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[notapurpledino.livejournal.com]

Barney is both ticked off and not wearing a suit this morning. He's in a green shirt and pants, for reasons you'd have to ask him.

He is frowning and poking at a bowl of some multi-grain cereal. It doesn't make him an old person, just health conscious.

He'd love to grumble about Ted at someone.

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[theotherdoc.livejournal.com]

And lo, there is a Juliet, who has popped up in this place unexpectedly yet again, just in time for breakfast, it seems. So she is staring at the multi-grain cereal that Barney is poking at, wondering if it will poke him back.

Hey, she was greeted by a travel agency employed gnome. Anything can happen!

[notapurpledino.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Barney greets her, with a half smile. "You want some of this cereal action?"

[theotherdoc.livejournal.com]

" -- it won't poke back, will it?"

SERIOUS QUESTION.

If you ignore the vague, vague hints of humor in it.

[notapurpledino.livejournal.com]

"It's cereal," Barney says. "As weird as this place can get, living cereal isn't something I've found yet."

[theotherdoc.livejournal.com]

"Yet."

[notapurpledino.livejournal.com]

"Are you kidding me, I met a guy who used to be a turtle," Barney says. "You can't rule things out, here."

[theotherdoc.livejournal.com]

"I've only been here once before. I was greeted by a travel agent garden gnome, then."


Yeah.

[loreofpigs.livejournal.com]

The green shirt and pants are...

Bright.

At least, to the soot-covered man sitting on the floor near the door. Then again, he's wearing leather patched with metal and studs, and is attempting to clean his glasses, so...maybe everything is relative?

[notapurpledino.livejournal.com]

"Hey, dude. You get lost on your way to the chimneysweep union meeting?" Barney says, smirking to himself.

[loreofpigs.livejournal.com]

Mildly,

"They have such things in the south?"

(his accent is...well, close to Scottish, even if it's not quite right)

[notapurpledino.livejournal.com]

"South?" Barney repeats. "Oh, dude, I just wore this to try and bang some chick."

[loreofpigs.livejournal.com]

"I see."

He slides on his glasses, and doesn't get up.

[notapurpledino.livejournal.com]

"Didn't work, either. Because my wingman totally lost sight of the goal," Barney says. "So. Fried haggis for you this morning, or what?"

[redcatalina.livejournal.com]

"Barney?" There is a known face, to a known face. The difference is, Catalina is not pouting at a bowl of cereal.

[notapurpledino.livejournal.com]

"Oh, hey," Barney says, perking up a bit. "Catalina. How you doing?"

[redcatalina.livejournal.com]

"I am well, and you?" She wanders over, dressed pretty much in the same style she were dressed as, last time they met.

Today, she is carrying a dagger and pistol.

[notapurpledino.livejournal.com]

"My best friend is totally lame," Barney says.

[redcatalina.livejournal.com]

"How come?" There is sincere concern in her voice: best friends quarreling or fighting is never good.

[notapurpledino.livejournal.com]

"He totally..." Barney realizes who he's talking to. "He says that privateers are lame."

[mnt_mike]

Mike, on the other hand, is wearing his suit.

"Well doesn't that just beat all!"

[notapurpledino.livejournal.com]

Barney looks up, and smiles at the irony.

"Now that's what I call a suit," he says.

[mnt_mike]

He preens.

"I do clean up nice, if I say so myself."

If you look close the tie has palm trees and hula girls on it.
But only if you look close. Seriously, there is no part of the Margaritaville website that Mike has not purchased.

[notapurpledino.livejournal.com]

"I was working this angle with Ted, my best friend," Barney explains. "Pretend to be tourists, therefore native New Yorkers will let you do anything because they think they'll never see you again."

[mnt_mike]

Mike ponders this.

"That's ingenious! Because...it's so true! We let tourists get away with anything."

[notapurpledino.livejournal.com]

"It was working great. I mean, I got them to laugh at lame knock-knock jokes. Those girls were ready to give us the rides of our lives. We'd just gotten mugged. And that means, you know, Thank-God-We're-Alive Sex. Then... Ted had to go all weird just because they turned out to be from Jersey," Barney says. "Seriously. Ruined it all."