[Report This]Date: July 24 2012 11:14 AM Title: Chapter 48: WITH THIS RING, I FLEE BED
And, so ends another Timescribed masterpiece.
Don't be too sad, though, Ingrid. After all! Basically, everyone is just a "prawn" in the Game of Life.
Author's Response:
Yes, and after a month on page one, it's been rewarded with over 10000 readers and 50 Carycomic reviews. Thanks one and all.
[Report This]Date: July 23 2012 2:10 PM Title: Chapter 47: "I DO" IS FOREVER
That's why I'll never get married. When my father explained the Facts of Life to me, he said (among other things): "Marriage is a sacred institution to which you should be committed."
When I asked him if that meant I'd have to be crazy to get married, he said: "No! But, it certainly couldn't hurt."
Author's Response:
I think you've done that joke before, but it is a good one.
[Report This]Date: July 23 2012 2:05 PM Title: Chapter 46: INGRID'S TASTES
*Activates the klaxon*
"Danger, Percy Dale! Danger!"
Author's Response:
Trip through the Ingrid?
[Report This]Date: July 23 2012 2:01 PM Title: Chapter 45: HER PRICE ABOVE RUBIES
The chapter title sounds more like an allusion to the fable of the Pearl of Great Price quoted by Scotty on the STAR TREK: TOS episoded "Gem."
Author's Response:
That was one of the nicest episodes, except for the torture of Dr McCoy.
[Report This]Date: July 21 2012 9:53 AM Title: Chapter 44: COLIN SHOWS HIS GIFT
That last quatrain reminds me of my favorite anti-smoking jingle.
"It's not the cough that carries you off."
"It's the coffin they carry you off in."
*An old rhyme based on the (quite apt) American slang-term for cigarettes: coffin-nails.*
Author's Response:
love it! LOL
[Report This]Date: July 20 2012 11:14 AM Title: Chapter 42: AN EXCEPTIONALLY NAUGHTY ONE
"Romantic opportunist?" You're being too kind. Colin Geoffries is an out-and-out obsessive sociopath!
Author's Response:
I guess I'd better upload what happens to him then. The Sneaky Spy is periodically given to euphemistic humour too.
[Report This]Date: July 20 2012 11:08 AM Title: Chapter 41: LUNCH IN THE BOTANICAL GARDENS
He takes a lickin', but does NOT taste like shrunken chicken. X-D
Author's Response:
I'm tongue tied for a response.
[Report This]Date: July 19 2012 5:30 PM Title: Chapter 40: AN EMIGRATION ANGLE
He really should've just shrunken the lions. That way, he could then have fed shrunken Angus to them, before re-enlarging them for a zoo.
Author's Response:
I might have fed him to Ingrid, but I'm not into animal vore. And the torching was in self defence, of course.
[Report This]Date: July 19 2012 5:25 PM Title: Chapter 39: THE ALGORITHM SAILS AGAIN
Egad! He's probably going to have a lump the size of Mount Everest.
Author's Response:
It's possible, and someone will be going overseas, but not to Mt Everest
Author's Response:
It's possible, and someone will be going overseas, but not to Mt Everest
[Report This]Date: July 19 2012 5:22 PM Title: Chapter 38: POWDER BURNS
You know something? This next story arc might make for a good episode of LAW AND ORDER: UK on BBC In America.
Author's Response:
I'm a Boston Legal fan myself, but you could be right
Date: July 13 2012 10:41 AM Title: Chapter 37: JUMPING TO TASTY CONCLUSIONS
P.S.---Kevin Costner never said that. It was the narrator for the original theatrical trailer(s).
Author's Response:
Well the Butler subplot is over, and we now move on to...
[Report This]Date: July 13 2012 10:40 AM Title: Chapter 36: HE LOVES ME ... HE NEEDS MY CAR?
Better, inspector? Perhaps. But, in the immortal words of ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES: "Sometimes, the only way to achieve justice...is to break the law."
Author's Response:
Or in the 1986 pilot "The Saint in Manhattan," we get the following dialog.
INSPECTOR FERNACK: "The reason I don't like you is that you don't respect the law."
THE SAINT: "But I do respect justice, and they're not always the same thing."
Author's Response:
Or in the 1986 pilot "The Saint in Manhattan," we get the following dialog.
INSPECTOR FERNACK: "The reason I don't like you is that you don't respect the law."
THE SAINT: "But I do respect justice, and they're not always the same thing."
[Report This]Date: July 12 2012 11:26 AM Title: Chapter 35: WHEN THE PEN RUNS OUT
And, the plot twists, yet again!
[Report This]Date: July 12 2012 11:23 AM Title: Chapter 34: UNDRESSING THE MYSTERY
"I didn't kill anybody because I was too busy robbing someone else's house."
A truly rare alibi.
Author's Response:
Years after writing this I saw a Sherlock Holmes movie where Sherlock had proved a man innocent of murder because he was doing a robbery. Guess Conan Doyle and I thought alike.
[Report This]Date: July 10 2012 10:36 AM Title: Chapter 33: BONNIE & INGRID
Hmmmm! This stranger (who seems to be quite adept at roaming around in the dark) sounds more like a shark than a red herring.
Author's Response:
As usual, your reviews are encouraging and interesting. I'd better get some more story up for you. Love your satirical stuff about us members in The Thin Line. Other readers of this yarn are encouraged to check out Carycomic's tale "The Thin Line."
[Report This]Date: July 10 2012 10:31 AM Title: Chapter 32: RE-ENTER THE INSPECTOR
Better and better! :-)
Author's Response:
The Inspector got a brief mention in an adventure that was precid at the end of an earlier chapter. This time the encounter will be far more detailed.
[Report This]Date: July 10 2012 10:28 AM Title: Chapter 31: WHAT WENT INTO ALICIA'S MOUTH
Actually, "the butler did it" is kind of a joke within mystery-writing circles. Because, I honestly don't know of any classic mystery novel where the butler really was the culprit! Merely, one of the proverbial red herrings.
Author's Response:
And you'll have to wait for the upcoming chapters I'll attempt to post now, to find out if this butler did it. I aim to surprise.
[Report This]Date: July 10 2012 10:24 AM Title: Chapter 30: THE TALE OF AN INNOCENT BUTLER
This next subplot should prove interesting.
Author's Response:
Sure will. Notice we've both gotten into "School Musical" too. Your review of that finally cleared up the non-sibling status for me. I was confused.
Haven't been able to respond to these 4 reviews or post more until today. So often giantessworld is the one site that keeps timing out and giving error messages on my computers at the moment.
[Report This]Date: July 06 2012 10:43 AM Title: Chapter 29: OUT COME THE TENTACLES
Hmmmmm! I know Australia was founded as a penal colony. But, where do present-day Australian prisoners (like the criminals of B.L.A.D.E.) get sent? To New Guinea?
Author's Response:
Probably just to an ordinairy jail, like Long Bay.
[Report This]Date: July 06 2012 10:40 AM Title: Chapter 28: RISKY DECISIONS
Ahem! Business before pleasure, Percy.
Author's Response:
Yes, too true, but he just can't help where his mind wanders at times.