“I love you too, Ray, very much. Now if you’d bent over a little …” (Oops--should be "bend," though.)
“Ah, god … Fraser … Fuck.”
“Yes certainly, in a minute, Ray. Patience, my love.”
Really good Ray/Fraser banter! Fraser made that joke twice, and I loved it both times.
One quibble: I didn't get why Ray brought up apartheid; it didn't seem to fit, but what really bothered me about it was that I just can't hear him saying "the Dutch are disgusting people." Maybe there's something lost in translation in that section. "Disgusting" means "nauseating," "gross," "yucky." That sounds awfully prejudiced for a guy who's complaining about prejudice. And I think even Ray, whose command of geography is probably not stellar, would associate the term "Dutch" with "the Netherlands"--and wooden shoes, windmills, tulips, and Hans Brinker--long before he'd associate it with the Afrikaaners.
Still, it's a fun little interlude, and clever use of an idiom: "horny as butter." I love ever-practical Sexy!Fraser, and I love Ray's learning something new in such an enjoyable way. :)
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Everything's better with a little bit of butter :)
Date: 2006-04-09 12:27 am (UTC)This is terrific:
“Bastard.”
“I love you too, Ray, very much. Now if you’d bent over a little …” (Oops--should be "bend," though.)
“Ah, god … Fraser … Fuck.”
“Yes certainly, in a minute, Ray. Patience, my love.”
Really good Ray/Fraser banter! Fraser made that joke twice, and I loved it both times.
One quibble: I didn't get why Ray brought up apartheid; it didn't seem to fit, but what really bothered me about it was that I just can't hear him saying "the Dutch are disgusting people." Maybe there's something lost in translation in that section. "Disgusting" means "nauseating," "gross," "yucky." That sounds awfully prejudiced for a guy who's complaining about prejudice. And I think even Ray, whose command of geography is probably not stellar, would associate the term "Dutch" with "the Netherlands"--and wooden shoes, windmills, tulips, and Hans Brinker--long before he'd associate it with the Afrikaaners.
Still, it's a fun little interlude, and clever use of an idiom: "horny as butter." I love ever-practical Sexy!Fraser, and I love Ray's learning something new in such an enjoyable way. :)