Something ....Scottish Comes This Way
Some Obsessions Are Less Harmful Than Others....My Precious
Thelastlaugh staff was all abuzz over the traffic they have been getting on the site; mostly from links to other LOTR pages and web sites. We want to extend a warm thanks to all Ringers for spreading the word. Keep up the great word (of mouth!)
We all got on various web sites to read what’s being said and were happy to discover that for the most part, Ringers were delighted with the Never (Bored) section of the site.
That’s when one of the staffers gave the rest of us the news.
“Should we tell her? The Scottish Geisha, I mean.”
We debated for considerable time over that one.
“She might not….well, you know how she is going to react.”
“You tell her then.”
“No you!”
“You!”
Given the collective level of maturity among staffers, this type of conversation could have gone on indefinitely but The Scottish Geisha happened by. “Tell me what?”
“It’s about the Never Bored part of the site.”
“And?
“We are getting a lot of buzz…other sites like LOTR message centers and member boards.”
“And this is a problem, because?”
“Well, uh…some of them are on Billy Boyd’s web site.”
“Beg pardon?”
“You know, the Scottish actor from Lord of the Rings? The one you cannot understand? The one you sort of, you know, make fun of? Some of the messages are on his site.”
The Scottish Geisha exhaled delicately. “I see….”
She went silent.
“That’s it? You aren’t going to have a fit? Pound us into the pavement? Read the messages?”
The Scottish Geisha attempted to dismiss us with a wave of her finely boned hand. “Are the messages positive?” she inquired.
We told her they were.
“Then I fail to see why you people are bothering me. Don’t I have enough to worry about with just keeping track of you heathens? Can I not go anywhere in my life without being accosted by something…Scottish?” she demanded.
We had set her off for sure.
“Consider my feelings for a change,” she said, sweeping about the office. “What IS it that I am doing, I ask you? Do I emanate some silent Scottish-only alert, a signal only known to Scottish men? Is there something about me, something that screams Easy and Probably Irish?” she touched her reddened tresses for dramatic impact and then stormed off.
We followed her, in hopes of making things better.
“Go away. I have to watch the Lord of the Rings Appendices. I am authoring a perspective on them.” She slipped a DVD into the machine and sat back, pen and paper in hand, to watch.
Seconds later actor Billy Boyd popped up on the screen.
The Scottish Geisha shut her eyes.
“My life,” she said with quiet conviction,“Is cursed.”
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