When I was a
lonely little
kid, I used to amuse myself for hours by talking in letters. I think it probably came out of a
Garfield riddle I read in
Garfield's Big Fat Book of Jokes and Riddles.
It was something to the affect of:
"What seven letters did Garfield say to the fridge when he opened it?"
"O I C U R M T"
That got me
thinking, and every now and again I would become downright
obsessed with talking in letters
for hours at a time. I used to give
mock interviews to
60 Minutes news anchors in which they marveled at the little boy who only spoke in letters, and had done so for a year or two straight.
I found you
could do
it. You had to think quick, and I'll admit sometimes you had to
squish the letters closely together, trail off after the
harsh sounds of a "T" or "D", or use some
numbers here and there.
But it could, and can, be done.
"U R S O B U T F L.....2 M E....K N T U C?"
Kinda
weird, I guess, much more so than plain old
3LC.