: CROW: What makes you think the rank changes that?
:
: MIKE: Crow! Hush! So, um, Admiral Ratliff...
:
: RATLIFF: Oh please, as one space traveller to another, call me Steve! All
: the kids do!
:
: MIKE: Okay, Steve, to what do we owe the honor of this... excuse me, did you
: say "kids"?
:
: RATLIFF: Yes, that's right! I'm calling you from the Ratliff Daycare Center,
: and I just wanted to say that...
:
Day care ... you've got me running a Day care Center... Excuse me...
[Lots of swearing is heard off-screen]
Monsenior Grealish ... when would be a good time for confession.
Tuesday at 7, thank you.
... sorry about that. I spent 6 years helping out with during Sunday
School Nursery. While I like little children, I like them in limited
numbers.
: RATLIFF: Well, I got to thinking about what you guys said the last time we
: talked... about how I've never really done anything important. It
: really bothered me, so I asked myself: "How can I change this?
: What's the most meaningful thing that I could do?" And then,
: suddenly... wham! It hit me!
I'm 22. If I have done something really important by now I'd be a
genuis. You know I'm not.
What could be more important and
: meaningful than working with little children, helping them to
: realize their full potential and be all that they're capable of
: being?
Nice words.
:
: MIKE: Okay. And that's when you decided to start your own... D-d-d...
:
: RATLIFF: Actually, it's owned by a cousin of mine with the same last name. I
: told him how eager I was to work with kids and he hired me on! I
: must say, this whole experience has been wonderful and I have you
: guys to thank for it!
Never happen I've only got 3 cousins with my last name (first cousins at
least)
:
: RATLIFF: And there's so many other examples, Mike! There's the boy who flew
: a plane in "San Francisco International"! Doogie Hawser, M.D.!
: The kids in "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians"! Short Round in
: "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"! Macaulay Culkin in "Home
: Alone"! Why, even the Bible says that you must be as a child to
: inherit the Kingdom! And how about those kids in that old Star Trek
: episode who shook their fists and told the Enterprise crew what to
: do? Now *there* was a Kid's Crew that knew how to get things done!
Greesh ... I promise you you'll never here this rant from me.
:
: POLICE OFFICER: That so? Well, in that case, I don't see any problem here.
: Go about your business, Admiral. Sorry to have bothered
: you...
:
: [The daycare center door closes.]
:
: CROW: Wait! Come back! You have to stop him!!!
:
: RATLIFF: See, cadets? I told you it would be all right!
:
: MIKE: Steve? How the hell did you...
:
: RATLIFF: Oh, you'd be surprised what you can get away with here in Roanoke!
: Well, it's been fun, but I've got to go... it's story time, after
: all, and then I've got to preside over the wedding of Cadets Robbie
: and Tina. Those kids make such a cute couple! They're going to be
: so good for each other! Well, see you later! Live long and
: prosper! Admiral Ratliff out!
:
I'd like (with the hope that it will be the last time) to remind you all
that Marrissa and Jay did not get married until both of them where in
there twenties.
:
[Cut scene about Kid's Crew take over of Deep 13]
You know I enjoyed that take over scene, but I also hated it ... I would
like to note that I like the portrayal of me. I'd have stonger words
for it, but I like to maintain a gentlemanly response to these MSTings
of my work.
:
: [The screen shrinks to a dot.]
:
: Thanks go out to:
:
: STEPHEN B. RATLIFF, who takes the biblical injunction "And I will give
: children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over
: them." (Isaiah 3:4) MUCH too literally. Without him,
: none of this would have been possible.
Hmmm... first time I've read that quote, so I guess I better see the
context.
:
: MY CO-WRITERS, for their time, their humor, their insights and their ideas.
:
: NEUR...@IX.NETCOM.COM, for providing inspirations for the Deep 13 portions
: of the opening and closing host segments (along with
: a little help from Trace's answers at the Conventio-
: Con 2's Q&A session...).
:
: DAVID CONNER, for helping to develop my idea for the Tom Clancy host segment.
I'd like to note, that I've never read any of Tom Clancy's work.
:
: MR. B TORGO, who won a well-deserved award at Conventio-Con 2 by scaring the
: living daylights out of most of the people in the ballroom, and
: thereby inspired the Mr. B Ratliff host segment.
I knew I shouldn't have used my middle initail on this group.
:
: MIKE BARKLAGE, for putting a host segment in "Time Speeder" (the best damn
: Stephen Ratliff MSTing so far, IMHO) that inspired the Ratliff
: Daycare Center.
Note: The ASC Awards post for Best MSTing has been crossposted to this
group.
:
: THE SCI-FI CHANNEL, for providing the chance to MSTify "Day The World Ended"
: live via IRC and for moving its logo to satisfy some of
: its newly acquired MST3K viewers.
:
: BEST BRAINS, INC., for keeping the MST3K dream alive in the face of yet
: another cast re-arrangement.
:
: BILL CORBETT, the rookie who stepped up and executed to the best of his
: ability after Best Brains lost their veteran center Trace
: Beaulieu to free agency.
:
Oh, and as to Jeffery Gordon ... He's not getting that medical degree
until he is 24. And I've finally found a name for Clara and Alex's
daughter Athena Alexis Rozhenko.
Stephen... who will be trying out some new proofreaders this spring.
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(Garak). But I promise to bring the body back intact."
"I assume that's a joke."
"We'll see."
-Worf and Sisko, DS9's "In Purgatory's Shadow"
:
>: STEPHEN B. RATLIFF, who takes the biblical injunction "And I will give
>: children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over
>: them." (Isaiah 3:4) MUCH too literally. Without him,
>: none of this would have been possible.
>Hmmm... first time I've read that quote, so I guess I better see the
>context.
Not much context, required actually. Whenever the Bible speaks of being
ruled over by either women, children, or servants, it's *always* a Bad
Thing, and an indication that Things Just Aren't the Way They're Supposed
To Be. Giving you a big hint, Jarek was, hmmmm? (<-- Yoda voice)
-kevin
kgo...@efn.org
>:
>: DAVID CONNER, for helping to develop my idea for the Tom Clancy host
segment.
>I'd like to note, that I've never read any of Tom Clancy's work.
How about Dave Weber, then?
Too defensive, I thought that this was a very well phrased sentance. I
think it deserves a place in an Elemetery Ed Major's guide.
:
:>: RATLIFF: Oh, you'd be surprised what you can get away with here in Roanoke!
:>: Well, it's been fun, but I've got to go... it's story time, after
:>: all, and then I've got to preside over the wedding of Cadets Robbie
:>: and Tina. Those kids make such a cute couple! They're going to be
:>: so good for each other! Well, see you later! Live long and
:>: prosper! Admiral Ratliff out!
:>:
:>I'd like (with the hope that it will be the last time) to remind you all
:>that Marrissa and Jay did not get married until both of them where in
:>there twenties.
:
: I knew about this and stated as much in my intro to this MSTing. But seeing
: as how your kids get treated like adults in your stories in so many other
: ways, I decided that it was still appropriate to put into the host segment.
: Marriage is a serious commitment that demands adult responsibility, but so is
: commanding a fleet of warships.
:
Sorry... your intro got caught up in the mail (and postwise as well) It
arrived 2 days after the 6 parts, and one day after the posts
: >:
: >[Cut scene about Kid's Crew take over of Deep 13]
: >
: >You know I enjoyed that take over scene, but I also hated it ... I would
: >like to note that I like the portrayal of me. I'd have stonger words
: >for it, but I like to maintain a gentlemanly response to these MSTings
: >of my work.
:
: You know what was eerie about that scene? The fact that you had talked on
: r.a.t.m.m. about having Marrissa and/or the Kid's Crew as guest villains for
: an MST3K story that you were working on... after I had written about the
: Kid's Crew taking over Deep 13, but before this MSTing was posted! I must be
: reading too many of your stories, Stephen... we're starting to have some of
: the same ideas.
:
Actually, my idea had ratmm members replacing those on Deep 13 and
Marrissa (for Mike) Clara (for Crow) and Doctor Johnson (for Tom). In
my outline Mike, Crow, and Tom end up on the Endeavor. Meanwhile Dr F
and Pearl end up in Florida replacing 2 ratmm members (undecided) who
were vacationing there. I've since found another idea.
: Your contradictory opinion about that scene piques my curiosity and confuses
: me at the same time... would you be able to clarify it for me?
:
As a writer, I admired the scene. As the person supposablely running
the raid ... I didn't like your portayal of me.
: And do any of those "stronger words" include the swear words that you
: referred to earlier? I'm getting the feeling that I've struck a lot of
: nerves in you with this MSTing. For what it's worth, I'm sorry if you didn't
: get the cheering up that you said you were hoping for by reading my treatment
: of your story. It suddenly occurs to me that I should have said somewhere in
: the closing credits that the views about Stephen Ratliff expressed by Mike
: and the bots and the closing host segment do not necessarily reflect the
: views held by the writers....
:
Good idea, actaully I recommend the following disclaimer:
Ratliff as portrayed within, is not the same as real life. The views of
Mike and the bots do not necessarily reflect the veiws held by the
writers. Our apoligies to the Roanoke County and City Police.
: >: Thanks go out to:
: >:
: >: DAVID CONNER, for helping to develop my idea for the Tom Clancy host
: segment.
: >I'd like to note, that I've never read any of Tom Clancy's work.
:
: In that case, let me say that there is an unusual amount of parallels between
: events and themes in your Marrissa stories and those that occur in Tom
: Clancy's stories. I plan to post a further description of some of these
: parallels at a later time.
:
I've just read a couple of them (hey with my reading speed (novel in 2
hours) that's not hard.
: >: MR. B TORGO, who won a well-deserved award at Conventio-Con 2 by scaring the
: >: living daylights out of most of the people in the ballroom, and
: >: thereby inspired the Mr. B Ratliff host segment.
: >I knew I shouldn't have used my middle initail on this group.
:
: You knew the risks....
I just checked ... I've never posted over here with my middle initail.
But I did use it in my copyright headers.
:
: >Oh, and as to Jeffery Gordon ... He's not getting that medical degree
: >until he is 24.
:
: I don't expect that fact alone to stop Jeffery from practicing medicine.
: When did an insufficient amount of formal education ever stop Marrissa?
point... but medicine and command are two wildly differant fields.
:
: > And I've finally found a name for Clara and Alex's
: >daughter Athena Alexis Rozhenko.
: >
: >Stephen... who will be trying out some new proofreaders this spring.
:
: You should warn them that proofreading and/or editing one of your manuscripts
: is not a task to be undertaken lightly... many have emerged from your stories
: begging for the nice young men in their cream white coats to come and take
: them away, ha ha....
and most of them now work on Deep 13 ... or did until Mike gave that
little piece of advice ...
Stephen
who will be posting another note shortly on what he liked in more depth.
Well ... Clancy is a little longer than most novels (most are about 500)
so it took me 4.75 hours to read _The_Sum_of_All_Fears_ but the lab was
closed Thursday night and I had nothing better to do. Now I'm on spring
break so I'll hit the rest of them.
: >:
: >: >Oh, and as to Jeffery Gordon ... He's not getting that medical degree
: >: >until he is 24.
: >:
: >: I don't expect that fact alone to stop Jeffery from practicing medicine.
: >: When did an insufficient amount of formal education ever stop Marrissa?
: >point... but medicine and command are two wildly differant fields.
:
: The way I see it, both fields require
Yep, but a Doctor's effects are more immedaite and visable, which tends
to deter young people from entering the field. Where as command has all
the glory attached which tends to attract young people.
:
Stephen