Odds and Ends
Feb. 6th, 2003 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
estepheiaCute comic on the subject of blogs:
http://www.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/archive.asp?nextform=viewcomic&id=673
Re: "Sixty Minutes"
I posted the last part of that story to various yahoo lists earlier today. At the end I put a long author's note in which I wondered about the level of encryption fanfic writers (or specifically) can get away with. I raised a few questions about the story, basically encouraging readers to let me know their interpretation.
I've just come home from an exhausting afternoon about town where I was shuttling/herding the kids here and there, and doing the groceries shopping with two daughters who were tired and naughty. But when I came home I found a handful answers to the questions I'd asked. And already I feel less stressed.
I'm thrilled. It's exciting to read different interpretations of something you've written. It means I'll have to write plenty of long emails tonight, answering queries and generally saying thank you.
BTW, the St. John's Worts must be working. I've been feeling so much better lately! Or maybe it's because my mind is in the gutter all the time... :-)
A political joke:
President George Bush is visiting an elementary school and he visits one of the classes. They are in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asks the President if he would like to lead the class in the discussion of the word, tragedy. So the illustrious leader asks the class for an example of a tragedy. One little boy stands up and offers, "If my best friend, who lives
next door, is playing in the street and a car comes along and runs him
over, that would be a tragedy."
"No," says Bush, "that would be an ACCIDENT."
A little girl raises her hand: "If a school bus carrying 50 children drove off a cliff, killing everyone involved, that would be a tragedy."
"I´m afraid not," explains Mr. President. "That´s what we would call a GREAT LOSS." The room goes silent. No other children volunteer. President Bush searches the room. "Isn´t there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?"
Finally, way in the back of the room, a small boy raises his hand. In a quiet voice he says, "If Air Force One, carrying Mr. & Mrs. Bush, were struck by a missile and blown up to smithereens, by a terrorist like Osama bin Laden, that would be a tragedy."
"Fantastic," exclaims Bush, "that´s right. And can you tell me WHY that would be a TRAGEDY?"
"Well," says the boy, "because it wouldn´t be an accident, and it certainly wouldn´t be a great loss."
Oh, and before you flame me: it's just a joke. I like the way it plays with language.
http://www.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/archive.asp?nextform=viewcomic&id=673
Re: "Sixty Minutes"
I posted the last part of that story to various yahoo lists earlier today. At the end I put a long author's note in which I wondered about the level of encryption fanfic writers (or specifically) can get away with. I raised a few questions about the story, basically encouraging readers to let me know their interpretation.
I've just come home from an exhausting afternoon about town where I was shuttling/herding the kids here and there, and doing the groceries shopping with two daughters who were tired and naughty. But when I came home I found a handful answers to the questions I'd asked. And already I feel less stressed.
I'm thrilled. It's exciting to read different interpretations of something you've written. It means I'll have to write plenty of long emails tonight, answering queries and generally saying thank you.
BTW, the St. John's Worts must be working. I've been feeling so much better lately! Or maybe it's because my mind is in the gutter all the time... :-)
A political joke:
President George Bush is visiting an elementary school and he visits one of the classes. They are in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asks the President if he would like to lead the class in the discussion of the word, tragedy. So the illustrious leader asks the class for an example of a tragedy. One little boy stands up and offers, "If my best friend, who lives
next door, is playing in the street and a car comes along and runs him
over, that would be a tragedy."
"No," says Bush, "that would be an ACCIDENT."
A little girl raises her hand: "If a school bus carrying 50 children drove off a cliff, killing everyone involved, that would be a tragedy."
"I´m afraid not," explains Mr. President. "That´s what we would call a GREAT LOSS." The room goes silent. No other children volunteer. President Bush searches the room. "Isn´t there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?"
Finally, way in the back of the room, a small boy raises his hand. In a quiet voice he says, "If Air Force One, carrying Mr. & Mrs. Bush, were struck by a missile and blown up to smithereens, by a terrorist like Osama bin Laden, that would be a tragedy."
"Fantastic," exclaims Bush, "that´s right. And can you tell me WHY that would be a TRAGEDY?"
"Well," says the boy, "because it wouldn´t be an accident, and it certainly wouldn´t be a great loss."
Oh, and before you flame me: it's just a joke. I like the way it plays with language.
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Date: 2003-02-06 07:02 pm (UTC)I lurv you and want to have your little anti-bush babies. Mind if I steal this for my own journal?
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Joke
Date: 2003-02-07 01:30 pm (UTC)Right, two very East End geezers sitting in a pub. One says to the other, "I'd luv to be good with the wit and repartee, like what I heard the other day."
"What d'you mean?" Says the other, "What happened?"
"Well, me and my mate, Stan woz at the circus and this clown come up to us and said to me mate, 'Are you the front end of an ass?' He says 'no'. 'Are you the back end of an ass?' 'No.' 'Well you're no end of an ass then aren't you?' and quick as a flash me mate says...'F**k off you red nosed b*****d.'"
Ok so maybe the Bush one is better. Thanks for the giggle.