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022: [ voice ] The Hills Are Alive

[ there's a sound of pages rustling, as though someone is flipping through something. maybe a book, maybe a magazine. Then comes soft humming, before Taxon is treated to: ]

Girls in white dresses with no stupid sashes
Men with their briefs hanging low on their package
Rappers and singers glowing bright with their blings
These are a few of my favorite things

Parties and soirees and Oscar night fever
Scandals and horrors and fashion disasters
Collections for winter and summer and spring
These are a few of my favorite things!

When there're glitches, those damn bitches,
When I'm bored as hell
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I do feel sooooooo swelllllllllllllllllllll.

[ silence. then the sound of someone chuckling. ] Good thing my tablet's turned off--

--oh, crap.

[ ooc | song is a modified version of The Sound of Music's My Favorite Things. I DO NOT APOLOGIZE. ...although I should because tags will be slow until Saturday :( I just can't resist! ]

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I— Maybe?

[ it's relevant. very relevant. he promises. ]

Thought so. Only you would think of something this stupid.

[ pauuuuuuse. ]

...do they have weapons, at least?

[ and now she's thinking. way to go, champ. ]

I only thought of one of the stupid halves! Spike came up with the other!

[ because your ideas + spike's ideas = brilliance, angel. ]

No.

...because coming up with half a stupid idea isn't stupid in itself?

[ she sighs. ] Uh. Huh. Maybe... cavemen?

[ angel slams his hand against the nearest wall in irritation. that was not the answer he wanted to hear. ...yes, he's taking this a little too seriously, but he and spike have been fighting about this for over a year, if you take all that time in hell into account. ]

All cavemen have on their side is ruthlessness and a blind, misdirected, unevolved passion for brutality! And let's not forget the instinct to run whenever something big and confusing comes along.

[ she actually jumps at the sound of that. ]

Exactly. Brutality! Because, you know, astronauts are all about science and finesse and everything.

[ pause. ] You're siding with the astronauts, aren't you. [ ...oops? ]

Edited 2010-05-12 18:57 (UTC)

[ this very childish HUFF says that yes, yes he is. ]

Oh honey, you should have told me earlier. You know I would've taken your side in a heartbeat. Mine, that is.

Damage has already been done.

[ ...because this is a big deal. or he's making it out to be. ]

So there's... nothing I can do to reverse the damage?

Not sure, it's— Don't worry about it. Just a silly debate, anyway.

Oh, now you tell me, after making such a big deal about it earlier.

...you are so weird sometimes.

Spike doesn't think he needs to actually say anything, here. Just have him smirking at you from the screen, Angel.

And he's going to game face glare at you in return. Why yes, he is five.

Spike will just smirk and not sink to his level. Because taunting works just as well. "Even your girl agrees with me. Give it up already."

No, I wasn't agreeing with you, Spike.

...except for the part where I said cavemen will win, but that was before I realized the error of my ways.

[ she's trying to fix it, okay? ]

Sure, if by error of your ways you mean that Angel's incapable of admitting he's wrong and you're humoring him.

[ stunned silence, which can mean 'how the hell did you know?' ]

I meant about the part about cavemen winning. Because clearly, astronauts will.

Oh yeah? Why?

Because-- [ pause. ]

Because... science! And doesn't NASA teach their astronauts kung-fu, or something?

[ yes, she's aware of how stupid this sounds. ]

Uh huh.

[Can you hear the insufferable smugness? Cause there's insufferable smugness in his tone.]

Shut up.

And, just so you know - this is, like, extremely stupid. Why are you and Angel fighting over this anyway?

Cause he's wrong, and won't admit it. [This makes everything clearer, obviously.]

Or maybe because you're both wrong and won't admit it.

[Pause.]

How can we both be wrong? One side would win the fight.

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