An obstruse conversation

Ethan: "Have any of you seen that new billboard that they have put outside the entrance to town? It is for that advertising company with the slogan "We think outside of the box"?"

Kurt: "Yeah, I get a chuckle out of it every morning."

Ethan: "It drives me crazy. It has this picture of four young women, showing from just below their breasts to the upper part of their thighs. Essentially a belly button shot. All four are white, in a row, wearing black underwear, and one has a belly stud. I mean, how is this even remotely inventive? It is not particularly revealing, by the standards of today, and it is hardly as if there is anything particularly risqué about it."

Stuart: "It seems to me that they are so far inside the box that they can't even see the box..."

Ethan: "I always half wonder whether they are referring to the one with the stud as being 'out of the box'. Can't imagine why though, perhaps we should be asking what their faces look like, or something."

Claire: "Anyone want to fill me in on what the 'box' is, exactly?"

Lester: "Well, I guess it would constitute the commonplace..."

Kurt: "Perhaps you might want to stop verbalizing your thoughts, genius."

Claire: "Anyone for more coffee? I need a break from you lot."

Ethan: "It is an interesting thought, if they think this particular advert is in some way inventive, it logically demands their conception of normal. I mean, to me, this advert is so unbelievably cliché in modern advertising as to render it obsolete."

Stuart: "Am I missing something? Do you think it is meant to be ironic?"

Ethan: "Maybe it is a demand to us, as the viewer, to use our imagination on the advert."

Lester: *snicker* "Maybe we need to imagine what is inside the box..."

Kurt: "I am glad we could finally introduce some filth."

Ethan: "We keep telling you to remove your mind from the gutter, but then I suppose that would be asking too much."

Lester: "Porn and cigarettes account for much of my childhood. What can I say? Certain things are still essential."

Kurt: "Please tell me that your childhood at least began at puberty..."

Ethan: "And that ratty army backpack that was buried under the Wendy-house that you would visit every other day. Like you thought we didn't know about that. Did it never cross your mind that your coming in and out of the house all the time with that thing wasn't going to raise suspicion?"

Lester: "Well, I did always toy with the idea of staying outside."

Stuart: "Ah, hell. I just caught that box comment. I think this needs to stop right now."

Lester: "What, is this a little too much for your puritanical sensibilities?"

Stuart: "Personally, I do not feel in the slight bit inclined to lower myself to your debased and regressive patterns of thinking."

Kurt: "Oh, right, that whole my mind is a temple, completely removed from the destructive forces of outside forces. If I were the government, you would be the kind of person I would put on my "Watch List" as most likely to be inclined to extremist activities."