Do not get angry with me...

[dalesys]

Let's hope the rest of him is following his ass on it's airborne journey out the door.

Just the thought of seeing someone's ass flying through an open doorway and the rest of the body left at the counter is a pretty hilarious sight. Puns galore . . .

In which scenario, the SC would have really lost his ass.

Especially if it's lofted over the tea kettle display...

[Samaliel]

The bum's rush.

(It's a Terry Pratchett reference, from Men At Arms. You could call that a trilingual pun if you want, he's having his character Sgt Colon confusing the US meaning of bum (tramp) with the UK meaning (arse) and then translating the result into French. He never did translate that phrase in the book, and I initially thought it meant exactly what you printed above. Pterry is often like that, three weeks later you wake up in the middle of the night and exclaim "Damn it, so that's what he meant...!")

Funny, I can't remember that particular moment. Probably because Men At Arms is one of the few Discworld books I haven't read in the original English. Anyway, it's even funnier because "derrière vélocité" sounds like "dernière vélocité" which means "terminal velocity". I would be quite impressed if I saw someone thrown out of a store so roughly they'd achieve terminal velocity...

[Andara Bledin]

Finally I ask him, Just what do you plan on doing with that syringe anyway? and he says, I'm trying to clean out the carburetor on my lawn mower.

OK, that's a new one on me. I seriously doubt a junkie wouldn't have known what kind of needle he needed, but on the other hand, how many lawns are there in Manhattan?

Actually, there's a good chance he needed a syringe for the carb. They make carb bulbs for priming them, and they're a type of syringe, not terribly unlike a small baster.

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