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From: k.ing@12345net.nl (Johan de Koning)
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Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 277
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On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:04:33 +0100, CJRandall wrote:

> Sam Blanning writes
> >"Joaquim G�ndara" <claw@lords.com> wrote in message
> >news:alr5ig$e3eq$1@ID-102694.news.dfncis.de...
> >>
> >>                                     You're Wrong. I Am Still In
> >>                                  ___ ,   This Dimension, And
> >>                                 |=_/     Stronger Than Ever!
> >>                                 |  \                          ,,,
> >>                      ~oo     <  |   `.     <       oO         oo'
> >>                       >>      > |    >' <   >      //         ||
> >>             _________ \\ ____<  > *fzooom* <_____ dd ________ || ____
> >>
> >> ----      .---------.
> >> The plot : continues :. kind of. Personally, I think this is a great
> >> place to  `---------' xt week everything is normal" technique, and
> >> not just because t \ happens to be a Friday.
> >>                     \                .---------------.
> >Well, at least I can u \ rstand exact : what's going on : w. All that
> >zipping about in space  \  alternate d `---------------" onfused me. Now I
> >can't remember why that  | y kidnapped Man / in the first place. *wanders
> >back to the archives*    |                /
> >                         |               /
>                           |              /
>  .------.                  \            /
> : native : glish speaker would probly  /  the term "thickens" here
>  `------" hat the plot becomes even m /  complicated ... as in
> "watch \ t! anything can happen!"    /
> the rea \  for this is because if a / plot" is "boring" and it simply
> "continu \  ... a reader might "sw / h channels" (stop following story-line)
> whereas  / it "thickens" it means ( "hold on to your seats 'cos you ain't
>  seen n / in' yet!" :)             )
         /                          /
As a naive English speaker I would ( probably say
"clamp your chairs because you did  ) not see anything so far". :-)
                                   /
Hey, this associative scribbling  / is fun!
                                 /
But it makes it hard to follow the thread.

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