Quest 130

[primrosella]

My good sir Bear,

I am exceedingly happy for you, and I am of course going to let you finish, but the insomnia curse was the worst what-do-you-mean-it’s-not-over-at-midnight curse of all time.

...

...

...Of all time. There, I repeated it.

It'll be a miracle if we don't all go mad from this. Everywhere you go, that's all it is, all the time, every other sentence is "of all time, of all time". People come looking for books in the Library, seeking the best stories of all time, and other people jump in and interrupt them to protest that no, this book is the best story of all time, of all time. And then they have a whole interrupting sort of fight and if you go and interrupt them yourself, you can bet you'll be protesting something else of all time, too.

It's like a game of rhymes, almost. Can you coin a pretty rhyme, of all time, of all time? The best this of all time, the best that of all time. Honestly, if I never hear the phrase "of all time" again, it'll be too soon.

Tristan, it was a pleasure to have you stay with us the other night, and I do hope you had a pleasant time. The forest is--I'm very happy for it and I'm going to let it finish but the Warehouse is the best place to stay over of all time. Of all time. Drat it all!

Ugh, this is ridiculous. I have half a mind to go play my flute as loud as I can, just to drown out all the "of all times". Except that then I'm certain someone will point out how happy they are for me and how they're going to let me finish, but someone else is the best at playing the flute of all time, of all time.

...Someone stop me. Please.


[OOC: Threadjack this post like you wouldn't believe. Have a party!]

Comments

COMMENT NOT HERE BECAUSE HE IS REFUSING TO INDULGE IN THIS BEAR'S WHIMS

[playstheblues.livejournal.com]

CLEARLY HE HAS THE GREATEST WILLPOWER OF ALL TIME.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

I managed to fight off some of it yesterday, you know. And I'm not repeating 'of all time' today nearly so much as I was yesterday.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Then I'll bet I caught it from you, too.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

I've never know curses to be catching.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Then that would make this the first curse of al--rats, rats, rats, no, I'm not saying it.

It's a pity catching that bear isn't as easy as catching a cold. Or a curse, for that matter.

[banditfox.livejournal.com]

I don't know. It's almost endearing the first dozen times you hear it.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

The first dozen is fine. It's the second, third, and fourth that are starting to wear away at my patience.

[banditfox.livejournal.com]

This isn't your best evening of all time?

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

This is most emphatically not the best evening of all time.

...Of all time, drat it all, it's the repetition that makes it so incredibly frustrating!

[alittlewild.livejournal.com]

It's certainly not the worst there's been. The bear isn't even that bad.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

And I'm very happy for it and going to let it finish but the hair monster was the greatest nuisance of all time. Of all time.

And I wouldn't mind it nearly so much if it weren't for all the repeating!

[alittlewild.livejournal.com]

Hair monster? I probably don't even want to know.

I wonder where the repeated phrase came from.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Were you not here for it? I can't imagine anyone forgetting it--though goodness, it's been almost half a year now, since. It was just in time for Mother's Day, the hair monster and its mother the monster.

Wherever it is, it's certainly somewhere ridiculous.

[mumbled_truth]

So... what theme would this fit in with?

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

The most frustrating theme of all time, it seems. Of all time, of all time, of all time, ugh, I'm going to go mad from hearing it!

[mumbled_truth]

... of all time.

I definitely agree... though I'm okay right now, at least. I couldn't write a poem before without interrupting it.

[had_not_lived]

This is so weird.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Neil, I'm very happy for you and I'm going to let it finish, but the--no, no, drat drat drat.

Yes. This is quite weird. Of all time. Drat!

[had_not_lived]

...Finish what?

he's not even affected right now... he's just being a pest

[mumbled_truth]

Of all time, Neil.

what else is new

[had_not_lived]

Really.

of all the times to decide to be a pest, Todd

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

The weirdest curse of all time.

[gazingup.livejournal.com]

Thank you again for your hospitality, Rosella.



The forest is- it certainly pales in comparison to the warehouse. The warehouse that is the best of all time, of course.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

You're so very welcome, Tristan. Do come again anytime. Preferably when I'm not cursed to repeat "of all time, of all time" for all time, every time, but you know how it is.