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[polygrapher]

I'm Weyland, not Skynet. Good guess. But she still loses the $20.

[ thus ends the extent of nate's sci-fi knowledge. anything made during or after the 1990s is pretty much off his radar. ]

And your bet was?

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[capacitor]

ooh, close.

[ AN ACTUAL POP CULTURE REFERENCE gosh he's so proud of you.

(it's okay, they'll work on the current pop culture references.) ]

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[capacitor]

actually, no, they're polar opposites, but at least she got "robot".

black-ops agent here on a top-secret deep cover mission. i like bets i can win.

[ yolo. ]

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[polygrapher]

[ boston, you're a child.

and it's actually the saddest how quickly nate's adapted. ]

You'll technically never win it.

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[capacitor]

[ admit it, he's much more fun than the previous boston. ]

well yeah, that would be the point of "top secret" and "deep cover". i still get the satisfaction of being right, though.

since you didn't ask, davor thinks you're pre-eyepatch snake plissken. or possibly mad max. [ both options involve a lot of leather and dystopian futures. you're... welcome. ]

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[polygrapher]

[ more fun. more hipster. but more fun. ]

You're right. I didn't ask.

[ he's... flattered, but really? ]

So my options are Kurt Russell, Mel Gibson, or Arnold Schwarzenegger. Great.

Plissken's closest, but nobody's going to top your bet. We can stop now.

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really? i thought pre-crazy, still australian mel gibson was pretty close. and he drives the last of the v8 interceptors, which is more than you can say for plissken.

that's good, because i have no idea what the intern bet on.

[ the intern whose name he totally knows. yep. ]

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[polygrapher]

[ oh, that's right. you're a car guy, aren't you. (as opposed to bike guy, which is what nate is, but. same diff. not really.) ]

What was that? A Ford Falcon?

[ . . . okay, nate's been here a week and he knows everyone's names. ]

Gavaskar.

[ like he said: you learn something new every day.

(and forget it the next.) ]

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[capacitor]

[ yep, he's a car guy, and it took a good chuck of his willpower not to just text back a series of exclamation points.

cambridge knows what model the pursuit special is. miracles do happen! ]

modified to look like a holden monaro, but who's counting? still one of the coolest movie cars ever.

[ he's just bad at names. don't judge him. ]

nobody likes a showoff.

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[polygrapher]

[ judging you. ]

I don't need public approval in order to point out your shortcomings.

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[capacitor]

it's not a shortcoming if i know his name!

ps it's rohan. you're allowed to use his first name, he's like twenty.

[ STILL CLINGING TO THIS DEFENSE. ]

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[polygrapher]

[ he's allowed... but he's not going to. ]

You looked it up, didn't you.

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[capacitor]

no, and you should feel bad for asking.

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[capacitor]

he left his papers out. how do you only get a b- on a social psych test?

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[polygrapher]

Still counts.

Last time I checked, his area of concentration was physics.

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[polygrapher]

And not everyone is a genius.

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[capacitor]

[ you say the sweetest things sometimes. ]

he goes to harvard, and i don't remember his daddy donating a building in the recent past. i think it's pretty safe to say he's not an idiot.

well. i say that, but he can't remember coffee orders for love or money either, so who knows.

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[polygrapher]

I didn't say he was an idiot, I said he wasn't a genius.

Benton - black, Savage - cream and sugar with coffee, Bae - chai latte, Pavlović - sugary americano, you - red eye. Never seen Gavaskar order.

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[capacitor]

congratulations! consider yourself volunteered for the next starbucks run.

also you're an asshole, did you really put the accent over the final c in pavlovic on a cell phone keyboard?

[ he means that fondly. sort of. ]

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[polygrapher]

I do about half of them anyway.

I also capitalize my Is and pay attention to grammar. Am I annoying your hipster sensibilities?

[ c: ]

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[capacitor]

oh, so that's where you go. i thought you just pulled a batman and blended into the shadows every time you disappeared.

a: since when do you know what hipster sensibilities are?
b: i don't have hipster sensibilities, i'm just too lazy to hit the shift key on a phone keyboard.

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[polygrapher]

I do that too.

The shift kicks in automatically. Unless you changed it.

Which you probably did.

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[capacitor]

who leaves autocorrect turned on though? damnyouautocorrect is a thing for a reason.

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[capacitor]

nice job avoiding the question, by the way. i'm enjoying the mental image of you on a fixie glaring at everyone when the farmer's market runs out of organic local arugula.

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[polygrapher]

Yeah, I only understood about half of that.

[ fixie? ]