The Page of Dar! and Yeep!
You've heard of Ying and Yang. Well this is the Cirith Ennor equivalent. Dar! and Yeep! are opposites, Dar! is the word you would use if you were severely choked off with something, e.g. Dar! he isn't very nice! while Yeep! is used to convey extreme happiness, e.g. Yeep! that's great!.
Read on for some examples of Dar! and Yeep! -worthy situations
Date: 24th July 2003
Place: The Oak Mall, Greenock
Time: Sometime before Lunch
Situation: Dar! -worthy
Describe:
Robyn and Caitlin had decided to leave the island for a little retail therapy. Having spent a little money in Top Shop on some good bargains (£7 for a pair of shoes and £5 for a bag we tell you) they decided to check out the DVD's on offer in Woolworths. It was here that Caitlin found A Perfect Murder (see Exibit A). As you can see it stars Viggo Mortensen and while Robyn already owns a copy on Video it is not of the best quality she decided to purchase a copy as well. After some searching she found one too. These DVD's were on a TWO FOR £15 OFFER so obviously they needed to find one more each, or else split the £15 it would cost between them. They chose the first option and were soon making their way to the checkout each carrying a copy of Exibit A and Swordfish (see Exibit B). Upon close examination of both cases it can be seen that Exibit A 'A Perfect Murder' is labelled a 15 as is also true of Exibit B 'Swordfish'. This did not worry Caitlin and Robyn as they made their way to the checkout as they are both older than 15 (at the time of this event Robyn was 16 and Caitlin was 17). However when they reached the checkout the large, nasty, balding guy refused to sell it to them as they could not produce ID. He didn't even ask them their dates of birth like they do at the cinema to try to catch you out. As if this wasn't bad enough, he took the empty DVD cases from the girls and placed them under the counter and while there were copies of 'Swordfish' on display the copies of 'A Perfect Murder' had been the only ones on display.
Heartbroken at having to leave these DVD's behind Caitlin and Robyn left the store cursing the large, nasty, balding man to the flaming pits of Dar! and promptly called Caitlin's Dad!
This is a perfect example of a Dar! -worthy situation.
Read on to see it turned out for the best
Date: 24th July 2003
Place: The Oak Mall, Greenock
Time: 11:54am
Situation: Yeep! -worthy
Describe:
As you read above Caitlin and Robyn had the misfortune to have a run in with the large, nasty, balding guy working behind the counter in Woolworths. They were extremely distressed by this and after phoning Caitlin's Dad who could offer no helpful solutions they took a break to have lunch and look round some more shops. They were desperately searching for a way to buy those DVD's and even considered asking a policeman if he knew any ways which they could prove their age, unfortunately the local policemen were arresting a guy carrying drugs and so the girls decided not to ask them for their help as they seemed a little busy.
After walking past Woolworths for about the twentieth time Robyn spotted that the large, nasty, balding guy was no longer at the counter, instead there was a woman in his place. However there were no copies of 'A Perfect Murder' (see Exibit A) left on the shelves as the two which Caitlin and Robyn had attempted to purchase earlier had been placed under the counter. However there were still several copies of 'Swordfish' (see Exibit B) left on the shelves. Leaving Robyn to continue scouting the shelves for 'A Perfect Murder' Caitlin made her way to the counter to pay for 'Swordfish'. This time the woman took the DVD's without blinking and even chatted to the girls. Then, feeling that they had a chance of getting 'A Perfect Murder' Caitlin asked "You don't happen to have a copy of 'A Perfect Murder' in your TWO FOR £15 OFFER, do you? There were some out earlier but we can't see them now". The nice woman went out of her way for Caitlin and Robyn, looking for the DVD's (as they wanted one copy each, of course), although there was a slightly worrying moment when both Caitlin and Robyn feared that she would call for the large, nasty, balding guy and he wouldn't let her serve them, it soon passed. Finally once they'd both paid the woman even stood and chatted to them about how warm it was and how she even thought that they were Canadian!
All in all it is a perfect example of how a situation which is best described as Dar! can morph into a Yeep! -worthy situation.
Caitlin and Robyn would also like to say thanks to the nice woman who works in Woolworths in the Oak Mall, Greenock who thought the two girls were Canadian. She deserves some sort of award.
Dar! and Yeep! -worthy situations are occuring more frequently than ever.
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