Shadowfax: Fine, MOM! I would respond with some additional musical choices, but I don’t want to get any further in trouble.
Gandalf: We missed you, Bubba. It has gotten alarmingly quiet around here, to the extent that Rus and I are keeping busy by comparing notes on music, social norms and pharmacological products (yes, Shadowfax, we’re stopping now).
Re: Casca: I don’t have any issues with what he said. I do have issues with both the approach and the tone. You can disagree quite strongly with someone, but still maintain respect and decorum. If one feels that they are so above everyone else in the discussion that they cannot handle themselves appropriately, then they should leave. This “dear fellow” and “dear boy” nonsense coming from anyone is condescending and rude, and it is an obvious device meant to establish distance and superiority. The same goes for the constant employment of $6 words. Unless this guy is the reincarnation of Bill Buckley, stow it. I have this mental vision of some pontificatory pinhead in a tweed jacket with elbow patches stoking a pipe while he lectures the proles. Sorry, Bub, that s**t don’t fly. I’m well past the point of having to deal with a clown like that, and as a peer no less. Go polish your hakenkreutz (and I’m sure that Casca knows full well what that is).
