Chalky, Dufus & Shirt
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CHALKY |
LISA |
DUFUS |
DAVID |
SHIRT |
GEOFFREY |
Seventh Galaxy were holding a
signing for the video release of “Creature from the Pit”, the DVD release of
“Carnival of Monsters”, and the CD release of “Plague Herds of Excelis”. In
attendance would be Geoffrey Bayldon, David Brierly, Bob Baker & Peter
Halliday. (Oh and the lovely Lisa Bowerman was there also – but that didn’t
influence the friends’ decision to attend – oh no !)
Arriving at their usual time, the
friends were surprised that the advertised David Brierly seemed to have been
replaced by the Captain from children’s classic, “Cockleshell Bay”, until
Little Ted told them that it was David Brierly. (Well he didn’t look
anything like a tin dog !).
Purchasing the requsite items, they
joined the queue, and a short while later the signing began. Soon the three
friends had entered the shop and were having their precious “Companions” books
signed by ‘Captain’ David Brierly. Moving along, both Chalky and Dufus managed
to successfully get their items signed by Geoffrey Bayldon, Peter Halliday and
Bob Baker.
Dufus managed to ignore Chalky’s
continued muttering of "Go on, ask Bob Baker about Wallace and
Gromit", saying very little, until he reached the lovely Ms. Bowerman,
where he chatted nineteen-to-the-dozen.
Shirt, however, was having trouble
getting his name over to the slightly hard-of-hearing Geoffrey Bayldon.
“Can you sign it to Shirt, please ?”
“To who ?”
(slightly louder) “Shirt !”
“Who ?”
(louder) “Shirt !”
“Who ?”
(at top of voice) “Shirt !”
“Oh, Shirt !”
Having finally got Geoffrey’s
signature on his “Creature from the Pit”, Shirt managed to also get his name on
a Jeremy Brett video cover that he was also in (but with less shouting this
time).
Moving along, and utilising Chalky's
spare "Carnival of Monsters" cover, Shirt managed to get Peter
Halliday on his "City of
Death" cover.
Chalky was also deep in conversation
with Ms. Bowerman, and seemed to be looking just too deeply into her eyes for a
man with a girlfriend. Subtlely pushing his friend aside, Shirt turned on the
charm (or what he thinks was charm), flirting outrageously with the
time-travelling archaeologist adventurer.
All three friends wanted photos with
the lovely Ms. Bowerman, and so one-by-one they moved to behind the signing
table, and crouched by the object of their lust. All was going well, until it
was Dufus’ turn, and he managed to nearly knock all the stuff off the table,
whilst squeezing round it. Luckily all items stayed put, and catastrophe was
averted.
Exiting the shop and placing their
signed items in their bags, Shirt turned to Chalky:
“I'll tell Tigger you were flirting
with Lisa Bowerman !", he said.
Chalky’s response is unprintable.
However, it was all made up, and the
three wended their merry ways home.
[PL]