I know full well you only loiter around here to wow me with your erudite wordsmithery
LOL.
There was no wordsmithery there. Some erudite culture-mongering perhaps (that there is wordsmithery), no wordsmithery.
The Greek chorus generally agrees with the protagonist, and adds details that he/she knows but the audience does not
Protagonist: Would that Megabytos of far-flighted Harddiskos were, in this my most parlous plight!
Chorus: Had he been here today, your grandsire of pious memory,
That odious flea-bitten hound licking you to death
Had been sundered in twain, as was the poodle
Of the sister-in-law of the wife of the colonel
Struck limb from limb by the back-scratcher
Of the Adjutant launched like Zeus' thunderbolt
From his overarching startled eyebrows.
So the protagonist gets the quick, snappy bits of dialogue, SO good to keep the action moving along, while all the heavy-lifting (In what trouble is the protag.? Who was he thinking about at that terrible poignant moment? How had the hero in his thoughts solved his own problem? What weapons did he use for the deed? and so on)
But what we got instead was
Is that you, third from right?