re: "keep it going" story

[LCHIEN]

I can't post in that thread lest I interrupt, but...













Ya'll are sick.

[Ed62]

We know!!

Ed

[thestinker]

Lchien- Come and joint the sickness....you know you want to

[Brian in Dawson Creek]

argh… it’s the song game all over again with a different twist. This has to be one of the weirdest woodworking sites I’ve ever been too. Things are allowed on this form that would surely get you kicked off others…. I can’t believe what’s permitted on this forum … I like it.

Brian

[LCHIEN]

I see the Rod K, Ed and I have been worked into the story - some kind of jealous retribution I think.

[TB Roye]

That is the wildest story I have ever read and participated in. Perhaps we can get it to a printable format when it is done (PDF) and publish it. Like the Saw this is a different group.

Tom

Tom

[thestinker]

I saw a joke once where a colleg professor had his students write a paper like thins in pairs. The woman started with this love story kind of thing and in the end of her paragraph mentions someone named Carl. The guy picks up his paragraph with sargent Carl strapping on his space suit and balsting alens out of the statosphere, she writes about Carl dying, but not wishing he had abandoned his "one true love" kind of thing, he writes about the aliend blowing up the earth and the "bimbo" she kept writing about. Then the name calling and 4 letter metaphors started. Suposedly the prfessor gave it an A...

[Russianwolf]

I'm liking it so far.

By the way Stinker, a Merc is a Mercury and a Mercedes is a Benz.

[TheRic]

I saw a joke once where a colleg professor had his students write a paper like thins in pairs. ...

You mean this one........

In-class Assignment for Wednesday

Today we will experiment with a new form called the tandem story. The process is simple. Each person will pair off with the person sitting to his or her immediate right. One of you will then write the first paragraph of a short story. The partner will read the first paragraph and then add another paragraph to the story. The first person will then add a third paragraph, and so on back and forth. Remember to reread what has been written each time in order to keep the story coherent. The story is over when both agree a conclusion has been reached.

* * * * * *

At first, Laurie couldn't decide which kind of tea she wanted. The camomile, which used to be her favorite for lazy evenings at home, now reminded her too much of Carl, who once said, in happier times, that he liked camomile. But she felt she must now, at all costs, keep her mind off Carl. His possessiveness was suffocating, and if she thought about him too much her asthma started acting up again. So camomile was out of the question.

Meanwhile, Advance Sergeant Carl Harris, leader of the attack squadron now in orbit over Skylon 4, had more important things to think about than the neuroses of an air-headed bimbo named Laurie with whom he had spent one sweaty night over a year ago. "A.S. Harris to Geostation 17," he said into his transgalactic communicator. "Polar orbit established. No sign of resistance so far..." But before he could sign off a bluish particle beam flashed out of nowhere and blasted a hole through his ship's cargo bay. The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out of his seat and across the cockpit.

He bumped his head and died almost immediately, but not before he felt one last pang of regret for psychically brutalizing the one woman who had ever had feelings for him. Soon afterwards, Earth stopped its pointless hostilities towards the peaceful farmers of Skylon 4. "Congress Passes Law Permanently Abolishing War and Space Travel," Laurie read in her newspaper one morning. The news simultaneously excited her and bored her. She stared out the window, dreaming of her youth — when the days had passed unhurriedly and carefree, with no newspapers to read, no television to distract her from her sense of innocent wonder at all the beautiful things around her. "Why must one lose one's innocence to become a woman?" she pondered wistfully.

Little did she know, but she has less than 10 seconds to live. Thousands of miles above the city, the Anu'udrian mothership launched the first of its lithium fusion missiles. The dim-witted wimpy peaceniks who pushed the Unilateral Aerospace Disarmament Treaty through Congress had left Earth a defenseless target for the hostile alien empires who were determined to destroy the human race. Within two hours after the passage of the treaty the Anu'udrian ships were on course for Earth, carrying enough firepower to pulverize the entire planet. With no one to stop them they swiftly initiated their diabolical plan. The lithium fusion missile entered the atmosphere unimpeded. The President, in his top-secret mobile submarine headquarters on the ocean floor off the coast of Guam, felt the inconceivably massive explosion which vaporized Laurie and 85 million other Americans. The President slammed his fist on the conference table. "We can't allow this! I'm going to veto that treaty! Let's blow 'em out of the sky!"

This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of literature. My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic, semi-literate adolescent.

Yeah? Well, you're a self-centered tedious neurotic whose attempts at writing are the literary equivalent of Valium.

You total $*&.

Stupid %&#$!.

[LCHIEN]

I've seen that (Carl and Laurie story) quite a few times before but its a classic - love it!

[Thom2]

Crockett, Mercedes does too make trucks

[LCHIEN]

mercedes trucks are quite common in Europe. In fact, Mercedes cars are quite plebian in Europe. Nowhere near the status symbol they are in the US. You see a lot of Mercedes taxis.

[LarryG]

mercedes trucks are quite common in Europe. In fact, Mercedes cars are quite plebian in Europe. Nowhere near the status symbol they are in the US. You see a lot of Mercedes taxis.

... usually with a cigarette-smoking cat behind the wheel. After taking note of this, the blonde --







Oh. Sorry. Wrong thread.

[crokett]

Crockett, Mercedes does too make trucks

Not pickups they don't. At least not in the U.S. I coulda sworn this thread said something about a pickup.

[Thom2]

... usually with a cigarette-smoking cat behind the wheel. After taking note of this, the blonde --







Oh. Sorry. Wrong thread.

LOL!

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