Hello Kitten

[kitten]

Split the profits?

[Gopher]

Of course - but you've got to do the personal appearances.

[kitten]

I'm much too bashful for that!    People would want me to explain what it is about, and I would be tongue-tied.

[Gopher]

That's the trouble I have too, but come to think of it - you COULD do it on full moons, nobody would recognise you then..  

[kitten]

But I still wouldn't be able to talk.  Chitter, maybe, but not talk.

[Gopher]

Don't they communicate by radar?

[kitten]

Sure, but try translating it.

[Gopher]

Well, translation was previously my work for a number of years.....

[kitten]

Really?  Translating from what to what?

[Gopher]

English to German and vice versa.

[kitten]

Translating books?

[Gopher]

Anything, but not fiction alas. Mainly technical stuff (which I didn't understand in either language).

By the way, the messages are playing up again,  once more I have -1.

[kitten]

I have one I haven't had time to answer yet, but the reading is 0.

[Gopher]

You'll probably find that when you've read it the figure will go to -1.  

[kitten]

Unless it rebalances again.