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Pancake Syrup Mdb

i am walking in humid Manhattan with a hidden towel in my backpack. i manage to survive the -60 F drop in temperature and start pushing off sheets of moisture with my hotel contraband. i’m here to meet a key member of our analytical team, a KwazyCaldrontic86 with a tendency to dance the flamenco when aroused. He’s summoned me from across the country as i was the author of PancakeSyrup.mdb — what has proven to be a game-changing tool for the agency.

PancakeSyrup.mdb allowed you to input data into it and it would make a mess of it all in real time instead of manually doing it in Excel each morning.

[BILL] riding elevator. still toweling off. M-man is it c-cold in here.

((ELEVATOR DOOR OPENS))

[BILL] dropping backpack, staring without comprehension.

[RECEPTIONIST] sitting behind the largest set of red painted letters “pancakeSyrup-dot-mDEEEb”

[BILL] walking slowly. I’m here to see KayCEE; she is expecting me?

[KayCEE] appears before the [RECEPTIONIST] can answer BILL! It is so good to see you in the flesh. You are looking great? Are you eating well? You look like the 1 you are, baby!

[BILL] confused I am rather 1 shaped, but maybe a |? I do / or \ to lean as need…

[KayCEE] ((BANG! ZAPATOS HIT!)) Enough of that! I must show you something I’ve been working on. Follow me…

[KayCEE] pulls [BILL] by the hand to a “breakout room”

[KayCEE] leaves [BILL] at the micro-table here and disappears behind a curtain.

((THE LIGHTS GO OUT))

[BILL] in the dark KayCEE? Are you still here?

((A SPOTLIGHT SNAPS ON))

[KayCEE] stands proudly in the hazy light ((CLAP!)) Prepare yourself! It is time for our technology story at Action Media Services.

[PassionateGuitarBot69] sits on a stool, tunes guitar briefly, nods at [KayCEE] and strums aggressively BRRRRRAAAAAAAAH-CHA-CHA-CHA-CHA!

[KayCEE]’s arms raise high. Her zapatos contrast to the strumming guitar ▎ PEE! PEE! TEE! EKS! (Clap!) ▎ PEE! PEE! TEE! EKS!

[KayCEE] sings in a throaty warbling voice. This is our stooooory! We haaaaaaave yooooooooor DATA!

[PassionateGuitarBot69] strumming aggressively SSSSRRRRRAH-DAH! DAH-DAH-DAH-DAH!

[KayCEE]’s arms raise high. Her zapatos contrast to the strumming guitar ▎ PEE! PEE! TEE! EKS! (Clap!) ▎ PEE! PEE! TEE! EKS!

[KayCEE] almost a whisper But, there’s some trouble. Let us fiiiiiiiiind it!

[KayCEE] mimes opening a laptop.

[KayCEE] eyes go wide! CARTESIAN JOIN!

[KayCEE] sobbing. poor poor orphaned records…

[KayCEE] angry. finding justice. Dirty! Dirty, foul reads!

[PassionateGuitarBot69] strumming aggressively SSSSRRRRRAH-DAH! DAH-DAH-DAH-DAH!

[KayCEE] softly as she hits the floor Dead…lock.

[BILL] takes a moment.

[BILL] stands, clapping, with tears in his eyes, and tosses roses on the micro-table! BRAVA! BRAVA! BRAVA!

[KayCEE] bowing and beaming Thank you!

[BILL] No, thank you. That is the best of all possible presentations!

((… and we fade to black))