This story even has the cat in the bag!





How long did it take you to recover from writing this?

PS-- As CC says, Yep, fiendish!

~Toc

My eyes! My eyes! I hope you have insurance, young lady, because I'm going to need hospitalization after this. <g>

Badfic isn't as easy to write as it looks, is it? LOL, but you sure did it proud. <g>

Kathy

The recurring line Mary quoted had me rofling every time I met it. As well as the rest of the story, in fact This story was just *so* much fun!

See ya,
AnnaBtG.

I could quote this piece forever. So dense and rich, and I still can't get through it without giggling helplessly. Also, I could never have managed this in a million years.

Diabolical and fiendish, indeed. Can't tell you well enough how much I love this!

Oh, and I only noticed that he changes t-shirts right in the middle of it on last read. You packed so much in there. Just...awesome.

CC

hillarious...

Absolutely hilarious and a great badfic. Good job, Meredith! And I can't believe I missed the biggest clue in all this... there was a *ficus tree* so it should have made me think about you... ah well, the story still gives me a good laugh.

Saskia

Well, no one actually attempted to kill me for writing this, which was a bit of a surprise. Not that I'm not grateful, you understand... Even more so that you managed to enjoy the humour!

I'll let you know if it happens, Toc. I'm no longer getting the nightmares, but when I see a kitten my eyes still cross, and I have to put a paper bag over my head and break out the emergency chocolate...

And no, Kathy - it was nowhere near as easy to write as I thought it was going to be! Especially searching for the hundredth Tom Swifty! :p

Saskia - yes, I did leave a few clues lying around - the ficus, the jumper, the Blackadder allusion ("antidiestablishmentarianism") and the fact that the Mary Sue was an elec eng - but I imagine it's hard to concentrate on clues when your brain's trying to strangle you for reading this sort of stuff.

Thanks again, everyone, for enjoying it!

Mere

Sorry I'm late here. Been really wonky lately due to odd sleep patterns, and haven't been able to really read. Not sure whether or not this was a good place to start up again...

Anyway, let me tell you a little story. A few years ago, I used to get together with some friends to hang out and play roleplaying games. The point wasn't so much to play the game as it was to have something fun to do while hanging out with friends. So, we never really took the games seriously. One of my first characters was Supamon, the Jamaican of Tomorrow, the Man of Steel Drums. In a later game, I played Rex, an anthropomorphic blind dog with a seeing eye monkey.

During a later game, we somehow got into something of a pun war. Someone would make a joke, and then others would make up a joke to punish the first one, and then someone else would have to punish *that* person, and so on. At the time, I was playing Benni Hana, a roving warrior/chef who, like Jackie Chan, was known for using random objects as improvised weapons.

At one point during the game, we were inside the bad guy's palace, facing off against him and a bunch of his eunich thugs (sadly, they were not wearing red hats). I was about to announce my attempt to hit two of the thugs with a flying double kick when one of my teammates took out the bad guy in a suprise move. My intended actions became moot, but I still had to tell the room of my plan to use a dual boot system to send eunichs crashing through windows.

Later in the game, we blew up an evil fortress. We were standing in the forest outside the ruins when we were ambushed by another enemy. I asked the GM if there were any groundhogs around who had perhaps been dazed by the recent blast.

"No," he said hastily. "There are no woodland creatures, dazed or otherwise."

"Darn."

"Okay, I know I'm going to regret this, but why were you looking for dazed groundhogs?"

"Because I wanted to see if I could fight with numb woodchucks!"

This utterance was quickly blocked out of my fellow gamers' memories. No one dared attempt retribution.

Now, I just read this:

Meredith, I am in awe.

This was absolutely hilarious.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go clean my brain.

Paul

LabRat

Mere

ROTFLMAO!!!

Tricia

Thanks, Paul, Rat and Tricia!

/me hands out mental Brillo pads

Mere