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This is so funny it hurts - read it fully though...
You Planetarion players will especially get a kick out
of this.
Bullet, make sure you aren't drinking anything, you'll choke =)
Nick / Glock / Archon
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Remember the book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"? Well,
here's a prime example offered by an English professor at an American
University. In-class Assignment for Wednesday. "Today we will
experiment with anew 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
re-read what has been written each time in order to keep the story coherent.
There is to be absolutely NO talking and anything you wish to say must be
written on the paper. The story is over when both agree a conclusion has been
reached."
The following was actually turned in by two of my English
students: Rebecca last name deleted, and Gary - last name
deleted.
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STORY:
(first paragraph by Rebecca)
At first, Laurie couldn't decide which kind of tea she wanted. The
chamomile, 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
chamomile. 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 chamomile was out of the
question.
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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 asthmatic 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 trans galactic
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.
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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.
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Little did she know, but she had less than 10 seconds to live.
Thousands of miles above the city, the Anu'udrian mother ship 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
poor, stupid, 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!"
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This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of literature. My
writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic, semi-literate adolescent.
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Yeah? Well, you're a self-centered tedious neurotic whose
attempts at writing are the literary equivalent of Valium. "Oh shall I have
camomile tea? Or shall I have some other sort of FUCKING TEA??? Oh no I'm such a
air headed bimbo who reads too many Mills & Boon novels."
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Asshole.
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Bitch.
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Wanker.
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Slut.
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Get fucked.
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Eat
shit.
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FUCK YOU - YOU NEANDERTHAL!!!
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Go drink some tea - whore.
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