Michelle's Journal

shinyopals

"How was spending the evening with your daughter and her partner, then?"

"Well," said Jackie, "if we were scoring for predictability they'd get ten out of ten. Setting the kitchen on fire? How original, Doctor. It's only the fourth time I've seen you do that. And this was such a nice, great big fire, too. Well done there."

"What about you, Pete?"

Pete had his head in his hands. "Just... whatever Jackie says."

Time to start phase one: conversation.

try:
c = conversation("Banal comment about the weather")
except: # could cause error
"Unable to maintain conversation"
except: # reason for error
"Lack of interest in subject"
else: # executed if no exceptions are raised
"Conversation write completed successfully"
if c:
c.close()

"Pleasant evening, isn’t it?"

“Explain!” the Master demanded, holding out a DVD case for the Doctor to see.

The Doctor considered the title and the picture on the front and decided it was worth the effort of raising an eyebrow.

“It's called pornography,” he said.

Presently there are three lobsters. Or four or five, or more. Or five and— you get our point. For the sake of expediency we’ll say that there are three. The important bit is that two of them have knives.