Vollyball 2003 - commentary

Elongated Man · Post by **Elongated Man** » Tue Jun 03, 2003 11:10 am

Sting? That funny looking monkey? Let me get this straight... you want to knock nasties with a man who would sing with Toby Keith? Grilka, please stay away from the NASCAR circuit, it's warping you, seriously, honey.

Post by **Darb** » Tue Jun 03, 2003 11:12 am

LMAO

Grilka · Post by **Grilka** » Tue Jun 03, 2003 11:36 am

EM - you might want to re-read that particular post, you might find out that I DIDN'T WRITE IT.

::throws poopy diaper at your head::

Post by **Darb** » Tue Jun 03, 2003 11:59 am

/me scuffs toe in dirt, avoids eye contact, and whistles innocently & off key

Elongated Man · Post by **Elongated Man** » Tue Jun 03, 2003 12:16 pm

Maybe so, but we know what you were thinking when you read it.

Post by **Darb** » Tue Jun 03, 2003 5:12 pm

Hey, someone else needs to post - Grilka and I can't carry the whole thread by ourselves.

/me crosses arms and patiently waits ...

Grilka · Post by **Grilka** » Wed Jun 04, 2003 11:14 am

If we did, it would move rather slowly

C'mon!! What, nobody wants to be a cool spy or bad guy?????

Post by **Darb** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 7:38 pm

Ok, I got tired of waiting for someone to jump in, and posted.

Since I'm taking a 3 day weekend, I took the liberty of tying up (literally) all the remaining loose ends, and left the plot wide open again for the next person who happens along. All lurkers and noobs welcome.

p.s. Sorry Grilka - I sorta placed your main character in a real pickle ... no wait, I think I got that backwards

Grilka · Post by **Grilka** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 9:12 pm

Yeah yeah you placed a real pickle in my main character. YOWCH!! You are diabolical.

Post by **Darb** » Mon Jun 09, 2003 9:05 am

Well, you *DID* cast me as a villain. Everyone knows that the primary responsibility of any villain worth their salt is to place the 'good guy' in a pickle. I was just fulfilling my assigned role with my usual panache

Oh, someone else take a whack at the plot.

ElongatedMan: You keep mentioning how you want to take the thread in a more serious direction - so let's do it. I'll gladly go along for a string of serious literary posts.

Grilka · Post by **Grilka** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 8:49 pm

Hey, does anybody else hear crickets?

Post by **Darb** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 9:30 am

Yeah, I hear em.

We're waiting for someone to join in - esp now that EM seems to have developed a nasty case of writer's block

Grilka · Post by **Grilka** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 10:04 am

Well, he does have a baby coming any time now, guess we'll give him a break! I haven't heard from him so I don't know if he's started those sleepless nights

Hey cool, Trebor! Nice pass-off, wish I had time to take it right now

BTW you won't see me either for a bit, we're heading for Atlanta tomorrow evening & will be gone for the week. Happy 4th!!

Post by **Darb** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 10:36 am

TREBOR: Me too - I'm probably taking a 4 day weekend ... perhaps I'll jump in later today, or early next week.

GRILKA: Belated apologies for the 'pickle' thingee ... when I penned that, I nearly wet myself I was laughing so hard. I got another belly laugh rereading it just now. BTW, I definitely picture Cloris Leachman (Nurse Deisel, from "High Anxiety") as being the nurse in the final scene ... that twin-coned road-hazzard brassiere, that lemon-puckered scowl, that severe hairstyle, that stiff-backed waddle, and the neo-nazi inspired S&M uniform under her nurse whites. I howl every time I see that movie

Trebor1503 · Post by **Trebor1503** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 2:50 pm

Hey guys... I tried to serve you up a big fat juicy one... someone please take the bait.

Post by **Darb** » Wed Jul 09, 2003 5:12 pm

Sorry - been busy lately. I'll get around to it eventually.

Anyone who wishes to jump in while waiting for me is welcome to do so !

Ditto for you, trebor, if you wish to expand/polish your own post a bit ... there is no editing time limit on posts in this forum, provided nobody has yet posted after you

Trebor1503 · Post by **Trebor1503** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 1:39 pm

Naw, not me... my mind has already moved on to what I will write next (in general terms). Gotta find a genre not touched yet... maybe "Hospital Love Stories".

Post by **Darb** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 3:53 pm

I've already posted way more than everyone else, in terms of word count ... so I hereby nominate you to pen your own sequel.

You were overly terse anyway, so please feel encouraged to write in greater length and depth

Trebor1503 · Post by **Trebor1503** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 4:05 pm

OK... I will do ONE back - to - back, but only because Brad said I could.

Trebor1503 · Post by **Trebor1503** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 4:41 pm

Done. and I can only hope for Brad's sake it is long enough... enjoy my bent perspective... I promise to twist it again soon.

Post by **Darb** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 11:48 am

Ya know, that damn pickle thingee has taken on a life of it's own.

I mean jebus - I threaten a secret agent with a pickle, and suddenly we have a major interplanetary phylogenic temporal war underway

Trebor1503 · Post by **Trebor1503** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 12:28 pm

Nice twist... didn't see that one coming. The one thing you gotta hate about reptiles though... they are almost never the good guys.

Check out "The Bug Wars" by Robet Asprin (not avail at B+N http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookse ... 8063&itm=1 )

Post by **Darb** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 12:55 pm

Ah, but the Reptiloid Vegans (who are carnivores, BTW .... heheheh ... I'll have to explore their dietary habits in a later post) are actually NOT "the badguys" per se in my post. "Villain" is a relative term, and I just made them seem villainous by making them large, ugly, ruthless, ham-handed, somewhat xenophobic, and capable of killing in order to accomplish their (as yet unexplained) objectives. The Pickeloids they're fighting may actually be worse - we haven't really developed that yet.

Anyway, there's an implied temporal war backdrop in my post, with the Vegans playing the role as reluctant self-appointed (and irritable) temporal guardians. Remember, the pickeloids first appear in present day ... then suddenly they appear agressively in the 1950's, and also as an advanced race in the 23rd century. Do the math and extrapolate from there ... one obvious possible conclusion is that somewhen in the future (24th+ century), they become an interstellar menace, and that they timetravels backwards past their point of origin for some yet unexplained nefarious purpose.

You guys kept upping the stakes with the pickles, so I saw all your bets, threaded the needle on a bunch of loose plot ends, and raised the kitty still further

Post by **Darb** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 1:07 pm

TREBOR: The MASH bit was very nicely done, BTW. I used to watch that show religiously, way back when.

My apologies for hijacking your piece in an unexpected direction - however, that IS the whole point of this thread.

Grilka · Post by **Grilka** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 2:32 pm

Is there anyone who DIDN'T watch M*A*S*H religiously????

I hate to say it but I didn't read yet past the MASH post, but the comments here make it sound interesting! I'll be back the next time the baby nods off...

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Vollyball 2003 - commentary

Sting?

Hmph!

LMAO!!

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