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Dec. 20th, 2011
Seriously? I've used that subject line often enough for it to get suggested at "let'"?
In a previous post I won't link to, I said:
Dur: it was the library scene, the one where the writers meeting finds out that the room is double-booked and the other group is the Waterloo Warriors football team (then in the middle of a record-breaking losing streak, as I recall, long enough there were people who earned degrees in the interval between winning games). This would be the scene that is the source of the line "Yes, but those nuns were tough!" It's an example of a cheap trick I liked back then, which was to set the scene somewhere very specific, like the library, or CKMS during a mid-winter furnace failure*, then have someone (or a group of someones) enter who has no business there, like a football team in the library or Nigel, King of the Rabbit People. Why can I not remember calculus but I remember Nigel, King of the Rabbit People?
* which apparently did happen more or less the way I made up. No crazed explorers bursting out of the Bauer Warehouse, though.
In a previous post I won't link to, I said:
1987: A Touch of FASS: The Silver Sequel
(I wrote but don't ask me what)
Dur: it was the library scene, the one where the writers meeting finds out that the room is double-booked and the other group is the Waterloo Warriors football team (then in the middle of a record-breaking losing streak, as I recall, long enough there were people who earned degrees in the interval between winning games). This would be the scene that is the source of the line "Yes, but those nuns were tough!" It's an example of a cheap trick I liked back then, which was to set the scene somewhere very specific, like the library, or CKMS during a mid-winter furnace failure*, then have someone (or a group of someones) enter who has no business there, like a football team in the library or Nigel, King of the Rabbit People. Why can I not remember calculus but I remember Nigel, King of the Rabbit People?
* which apparently did happen more or less the way I made up. No crazed explorers bursting out of the Bauer Warehouse, though.
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