Biskut et Bob

before we go on any further, CONGRATULATIONS is in order for Mrs Fadhil who has just been blessed with her firstborn nun di Australia sana. the experience of going thru 13 hours of labour means that you have definitely carved your name on the "greatest feats ever achieved on planet Earth" scroll, if there is one.

Biskut has inadvertently discovered a quasi-feat of his own in the last month or so. I can't remember exactly when the first time was but it went by unrecorded, albeit met with some astonishment and a snarky smile from me. The second time also is AWOL from my sixty-second memory span. it was just the other day that I decided this miracle,blessing,wonder? has to be shared with you guys.

He has a special relationship with Bob. Now Bob is not our butcher/fishmonger/postie/landlord (I wish!)/cat or other fleshy being, but more an inanimate object. Yes, Bob is our idiot box. (Bob wasn't christened Bob until after the fifth question). Seems that Bob knows when Biskut is asking me a question which I do not have the answer to or am too lazy-tongued to say anything (which is all the time), and rather than disappointing Biskut, Bob will then take it upon his responsibility to supply the answer.

first instance: (that I can remember)
we were lounging, as u would do, in the lounge room; channel hopping (with only 5 channels it wasn't really hopping, more like sprinting) when on BBC2 we found a discovery programme with an Ancient Egyptian anthropology dig of some sorts which delved into what they used for colors that contributes to our understanding of the periodic table today. confused? I am. anyway, the guy was talking about the gold used on the mummy tombs (I forget what they're really called) when Biskut asked, or rather mused, where on earth did they find all the gold as they were in the desert all day long. I sort of mumbled 'mmmhh', universal for 'donno, beats me' when lo and behold! Bob (or rather the guy presenting the programme) telling us that "the Egyptians had to travel miles and miles, digging deep into the desert sand, to actually find the gold to use..." and at this point I was no longer lounging but more rofling away for a good 5 minutes.

second instance:
nip/tuck was on channel4, the one where Julia and Sean hit the rocks, each trying to out-cheat on one another. cue scene Julia in a bar, drinking an apple martini. the guy on her left offered to buy her 'the most expensive green drink available' from the bar, and it turned out to be absinthe. at this point Biskut looked up from the papers he was doodling on and asked me what absinthe was. Bob quickly rose to the occasion, giving the answer to Biskut by getting the guy to tell Julia what absinthe was (Julia didn't know what it was either). again, watch me collapse with laughter while Biskut surprisingly was cursing Bob for upping him again. I mean, I would be over the moon if Bob had chosen me to have this special relationship with.

third instance:
this isn't really as good as the others, coz it has to be said that I expect my tv to be able to do this anyways. after ITV's summer movie ended last Tuesday Biskut asked rather softly-softly what was on next. Bob knew I couldn't be arsed, so he told Biskut there and then that ITV will be showing TV's Naughtiest Blunders in three. well there you go. enough time to make me a cup of tea then.

I'll keep you guys posted on how it develops, if I can remember, that is. and sorry bout the red missing from Biskut's name today seeing that my toolbar is missing some of its parts and I don't know how to get them back. oh, and Bob got named Bob just because. same with our two lounge cushions, Eric and Monica; Monica now more affectionately called Mona nowadays. don't ask me why!!