[MISTED] Thinking About Y2K (w/short: the Desiderata) - CORRECTED!
Robert Hutchinson
*wipes tears from eyes*
I'm not exaggerating; that was hilarious. You sure know how to pick 'em,
Joe. :)
Robert Hutchinson
Joe Blevins
Joe Blevins wrote:
>
> Sorry to be a bandwidth-waster, but I just noticed a couple of glaring
> errors in my Y2K MiSTing that needed to be fixed.
<snip>
D'oh! After all that, I *still* missed a typo. In the final host
segment, "porn start" should be "porn star." (And doesn't *that* make
you want to read all the way to the end?)
--Joe--
Jean
>
> Joe Blevins wrote:
> >
> > Sorry to be a bandwidth-waster, but I just noticed a couple of glaring
> > errors in my Y2K MiSTing that needed to be fixed.
>
> D'oh! After all that, I *still* missed a typo. In the final host
> segment, "porn start" should be "porn star." (And doesn't *that* make
> you want to read all the way to the end?)
>
> --Joe--
'Porn start'. Good enough.
"They're lined up and the starting
line........annnnnnnnd.........they'rrrrrrre OFF!
Jean
Joe Blevins
<Tom Snyder mode>
You flatter me, sir.
</Tom Snyder mode>
Seriously, though, I'm glad _someone_ liked this MiSTing. Thanks for
the kind words.
As for picking 'bot fodder, I heard about the American Bankers
Association Y2K sermon on the news, and I thought, "This is too good to
be true." Bankers writing sermons...? They're practically *begging* to
be MiSTed. I soon tracked down the infamous sermon, and I added the
"Desiderata" as an afterthought.
--Joe--
Sailor Aquarius
wrote:
After I read 'Desiderata', I started to think that the Sunscreen song
is a big ripoff of that, but that's just my opinion.
I think I like 'Desiderata' better in any case.
--Robert A. Green
Lucius@FM, Stripe@SPR and FT
FSC Sailor Aquarius(now and forever)
Keeper of The Text Cartoons Page:http://www.clearnet.net/users/rgreen/index.htm
"Any man can be an asshole. Put that man in front of a computer, and they become a brave asshole."--A friend from FM
Craig J. Clark
>
> =====================================================================
> THINKING ABOUT Y2K: MOSES, ORSON WELLES AND BILL GATES
> =====================================================================
> A "Sermon" by the American Bankers Association
> =====================================================================
> with the short: "Desiderata"
> =====================================================================
An excellent job, sir, even with the "porn start."
> [Fade out]
> [Commercial break]
>
> ANNOUNCER: This MiSting is brought to you by the good folks at the
> MST3K One Act Play Project. Visit them online at:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~cjclark/mstplays.htm
And thanks for the plug.
There's one riff that I've always loved, though, so I'm going to add it.
> > I encourage you to understand Y2K.
>
> CROW: Invite it over for Sunday dinner. Go rollerblading with it.
My version goes like this:
"Talk to it. Get to know it. Maybe you met it at a party once."
This is a line from something I wrote back in high school before I knew
about MST3K, but it is very much in the same vein. It was a wicked
little item called "Guidelines for Dealing with Alcoholics." I would
include the whole thing here, but it is in extremely poor taste and
besides, this is _your_ moment in the sun.
Once again, excellent job.
P.S. Why have your other MSTings been removed from WS#9? I seem to
recall you had several on there, but last I checked they weren't to be
found.
--
Craig J. Clark "I believe -- so strongly -- in mayonnaise."
cjc...@earthlink.net --Elmo Oxygen,
http://home.earthlink.net/~cjclark denizen of Schizopolis
Joe Blevins
>
>
> There's one riff that I've always loved, though, so I'm going to add it.
>
> > > I encourage you to understand Y2K.
> >
>
>
> "Talk to it. Get to know it. Maybe you met it at a party once."
>
> This is a line from something I wrote back in high school before I knew
> about MST3K, but it is very much in the same vein. It was a wicked
> little item called "Guidelines for Dealing with Alcoholics." I would
> include the whole thing here, but it is in extremely poor taste and
> besides, this is _your_ moment in the sun.
I'm intrigued, though. Do e-mail me a copy, won't you?
>
> Once again, excellent job.
Thank you kindly, sir.
>
> P.S. Why have your other MSTings been removed from WS#9? I seem to
> recall you had several on there, but last I checked they weren't to be
> found.
(hope you're in the mood for a long, boring story)
I don't want to make an issue out of this, but I had my MSTings removed
because I could see a disheartening pattern emerging at Web Site #9.
Because of possible legal ramifications, the site's maintainer hid all
the MiSTings of professionally-written works and even removed links to
such MiSTings. This decision essentially wiped out many of my
better-known MiSTings, including Ed Wood's "Orgy of the Dead" and two of
President Clinton's speeches. Previously, the web site maintainer had
also hid MiSTings of sexually-explicit stories, again fearing legal
problems. That affected "Stolen Memories," a group MiSTing of a DS9
story I had worked on and was very proud of. Every time one of my
MiSTings was "hidden," it was like watching my hours of hard work
disappear into a bottomless pit never to be seen again. Worse yet, I
could foresee *more* MiSTings being hidden or removed from the site in
the future, as the courts decide what constitutes "fair use" of
intellectual property, such as TV characters. Whether or not I
succeeded, I made an effort to build up a collection of MiSTings that
had a consistent level of quality, and I couldn't bear to see them "bite
the dust" one by one. It was too painful to watch. I had my few
remaining MiSTings removed from the site to put them out of their
misery. It came down to a choice of having either a decimated,
incomplete collection of MiSTings at WS9 or having no collection at
all. I chose the latter option.
Because Web Site #9 isn't my site, I don't have the right to complain
about the way it's run. The person who maintains the site does so as a
favor to MiSTing authors like me. Personally, I don't feel that *any*
of my MiSTings represent any kind of legal hazzard, but it's his
prerogative to worry about legal problems and to remove or hide MiSTings
if he sees fit to do so. Instead of nagging him with complaints and
being an ingrate, I decided just to have my MiSTings taken down from the
site.
I'm hoping to find a new home for them somewhere on the web, but no one
I've contacted has helped me out as of yet.
--Joe--