Quote:Hmm... Having Nancy pulling out the novel really takes the tension out of the story.Good point. I'll drop that from the version I post to Usenet.
Quote:"And this is where we have torrid, bodice-ripping, amazing sex..." Nancy drawled, her eyes full of promise as she looked up from the book.However, this is too good not to save and use elsewhere...
I panicked.
"Just kidding. This was written by Laurel K. Hamilton. She can't write ANYTHING without smut," she continued, a wicked smirk on her face.
Oh, yes - Bill's finally given us the mirror effects:
Quote:Actually, [Chuck Norris] goes from cool, calm, collected, TV & movie star who's basically only into self defense into the guy who most of the Chuck-memes are about. Your city is now a Chuck-tatorship. A straight-shooting Jeet Kun Do artist who's the master of "Fighting without fighting" becomes a sneaky, arrogant, villanous guy who' would have taken David Carradine's life for stealing the role he created for Kung Fu. The man who was a face of passive resistance and went on hunger strikes is now a gluttonous, musclebound Indian who doesn't mind fighting dirty.--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012