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Get it now at instapaper.com or search for insta paper in the app store. Hello. Hi John. Hi John. Hi, Merlin. What did you sniff? Why did you smirk at me?

There was a noise and it sounded like you were falling onto your chair and then onto your

mic and then onto your mic.

And then I started to laugh, but then I ended up laughing

because I thought maybe you're doing that old guy thing,

where old guys, you know, as you get older,

you have a way of getting into and out of chairs you kind of go

and like fall into a chair? Do I? Do you do the kick to get out? Oh do I ever? I bet your dad did the kick. Did dad do a kick get out no dad did he

gave one of those lifty chairs no later on in life what he did was he fell to the floor

and then worked its way up the wall but no no he always he was he's an athlete my dad was good he was good

with chairs he knew how to center himself get a center of gravity and then up no my

problem in this instance was you called and I was looking at something else and I reached for my

headphones and I grabbed my coffee cup instead and I almost poured it on on top of my head I almost put my

coffee cup on my head like it was my headphone I don't want to go meta but could

we please have a little bit of fan art of that maybe as a small animated jiff?

I was you know I was looking I was looking away and I reached out and everything on my desk is

black, black phone, black microphone, black headphones.

Is that right?

Yeah.

Except for my, except for my bell, which is orange.

You get an orange bell.

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