For whatever reason, I can’t help but imagine Milfois as a pudgy, fat-duck-looking-guy who thinks he’s Sean Connery. My favorite line was “Let me take him. The duck’s mine.” I also loved that the punch-line, as I might expect from you, came down to a casual game of proper grammar…. ;) (sidebar: I love how Jace is so overconfident that he’s more worried about his opponent’s words than his sword).

I’m sure Milfois meant to say mongrel. I find the grammatical correction very funny. 10 pedant points to Jace.

a casual humor with subtle rather than overt or gross humor (such as what I stooped to in my entry). Nicely done.

Just read your comment on the challenge page. And, yes, everything sounds funnier in my head. But, I obviously thought this was funny on paper. I wonder what the second was going to say when he was silenced? I can’t help but imagine him saying, “You can’t be serious dueling this guy. He’s waddling like a maladjusted penguin.”

Wow, I thought I was the only one that thought more of a penguin than a duck, the way he was waddling and all.

Funny and very subtle – almost highbrow in its refined humour. See, I’m so full of panache I even spelled “humor” with a “u.”
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