The Prestige

The Pledge--Are you watching closely?
Back in the day, PE was an accomplished prestodigitationist. This was before his life as a crime fighter, but after serving on the CCC(Civilian Conservation Corp) in Alterno World. Actually, it was during this point in the evolution of an aging superhero that he and Magnet Strip Girl had their first gig together. It was a time painfully burned in MSG's brain, had something to do with her bunny disappearing to her horror, and has required much superheroess therapy to "work through".

The Turn
Fast forward to today. PE spent an extremely quiet day curiously busy and alone in his modestly but comfortably furnished aging superhero bachelor pad. This should have been noteworthy to MSG, but she was herself busily engaged in whittling down the mountain of correspondence that an aging superhero's companion and personal secretary must handle, and welcomed the time alone. Reader, please take note here. Aging superheroes/esses and children must always be considered suspect when they are extremely quiet and curiously busy. At those times, one can guarantee that, in the words of that famous renaissance man and crimefighter, Sherlock Holmes, "something is afoot!"

And so it happened to MSG. After hours of happy solitude, PE called to her out of his modestly but comfortably furnished aging superhero bachelor pad, and asked her to help him find his wooden linear walking assistance implement. MSG rose to the challenge. This task should have been simple enough, after all, PE had spent the better part of the day in his modestly but comfortably furnished aging superhero bachelor pad,with only a few side trips to the adjoining room that held the porcelain convenience bowl. PE sat smugly in his comfortable chair and watched MSG look on the floor by the chair, in the closet, under the bed, under the bed clothes, in short, all over his modestly but comfortably furnished aging superhero bachelor pad to no avail!! The wooden linear walking assistance implement was nowhere to be found. MSG was confounded. She flew to the adjoining room that held the porcelain convenience bowl--no wooden linear walking assistance implement, the living room--no wooden linear walking assistance implement, the kitchen--no wooden linear walking assistance implement. MSG was at her considerable wit's considerable end. Visions of the horrific bunny disappearance evaporated years of superheroess therapy. She was beginning to hyperventilate.

The Prestige
PE innocently smiled. "Did you check the back of the door to the adjoining room that holds the porcelain convenience bowl?"

MSG raced to the aforementioned place, opened the door, and voila! There hung the wooden linear walking assistance implement. PE had done it again.

Note: No wooden linear walking assistance implements or rabbits were harmed in the making of this episode, although MSG was tempted to apply the wooden linear walking assistance implement to PE's aging superhero reflective orbital pate.