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BENWAY AND JONESY ARE STAGGERING AROUND HARLEM AFTER BEING PISTOL WHIPPED AND ROBBED. THEY APPROACH AN OLD MAN SINGING THE BLUSES BY A FLAMING DUSTBIN.
BENWAY: Excuse me, my good man, can you direct us to the nearest police station?
MAN: Say what?
JONESY: Jesus Benway. [SNATCHES THE DICTIONARY. TO MAN]: Say, Jive Bunny, me and my –
BENWAY: It's ’buddy’, buddy ghee!
JONESY: God!
BENWAY: Leave it to me. Say, buddy ghee, me and my brother here been capped by a damn fool cat in a sharp front. Where the Babylon at?
JONESY 'Babylon'? This isn’t fucking Liverpool, Benway.
BENWAY: [CHECKS DICTIONRAY]: Where da pounders at, buddy ghee?
MAN: Man, you a long way from home.
JONESY: Ain't dat the truth.
MAN: Nice pants.
BENWAY: Thank you. Your rubbish bin is a fire hazard, did you know that? [BEAT] So, buddy ghee, where dem pounders at, heh?
MAN: I ain't got a damn clue what you jibber-jabberin about, white boy, but you better get your ass out the street, toot.
BENWAY: [TALKING LIKE A SPASTIC BRIT ABROAD: Doooo yoooou knooow wheeeere the police arrrrrre?
JONESY: That's not hip, Benway. Speak fucking jive.
BENWAY: But he doesn’t understand me. Maybe he's not local.
JONESY: Try cockney.
BENWAY: Alright me old china? Point our plates in the direction of the old bill, will you?
MAN JUST SHAKES HIS HEAD.
JONESY: I told you you should have learned Spanish. [TO MAN] Eyyy, mamma mia, ravioli. Show me some respect!
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: So benway and IAN are hotel-motel? that kind of figures, actually. Clarifies some suspicions I'd had for a while.
either this is a reference to Rapper's Delight, and you're saying that I'm not as tall as the rest of the gang, but I can rap to the beat, just the same, OR, I've no idea what this means.
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ah well. It's true though, abot not being tall. Not about rapping though. I can't do that. And, my experimental days are thankfully locked away in the elephants graveyard of my memory, peacefully rotting into a pile of dust.
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incidentally is anyone else being chilled to the bone by the eyeless monkey face that appears on the left hand side of the page in the life forum? Or am I the only one that can see it? And hear it speak?
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This week, the team turn detective as a mysterious nocturnal trouble maker begins burying excrement in gardens, and tipping over Nora Batty's rubbish bin. Features the classic "bathtub" scene.
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