"Prepare to be winkled!"

The nightmares continued for poor Nick last night. Diane tells me that in his dream I was transmogrified into an evil Mrs. N, Nick's very kind, patient and not unattractive reading teacher. (Must have been evil in his dream because Mrs. N. sported a long stringy beard) After the transmorgification, Mrs. N looked Nick in the eye and uttered in a most threatening tone, a phrase that Nick was so shaken by he found very difficult to repeat: "Prepare to be winkled!

The next day, the absurdity of that phrase hit him and he could not utter the phrase with out falling over in hysterics.