Weeping Willow Forum

[Joseph Coaler]

Hey, folks! It's here! You probably thought you'd never see another one, but we have more and more and more coming.

In any case, go. Read. Then come back and comment.

Geoff and Steve

[stardwarf]

I'm not sure which I feel more: joy at a new installment or relief that I got the email announcing it.

You see, I changed jobs since the last installment and wasn't sure I'd changed my announcement email address. So as time passed I worried more and couldn't remember how to get to any of the places I might be able to change it.

But at last the day has arrived that a new installment is availalbe ... and so has the email! And there was much rejoicing!

Yay for a new installment, guys!

When's the next one?
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Good usually wins but evil has more fun.

[Geoff]

Stardwarf! Joy and relief - they go together like Nochols and May, like paper and ink, like headphones and hair clips.

I don't know what the hell I'm saying. I was up late last night posting a new installment. I'm glad you're happy. Really. My gladness and your happiness go together like... oh, never mind.

Geoff - the one who need his beauty sleep just to look average
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Why a frog?

[Michael]

YOU BASTARDS! After six months without hearing anything new from Riverbend, I thought the party was over. I was finally adjusting to life without my regular fix of Lee and Peter, and you just decide in cook up a spoon of crack and leave a syringe full on the kitchen table.

I wanted to wait until after Thanksgiving, so I could feel clean when visiting with friends and family over the holidays, but I couldn't do it.

Then I wanted to wait until after the Ohio State v. Michigan game, so I could maintain a vicious edge while aremchair quarterbacking, but I couldn't do it.

I lasted about four hours until I was weakened by a lunch of a sugary muffin and a rudely small package of Goobers. While my glucose level was spiked, I was pulled to the web site. I closed the window shades, took a deep breath, and ignored the world as I read installment 34 slowly, and tenderly, as if this would be my last time for the next six months.

About 30 minutes later, I closed my eyes, leaned back in my chair, and had an urge for a cigarette, though I don't smoke. I ignored how tired and sleepy I began to feel, and decided to cuddle up to the forum for a few paragraphs before I said goodby and rushed off to read the work of others for the weekend.

So here I am. Hooked like a whipped boy toy. Just wanting to say thanks for the chance to spend some time in Riverbend, even though you don't have the ability to give me as much as I want, when I want it.

I just want you to know how lonely the Christmas season will be, knowing that I won't be allowed to put a foot into the Renaissance for awhile, and won't be able to lean on Abby's stability or Twain's act of kindness until some time next year.

THE TIP WAS DAMP! I GET IT! (Not really, but I want to look worldly, since I know that within everything you two do, there is a sexual underbelly.)

I can't wait until we get some Titania action, which is a sure fire way to put up a tent. I can smell the mix of perfume and vindictiveness now, and envison a room thigh high in silky smoothness that continually brushes up against Stella's sandpaper caustic glare, the sexual tension building until one or the other explodes with angry passion, taking out innocent bystanders and leaving a blood trail of victims behind for doe-eyed volunteers to clean up after with plastic gloves, large yellow sponges, and oversize orange hefty bags.

So much for all that. Enjoyed the installment. Appreciated the cliffhanger. looking forward to the next brief encounter.

If we don't talk beforehand, have a great Thanksgiving.

GO BLUE!
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[Geoff]

Michael - we said early on that we the addictive properties of Weeping Willow have not yet been determined. They still haven't, but we are gathering data. If we were more strategic, I'd say we purposefully waited six months just so the joneses were at their peak before posting the next installment so the hook gets in deeper, but the truth is much more mundane: We were very busy.

Please know that we return to River Bend often, even when working on other projects, and won't abandon it until the story is officially over (and we actually do know when that will be - see? We can be strategic.) It takes longer to finish a new installment, but there will be many more of them.

As for the damp quarter - Steve will probably object to me explaining this, but what the hell. If you'll remember, in the very first installment, Lee dropped his last quarter in the urinal at the Office when he was drunk and wanting to buy a condom. (And accidentally smelling of Brut.) Ever since then, quarters in River Bend (at least around Lee) tend to be damp.

You also have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Geoff - the one who explains entirely too much
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Why a frog?

[geoff (the other one)]

I was about to get on here and berate everyone for not posting. Then I read back through the posts for the last episode and realized I hadn't posted jack. So, I'm attending to the moat in my own eye while tossing rocks about my glass aboad. Anyway, great installment.

Oh, as for an end to Weeping Willow, remember Proust went on for seven volumes.

GTOO- the pot texting the kettle.
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Some say the glass is half empty.
Some say the glass is half full.
Some say "Hey, I ordered a cheeseburger!"

[Steve]

Hi, GTO. I haven't been on the board for a long, long time, so I decided to come in and say, "Chirp." Chirp. Thanks for throwing down the Proust gauntlet. He was a silly little sod, wasn't he? I wonder if he'd like Twain. Twain probably wouldn't like him. Or would he? I'm going to go ponder, now. But first, a word from our sponsor...
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When in doubt, never guess. Always wear the plainer dress.

[Geoff]

Is that Pr-OW-st or Pr-OO-st?
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Why a frog?

[geoff (the other one)]

Wasn't Prowst Darth Vader?
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Some say the glass is half empty.
Some say the glass is half full.
Some say "Hey, I ordered a cheeseburger!"

[Suz]

GTOO - I'm a bit concerned about the moat in your eye. Has it got a dragon? Seems that moats usually do...

Suz
The Red Pen Grammar Snob One

[geoff (the other one)]

My moat is full of empty Guinness and Newcastle bottles, with the odd pizza box.
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Some say the glass is half empty.
Some say the glass is half full.
Some say "Hey, I ordered a cheeseburger!"

[Geoff]

I've always found pizza boxes rather odd.
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Why a frog?

[geoff (the other one)]

I usually order pizza from this rather avante garde pizzaria, so the Supreme comes with pepparoni, sausage, onions, sage, squirrel, badger and ermine. Delivered by a girl dressed like a character from a Wagner opera.
I'll tip 20% if she sings. And she's thin, since I know what you're thinking.

GTOO- The one who dreads the opera questions on Jeopardy.
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Some say the glass is half empty.
Some say the glass is half full.
Some say "Hey, I ordered a cheeseburger!"

[Suz]

Squirrel, badger, and ermine? No stoat?

[Steve]

While stoat is one of the more popular Philadelphia pizza toppings (especially thin crust), I find roasted stoat to be the most savory way to enjoy your stoat. Unless it's a stoat in your eye.

I opalogise foor any tipos or grimaticle errers that appear in this post. You see, I'm using Geoff's keybored. Sory.
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When in doubt, never guess. Always wear the plainer dress.