Conversational Skills

 

Duncan: >Sigh< Sometimes I feel isolated.

Daphne: Oh sweetie, you just need to socialize more.

Get out and mingle; talk to people.

Duncan: I'm no good at talking to people.

Daphne: Of course you are.  After all, you're a people, aren't you?

Duncan: Huh?

Daphne: What I mean is that it's not like you're trying to talk to birds or dolphins.

You just need to find topics that interest other people; things that spark their passions.

Duncan: Couldn't that be kind of boring though?

Daphne: Oh no, nothing is ever boring if someone cares about it.  

Let's give it a try.

Duncan: Hello Frank.  Uh, read any good books lately?

Frank: Nope.

Duncan: What do you think of this heat wave we're having?

Frank: Very hot.

Duncan: Um, do you have a favorite kind of cake?

Frank: Well!  Funny you should ask...

Holly Belle: So, Mr. Darcy has to overcome his excessive pride and Elizabeth Bennet has to overcome her prejudice towards him; then they can fall in love.  

That's where the title comes from.

Meghan: It's all terribly romantic!

Patrick: ...plate tectonics.  Millennia ago, the continents were all joined together

 in one super-continent.

You can actually see the way they would have originally fit together.

Ravi: Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

Patrick: Exactly!

Duncan: Gosh, you were right!  Conversation is a good thing.

Daphne: Hallelujah. My work here is done.