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How is the weather this time of year in Leningrad?

 
  

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Mon Oncle Ignatius
15:11 / 12.10.06
The idea of this thread is to speak entirely in cod-spy code phrases of the sort used supposedly to idenfiy agents to each other. You know the sort of thing - Agent Red says to Agent Blue "How is the weather this time of year in Leningrad?" as they prepare to swap rolled-up newspapers containing the mimeographed top-secret blueprints. "Not as good as in Kharkhov, but the roses will bloom nicely" is the expected answer.

One phrase per post, and the next one should be an answer only from another suit, please. One optional descriptive sentence per phrase is positively OK too.

I'll start things off;

Major Ahmed of the Jordanian Embassy, opening the conversational gambit with the contact known only as Al-Amriki in the coffe-shop in Damascus, mutters softly: " I wonder what the price of mutton is in Basra now that the cold of winter is drawing near?"

(I've put this in Convo for more fun and games, but will happily have it go to Creation if there is demand for it)
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
15:20 / 12.10.06
The mutton is reasonable, but the boots cost a bloody fortune.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
16:05 / 12.10.06
Surely you are used to feeding the ducks in St. James park at the height of tulip-blooming season?
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
16:32 / 12.10.06
The tulips in Holland blooom all year round, so when should they feed the ducks?
 
 
Feverfew
16:49 / 12.10.06
It is not the ducks that matter; it is more the geese.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
17:09 / 12.10.06
The discerning duck has a bread preference.
 
 
Mistoffelees
17:35 / 12.10.06
The cat has left the basket. I repeat: The cat. Has left. The basket.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
17:37 / 12.10.06
In which case, we shall have to bring out the C.A.T.N.I.P. repeat- Activate Plan C.A.T.N.I.P.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
17:44 / 12.10.06
But if the cat should nip, why not the dog?
 
 
grant
17:47 / 12.10.06
He is hungry for fresh mutton.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
17:53 / 12.10.06
The Tintorettos have been compromised. I repeat, the Tintorettos have been compromised.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
18:40 / 12.10.06
I hear Chesney Hawkes has, erm, opened the cornflakes; the cornflakes are open- all we now need is the milk.
 
 
Princess
18:45 / 12.10.06
Shakespeare's egg has abandoned form, or so the philosophers in Cairo say...
 
 
Mistoffelees
19:00 / 12.10.06
Next time we'll have a foolproof coffin.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
19:31 / 12.10.06
It's raining in Baltimore.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:38 / 12.10.06
Joey Ramone says Baltimore's at its best in the rain.
 
 
grant
19:53 / 12.10.06
Was it raining hard when you left there?
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
19:54 / 12.10.06
Sixty-nine degrees and cloudy in Tupelo.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:56 / 12.10.06
Johnny Ramone, however, feels Tupelo is rubbish, whatever the weather.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
19:59 / 12.10.06
The black dog barks at night.
 
 
Mistoffelees
20:02 / 12.10.06
Inside the foolproof coffin.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
20:06 / 12.10.06
Harlequin has nailed his heart to a steel door in Berlin.
 
 
Feverfew
20:09 / 12.10.06
The heart may be nailed, the door is never opened. In Leningrad.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
20:10 / 12.10.06
They are listening to the winds of change. Near Gorky Park.
 
 
grant
13:23 / 13.10.06
Are the winds especially bitter?
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
13:35 / 13.10.06
The circus is falling down on its knees.
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
13:42 / 13.10.06
But the Elephants endure.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
13:44 / 13.10.06
The big top is crumbling down.
 
 
Triplets
13:45 / 13.10.06
But peanuts are plentiful on the streets of Cairo.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
14:01 / 13.10.06
It's the final countdown.
 
 
Dead Megatron
14:02 / 13.10.06
Do you remember when the lights went down in Paris, dear, or were you in Madagascar that year?"
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
14:14 / 13.10.06
Madagascar's bananas are unequalled.
 
 
Not in the Face
14:15 / 13.10.06
There must be some mistake. I ordered my asparagus rare
 
 
Dead Megatron
14:21 / 13.10.06
Unfortunally, asparagus are pretty common
 
 
Not in the Face
14:33 / 13.10.06
My guidebook tells me that this is not a common McDonalds. Should I complain to the publisher's nephew?
 
  

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