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Subject:RE: the technical writer: a real movie From:JB Foster <jb -dot- foster -at- shaw -dot- ca> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:10:41 -0700
Remember Dick - in the fantasy world - TW can re-write the script so there's
no disaster!
Mater-of-fact - he could re-write the whole script - numerous times, till it
works. If he has an eraser on the end of his pencil, he could erase
Evil-Swollen-Head (the engineer). Then-again, maybe-not! Engineers often
have pencil-end erasers too. That path would have led to an eraser-dual to
the vanish!
Oh, and Dick - engineers can't take over the world (no one would believe
it). That role is always left open for lawyers, bankers, and actors. ;-)
Not only is it Friday ... I think I might need a holiday too!
Bruce
Dick Margulis wrote:
> As long as we're making up fantasy plots ...
>
> Dramatic tension arises between TW and engineer as TW continues
> to insist, "No, really. I'm quite sure that ought to be a minus
> sign," and engineer points to difference in academic degrees and
> salaries as evidence that TW is mistaken. Manned Mars mission
> turns left instead of right because of incorrect sign and
> proceeds toward oblivion. TW is blamed for the disaster and
> spends remainder of life in solitary confinement while engineer
> becomes Secretary of Defense, leading to annihilation of the
> earth through inadvertent nuclear war.
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