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Flappers and fidelity

30 Sunday Apr 2017

Posted by Betty Zhang in Conversations

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1920s, dialogue, downton abbey, drama, england, flappers, humor, jazz age, screenplay, script, television, tv, tv show, uk

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LADY MARY (smugly, to a baffled Lord Grantham) Your niece is a flapper, accept it.

LADY ROSE (exquisitely thrilled by the fact that she is finally being recognised and accepted for what she is) I am not a flapper!

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‘Twas not the fire that burned her

08 Wednesday Feb 2017

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dialogue, downton abbey, drama, england, humor, netflix, screenplay, script, television, tv, tv show, uk

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LADY MARY (with sass masked as cultivated disdain) Lady Edith chose to set fire to her room, but we’re fine.

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Ciabatta try these puns, hun!

04 Sunday Sep 2016

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comedy, dialogue, family, father's day, humor, jokes, life, pun, writer, writing

Baker-with-Bread

Preface

This batch of freshly baked puns is for anyone who’s ever inflicted a dad joke on me; happy Father’s Day you man-sized child!

 I 

Avid aesthete: [gazes at bright-eyed, raven-haired beauty] Look at her; she’s so damn beautiful. I must shoot her—I need to shoot her!

Companion: [is visibly shocked] Shoot her?! You mean like kill her???  Continue reading →

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All in the head: conversations I wish I had

26 Saturday Mar 2016

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Conversations, divorce, feminism, humor, life, love, marriage, personal, prose, writing

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Boy: So what should I get her? Some red roses? A necklace with a moon pendant? That’d be clever, wouldn’t it, and romantic too.

Me: Must your lover be doomed to either receive a wilting bouquet symbolising love or have your love for her compared to a dull satellite that waxes and wanes?

Boy: Are you always like this? It must be exhausting.

Me: Exhausting? I find it most exhilarating; don’t you?  Continue reading →

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