Pelure: "Good Morning Mr. Ambassador and thank you for your time this morning."

Forate': "Good morning, and welcome to PhilatellicLand, Mr. Pelure."

Pelure: "Per Forate',. Rather a strange name. Where did it come from?"

Forate': "Well, Gray-- may I call you Gray?"

Pelure: "Sure, May I call you Per?"

Forate': "No you may not Gray. Now my name. Well a Danish mother and an Italian father and here I am. A little mixture of hot and cold."

Pelure: "Sir, It seems odd that PhilatellicLand" has never produced any stamps of its own. Why is this?"

Forate': "We are a society obsessed with collecting, we really don't do any producing. We have subsistence farming and stamp trading."

Pelure: "How does your society manage to procure their stamps."

Forate': "Really quite simple. In his infinite wisdom King Phil III, managed to procure the Disney, Elvis, and, the "anyone remotely related to the royals" exclusive image reproduction rights (except on velvet) for PhilatellicLand, for 500 years. This has been quite a lucrative market for us as we sell the rights to most stamp issuing countries."

Pelure: "Amazing. But why would anyone sign such a contract with PhilatellicLand? I mean what did you have to offer."

Forate': "Gray, I really don't know. There have been stories over the years, but I tend to believe the one my great uncle Vito Forate' told me."

Pelure: "And what was that, sir?"

Forate': "Great uncle Vito was the sergeant-at-arms in Phil III's court, and was affectionately known as "Vito the Arm". He told me he approached the three parties and then made them an offer they couldn't refuse. That's probably why I became a diplomat, I think a little bit of that Uncle Vito charm and negotiating skill rubbed off on me. Ha. Ha."

Pelure: "Right....." "On another note, has there been any effort to consolidate the tribal factions."

Forate': "No, not at all. In fact we welcome the diversity. I believe it gives us great strength." "As you know, I am personally a left-handed, Newfie, mintist, gold tonged, stockbooker." "But I represent all Philitellicians in my official diplomatic capacity."

Pelure: "Well said..... One final question, Mr. Ambassador --- Rocks or Stamps who was right?"

Forate': "Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha...... I think that question was answered many years ago Gray, and can be best demonstrated by the fact that since the founding of PhilatellicLand there has not been one recorded case of hernia."

Pelure: "Again, thank you for your time Mr. Ambassador, you've been most gracious."

Forate': "Thank you Gray, I hope your research team's work will educate the outside world about the kind and gracious people of our land."

Perule: "Do you validate parking?"

Forate': "No, Gray"