1. Meeting with a friend

-How are your ocelots?
-They are well, how are your ocelots?
-The have become infected.
-Unfortunate! My evening supplication to the deity/deities will include their names.
-You are mistaken in your apprehension. The infection is beneficial!
-My demeanor and heart are lifted.

2. Ordering Gazpacho

-Do you manufacture your gazpacho locally, and with correctness?
-Our gazpacho has been certified by authorities of repute.
-That is not an answer to my inquiry.
-It is nonetheless my only response.

3. Contacting the police

-Although I am loathe to admit it, I have given my funds to a brigand unwillingly.
-Did he carry an ocelot?
-He had no mammals.
-It is clear the crime was politically motivated.
-This had been my assumption.

4. Attending a religious ceremony

-Your deities are lovely. Do they have qualities?
-Yes, Evanescence and propinquity.
-How informal! I should be benefited in worshipping them.
-This is what lore claims, but answers in this realm are intermittent.

5. At the Train Station

-When is the next arrival of passengers?
-You have come to the wrong place: this track is for confiscated ocelots.
-Is there much traffic in such things?
-To our national shame, yes.

6. Dealing with the Underworld

-Where would one go to procure narcotics, assuming one were so inclined, which I am not.
-Had I knowledge of such things I would assure you that forty kopeks would deliver to you a finer quality of product than your puny American veins can handle.
-Oops! I have accidentally handed you forty kopeks!
-And I have revealed my employment with law enforcement. The punch-line is your incarceration!

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