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The Great "DS9 5-world [sic] Story" Part 2
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answer shocked the entire cast:
(Hi, everybody! Sorry to be absent so long. I had a great time on my little trip, BTW - among other things, I saw one of James Thurber's childhood homes, which is very exciting for a James Thurber fan because this particular house is featured in several of his best pieces. I may be the only one participating in this thread but I am such a big JT fan that I have enthusiasm to spare for those of you who aren't. But the night before we left, I needed to reload the software for my printer - long and boring story - and when I got done doing that, I found that in the 10 minutes it took me to reload the software and scan one document, my Internet driver had just...disappeared. Poof! Vanished into thin air! For no reason! And of course I couldn't go online to find a new one because I couldn't go online, period. But today, Dave, multi-year winner of Nicest Computer Guru in the Whole Wide World award, fixed it for me, so here I am. VP and DN, hope your essay/thesis-writing went well. McCloudt, love the new (?) av. TD, I know yours isn't new, but I like it so much I'm going to tell you I like it again. Now on to story telling, five words at a time...)
(Hi, everybody! Sorry to be absent so long. I had a great time on my little trip, BTW - among other things, I saw one of James Thurber's childhood homes, which is very exciting for a James Thurber fan because this particular house is featured in several of his best pieces. I may be the only one participating in this thread but I am such a big JT fan that I have enthusiasm to spare for those of you who aren't. But the night before we left, I needed to reload the software for my printer - long and boring story - and when I got done doing that, I found that in the 10 minutes it took me to reload the software and scan one document, my Internet driver had just...disappeared. Poof! Vanished into thin air! For no reason! And of course I couldn't go online to find a new one because I couldn't go online, period. But today, Dave, multi-year winner of Nicest Computer Guru in the Whole Wide World award, fixed it for me, so here I am. VP and DN, hope your essay/thesis-writing went well. McCloudt, love the new (?) av. TD, I know yours isn't new, but I like it so much I'm going to tell you I like it again. Now on to story telling, five words at a time...)
The Emperor wore no clothes.
Garak and Thot Mog gasped
(Welcome back, JK! You seem to have the worst luck with computers. I'm glad you had a nice vacation. I had to scrap most of my paper and start over. I'm trying to get a draft to my adviser tonight, but we'll see. I still have about 15 pages to go and I have writer's block. Too bad I can't write about federal law 5-world style.)
(Welcome back, JK! You seem to have the worst luck with computers. I'm glad you had a nice vacation. I had to scrap most of my paper and start over. I'm trying to get a draft to my adviser tonight, but we'll see. I still have about 15 pages to go and I have writer's block. Too bad I can't write about federal law 5-world style.)
- "Fashion faux pas!" they chorused.
(I sure have lately. My previous problems were worse, but they were at least explicable. This was just odd. Re. your writer's block, if I may quote an annoying but true axiom: "The only way to write is to write" -- Juliet V. Strauss. And of course what makes that so annoying is that it is so very true. You'll work your way through it, I know.)
(I sure have lately. My previous problems were worse, but they were at least explicable. This was just odd. Re. your writer's block, if I may quote an annoying but true axiom: "The only way to write is to write" -- Juliet V. Strauss. And of course what makes that so annoying is that it is so very true. You'll work your way through it, I know.)
Garak began sewing clothes for
His Imperial Majesty at once.
(Welcome back, JK. VP is right - the computer gods have it in for you. Maybe they're Thurber fans too and are just jealous)
(Welcome back, JK. VP is right - the computer gods have it in for you. Maybe they're Thurber fans too and are just jealous)
"ooooh, I shall tell a
(the gods of the internet are mysterious is their petty vengeance indeed. Welcome back JK, it is truly most agreeable to hear from you again.)
(the gods of the internet are mysterious is their petty vengeance indeed. Welcome back JK, it is truly most agreeable to hear from you again.)
tale to pass the time.
Once upon a darkened evening
the winter wind was blowing
through my chamber door. As
I looked, there settled on
the bust of Paris, sat
a raven sofly cawing - nevermore.
(
Yes! I hoped we were heading this way!)
(
Yes! I hoped we were heading this way!)
There he sat, never moving
(Indeed
. I don't know it off by heart and the version I have in my head is the excellent Simpsons Treehouse of horror on, read by Darth Varder himself. But I think that we can get mileage out of this...)
(Indeed
. I don't know it off by heart and the version I have in my head is the excellent Simpsons Treehouse of horror on, read by Darth Varder himself. But I think that we can get mileage out of this...)
with his ghastly words behooving
as he whispered 'nevermore'. I
flung my book aside as
as I walked toward my
(yeah, I'm making it up as I go. Sorry EAP.
)
(yeah, I'm making it up as I go. Sorry EAP.
)