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write a book anyone?
Z Phantom Started conversation Jun 12, 2001
Those of you who are in england will have seen about the latest attempt to write a book using the TV and text messages.why don't we have a go????
anyone who wants to join in with the story just continue the thread and write a short piece.
Are you sitting comfortably??
then I'll begin.
Once upon a time,
(take it away H2G2ers)
ZP 
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E G Mel Posted Jun 12, 2001
... there was a small dark room, it had a single window high and barred, the light shone down to the corner where lay...
Mel 
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St. Dax of Goodheartedness (Host no. 42 and counting) (keeper of the frustrating habit of using a lot of... dots... all the time Posted Jun 12, 2001
But Jeremy was no regular mouse. He had a special power, he had telepatic abilities and could therefore avoid the deadly grasps of cats.
One day...
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E G Mel Posted Jun 12, 2001
...the sun shone in through the window to find jeremy awakening to the voice of a small ant...
Mel
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a girl called Ben Posted Jun 12, 2001
saying 'left 1, right 2, left 3, right 4, left 5, right 6'. Jeremy could see a long column of ants were marching across the floor, all 6 legs in perfect step, on their way to
a*cB
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MaW Posted Jun 12, 2001
"Are you hungry?" said the ant, with an impish grin on his face. "I've found some cheese you might like, if you are."
write a book anyone?
Z Phantom Posted Jun 12, 2001
"Help me....
help me....
there's something after me!!"
the ant said in a rather hurried but thin voice.
"what does it look like?" inquired Jeremy.
to which the ant replied
"it looks like....
ZP
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a girl called Ben Posted Jun 12, 2001
'Thank you very much' said Jeremy. His mother had always taught him that manners maketh the mouse. 'Where is the cheese?' he added, because he was very hungry.
a*cB
write a book anyone?
Z Phantom Posted Jun 12, 2001
note from Z Phantom
please select one of the above possibilities as it looks like we all had different ideas at the same time?!?.
ZP
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E G Mel Posted Jun 12, 2001
The ant smiled and said that it was on the other side of the window into the room...
Mel
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Z Phantom Posted Jun 13, 2001
"how do I get THERE?" asked Jeremy now getting quite agitated.
"oh thats easy" replied the ant grinning from ear to ear (or as close as he could get) "just do what I do and climb out of the window!!!"
ZP
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MaW Posted Jun 17, 2001
"Out of the window?" said the mouse, "out of the WINDOW? How in the seven universes am I supposed to manage that?"
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Z Phantom Posted Jun 19, 2001
"42" came the ants reply,
"what do you mean 42?!?" a rather annoyed and red faced jeremy said.
"42 is the number of steps you must take to get to the window" the ant said with a sly look on his face.
"so let me get this straight" said jeremy "I take 42 steps up a bare vertical wall to reach a barred window which I then go through and find a peice of cheese?"
"that's correct" came the reply.
"so HOW am i going to climb bare faced vertical wall??"
"42" was the ants reply.
"i'm begining to notice a pattern here" said a rather tired jeremy
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Wayfarer-- I only wish I were crackly Posted Jun 19, 2001
then Jeremy thought, "hey, maybe if i use 42 of the pebbles as steps to reach the wall..." but the pebbles didn't reach. so he pondered and pondered on 42, until suddenly...
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Mother of God, Empress of the Universe Posted Jun 20, 2001
a 42 watt lightbulb flickered in the lamp he kept on top of a chest which contained miscellaneous potentially useful items. He got out a bag of... guess how many... mylar balloons, blew them up, and heated them over the lamp. Swoooooosh!....
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Z Phantom Posted Jun 20, 2001
up, up and up he went,
then
suddenly
the balloons caught on a sharp outcrop of stone and... with a huge and monsterous BANG the ballons in a chain reaction of exploding mylar balloons Jeremy found himself hanging in the air the exact way that a brick dosen't. as the strange mind of the universe caught on to what was happening Jeremy jumpped to the relitive safety of the window ledge.
"I, m a d e i t" was all jeremy could manage to say.
then a new and apparent problem dawned on him "How do i get through the bars? I'm to fat to fit"
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Wayfarer-- I only wish I were crackly Posted Jun 20, 2001
but then he noticed that the bar on the far end of the window was missing, and he could get through that gap. as he sat there on the ledge outside the window..
write a book anyone?
Wayfarer-- I only wish I were crackly Posted Jun 20, 2001
but then he noticed that the bar on the far end of the window was missing, and he could get through that gap. as he sat there on the ledge outside the window..
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- 1: Z Phantom (Jun 12, 2001)
- 2: E G Mel (Jun 12, 2001)
- 3: Munchkin (Jun 12, 2001)
- 4: St. Dax of Goodheartedness (Host no. 42 and counting) (keeper of the frustrating habit of using a lot of... dots... all the time (Jun 12, 2001)
- 5: E G Mel (Jun 12, 2001)
- 6: a girl called Ben (Jun 12, 2001)
- 7: MaW (Jun 12, 2001)
- 8: Z Phantom (Jun 12, 2001)
- 9: a girl called Ben (Jun 12, 2001)
- 10: E G Mel (Jun 12, 2001)
- 11: Z Phantom (Jun 12, 2001)
- 12: E G Mel (Jun 12, 2001)
- 13: Z Phantom (Jun 13, 2001)
- 14: MaW (Jun 17, 2001)
- 15: Z Phantom (Jun 19, 2001)
- 16: Wayfarer-- I only wish I were crackly (Jun 19, 2001)
- 17: Mother of God, Empress of the Universe (Jun 20, 2001)
- 18: Z Phantom (Jun 20, 2001)
- 19: Wayfarer-- I only wish I were crackly (Jun 20, 2001)
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