Lmao!

BattousaixBattousaix Join Date: 2002-06-25 Member: 822Members
Look at this, silverfox pointed out the link, but i´ll just copy and paste the text here:


THE COLLEGE THEME PAPER: HE VS. SHE
Remember the book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"?
Well, here's a prime example offered by an English professor at an
American University.
"Today we will experiment with a new form of composition called thetandem story. The process is simple. Each person will pair off with the person sitting to his or her immediate right. One of you will then write the first paragraph of a short story. The partner will read the first paragraph and then add another paragraph to the story. The first person will then add a third paragraph, and so on back and forth.
Remember to reread what has been written each time in order to keep the story coherent. There is to be absolutely NO talking and anything you wish to say must be written on the paper. The story is over when both agree a conclusion has been reached."
The following was actually turned in by two of my English students:
Rebecca -last name deleted, and Gary - last name deleted.
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STORY:
(first paragraph by Rebecca)
At first, Laurie couldn't decide which kind of tea she wanted. The camomile, 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 camomile. 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 camomile was out of the question.
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(second paragraph by Gary)
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.
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(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 newspapers 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.
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(Gary)
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 dim-witted 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 and 85 million other Americans. The President slammed his fist on the conference table. "We can't allow this! I'm going to veto that treaty! Let's blow 'em out of the sky!"

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(Rebecca)
This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of literature. My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic semi-literate adolescent.
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(Gary)
Yeah? Well, you're a self-centered tedious neurotic whose attempts at writing are the literary equivalent of Valium. "Oh shall I have camomile tea? Or shall I have some other sort of F***ING TEA??? Oh no, I'm an air headed bimbo who reads too many Danielle Steele novels."
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(Rebecca)

#######.
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(Gary)
#####.
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(Rebecca)
Wanker.
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(Gary)
Slut.
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(Rebecca)
Get f****d.
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(Gary)
Eat s**t.
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(Rebecca)
F*** YOU - YOU NEANDERTHAL!!!
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(Gary)
Go drink some tea - #####.
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(Teacher)
A+ - I really liked this one.



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Comments

  • GwahirGwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation
    oh, I love it lol!
  • HaZyHaZy Join Date: 2002-07-31 Member: 1033Members
    lol!

    did this really happen?  <!--emo&:0--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'><!--endemo-->
  • The_ScapegoatThe_Scapegoat Join Date: 2002-10-06 Member: 1454Members
    Best story, ever.

    Especialy where the Anu'udrian mothership launched the first of its lithium fusion missiles to completly deimate laurie, thats a work of art.
  • LongtoothLongtooth Join Date: 2002-07-02 Member: 863Members
    LOL British people ahahahahahahahahahaha I love it.  Too bad the woman ruined the story.
  • Phoenix1Phoenix1 Join Date: 2002-08-14 Member: 1150Members
    Holy #### that is funny. They keep changing the subject and trying to kill eachother, LOL.
  • ZaziZazi Join Date: 2002-05-26 Member: 672Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    LMFAO!   <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
  • GwahirGwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation
    In a note of seriousness, how in the world did she expect to create SHORT story with this pride and prejudice style?  It necessarily requires time to develop a situation so as you can play with the subtle characteristics of and between the characters.  Not a smart choice on her part.
  • The_ScapegoatThe_Scapegoat Join Date: 2002-10-06 Member: 1454Members
    YEah gwahir is right, and she didnt even have a shotfun.  HOw the heck can you take a main character to any story serioulsy if they dont have a shotfun.

    As its been said before:
    Cause when you got a shotgun, you got fun.
  • TzarconTzarcon Join Date: 2002-02-28 Member: 259Members
    Hah! That's halarious!
  • VincentVincent Join Date: 2002-04-10 Member: 408Members
    this is good stuff hahahaha i wish theyd of finished it thought each of them totally messing with were the other was going
  • GwahirGwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation
    or in the case of "scarface" you have a dead drug lord.
  • BattousaixBattousaix Join Date: 2002-06-25 Member: 822Members
    I loved the vaporizing part....... That "Stupid" thing made me laff a lot.....

    which vaporized poor, stupid, Laurie and 85 million other Americans
    hahahha i cant stop laughing at it <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
  • GwahirGwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation
    NS tandem story:

    Paragraph one:

       It was cold.  The armor did a good job of keeping the wearer moderately comfortable, but even a veteran like John could feel the cold trying to work its way into his spine.  He didn't like the start of this mission.  Why the hell did the aliens have to take a near useless outpost on a hunk of ice?  This assignment stank of some hidden agenda.
  • DarkPenguinsDarkPenguins Join Date: 2002-03-14 Member: 317Members
    John went to the bathroom to take a leak and relieve some stress(you know what i mean). When he came out he grabbed for his coffee and just then the alarms sounded. (bear with this) BWEE OO BWEE OOO BWEE OOO!!! (yes those are alarms). John dropped his steaming hot coffee and got prepared for one of the longest days of his life.


    (yay for me, i suck at writing!!&#33<!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
  • BattousaixBattousaix Join Date: 2002-06-25 Member: 822Members
    But he stopped thinking in the agenda, he liked to think about bakini girls in a beach, so he didn´t listen that little thing that was coming close to him, slowly but surely, the little skulk began to climb its way up into the mans head (wtf), then, he headcrabbed him, and made him donce like a madman until he exploded.

    EDIT: You screwed up my story D= lol, anyways both of them are funny........
    Disclaimer, choose the one that best suits you, and continue with the story =)
  • Sgt_XSgt_X Join Date: 2002-03-01 Member: 261Members
    On topic: LMAO, I like Gregs sci-fi. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

    Off the origonal topic: John's CO, Lt. Damien immedietly had the fire team shot John. Cpl Smithers commented that it was, "Right out of Half-Life man."
  • GwahirGwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation
    He quickly brought his attention to the present.  His first mission always tried to replay itself in his head at times like this.  If he let that happen again, it might be suicide.  He stepped carefully along with a fellow marine, they patrolled this section, finding little but the occasional human body.
  • CatpokerCatpoker Join Date: 2002-06-25 Member: 816Members
    Meanwhile, on earth, Laurie sat, sipping her tea, and thinking about that man that she loved, the one that had her heart. Not knowing the trouble that john was about to get into

    <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
  • Silver_FoxSilver_Fox Spammer Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 34Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
  • DarkPenguinsDarkPenguins Join Date: 2002-03-14 Member: 317Members
    The air they were breathing was cold and refreshing yet it had an overwhelming crispness of death. They could feel the wind blowing the smell of their existence crumbling at any moment. Just then a chunk of the glacier game crashing off into the water, giving the awaiting aliens time to attack the unsuspecting marines.
  • BattousaixBattousaix Join Date: 2002-06-25 Member: 822Members
    But the aliens where doing somthing else, actually they where all watching jackass movie, and having a nice time with some beer with them.
  • LongtoothLongtooth Join Date: 2002-07-02 Member: 863Members
    (Ignoring Batt's post)
    The world stoped around John.  He looked left and right and sprinted forward....Backward was no good and the alien came for both sides.  The first alien tore at him.  He dodge left and put his LMG to its snarling head and squeezed the trigger once.  It convulsed and fell motionless.  John looked around him while listening behind.  He heard the last of his comrades rifles fire and then go silent.  He took ration of the situation.  All he had left was his
  • HikeebaHikeeba Join Date: 2002-10-03 Member: 1418Members
    On Topic:

    LMAO!

    Damn that's good!
  • HBNayrHBNayr Join Date: 2002-07-13 Member: 930Members
    Hssp-n ran as fast as his claws could take him.  There were more of them.  And they just killed Grrt-n in cold blood.  One minute he was here, the next, Grrt-n was a streak on the side of ice.  Hssp-n knew that Grrt-n would return to the Hive in a new body, but he could feel the pain of Grrt-n's death.  And didn't particularly look foward to his own.
  • NecroNecro &lt;insert non-birthday-related title here&gt; Join Date: 2002-08-09 Member: 1118Members
    ROFL

    thats so funny!
  • GobyWanGobyWan Join Date: 2002-02-22 Member: 234Members
    H'BNayr is the only person here who's ever written from the perspective of one of the aliens, and he's quite good at it. I really enjoyed the story he wrote from both sides.
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