what are spangles?

Maus: is your sister an actress?
ben: haha
ben: she works for the friends of the earth
Maus: the friends of the earth
ben: they are people who have decided the earth likes them
Maus: haha
ben: how arrogant of them
Maus: it's a low maintenance friendship
ben: they would be there for the earth if the earth wanted to borrow their top for a party
Maus: or needed a kidney
ben: yes
ben: whereas the earth always has an option of ignoring them at a flash party
ben: them? oh they just think they're my friend
Maus: haha
ben: they go around saying how much they like me, but really, i just put up with them.
ben: do you like my top?
Maus: hahhha
ben: that would be how the dialogue would go
Maus: what are you doing for next year's edinburgh show
ben: a show about the earth and its so called friends
Maus: perhaps greenpeace
ben: ah, they're ok
Maus: oh, i see. You don't hate all environmentalists then
ben: oh no
Maus: just the arrogant FOTE
ben: i don't hate them
ben: i think they're presumptive
ben: you could put your own pic up on msn

Maus: that is me
Maus: i've changed a bit
Maus: since i became a friend of the earth
Maus: here's one:

ben: slightly odd...
Maus: that's the only one i can find of my face
ben: hahah
Maus: there is a reason i took this
Maus: although i don't think it'll do much to explain it



Rich: unfortunately only nerdy men read my website
Rich: or beautiful women with boyfriends
Rich: got myself out of a hole there
Rich: but the beautiful women are quite nerdy too

mark: i own a suit that is too big for me
tom: wow
maus: if you start now yuo could maybe eat enough pies to fill your suit in time
mark: yes
tom: is reading halfway up the m3
mark: i could wear a dad-style "bodywarmer" under my shirt
tom: lister-style longjohns
mark: it's up from the m3 and on the m4
mark: but this job is in a little place called theale, a stop outside reading on the train
tom: good luck with the interview! hope you theale the deal
mark: haha yes
maus: cambridge is 90 miles from reading
mark: is it
maus: yes
mark: heh
maus: i was going to look it up on the map
maus: but then i thought, all i need to know is how far things are from me at any one time
maus: i see myself at the centre of a web of radiating lines


mark: Subject: Fwd: The Survival Guide for taking a dump at work.
mark: this sounds like an email i can't miss


josh: *trying not to choke on jolly rancher*
maus: haha
maus: jolly ranchers!!!
tom: spangles?
maus: i havent seen them for twentyyears
maus: we used to call them jolly rangers
josh: *numm*
maus: because it was easier to say?
maus: or because we were a bit simple?
tom: Spangle?
josh: they're like square polos without a hole
maus: yes and fruity
tom: i used to love them
josh: i meant fruit polos
maus: i think
maus: oh yeah
maus: but jollier
josh: i guess
josh: also rancher
maus: what even is a jolly rancher
maus: haha
tom: although for some reason i think they taste like burning
josh: tom: now you say that, they do
tom: hooray
josh: although, considering my cold, even water tasted like burning
maus: poor josh
tom: Spangle?
maus: aw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
maus: buggie!
tom: hahah yes, a buggie
tom: well done
tom: that's my girl
tom: leila's nearly wetting herself
tom: over her own joke of referring to a budgie as a 'buggie'
josh: what?
tom: still laughing
josh: where am i?
maus: my face has seized up
tom: from laughing?
maus: y
tom: please type 'yes' or 'no'