Mr. Praline: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.
(No response)
Mr. Praline: 'Ello, Miss?
Owner: What do you mean “miss”?
Mr. Praline: (pause)I’m sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!
Owner: We’re closin’ for lunch.
Mr. Praline: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this TN Thread what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
Owner: Oh yes, the, uh, the “Gormless Billionaires”…What’s,uh…What’s wrong with it?
Mr. Praline: I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it, my lad. 'E’s dead, that’s what’s wrong with it!
Owner: No, no, it’s uh,… it’s resting.
Mr. Praline: Look, matey, I know a dead TN Thread when I see one, and I’m looking at one right now.
Owner: No no it’s not dead, it’s, it’s restin’! Remarkable TN Thread, the “Gormless Billionaires”… innit? 'Beautiful sentence construction!
Mr. Praline: The sentence construction don’t enter into it. It’s stone dead.
Owner: Nononono, no, no! It’s resting!
Mr. Praline: All right then, if it’s restin’, I’ll wake it up! (shouting at the cage) 'Ello, Mister TN Thread! I’ve got a lovely fresh bit of RDC gossip for you if you show…
(owner hits the cage)
Owner: There, it moved!
Mr. Praline: No, it didn’t, that was you hitting the cage!
Owner: I never!!
Mr. Praline: Yes, you did!
Owner: I never, never did anything…
Mr. Praline: (yelling and hitting the cage repeatedly) 'ELLO THREADY THREADY!!! Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine o’clock alarm call!
(Takes TN Thread out of Bully’s and thumps its on the counter. Throws it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor.)
Mr. Praline: Now that’s what I call a dead TN Thread.
Owner: No, no…No, it’s just stunned!
Mr. Praline: STUNNED?!?
Owner: Yeah! You stunned it, just as it was wakin’ up! Gormless Billionaires stun easily
Need I go on?