How are things going Eigh from across the way?
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: Enjoy! LOL
:
: Here's a prime example of "Men Are From
: Mars, Women Are From Venus" offered by
: an English professor from the University of
: Colorado for an actual class assignment.
:
: The professor told his class one day:
: "Today we will experiment with a new
: forum called the tandem story. The process
: is simple. Each person will pair off with
: the person sitting to his or her immediate
: right. As homework tonight, one of you will
: write the first paragraph of a short story.
: You will e-mail your partner that paragraph
: and send another copy to me. The partner
: will read the first paragraph and then add
: another paragraph to the story and send it
: back, also sending another copy to me. The
: first person will then add a third
: paragraph, and so on back-and-forth.
: Remember to re-read what has been written
: each time in order to keep the story
: coherent. There is to be absolutely NO
: talking outside of the e-mails and anything
: you wish to say must be written in the
: e-mail.. The story is over when both agree a
: conclusion has been reached."
:
: The following was actually turned in by two
: of his English students: Rebecca (PINK) and
: Bill (BLUE).
:
: THE STORY: (first paragraph by Rebecca) At
: first, Laurie couldn't decide which kind of
: tea she wanted. The chamomile, which used to
: be her favorite for lazy evenings at home,
: now reminded her too much of Carl, who once
: said, in happier times, that he liked
: chamomile. But she felt she must now, at all
: costs, keep her mind off Carl. His
: possessiveness was suffocating, and if she
: thought about him too much her asthma
: started acting up again. So chamomile was
: out of the question.
:
: (second paragraph by Bill ) Meanwhile,
: Advance Sergeant Carl Harris, leader of the
: attack squadron now in orbit over Skylon 4,
: had more important things to think about
: than the neuroses of an air-headed asthmatic
: bimbo named Laurie with whom he had spent
: one sweaty night over a year ago.
: "A.S. Harris to Geostation 17," he
: said into his transgalactic communicator.
: " Polar orbit established. No sign of
: resistance so far..." But before he
: could sign off a bluish particle beam
: flashed out of nowhere and blasted a hole
: through his ship's cargo bay. The jolt from
: the direct hit sent him flying out of his
: seat and across the cockpit.
:
: (Rebecca)
: He bumped his head and died almost
: immediately, but not before he felt one last
: pang of regret for psychically brutalizing
: the one woman who had ever
: had feelings for him. Soon afterwards, Earth
: stopped its pointless hostilities towards
: the peaceful farmers of Skylon 4.
: "Congress Passes Law Permanently
: Abolishing War and Space Travel,"
: Laurie read in her newspaper one morning.
: The news simultaneously excited her and
: bored her. She stared out the window,
: dreaming of her youth, when the days had
: passed unhurriedly and carefree, with no
: newspaper to read, no television to distract
: her from her sense of innocent wonder at all
: the beautiful things around her. "Why
: must one lose one's innocence to become a
: woman?" she pondered wistfully.
:
: ( Bill ) Little did she know, but she had
: less than 10 seconds to live. Thousands of
: miles above the city, the Anu'udrian
: mothership launched the first of its lithium
: fusion missiles. The dimwitted wimpy
: peaceniks who pushed the Unilateral
: Aerospace disarmament Treaty through the
: congress had left Earth a defenseless target
: for the hostile alien empires who were
: determined to destroy the human race. Within
: two hours after the passage of the treaty
: the Anu'udrian ships were on course for
: Earth, carrying enough firepower to
: pulverize the entire planet. With no one to
: stop them, they swiftly initiated their
: diabolical plan. The lithium fusion missile
: entered the
: atmosphere unimpeded. The President, in his
: top-secret mobile submarine
: headquarters on the ocean floor off the
: coast of Guam , felt the inconceivably
: massive explosion, which vaporized poor,
: stupid Laurie.
:
: (Rebecca) This is absurd. I refuse to
: continue this mockery of literature. My
: writing
: partner is a violent, chauvinistic
: semi-literate adolescent.
:
: ( Bill ) Yeah? Well, my writing partner is a
: self-centered tedious neurotic whose
: attempts at writing are the literary
: equivalent of Valium. " Oh, shall I
: have chamomile tea? Or shall I have some
: other sort of F--KING TEA??? Oh no, what am
: I to do? I'm such an air headed bimbo who
: reads too many Danielle Steele novels!"
:
: (Rebecca)A$$h@le.
:
: ( Bill )B*tch!
:
: (Rebecca)F*** YOU - YOU NEANDERTHAL!!
:
: ( Bill )In your dreams, Ho. Go drink some
: tea.
:
: (TEACHER)A+ - I really liked this one.
:
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