So what's all this about, then?

[ernknot]

stuffed Muppet. They always taste the same thought Roger, why can't they taste like crumpet he mused, crumpets are nice and fluffy and......

[Driver]

... Roger was quite obviously fantasising.

How would he know what crumpet tastes like? All his previous experience had been on the Good Ship Venus and the other good ship Very Little Gravitas, mixing with crew members like Seaman Staines. Not the sort of background that would give a young bloke much of a clue about crumpet.

However, all this was about to change because, suddenly ...

[Caliban]

the Klingons had introduced him to a whole new ball game (cuisine wise, and any pun there was unintentional. ).
Mr Ex cabin boy, ex apprentice, now man about town, debonaire Roger had learned about...

[Driver]

... Nouvelle Cuisine where less is more. Being a complete dickhead, Roger fell for this pretentious, minimalist crap, hook, line and sinker. He began to ponce about the place, extolling the virtues of tiny slivers of under-cooked vegies arranged "tastefully" on enormous platters.

This, naturally enough, engendered a good deal of ill-feeling towards Roger amongst the rest of the crew, who, accordingly ...

[Caliban]

threw the puncy little overboard along with his fondue set...

[Christopha]

... the one with the wooden accoutrements that had been presented to him by on the occasion of his........

[Grunt]

first time on his knees. Roger loved his fondue set so much that he wouldn't let it go. The weight of it dragged Roger down and deeper into the water and he drowned.

Roger, having died many times before was not perturbed by this turn of events. Roger found himself ...

[silentC]

... sinking down towards the ancient lost city of Atlantis, where Nouvelle Cuisine had yet to be invented. Captain Nemo was waiting for him with his long, thin, seaman filled ...

[craigb]

Nautilous (sp?). He was part of the way through his 40,000 leagues so he had time to pick up the hapless Roger anf his fondue set.

Opening the sub's hatch he ...

[Driver]

... just had time to shout "DOH!!" before he was engulfed by thousands of gallons of seawater flooding in through the hatch (which tends to happen when you open the hatch whilst submerged).

Although this was a significant setback ...

[silentC]

... it had happened a few times before and the crew knew the drill. While the second mate sucked up the water with his GMC wet and dry shop vac, the rest of the crew closed the hatch and set about fixing the pleats in Captain Nemo's trousers. "I wish I could remember to stop doing that," murmured the captain, glancing at a soggy piece of paper in his pocket, "fortunately we are just about to dock at Atlantis to pick up somne more ...

[Caliban]

to pick up somme more....
Battle plans?
sorry, now the real answer, ...some more...
wooden skewers, seeing as how we now likely to be having a fondue party..

[Grunt]

with Roger juice as the dipping sauce and balls ...

[Driver]

... akimbo, the crew danced a hornpipe as the fondue was marched into the fo'csle by the galley stewards.

Captain Nemo was a bit off-put by this display of nautical tradition and he ...

[silentC]

.. was not at all a fan of fondue, although apparently it was all the rage in Western Australia. Nevertheless he had found in situations like this, with an impending stopover in Atlantis, that it was better to let the crew get it out of their system now before they unleashed upon the unsuspecting Atlantians their ...