[shhrubbery!]

Then...the awful truth hit me. I fainted, I burped, I swooned, then drooled face down on the prickly CBS boardroom carpet. I had been set up. Rove and Free Republic had masterminded the whole thing!!!" ...

LOL. I nominate you for second runner-up in this year's Bulwer-Lytton literary contest. (FReeper 'Enterprise' took first.)

(And while I'm on a Bulwer-Lytton tear, that phrase in pollyannaish's reply --"the pen is mightier than the sword"-- I believe that's a Bulwer-Lytton quote.)

[pollyannaish]

I think you are right. ; ).

I love Bulwer-Lytton schtick. Think I have a couple of contest books around here somewhere.