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Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby cid » Tue Sep 03, 2013 2:50 am

Some of you will get the reference...

In Mike Alexander's Advances in Modern Chemotherapy, there are several things of interest I found while rereading
the story the other night.

No spoilers, please, let's not give it all away...

Have you read the story?
Do you know who makes a surprise appearance?
Do you know who's conspicuous by their absence?

:confused:

This oughtta be good...
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby brite » Tue Sep 03, 2013 5:03 pm

Links didn't come up right, Charlie... can you re-do them??
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby cid » Tue Sep 03, 2013 6:25 pm

They're not links, just questions...

To re-adumbrate:

In Mike Alexander's Advances in Modern Chemotherapy,

Have you read the story?
Do you know who makes a surprise appearance?
Do you know who's conspicuous by their absence?
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby brite » Sat Sep 07, 2013 12:11 am

Ah... you fixed the post... No... didn't get to read that one... :(

But again... this is the first time I'v gotten on the board in... what?? 2 weeks?? Since school started, anyway...
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby code monkey » Sat Sep 07, 2013 1:08 am

i am willing to email a copy to anyone who wants one.

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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby brite » Sat Sep 07, 2013 5:46 am

Mom! The dog ate my copy of the homework! (can I have a copy??)
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby geonuc » Sat Sep 07, 2013 9:33 am

Have you read the story? Yes - it was a great read.
Do you know who makes a surprise appearance? Umm ... I forgot.
Do you know who's conspicuous by their absence? Umm .... I forgot.

I suppose I need to read it again. :oops:
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby code monkey » Mon Sep 09, 2013 8:14 am

brite wrote: (can I have a copy??)

of course. just send me your email address.
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give me my romeo. and when he shall die
take him and cut him out in little stars
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby code monkey » Wed Oct 16, 2013 7:04 pm

isn't anyone going to take a crack at this?

i'll give y'all a hint. the surprise appearance is towards the end.
and still i persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis. edgar pangborn

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give me my romeo. and when he shall die
take him and cut him out in little stars
and he will make the face of heaven so fine
that all will be in love with night
and pay no worship to the garish sun. william shakespeare
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby pumpkinpi » Wed Oct 16, 2013 7:59 pm

Somehow I missed this post first timearound.
I'll have to re-read it. I adored that story. It's one of those "I don't want to read it again because I don't want to spoil my memory of it being absolutely perfect." But now, I'll have to dig out my copy of it.
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby cid » Wed Nov 06, 2013 2:26 am

Anybody figger it out yet?
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby Swift » Wed Nov 06, 2013 9:02 pm

Have you read the story? Yes
Do you know who makes a surprise appearance? No
Do you know who's conspicuous by their absence? No

It was a very well written story. But I also found it pretty deeply disturbing, even before Mike died, and I can't read it again.
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby cid » Thu Nov 07, 2013 1:43 am

Answer coming shortly.

And I've read it more than once.
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby geonuc » Thu Nov 07, 2013 1:43 am

I figured out who makes a surprise appearance, but not who doesn't. Unless it's simply that person's significant other.
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby cid » Thu Nov 07, 2013 2:50 am

Dude...you're halfway there...
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby geonuc » Thu Nov 07, 2013 11:30 am

Not sure I want to take any further guesses, although I have one.
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby code monkey » Sat Nov 09, 2013 5:52 am

geonuc wrote:Not sure I want to take any further guesses, although I have one.


oh, go ahead. we're all friends here.
and still i persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis. edgar pangborn

come gentle night. come loving black browed night
give me my romeo. and when he shall die
take him and cut him out in little stars
and he will make the face of heaven so fine
that all will be in love with night
and pay no worship to the garish sun. william shakespeare
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby SciFiFisher » Sat Nov 09, 2013 4:12 pm

code monkey wrote:
geonuc wrote:Not sure I want to take any further guesses, although I have one.


oh, go ahead. we're all friends here.



And we want to stay friends. :P
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby code monkey » Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:32 pm

SciFiFisher wrote:
code monkey wrote:
geonuc wrote:Not sure I want to take any further guesses, although I have one.


oh, go ahead. we're all friends here.



And we want to stay friends. :P


i'm quite certain that geonuc is incapable of saying anything in this context that would be that offensive.
and still i persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis. edgar pangborn

come gentle night. come loving black browed night
give me my romeo. and when he shall die
take him and cut him out in little stars
and he will make the face of heaven so fine
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby cid » Sat Nov 09, 2013 8:48 pm

Okay...time to let the feline exit the carrying/storage appurtenance...

Who's there:"...Laura Singer, a Wiccan from New York..." -- sound like anyone we know?

Who's not there, and was (humorously and good-naturedly) miffed by that fact: our own CodeMonkey...after she read the story, she asked Mike if she'd missed the part where he killed her off and what she'd done to deserve such a fate...

Ah, the glory of being a literati...
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby Sigma_Orionis » Sun Nov 10, 2013 1:27 am

CodeMonkey is a SHE? and I've been addressing cm as Mr. Mono all this time? :shock:
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby cid » Sun Nov 10, 2013 2:58 am

Sigma_Orionis wrote:CodeMonkey is a SHE? and I've been addressing cm as Mr. Mono all this time? :shock:


Ummm...I don't think that I'd be letting any secrets loose at this date were I to reveal that CM and Mike were married...hence her miffedness at being left
out of said story...

...unless you already knew that, and were putting me on, in which case "OK, ya got me..."... :scream: ... roll:
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby Sigma_Orionis » Sun Nov 10, 2013 4:02 am

cid wrote:...unless you already knew that, and were putting me on, in which case "OK, ya got me..."... :scream: ... roll:



Who me? :D
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby cid » Sun Nov 10, 2013 4:07 am

I'd find you much more believable if you could say that with a straight smilie... :|
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Re: Rock Hyrax Monthly

Postby geonuc » Sun Nov 10, 2013 9:56 am

code monkey wrote:i'm quite certain that geonuc is incapable of saying anything in this context that would be that offensive.


Thanks for that, but if what cid has posted is correct (and that was my guess), there's no way I could know how you felt about it.
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