Any more pie?
ANY MORE PIE?
Who is this man at the door? Hot new relatable character or flash in the pan?
The SGR style guide says that doorbell sounds should sometimes be rendered as “ding dang” in tribute to the Beach Boys’s most enervated minute (a co-write, lest we forget, with Roger McGuinn of the Byrds).
With those guileless blue startled-bird eyes, he doesn’t stand a chance against Grote the Grievous.
Did Karen set Charlotte up with Paul Atreides, the bloody Kwisatz Hederach?!
“Kwisatz Haderach/Give a dog a bone!/This old worm is turning home!”
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Old Blue-eyes is back.
Is that dessert pie or dinner pie? Judging by the color, it might be key lime, or creamed spinach.
Also, Mike seems to have eaten that last slice rather quickly.
I’m guessing dinner pie. If it was key-lime pie it wouldn’t normally have a top crust like that.
A P P L E
Not Zambian?
Zambian Pi was a small computer designed for schools to teach programming with. About the size of a USB stick.
I’ll hazard a guess that despite its being the size of a USB stick, the Zambian Pi did not actually support USB. (I seem to recall some sort of proprietary Zambian-only port as an Easter egg in Author Unknown.)
Looks too young to be long-lost father. My money is on long-lost half brother or possibly Mormon indoctrination point man. Or both.
I don’t know who he is, but it seems he is the surprise the parents have been preparing to spring on young Charlotte.
I think this stranger looks more like a long-lost Beckwith sibling.
Gasp! Could this actually be Mike and Karen’s old baby?! Apparently not that old. He must have come out in his mid twenties to early thirties.
So, Sarah’s secret twin brother? He don’t look like her at all!
He’s carrying a briefcase. You don’t think he’s JW do you?
I know what you mean by ‘JW’, but my mind also thought of “John Watson, Crime Doctor”.
…”mummy and daddy”? Come on, man, just because she’s short doesn’t mean she’s five. Witness the Grote curves! Those hips have busted the space-time continuum! (← Not a figure of speech.)
So a figure of figures?
Any and all puns in my previous comment are merely a happy coincidence.
As always, Allison remains the premier purveyor of English waifus.
Chibbi Vampirella!
Is the dangerous surprise a “paying guest”?? A junior accountant come to learn his trade in Tackleford? Who might also be a robot?
Tally man? This series is so incredibly educational, as an American continually learning her mother tongue is a completely different language on the shores of its motherland. The only tally man this side of the wide sea tallies bananas to a calypso beat.
Daylight gone and me by the Grote home
As an Australian, I like to think that I am familiar with the patois of Mother England, but this was a new one for me too.
There was a very good two-part drama series where John Simm (Life On Mars, Dr Who etc) played a tally man. It’s on All4 if you’re in the UK, I think, elsewhere you may have to go on the dark web. I thought it was quite recent. It’s 22 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Never_(TV_series)
The same age as Charlotte’s tally man!
A “repo” man? (Repo being short for ‘repossession’ – collect on unpaid debt by re-acquiring the item(s) the lien is against)
He knows she’s Charlotte but but doesn’t know that “daddy” is years dead? And Mike and Karen seem to be expecting him. If this guy is Karen’s “plan” she’s definitely going to need that luck.
It would be pretty rude to invite a member of family for after dinner. And his briefcase suggests business. And ideally whatever he does/tells/proposes shall annoy Charlotte back into her normal self.
So my money rides on
A) career-advisor (working in beans is just peanuts)
B) head-shrinker
C) client in need of a detective (or rather somebody bearing information which will make a detective necessary for C´s parents)
Yes, maybe he is going to ask Lottie about her parachute.
A) was my first guess
My working theory is that Karen and Mike are getting married, and this is the officiant/wedding planner/some such. Then they’re going to Turks and Caicos for the hunny moon.
Shoulda bet it all on black
Karen, what have you done??? Who is this guy with excessively blue eyes? How could he survive to a wild Lottie?
Charlotte is going to get the chance to purchase life insurance or possibly a long-term annuity.
He is literally bringing her her ‘next case’… it’s right there
Never enough pie, never enough shortnin’ bread either! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRB4zL6Myko
Nooooooooo
Thus confirming that the Beach Boys only played one song during the period from 1972-1995. They literally could not stop playing it, possibly due to a jinni curse of some sort, which many also credit with Dennis Wilson’s death.
He’s obviously the exorcist. It’s the briefcase that gives him away. Looking forward to the projectile vomiting.
At that age, this was pretty much how I dressed for everything from work to parties to dates. Including the briefcase.
You’re never fully dressed without a nice, smart attache case, I always used to say.
Yes, I can understand that. When I got my first proper leather briefcase as I entered the 6th form I became a leather briefcase sniffer. I don’t think they can get you for it.
And carrying one on a date shows you’re serious doesn’t it?