SV650.org - SV650 & Gladius 650 Forum - Men really are from Mars and Women are from Venus!

>
> TRUE STORY -
>
> Here's a prime example of "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus"
> offered by an English professor from the University of Phoenix:
>
> The professor told his class one day: "Today we will experiment with a
> new form called the tandem story. The process is simple. Each person
> will pair off with the person 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 his English
> students:Rebecca and Gary.
>
> 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.
>
> (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 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.
>
> (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
> newspaper 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.
>
> (Gary)
>
> Little did she know, but she had less than 10 seconds 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 inconceivab! ly massi ve explosion, which
> vaporized poor, stupid Laurie.
>
> (Rebecca)
>
> This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of literature. My
> writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic semi-literate adolescent.
>
> (Gary)
>
> Yeah? Well, my writing partner is 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 F--KING TEA???
> Oh
> no, what am I to do? I'm such an air headed bimbo who reads too many
> Danielle Steele novels!"
>
> (Rebecca)
>
> Jackass.
>
> (Gary)
>
> Bitch
>
> (Rebecca)
>
> F__K YOU - YOU NEANDERTHAL!
>
> (Gary)
>
> Go drink some tea - *****.
>
> (TEACHER)
>
> A+ - I really liked this one.