There are many Dopers blessed with a wonderful way with words; many whose posts amuse, educate, enlighten, and entertain us.
But you two, IMHO, are the master storytellers of the SDMB. Whenever you launch us upon one of your narrative voyages, I know the trip will be a delight. Always a pleasure, usually a hoot. I look forward to your next adventures.
THANK YOU!!!
P.S. Can anyone provide the links to the ewe and blimp stories? They were before my arrival here, I believe; but I see them spoken of with awe.
Oh … wait … you meant the story!
It is definitely a classic. No matter how many times I read it, I always cackle out loud. Garners some funny looks if I’m not alone.
Rocky, honey, you DO have that effect on people. And so, my dear boy, thank you from the bottom of my lightened heart for the many, many occasions when your off the wall posts have made me laugh, and even for forcing me to reassess my definition of the word “art.”
Thanks, also to Spogga, Phlosphr, and Eve. Although, truly, I don’t know how she’s EVER going to top Jesus Rhinestone Christ With a Ruby Loincloth.
Ah, the watermelon story… Just the memory evokes a guffaw. “Worst” isn’t the adjective that springs to mind.
There ought to be a book published called “Tales from the Teeming Millions” which would take its rightful place in the “Straight Dope” collection. You and Scylla would have your own large sections. Who knows? Perhaps it would sell so well that we could upgrade to Hamster 4.5. Perhaps reviewers would take note of its success; word would spread like electronic wildfire across the Internet of its wit, wisdom, badinage, and lack of run-on sentences; the names of Master Wang-Ka and Scylla would become household names for enthralling narratives; and the two of you would find yourselves launched upon long, happy careers as bestselling authors.
Thanks. I’m working on a digitally remastered and complete Ewes Sluts, including the recovered “Lost Chapters” from the great Hamster Meltdown of 2001 that occured midway through Ewes Sluts II, Queer Goings on.
Ah! More to look forward to! I read Ewes Sluts to about halfway through page 4 and actually had to get back to work! The nerve of some people. Just because they provide me the office, the computer, the Internet connection for free…
Anyway, do you have links to all your story threads? I’d like to print them out to savor at my leisure.
And about a book… seriously, Scylla, books of humorous stories about urbanites’ adventures in Rurality are popular, and a lot of them I’ve encountered aren’t half as entertaining as your stuff. You really should (in between getting peas into Scyllaette and tending to Scyllilla’s needs) pull a manuscript together and find an agent.
I’d buy a book by you. Heck, I’d buy extra copies and give them as Christmas presents. Ditto for Master Wang-Ka’s writings.
Which reminds me – Master W-K, do you have links for all of your stories handy?
I’ve yammered so much on the SDMB that I’m amazed more people haven’t told me to shut the hell up… and I’m durned if I could hunt up links for more than a few…
Jehovah’s Witnesses This thread wasn’t mine, and in retrospect, I kinda hijacked it, now that I think about it. The story’s on page one, about halfway down.
Things You Should Not Eat A Recipe Disasters thread, not mine. I put my two bits in here and there, more than once, as did a great many other people. Fun thread.
My printer curses you, though, for the marathon printing job it’s just been forced to perform, churning them all out for my leisurely reading. I pointed out that it’s my workhorse B&W printer, and fully capable of bigger jobs. It sulkily informed me that it is a Serious Working Printer, and not accustomed to producing frivolity, unlike That Other Printer, the one that gives itself airs because it can do colors. I haven’t broken it to the Serious One that it’s going to have to do Scylla’s ouvre too.
Some of these I recall reading before; others are new. They’re all going to be a pleasure to (re)read. Thanks once again!
Shade, thanks for the link for a Sauron story – yet another Doper whose posts I very much enjoy. And Maureen, thanks for your suggestions, too. (Oh, yes, how well I remember the linked thread! :D) In fact, I almost didn’t start this thread because it would be impossible to acknowledge all the wonderful writers who tell us their stories here, and I hated to seem to slight anyone.
I love reading the writings of Eve and Master Wang-Ka. I’ve shown my friends the Santa story and the story Master Wang-Ka posted in my favorite-drugs thread, and we all died laughing.
BTW, Master Wang-Ka, do you actually have books out? I’m buying them right now if you do.
