Garfield minus Garfield:
So much better than the original.
Oh, I get it. You just don't like who did the rescuing, that's all. Wishin' I was your boyfriend what's-his-height. Oh wait, he's run off.
Spike ,'Potential'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amych - Dec 19, 2007 10:16:09 am PST #8230 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Jessica - Dec 19, 2007 10:17:04 am PST #8231 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Garfield minus Garfield
Brill.IANT!
tommyrot - Dec 19, 2007 10:18:27 am PST #8232 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Lose the maxiumum monitor brightness -- you don't ever want to count on people to change the defaults. Also, it needs the internets-will-eat-your-babies quality and the some-guy-my-cousin-knows hook.
Good points.
This is totally true! My sister's neighbor knows the guy!
P.S. Forward this to everyone in your address book or you'll go blind too.
If I had more motivation I'd totally try to spread this over the internet.
hippocampus - Dec 19, 2007 10:19:52 am PST #8233 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
co-workers, this is shrift. shrift, co-workers. Please to excuse me...
(MM, I need that sound effect from KristenT's classroom here...)
Miracleman - Dec 19, 2007 10:21:54 am PST #8234 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
What the laser story needs is the "news media cred" angle. Something like...
"According to a story in the Ypsilanti Courier, Michael Dortmunder, 22 years old and a photography student at a local university, shone a laser into a digital camera and took a picture as part of an 'experimental photography' course section. Upon viewing the results on a monitor in the computer lab, however, he was immediately struck blind, as were two unnamed students who attempted to help him."
Miracleman - Dec 19, 2007 10:22:41 am PST #8235 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
co-workers, this is shrift. shrift, co-workers. Please to excuse me...
(MM, I need that sound effect from KristenT's classroom here...)
Happy to oblige...
*Stabbity stab-stab!* *SPLURCH! squeeky*
hippocampus - Dec 19, 2007 10:25:28 am PST #8236 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
purrr-fect.
better now.
Though shrift AND the reactor... nah. too much.
thank you shrift! and MM!
tommyrot - Dec 19, 2007 10:25:46 am PST #8237 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What the laser story needs is the "news media cred" angle. Something like...
Heh. And maybe some conspiracy theory elements. Like, a reporter working on the story went blind - in his sleep!
And how the story would be all over the news, except publication is being blocked by Big Laser.
amych - Dec 19, 2007 10:27:48 am PST #8238 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
What the laser story needs is the "news media cred" angle.
Nice. And extra points for the experimental photography student detail -- you get "you call that art!!?!?!" and "pointy-headed intellectuals are too stupid to live in the real world" in one shot.
§ ita § - Dec 19, 2007 10:27:56 am PST #8239 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What the laser story needs is the "news media cred" angle. Something like...
But not too much...you don't want the amateur snopeser-party-poopers to have too easy a time fact-checking. So I'd keep Ypsi and drop the Courier, just to give them some work to do.
You could be green.
But in this red shirt someone might mistake it for cheer.