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Re: Chapter 2: Potential Boyfriends

It was a cute exchange between siblings and an excellent display of uber optimistic, both-sides-are-the-bright-side Mabel-logic.

I have my doubts that Mabel would be happy calling herself "bugs". I think she'd search for a term that was a bit more, you know, kittens and stuffed-animal-tree like.

Hmm. "Cute as a bug" *is* a valid saying.

I can imagine Mabel objecting to the way Dipper says "bug" so that it has an icky nerd connotation, when he should be saying "bug" as in a cute little lady bug.

"Mabel! It's exactly the same word!"

"Not even close, bro-bro. Try pronouncing it with more stress on the polka-dots!"

"Mabel, that makes zero sense."

. ..

"Hey, Dipper! Watch this!" Mabel suddenly melted down into a perfectly circular, but very shaggy patch on the hardwood floor. The individual shaggy fibers shifted color so that a giant disembodied Mabel head appeared in the center, it's lip moving in synch with Mabel's somewhat muffled, but unmistakenly bubbly tone. "Guess what I am?"

Dipper instantly discarded half a dozen replies that he knew might hurt Mabel's feelings. The only safe reply left was the relatively lame: "You're a Mabel carpet?"

"No, silly! I'm as cute as a bug in a rug! Now laugh!"