#wss366 #woke #roger (4/4)

Phone: "Hello?"

Minervie: "Mike Item Nan Easy Roger Victor Item Easy. Unexpected contact. Please advise."

Phone: "We tried to reach you, a survey agent named Marc..."

Minervie simply hung up the phone without listening to the rest. She was deeply relieved. Chip and Peter both woke, having slid to the floor of the back seat they were both rather confused, she decided she would get them some bottles of pop.

#TimeTravelingGhost EP 5 Part 63: Jurassic Era

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“Chosen ones?” Emily repeated. “Could you explain?”

"It's a literary trope where someone, usually unsuitable, is 'chosen' to save the world while fighting against impossible odds."

“Trope? Pray tell, what does that mean?”

“A literary cliché.”

“So, you think we’ve been chosen to stop the Illuminati?”

“Not really. It’s more likely that we're Lovecraftian characters who will be polished off or driven insane by implacable dark forces.”

“We could just travel to a pleasant time and place and live out our ghostly lives.”

“When you were alive, you could have just written a nice ‘women’s column,’ and ignored the threat in Europe. But you didn’t.”

Emily smiled, kicked a piece of coral, and then said, “No more than you can turn your back on this. There are things more significant than our puny lives and happiness.”

“#Roger that! Bogart couldn’t have said it better.”

“You know I can’t #count the number of times you make references I don’t understand.”

“Actor, 1940s. He starred in big films, including ‘Casablanca,’ where he says, ‘It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.’”

“It’s a good line even if your imitation smells like yesterday’s fish.”

Casablanca (1942), starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, & Paul Henreid:

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"True. They've all presented their assholes for Trump to #roger at will, because they think if he primaries them, they'll lose. But a bunch of his efforts to do that have failed, and every politician with any backbone could see that, could build up a coalition of their own voters, and try to win—and I think many of them could win."

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