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Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 25, 1999
Well my last year of highschool the only show I actually watched was M*A*S*H. I guess I thought the book had a great concept, but the writting style was difficult to get into because the author was a doctor, not a writter. The movie seemed to me to be a great adaptation of a good book. The tv series had the luxury after so many years on the air to go further into the characters and the issues than the two that came before it. I laugh harder at the series' funny parts and ache more at it's sad parts. Course, you never did see the human sacrifice bit on either screen version...
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Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 25, 1999
Yes, human sacrifice, but I think you'll have to read the book. There's no point in my rewritting something someone else has already written.
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saffire Posted Oct 25, 1999
why would anyone EVER want to read about human sacrifice?
!!!?!
-saffire
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Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 25, 1999
I'd tell you, but it would spoil the whole thing. It's not as bad as you think, but if I told you why, then it would ruin it for you.
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saffire Posted Oct 25, 1999
heheheh- i can pretty much assure you that i will never read m*a*s*h...
so now you can tell me why its so interesting!!!
-saffire
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Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 25, 1999
But then lee lee will read it, too! I'll tell YOU if SHE promises not to look!
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saffire Posted Oct 26, 1999
how about if i promise for her ...that could work eh?
-saffire
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Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 26, 1999
errrmmm... well... okay: LEE LEE! DO NOT READ THIS MESSAGE! JUST DON'T DO IT! PLEASE!!!!!!!
Okay, well, first off, you need to understand that there were TWO chaplains in the book. In the movie and the series there's just the catholic chaplain, but in the book there's a protestant chaplain, too. He's called "Shakin' Sammy" because every time he comes into camp he has to shake everybodies hand (by walking in a circle, they once kept him shaking hands for hours straight). Anyway, in the operating room, when things were going badly, the doctors would ask the chaplains to throw in a "fix" and do some "cross action". In other words, see whether they could get God to give the doctors a hand. Dago Red's fixes almost always worked, Shakin' Sammy's fixes rarely did. To show their appreciation for Dego Red's work, the doctors decided to give him a gift: a human sacrifice. Saturday night the doctors were drinking, and sunday morning, when Dago entered the Mess Tent to give his sermon, he was greeted with the sight of Shakin Sammy strapped to a cross, with hay bales stacked high around him. The doctors (not all of them, just the ones that lived in the Swamp) poured the contents of a bottle of vodka on the highly flamable hay, lit a makeshift moletov cocktail, threw it at the hay, and ran for the swamp before anyone realized that they'd only used water so that nothing would actually catch fire. There it's done, I've said it, and Lee lee, if you read this, may all of your children be born with zippers!
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saffire Posted Oct 26, 1999
this is getting a pretty high rating on the disturbing-o-meter....
-saffire
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Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 26, 1999
What? They didn't actually kill the guy!
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Researcher 93445 Posted Oct 26, 1999
Whew, if that disturbs you you'd best be very careful where you wander on the Internet...under no circumstances should you browse to, er, um, never mind.
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Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 26, 1999
That's very good. That curse I put on the end of it is a nasty one!
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saffire Posted Oct 26, 1999
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh *hheheheheheh* i get it now...that was actually pretty funny
-saffire
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Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 26, 1999
I'm sure it was disturbing for the two chaplains, though.
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saffire Posted Oct 28, 1999
well...
oh of course not-- why would you ever think that?!
-saffire
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Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 28, 1999
Right. Fictional characters, I forgot.
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Researcher 93445 Posted Oct 28, 1999
Are you sure we're not the fictional characters? How would we know if we were just characters in a book?
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Irving Washington - Gone Writing Posted Oct 28, 1999
unless you're implying that literary characters are reading us and not vice versa, it doesn't change my point, because the fictional characters that we as fictional characters are reading about are no less fictional than they are if we're real. In fact, fiction inside fiction is probably more fictional.
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