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I wasn't sure that this was even long enough to bother posting, but here it is. Let me know what you think!
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Shayne, this was really cute and funny. You should know by now that any length post is welcome by these boards' readers. Now, where is part 11 of SWK?  Avia (trying to make her way back into FoLCdom without angering the RL gods  )
"I get it, you're a ghost. You're dead. Big accomplishment, move on. You see a light anywhere? Go towards it okay?"
Cordelia in 'Rm w/a Vu' - Angel episode 1x05
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Course it was! How lovely to wake up to one of your little comedy gems!  Oh and   Certainly explains why no one blinked an eye at the revelations in the NK arc down there in Smallville. LabRat 
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.
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Thank you for posting that! You made me smile. That was really sweet, and just what I needed this morning. - Vicki 
"Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution" - Daniel Webster
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Very nice little story.  It's exactly how'd I'd expect Smallville residents to react if they knew Clark was Superman. No big deal. After all, Maisie did say "what you see is what you get." After the Lord Norr incident, I don't see how the whole town didn't know considering Norr was holding the Kents hostage against a guy who looked just like Clark in Clark's clothes who could fly. Duh. Only one nitpick I have is that Lois and Clark had been engaged for nearly a year when the NK arc happened. Why would Clark be thinking of asking his girl and buying a ring now?
-- Roger
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." -- Benjamin Franklin
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Ditto everyone else, Shayne - I can just see this! And, of course, to them it's no huge, exciting secret, but every bit as mundane as whose cows got tipped into whose field last night.  Great work! Now, more SWK??? Wendy
Just a fly-by! *waves*
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"Practice up your shielding spells...and remember to duck if you see green light coming your way." Harry Potter to Wizengamot in OotP trial A Bad Week in the Wizengamot
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ROFL! Shayne, this is hilarious. I love the idea of the whole town knowing, but pretending not to, just to be polite! Thanks for sharing <g> PJ
"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."
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Shayne This is great! Just hilarious!  I thoroughly enjoyed it. Tricia 
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Great little story, Shayne! Kaethel
- I'm your partner. I'm your friend.
- Is that what we are?
- Oh, you know what? I don't know what we are. We kiss and then we never talk about it. We nearly die frozen in each other's arms, but we never talk about it, so no, I got no clue what we are.
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Hi, Great piece.  Funny.
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Don't like Luthor, unfinished, untitled and crossover story, and people that promises and don't deliver. I'm getting choosy with age.
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Lollies, Shayne! That was good.
See ya soon,
AnnaBtG.
What we've got here is failure to communicate...
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Ditto what everyone else said. And I'm very glad you did think it was worth posting!
Elle Roberts
She's a dancer who doesn't dance. He's a painter who doesn't paint. It's like a bohemian version of the Island of Misfit Toys. – “Igby Goes Down”
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Do you know the most surprising thing about divorce? It doesn't actually kill you, like a bullet to the heart or a head-on car wreck. It should. When someone you've promised to cherish till death do you part says, "I never loved you," it should kill you instantly.
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Delightful, Shayne. Just the way it is in Smallville.
gerry
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Very cute, Shayne. Says a lot even though it's so short. Yvonne
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Living in a small farming community, myself, I have to say this is completely accurate.
Once when the "big city" news anchor happened into our grocery looking for coffee, we all pointed it out to him, while politely pretending not to notice he was "famous" and wearing make-up. So, you see, if it had been Superman, I imagine we'd have done the same, only more politely still.
I am grateful you have addressed this phenomenon, Shayne, it was a great "ah-ha!" moment for me.
CC-
You mean we're supposed to have lives?
Oh crap!
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Great little slice-of-life that so much represents small-town gossip. Where everyone knows every little single thing about everyone else. My cousin went to a high school with a gratduating class of like 30 kids and everybody knew each kid's life history - when they had the chicken pox, who went to prom with whom, who scored the most points at the homecoming football game. So of course it stands to reason that they would all know about Clark long before anyone else.
I was smiling through the whole story - can totally imagine two weathered old guys tipping back their beers and shootin' the breeze about the Kents.
Love it! Great little start to my day. Thanks for sharing.
Lynn
You know that boy'd walk on water for you? Or he'd drown tryin'. -Perry White to Lois in Just Say Noah
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Shayne,
cute and funny
loved it
merry
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