The idea, though, the idea is just terrible. Look, you can't send me to a Lovecraftian horror city. Okay, I'll admit it sounds very interesting - all those beasties hiding in the fog.

But you can't send me there! For one thing, look at the rules! They say 'nothing bigger than a refrigerator'. What am I going to do with the old girl? She's bigger - much bigger - than a refrigerator, particularly on the inside. I can't just leave her. If I don't bring my box along, I can't tell people I'm a madman with a box, now can I? I'll just be a madman with a bowtie, and that's not nearly as impressive.

Oh, but they don't say what kind of refrigerator, though, do they? No. Maybe they mean a large walk-in deep freezer or the refrigerated compartment of a cargo ship. Maybe one of those long refrigerators you see in the supermarket, where they keep frozen peas.

Now, think. How do those moderators feel about loopholes? Well, not loopholes. Subjecting rules to interpretation. Technicalities. Except that's what loopholes are, aren't they? Right. Yes. Good.

Where was I?

Comments

[championoftime]

I love them.

It didn't go with my hair very well when I tried one. But it ought to work with yours.

[theraggedydoctor]

I knew it! And just for the record, I think the question marks are very smart. Very clever. Do you wallop people with that cane? It's like swiss cheese in this headspace. Full of holes, can't remember the really important things.

[championoftime]

I could sword fight decently with it. And I frequently used it as a tool, as I was lacking a sonic screwdriver for quite a while. The old girl didn't replace it until before we were in Cromwell's company, and that was a very uncomfortable experience.

[theraggedydoctor]

Here's the part where I say I want to be you when I grow up, but it's the other way around, isn't it?

[championoftime]

You look as though you've managed to grow out of my clothes, at any rate. [He was a wee short man, even if not so thin.]

[theraggedydoctor]

Out of your clothes, but never into your shoes.

[championoftime]

I'm glad to know that I'm still a man with impeccable tastes!