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   1 ;"}you can work out the name later if the unthinkable happens and you get a girl.~"
   1 ;"}rather than listen to your politically correct nonsense!~"
   1 ;"}didn't notice me,~";
   1 ;"}Well, if I can stand it, so can you.~"
   1 ;"}Oh, very well then . . .~"
   1 ;"}I think I'd like to have my baby now, Pete,~";
   1 ;"}Gosh, you've got fat,~";
   1 ;"}Don't insult me by saying it's politically correct. You should know that being a Tory is political suicide and, anyway, we'll be out soon, but I don't care cos I'm a True Blue,~";
   1 ;"}Don't expect a lift to hospital in my car,~";
   1 ;" is taken very lightly indeed. He has said very little to me over the past few days, just the odd, ";
   1 ;" and, ";
   1 ;" Pete says, and I can't resist the retort:"
   1 ;" I yell, ";
   1 ;" (not that I would!), ";
   1 "}You're coming too, Pete!~";
   1 "}Yes, well your language is pretty blue sometimes.~"
   1 "}Well, I just hope we've done the right thing bringing another Brief into the world!~"
   1 "}Very amusing, Jules. Well, I suppose we'd better get this over and done with. So off you trot to the delivery room . . .~"
   1 "so it is quite a surprise when he launches into an entire oration about the name of |his' child. If it's a boy, he states clearly and categorically, the little chap will be called Kevin - after Pete's Dad - Norman - after a bloke he knows at work - Onslow - after his favourite TV character ";
   1 "Pete's claim, after I have released a wail of about 100 decibels, that he, ";
   1 "I come down on Pete like a ton of bricks - which, admittedly, is not difficult in my present state - for his flagrant sexism and he tells me that he wants a |son and heir', not a |daughter and heiress'. This is even more sexist, I tell him, but then he brings in teenage pregnancy and the usual Conservative rubbish."
   1 "Due to lack of memory (so that you have a bigger game to play!), this facility is not available in this part."
   1 "At least my labour pains didn't give me too much bother. I'll see you the next time, when no doubt I'll be having a bit of toddler trouble . . ."
   1 "Anyway, we have a cute little baby boy, which is a good thing as I can be certain that he's not just |my' baby - he's Pete's too. Later, in the ward, Pete and I are talking (he's trying to justify our having a baby - tehee!). My own clinching statement is, ";
   1 "Abbreviations will suffice for the following commands:":
   1 "(a kindred spirit) - Brief. At the suggestion of his child being a girl, it is immediately |my' child, not Pete's, and anyway, ";
   1 " WE for WEAR"
   1 " RS for RAMSGATE, er, RAMSAVE"
   1 " RL for RAMLOAD"
   1 " RE for REMOVE"
   1 " I inform him and he quickly gives me the usual routine (i.e I could never stand all that blood etc). ";
   1 " GI for GIVE"
   1 " DR for DROP"
   1 " CL for CLOSE"
   1 "  Z for WAIT"
   1 "  V for VOCAB"
   1 "  T for THROW"
   1 "  Q for QUIT"
   1 "  O for OPEN"
   1 "  I for INVENTORY"
   1 "  G for GET"
   1 "  F for FOLLOW" 
   1 "  C for SEARCH"
   1 "  A for AGAIN"