Posted on 08/23/2006 7:04:52 PM PDT by Do Be
A couple years ago, or so, someone posted a very funny story of a homework assignment.
Two students, a male and a female, had to write alternate paragraphs to create a story about alien contact with earth. The girl wanted to make it a peace and love story, the boy wanted a story of a battle with the hostile aliens.
It was very funny and I think was a true story.
Anyone remember it? My kid wants to use it for a homework assignment.
Also, recently someone posted a little thing where you count the "f's" in a line of text where most people count 3 but there are really 6. I could use that also.
Thanks
Men Are From Mars...
Remember the book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"? Well, here's a prime example offered by an English professor at an American university. "Today we will experiment with a new form called the tandem story. The process is simple. Each person will pair off with the person sitting to his or her immediate right. One of you will then write the first paragraph of a short story. The partner will read the first paragraph and then add another paragraph to the story. The first person will then add a third paragraph, and so on back and forth. Remember to re-read what has been written each time in order to keep the story coherent. There is to be absolutely NO talking and anything you wish to say must be written on the paper. The story is over when both agree a conclusion has been reached."
The following was actually turned in by two of my English students: Rebecca-last name deleted, and Gary - last name deleted.
STORY:
(First paragraph by Rebecca) At first, Laurie couldn't decide which kind of tea she wanted. The chamomile, which used to be her favorite for lazy evenings at home, now reminded her too much of Carl, who once said, in happier times, that he liked chamomile. But she felt she must now, at all costs, keep her mind off Carl. His possessiveness was suffocating, and if she thought about him too much her asthma started acting up again. So chamomile was out of the question.
(Second paragraph by Gary) Meanwhile, Advance Sergeant Carl Harris, leader of the attack squadron now in orbit over Skylon 4, had more important things to think about than the neuroses of an air-headed asthmatic bimbo named Laurie with whom he had spent one sweaty night over a year ago. "A.S. Harris to Geostation 17," he said into his transgalactic communicator. "Polar orbit established. No sign of resistance so far..." But before he could sign off, a bluish particle beam flashed out of nowhere and blasted a hole through his ship's cargo bay. The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out of his seat and across the cockpit.
(Rebecca) He bumped his head and died almost immediately but not before he felt one last pang of regret for psychically brutalizing the one woman who had ever had feelings for him. Soon afterwards, Earth stopped its pointless hostilities towards the peaceful farmers of Skylon 4. "Congress Passes Law Permanently Abolishing War and Space Travel," Laurie read in her newspaper one morning. The news simultaneously excited her and bored her. She stared out the window, dreaming of her youth, when the days had passed unhurriedly and carefree, with no newspapers to read, no television to distract her from her
sense of innocent wonder at all the beautiful things around her. "Why must one lose one's innocence to become a woman?" she pondered wistfully.
(Gary) Little did she know, but she had less than 10 seconds to live. Thousands of miles above the city, the Anu'udrian mothership launched the first of its lithium fusion missiles. The dim-witted wimpy peaceniks who pushed the Unilateral Aerospace Disarmament Treaty through the congress had left Earth a defenseless target for the hostile alien empires who were determined to destroy the human race. Within two hours after the passage of the treaty the Anu'udrian ships were on course for Earth, carrying enough firepower to pulverize the entire planet. With no one to stop them, they swiftly initiated their diabolical plan. The lithium fusion missile entered the atmosphere unimpeded. The President, in his top-secret Mobile submarine headquarters on the ocean floor off the coast of Guam, felt the inconceivably massive explosion, which vaporized poor, stupid, Laurie and 85 million other Americans. The President slammed his fist on the conference table. "We can't allow this! I'm going to veto that treaty! Let's blow 'em out of the sky!"
(Rebecca) This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of literature. My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic semi-literate adolescent.
(Gary) Yeah? Well, you're a self-centered tedious neurotic whose attempts at writing are the literary equivalent of Valium. "Oh shall I have chamomile tea? Or shall I have some other sort of FU**ING TEA??? Oh no, I'm such an air headed bimbo who reads too many Danielle Steele novels."
(Rebecca) A**hole.
(Gary) Bit**.
(Rebecca) Wanker.
(Gary) Slut.
(Rebecca) Get fu**ed.
(Gary) Eat sh**.
(Rebecca) FU** YOU - YOU NEANDERTHAL!!!
(Gary) Go drink some tea - wh*re.
Count the number of times the letter "F" appears in this sentence:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
Well...
There you go.
Classic.
6
Doogle
5
err, 6!
Creative Writing at It's Best
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Posted on 06/26/2003 6:19:19 PM PDT by
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Just found a variation of this "Rebecca and Gary" tale on snopes.com - unknown authenticity, chalked up to creative writing.
http://www.snopes.com/college/homework/writing.asp
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...
Total 6 F's
Thanks
Thanks
Finished Files are the result oF years oF scientiFic study combined with the experience oF years.
6, man it took me a while!
Six. Ctrl+F helps. ;) I do that when I want to count the number of paranoid "they"s or "them"s in a DUmmie post.
Glad you posted this request - I'd been hunting this for ages but been unable to locate it.Thanks!
As for the "true," urban legend. See snopes.com.
LOL
Thanks, I hadn't seen that before.
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