--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F1500008 Date: 01/03/98 From: LAURIE CAMPBELL Time: 08:00pm \/To: CRAIG LOEWEN (Read 3 times) Subj: TRUE STUDENT WRITING *** Quoting Craig Loewen from a message to Laurie Campbell *** CL> Especially for supper. He liked to walk into his home after a CL> hard day of looting and pillaging and hear his wife say, "Hi, hon!" The little known domestic bliss of Atilla the hon --- Telegard v3.09.g1/mL * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Vancouver, B.C. Canada (1:153/757) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F1500009 Date: 01/03/98 From: LAURIE CAMPBELL Time: 08:02pm \/To: CRAIG LOEWEN (Read 3 times) Subj: Rudolph *** Quoting Craig Loewen from a message to Laurie Campbell *** CL> I've always heard it as, "Gladly,the cross-eyed bear." My CL> mother liukes to tell the story of one day in church, the CL> congregation was singing, "Bringing in the sheaves" while the child CL> next to her was gaily sining "Bringing in the sheets." She must of Good thing a child that sins like that was in church CL> thought it was washday. I love puns, but it seems I'm in the CL> minority. It's one of the few reasons I enjoy Lewis Carrol and CL> Anthony's Xanth series. However, I don;t think I'll become a famous CL> writer selling puns unless I turn to writing corny greeting cards. CL> :-) Not in here you're not in a minority. Punfests abound. Laurie incorrigible punster - do not incorrige --- Telegard v3.09.g1/mL * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Vancouver, B.C. Canada (1:153/757) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F1500010 Date: 01/03/98 From: LAURIE CAMPBELL Time: 08:09pm \/To: DON JAMES (Read 3 times) Subj: SLANG VS: POP. MISUSAGE *** Quoting Don James from a message to Barbara Shafferman *** DJ> Here's a point of view which blew me away: DJ> "This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it DJ> capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and and every one of us DJ> a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the DJ> most of it.." - gangster Al Capone DJ> Makes you think doesn't it? Everybody is right sometimes. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day --- Telegard v3.09.g1/mL * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Vancouver, B.C. Canada (1:153/757) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F1500011 Date: 01/03/98 From: LAURIE CAMPBELL Time: 08:11pm \/To: CURTIS JOHNSON (Read 3 times) Subj: Translations /I *** Quoting Curtis Johnson from a message to Moonbird 2 *** M2> Those who base their writing on the bible can expect to never have M2> their works displayed beyond the "seconds' bin at Chapters. Pun fully M2> intended. CJ> Chapters? Is that a book store chain? Lovely bookstores. As big as department stores with a Starbucks inside them. --- Telegard v3.09.g1/mL * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Vancouver, B.C. Canada (1:153/757) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F1500012 Date: 01/03/98 From: LAURIE CAMPBELL Time: 08:17pm \/To: MICHAEL TAUSON (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Rights or wrongs? *** Quoting Michael Tauson from a message to Laurie Campbell *** MT> *snicker* ... Yep. Between that and sleeping a lot, I don't MT> get much writing - or even clear thinking - done, but it sure is MT> fun. Sometimes. If we have to be here anyway, we might as well enjoy it. Life is tough enough without suffering from it, too. --- Telegard v3.09.g1/mL * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Vancouver, B.C. Canada (1:153/757) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F1500013 Date: 01/03/98 From: LAURIE CAMPBELL Time: 08:19pm \/To: RICH VERAA (Read 3 times) Subj: MY NOVEL *** Quoting Rich Veraa from a message to Laurie Campbell *** RV> Laurie, I know your life will get better -- it always does. I just RV> hope and pray it _stays_ that way. Thanks. The reason it's turned for the better these last few years has been largely you guys. --- Telegard v3.09.g1/mL * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Vancouver, B.C. Canada (1:153/757) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F1500014 Date: 01/03/98 From: LAURIE CAMPBELL Time: 08:27pm \/To: VERN FAULKNER (Read 3 times) Subj: Campbellnews *** Quoting Vern Faulkner from a message to Laurie Campbell *** VF> Or, perhaps, it would just seam long... LC> Lino you mean well VF> You know I always appreciate your Candide opinion. VF> Damn. Told you it would get out of hand - no use makin' a pun if VF> no-one out there can get the thing... Well you didn't have to be so bullnosed about it ... VF> I blew off at least 20k words over the last four days - but all of it VF> related to the game system I'm working on. Damn thing keeps getting VF> better. One of these days I might just polish the rest of it off, and VF> see if I can find a buyer. It _was_ one my projects, along with the VF> Cian O'Connell tales -until my marriage side-tracked the writing VF> career for somethiung with more immediate fiscal compensation. It do have a tendency to do that, don't it? VF> Trans: I had to find a _real_ job. Got it VF> "Boy, you type fast," said the office middle-management type. Guess VF> he never read it, either.... VF> So turns out I got paid overtime to write up the minutes of the last VF> safety meeting.... Makes you wonder why we bother with resumes ... Howsomever, a little bit of overtime never hurt the budget VF> A writer's soul comes forward, or something like that. Something like that VF> Speaking of which, I've had a bugger of a time putting life and VF> variance in my weekly hockey stuff. I either need some energy to put VF> more life into the thing, or time off. VF> Maybe the summer will change my mind. Then again, the hockey game VF> eats up most of Sunday - every Sunday afternoon, every winter. Kinda VF> bites. If you're going traveling again this summer, why don't you head this way with the canoe and stuff, and we could rent Lyle's cabin at Pitt Lake for a few days and get in some "away from civilization" time to write and hear the birds and catch fish --- Telegard v3.09.g1/mL * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Vancouver, B.C. Canada (1:153/757) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F1500015 Date: 01/03/98 From: LAURIE CAMPBELL Time: 08:30pm \/To: KESTREL T'RAEL (Read 3 times) Subj: Rights or wrongs? *** Quoting Kestrel T'Rael from a message to Rich Veraa *** KT> Well, they did at least vote on the seperatism issue, and by all KT> accounts, no one was killed over their particular viewpoint. I'm not KT> sure this country could dothe same thing. I think the separatists are wrong, but I'll defend to the death their right to make their own choices and vote on them. If they're denied the vote because they're nuts, then I have no guarrantee that someone who disagrees with me will let me vote either --- Telegard v3.09.g1/mL * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Vancouver, B.C. Canada (1:153/757) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F1500016 Date: 01/03/98 From: LAURIE CAMPBELL Time: 08:35pm \/To: JERRY BUDINSKI (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: CAMPBELLNEWS *** Quoting Jerry Budinski from a message to Laurie Campbell *** LC> Makes you male. JB> That's a terrible thing to call anyone! LC> You like the idea JB> of lording it over everyone. Whoa - you picked up on the wrong JB> emphasis. No one has to lord it over anyone, although Mom and Pop It was your word. I quoted your own word back to you. (not that I'm a trouble maker or anything ... ) JB> there had been a crisis near our table. When we were seated a team of JB> busboys (buspersons?) were still sweeping up a mess on the floor. We JB> asked the waiter what happened and he said a family had been at the JB> next table and the kids were allowed to run wild around the JB> restaurant. They topped off the dinner with a good old fashioned JB> food fight! I'm sorry, but I just don't see the humour in that. JB> things will not necessarilyget better. Not necessarily, but they will be different. We can't know from here whether something we've never seen or experienced will be better or worse, but my bet is that it'll come out even. Some aspects will be worse and some will be better. --- Telegard v3.09.g1/mL * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Vancouver, B.C. Canada (1:153/757) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 159 WRITING Ref: F1500017 Date: 01/03/98 From: LAURIE CAMPBELL Time: 08:36pm \/To: VERN FAULKNER (Read 3 times) Subj: Felgerkarb *** Quoting Vern Faulkner from a message to Michael Tauson *** VF> You n' me be datin' ourselves, bub. It's known as being single --- Telegard v3.09.g1/mL * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Vancouver, B.C. Canada (1:153/757)