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With Apologies to My English Friends
Apr. 17th, 2014 09:57 pmThis story is a bit old, dating back to February, but I haven't managed to tell it in the general confusion that is life around here, so now is as good a time as any.
One of the commercials that ran during the Super Bowl here was for Jaguar, featuring a number of fine English actors noted for playing villains in recent films. The point was that if you wanted a classy villain, he'd have an English accent. If you wanted a classy car, you'd buy a Jaguar.
Anyway, SpaceTime Theater did an all-improv show for Capricon this year. Since the convention's theme was time travel, we closed with a time travel "Make a B-Movie" where each of us is assigned common characters from that sort of film and we then construct the plot on the fly.
I was the time-traveling terrorist. And before too long, I was talking to the saloon keeper at his bar, expounding on my plot.
"There's going to be a war, you know. Flames reaching up to the stratosphere. It's going to be splendid."
All delivered in my best cheesy English accent, of course.
One of the commercials that ran during the Super Bowl here was for Jaguar, featuring a number of fine English actors noted for playing villains in recent films. The point was that if you wanted a classy villain, he'd have an English accent. If you wanted a classy car, you'd buy a Jaguar.
Anyway, SpaceTime Theater did an all-improv show for Capricon this year. Since the convention's theme was time travel, we closed with a time travel "Make a B-Movie" where each of us is assigned common characters from that sort of film and we then construct the plot on the fly.
I was the time-traveling terrorist. And before too long, I was talking to the saloon keeper at his bar, expounding on my plot.
"There's going to be a war, you know. Flames reaching up to the stratosphere. It's going to be splendid."
All delivered in my best cheesy English accent, of course.