Making Up Lines

[deird_lj]

Had rehearsals last night.

The scene I'm in is one long party sequence. And yes, I have many lines, but I have even more time standing around in the background murmuring to people in vague having-a-conversation tones.

After a while, you run out of stuff to say to each other. Some people have been just saying what they're saying ("Pretty dress, pretty dress." "Ooh! Admire, admire, show off my dress." "Admire."), which is hilarious to listen to.
And last night my conversation partner and I got sick of that, and started reciting nursery rhymes to each other. There's something extremely entertaining about saying "Incy-wincy spider climbed up the waterspout" in very serious tones, while fluttering a fan and trying to look beautiful...

Comments

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Just out of curiosity - is "incy-wincy spider" an Aussie version? I've always been told it's "itsy bitsy spider" in English, and it always seemed wrong to me given the version I learned as a kid

Seconded.

the whole party scene thing sounds like lots of fun though. On a scale from 1 to 10, what's the temptation to say something really inappropriate in a perfectly normal tone of voice and see how the others react?

Oh, majorly seconded! I'm getting some crazy ideas right now.

[deird1]

Wait - seconded as in you know it as "itsy bitsy spider"? Really?

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Ummmmm duh? That's the way it goes.

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Haha, I just realized that on the Internet instead of IRL that possibly makes me sound like an arrogant biatch. I meant that in a FUNNY way, not a dumb American way.

[deird1]

:) I gathered.



But it's SO "incy wincy". No question.

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

WRONNGGGGGG.

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU ARE WRONG. THAT SOUNDS SO WRONG. WRONG.

Yeah. Itsy bitsy all the way, bitches.