Dear Beans,
Let me start by saying that of all the people in the world, I’ve seen keen. I’ve also seen eager, yearning, longing and a level of impatience that put impatience on the map. The map of keen.
The other day though, well, it’s hard to put into words exactly what happened. There was a press release for the new anti-matter water, the third kind of water, that is due to hit shelves in the next few weeks. The sheer volume of hysterical people hit an all time high. Most of the time the level of keen can be read in the face (eyes, mouth, cheek bones etc.) but as soon as these monkeys saw the article their whole bodies were keen. Have you ever seen a keen elbow? A keen shin? I have and I’m worried that now there is nowhere else for keen to go.
By keeping it primarily in the viso/volto it kept keen under control. This is a whole new set of rules for keen and I don’t think the human race is ready for it.
What on earth should we do?
Yours worriedly
Flanpax Moonio
26 comments on “Dear Beans… Keen Conundrum”
Flanpax,
I think that perhaps you’re ‘KeenMeter’ may need re-calibrating, it is not in fact possible for areas outside of the aforementioned viso/volto to be keen. Having said that it is common for other areas of the body to be found to be fervent, fierce or avid. However, to effectively measure this you would need to purchase the recently released ‘Vehementometer’.
Yours,
Kevin.
Dear Flanpax,
Are you related to a guy called Winplix Moonio? He was in my class in primary school.
Warm regards,
Chris
Dear Flanpax
The real question is, “when are we?”
Stubbornly yours
Ian
Dear Flanpax,
Are you going to write back or are we all just wasting high quality sheets of Basildon Bond writing paper here?
Thriftily yours,
Chris
I have been asked to interpret and communicate the responses by Flanpax.
He’s not related to that guy. He doesn’t own a Keen-o-meter. He’s got a big garden.
Dear Ian,
If you’re in touch with Flanpax by other means, why did you just write him a letter with a question in it?
Yours inquisitively,
Chris
What I do is keep the lines of communication open between Beans members and the general public. How else would they get in touch?
They could visit the Beans in person and grovel before us in the Throne Room.
That is, if Kev isn’t still using it to store his ladders.
He’s got so many ladders, you’d think he was climbing up to the moon. He’s got more ladders than I’ve had hot dinners. The last time I went to the Throne Room there was more ladders than room.
Wait until you next visit the Chapel Vestry. It’s so full of cement mixers you can hardly open the door.
What does he need so much cement for? What’s he adding to / taking away / building on top of now?
You know what he’s like. He always mixes up at least three batches of cement and then uses whichever one he thinks has turned out best. The other two he pours down the sink.
If only he was as considerate with his cups of tea as he was his batches of cement. What a waste.
Steve Martin would be horrified.
Steve Martin can never know of it. That’s why I bricked up his letterbox. I’m pretty sure he has no other way of obtaining new information.
Why does Steve Martin live in a letterbox? I wish I was an eccentric millionaire like him (or a down-and-out hobo).
He doesn’t. He lives on the other side of a letterbox, which is a house.
When people ask me where I live, from now on I will tell them I live on the other side of a letterbox. The right side of a letterbox?
Yeah. The warm and cosy side. That’s the right side of the letterbox.
Unfortunately, the other side of my letterbox is just a small metal box. I live somewhere else, behind a yellow brick.
That sounds good, like the cool side of the pillow. If only Billy Dee Williams was on the other side of my pillow that would be okay, much better than coming across your face somewhere in the flat.
You sound more poor when you describe it like that. Tell BBC you want more money, although given you’re shambling off on some five star holiday they may not take you seriously.
Who’s Billy Dee Williams and why do you want him in your bed? What’s so special about him?
Have you not seen the ‘Family Guy’ cut away gag where Peter describes the “cool side of the pillow” which has Billy Dee Williams’ face embedded (no pun intended) in it?
I have seen that gag but I don’t know who Billy Dee Williams is. I just know there was some guy I’d never heard of on the other side of Peter’s pillow.
Your joke makes a lot more sense now, though.
He played Lando Calrissian in the original Star Wars tr… ah, there’s no point telling you.
He played a man in a film you’ve not seen.
Ah right. Yeah. Was it Care Bears 2: A New Generation?
Yeah. That’s exactly what it was. It was Edward Vedward and Billy Dee Williams in Care Bears 2: A New Generation.
What a five star film.
I’ve definitely seen that, though oddly I can’t remember anything about it.