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LOL this is TRUE!!!!!
Remember the book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"? Here's
a prime example offered by an English professor from the University
of Phoenix :
The assignment instructions: "Today we will experiment with a new
form called the tandem short story. The process is simple. Each
person will pair off with a person of the opposite sex sitting to
his or her immediate right. As homework tonight, one of you will
write the first paragraph of a short story. You will e-mail your
partner that paragraph and send another copy to me. The partner
will read the first paragraph and then add another paragraph to the
story and send it back also sending another copy to me. 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
outside of the e-mails and anything you wish to say must be written
in the e-mail. 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).
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THE 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.
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(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 with 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.
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(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.
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( Gary )
Little did she know, but she had less than 1 minute 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 go blow 'em out of the
sky!"
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(Rebecca)
This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of literature. My
writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic semi-literate
adolescent.
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( 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 weak tea??? Oh
no, I'm such an air headed bimbo who reads too many Danielle Steele
novels."
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(Rebecca)
A**hole.
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( Gary )
B**ch.
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(TEACHER)
A+ - I really liked this one. Only group to get an A.
Last edited by [BiA] MavericK; 11-30-2003, 12:00 PM.Learn on other people mistakes.....
You can never make them all!!!!
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