Ways to Tease Your Coworkers, Part Eleventy Billion

[caitri]

Me: Dude, I think I've about got the Kirk/Bones printing AU figured out.
Todd: Seriously, you're gonna write that?
Me: Totally. Duh.
Todd: ...It's going to be in a seventeenth century printshop, right?
Me: Maybe. Or maybe modern day. I haven't decided.
Todd: Well they can't be modern day fine printers!
Me: Why not? You don't know Jim!
Todd: Yeah, but I know you. It's gotta be the seventeenth century. In the chapel*.
Me: Oh hey, and Sulu and Chekov can get in trouble for playing quadrats**!
Todd: .... I'm leaving this conversation now.

*That's 17th c. terminology for the printshop.
**Quadrats is a game of chance played with type slugs. Printers caught playing quadrats would be beaten over the ink stone for the offense.