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[makesfolktalky]

All them inventions yesterday an' not one person thought t'make up a proper pint... Can't bloody believe that.

[Ray huffs, pausing to think about that. Or possibly just for a drag off his cigarette. The latter, of course, is far more likely.]

Mind you, might be jus' as well no one did. Prob'ly would've jus' wound up makin' it even smaller, or

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[justcautious]

It's cos it's an American City. Stands t'reason the curses'd be American too. Wouldn't even know what it looked like t'make folk want to make one.

[makesfolktalky]

'Course they wouldn't know what it looked like. S'the point of inventin' it, in't it? Can't invent something if you already know what it is.

[justcautious]

You 'ave t'know what somethin' looks like to know 'ow to invent it, though, don't you? Anyway, this weren't real inventing cos it was a curse.

[makesfolktalky]

Should invent it now then, shouldn't they? They invent it 'cause they've got it in their 'eads. Don't need a bloody glass shovin' in front of 'em, or it's someone else who's invented it.

[justcautious]

Yeah, but they were all crap inventions. Real inventing don't work like that. Bound t'be at least one good one. So they must've 'ad the ideas off the deities. Puttin' bad inventions into their 'eads.

[makesfolktalky]

Reckon most real inventin's pretty crap too. S'why you only 'ear about them inventors only makin' a couple of things people'd actually want. So it might've been proper inventin', even if it was a curse. So it'd make sense if there'd been at least one good one.

Might be good ones for all we know an' they're jus' keepin' what it is to themselves so's they can sell it proper, like.

[justcautious]

...

D'you think it counts as inventing if I already know what a proper pint's s'posed t'be like? I mean, could I take out one o' them things on it an' get rich off it long as no-one's invented it here, yet?

[makesfolktalky]

Yeah. 'Cause they don't know what it is an' that's the important bit. S'like smokin'. People smoke all over the world, yeah? But it couldn't 'ave been invented by the same person, 'cause it was too long ago for that. So's lots of people must've invented it, it don't mean it was jus' the first one.

[justcautious]

Right... Oh, but I don't own a pub. You think that's required, to invent beer sorts of things?

[makesfolktalky]

Course not. Jus' got t'know a good drink when you see it, 'aven't you?

[justcautious]

Yeah, s'pose so!

[He'll be a bit late to the bar tonight, Ray. He's out trying to take out a patent on a proper pint without knowing the word for patent.]