Let us converse

Let me hit you with a quoted messenger conversation.

Nathan- One Seven One says: (13:20:04)
   ¿Hola?

Amolith says: (13:24:40)
   hello

Nathan- One Seven One says: (13:24:59)
   What's on the rock?

Amolith says: (13:25:11)
   not a lot

Nathan- One Seven One says: (13:25:20)
   Also: How many gambits can I think of to follow 'Hello'?

Amolith says: (13:25:45)
   17

Nathan- One Seven One says: (13:26:07)
   Sounds like a challenge

"What's on the rock?"

"What are the haps?", one of my regulars. Of course, it was stolen from Ryan North

"What is up?"

"REPORT"

"Do you have anything to tell me to break the unbearable monoty of my life?"

"If you were a monstertruck, what would that make me?"- this one's stolen from a band called Nate Housley Theorem. It's also running into the darkwood of obsurity. On the other hand, I once heard Ben Whitehouse suggest calling a band:
"And So?"

"Extra Extra, read all about it. What?"

I'm struggling.

"Parlay"

"What's a-goin' on?"

"¿"
I just love that symbol. It's not even as if I speak any Spanish at all.

"Anecdote me"

"wat u up 2"

Man, now you know I'm out of ideas. I just copied and pasted that from someone else who messaged me. I didn't tell him, but it makes my eyes itch whenever somone abbreviates words like "you" or "to". They're THREE and TWO letters respectively.

Well, it look like our man was wrong. 17 was far too optimistic.

Incidentally, "One Seven One" is the number of hours I estimate lie between meand my train pulling out of Exeter St. Davids. Yep, I'm clockwatching, not at work, but on a holiday. It's just as well there are things like Wondermark to help me kill time.

don't just succumb to the wishes of your brothers