one } voice; un: jane doe (they know what everybody knows)

[scathefires]

Who wants to help me settle a bet? I've got two questions if you do.

One - do you have an expression where you're from that goes "close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades"?

And two - what the hell do horseshoes and hand grenades have to do with each other anyway?

private to seifer and nida.

So we never went camping, back in the village.

[that's. pathetic, but it's the best he can do for offering an olive branch to his brothers.]

Comments

[scathefires]

How d'you know it's true? You play a lot of horseshoes where you're from?

[helpdesk_hero]

Personally, no. My mom's coworker Jessica, her family played a lot. She had a set up in the back yard.

[Things he'd picked up from other people.]

[scathefires]

Must be nice to know people who have a back yard for playing horseshoes.

[helpdesk_hero]

I'm sorry that my family lived in a place that we could have that?

[He doesn't sound sorry. He sounds like 'what do you want, man, I can't control who my parents were'.]

[scathefires]

Hmm ... sounds kinda fake, but OK.

[helpdesk_hero]

Hyde Park, Chicago. My parents had a yard. I'm sorry you didn't.

[scathefires]

Yeah, it’s kinda hard to have a yard when you live on the streets.

[helpdesk_hero]

I'm... I'm sorry about that. [It does sound genuine at least.]

[scathefires]

Yeah, well, the tradeoff is that I learned plenty about explosives. So which of us ended up with more useful skills?

[helpdesk_hero]

I've forgotten what I did know about explosives. But yeah, you've got a useful skill.

[Could this guy be responsible or tied to the explosions?]

[scathefires]

Glad we got that cleared up.

[mrsarcastic003]

Jason you literally spent your early teens in Wayne Manor. I don't think you can claim not to have had a yard when you had a grounds.

[scathefires]

Hey, I only said it was hard to have a back yard when you live on the streets. I didn’t say I only lived on the streets.

[mrsarcastic003]

You are my absolute favorite kind of troll.

[scathefires]

That's high praise, coming from a master troll such as yourself.

[mrsarcastic003]

I'd say that doesn't sound like me, but I think we both know better.

[scathefires]

Yeah, I think we do. Did I ever tell you about the first time we talked, back in Wonderland? You called me dad.

[mrsarcastic003]

I'm sorry, I did what?

[helpdesk_hero]

Yes, things are less opaque now... That other person mentioned you lived at a manor? That's a bit more extensive than a back yard.

[scathefires]

Pay no attention to the tiny Tim behind the curtain.

[helpdesk_hero]

I don't know. He's struck me as a honest young man. More or less.

[scathefires]

[sorry, jason's too busy snortlaughing to give that a proper answer.]

[helpdesk_hero]

Something tells me I've made a mistake.

[mrsarcastic003]

Jason's just being rude. Though I'm pretty sure saying something like "I am honest" is extremely suspect.

[helpdesk_hero]

So he's rude and you're suspect?