a googleplex.

You didn't even need a multiple choice question.

shhhh...

i can't hear a pin drop...

what? ... pants? ... drop?

uncle ernie?

Aunt Bert?

cracklin' rosie...

I am, I said. Now it would be ludicrous to accuse Neal Diamond of delusions of granduer...

what is that cologne?

It's a cologne, an insect repellent, and a delicious marinade for seafood. (And it finds that slipper that's been at large under the chaise lounge for several weeks.)

Is it useful as a high-tech polymer?

cross-linking sounds so sexy...but shhhhh, don't tell them or they'll want to do it, too.

Not really, but I hear it makes mounds of julienne fries. And just look at that Tomato!
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Cross linking isn't as sexy as you think. You always end up in a Christian site.

Does anyone remember being a child, say...oh , anywhere from age four on up,
and that weird feeling you would get in your stomach, after trying to get one of the adults
that you looked up to and respected to listen?

You would try to join in on the conversation, and would be promptly shussed, LOUDLY.

I have great hope and expectation, that we are evolving past the days of, "children should be seen, and not heard."

Heh..it won't be that much longer,
and I will be sporting one of those Miracle Ears.

Wow...think of the possibilities of having a miracle ear!

I still don't perceive them - maybe "they" aren't really there?

As long as we don't come out and actually say who "they" are, they won't even know we're taking about them. After all, they seem pretty stupid so far. I'm starting to think we don't even have to be shhhhhh quiet when they're around because they're so dumb.

Oh they'll hear. They always hear when you don't want 'em to. SHHHHH!

they're more paranoid than we are...

hey, who said that? Is it them again? Maybe they're smarter than I thought ...mums the word....shhhhh

My voice projects across the entire universe.

(I Blame the acting lessons.)

I am incabable of being quiet. When I try to whisper,
people keep saying..."speak up! I can't hear you!"

My tendency towards muttering has greatly improved.

Enunciate, is a fun word to enunciate.

...enunciate sounds like something bad you'd do with a nun. If there are nuns in here, let's be quiet, sneak up on them, and when the least expect it, we'll enunciate them!

Nuns can carry ear trumpets under their habits.

On a full moon or so, I become one of "them". It's sometimes unsettling, but often wondrous what you may hear.

I want to hear like the dolphins do,
I want to have the ears of a bat.

Hey Merlin?
Please?

ahhhh...silent fairy dust...

shhhhh baby hush

yeah... hush now baby... uh huh... shhhhh...

I've been gone for weeks, I come back and you are talking to THEM.

Shhhh. They're right there. Keep it down, would ya?

If we've been talking to THEM, then probably we ought to stock up on sugar, gasoline, and automatic weapons before we are visited by strange monsters from the recent past.

I talk to myself all the time,
and in my sleep also.

Don't be worried mommy,
I talk to strangers too.

The question is you talk to strangers than what?

"they" told me to send farmers, nuns, and bunnies... the shit has hit the fan.

I was going to send Elephants and light cavalry now the fit has hit the Shan (and the rainy season is over.)

maybe if we start yelling and talking loud at them instead of all the "Shhh" stuff, they'll get confused and think they're not one of them since we're not "Shhh"ing them, so then they'll just leave us alone, and then we can get back to Shhh'ing about them....sadly that makes sense to me.

They are gone for good.
It's only us here people,
as it's always been.

Are they ever truly gone?

Milady, as much as it hurts to point it out, that is exactly what one of them would say.

shhh, maybe she's saying that cause she's one of them...leading us astray and when we least expect it...well, you know what they'll do. Shhhhh.

Yes, it's definitely a conspiracy.