Calling out ThundraFollow

I read T's response to Skeeter and I was struck once again how well he writes. This doesn't take away from others on this board, but few provoke a wonderment in me like the manner in which Thundra does when he crafts word pictures so effortlessly. I am frequently jealous of Thundra's writing style. He makes it looks so incredibly easy!

Like I say, there are many here who have brilliant creative talent: Jophiel and his dry witty conciseness, Smasharoo and his acerbic venom, Skeeter for casually throwing out off hand quips, Moeb and his Dennis Miller-like intellectual rants, Tare, who, judging by her response times and funny takes, is an exceedingly quick wit, Angua, Flea, Kaolian, and a whole host of others. But none make me shake my head in amazement as does Thundra.

Hey, call me names-- I don't care. Say I'm mooning, lovestruck, infatuated, whatever, but I stand by my conviction that T is probably the best active writer I have seen on all the boards I frequent. And I frequent a lot of them. I'm no slouch in the literary department either, but I recognise a master when I see one. Quite honestly, I'd expect if I were to meet him to find a published author who just enjoys the freeflowing stream-of-consciousness writing that deadlines and plotlines don't offer. Someone who is taking a break from an editor demanding he keep up with the printer's contract.

Totem

I'm sensitive to the differing tastes of the posters on this board. So I have, for your reading pleasure, created two responses of varying length to the above quote. The first response is the 'long' version.

FIRST RESPONSE

Stok, I'm really not sure that someone who opens up the Wal-Mart equivalent of a Starbucks - but without all that pesky and bothersome 'success' to get in the way - and neglects to include outdoor seating should be questioning anybody's judgement. But hey, at least you remembered the fu[/i]cking coffee!

On the other hand, you did demonstrate tremendous business savvy by asking the fu[i]ckwits on this board for professional counsel. As I always say, when in doubt, and when complete financial disaster is the consequence of heeding bad advice, ask the experts at Allakhazam's!!!

It's appropriate that you should choose to criticize Totem's fondness for the written word (particularly when said word is penned by myself). Why is it appropriate? Because after one stifles the nose-bleed that results from attempting to make grammatical sense of the diatribe that appears above, one suddenly understands, at least to a better degree, why you choose to dispense shi[/i]tty coffee while dressed up in a hip-hugging apron- because, just like the 'Afterschool Specials' told us in our youth, it really [i]is hard to find a job when you can barely string together a basic sentence.

Plus, while the business is quickly becoming a financial sieve comparable to that of the 'Titanic', your simian brain is free to idly pump through the plumbing of your entrepreneurial pipe-dream the delusional notion that your little venture might actually make a buck.

I'd always thought you were smart enough to know better than to criticize me. The board does not need you to make yourself the the poster-child, the painful reminder, of what happens to retards when they let me stick my ginormous pe[/i]cker in their mouf. In short, the board has enough morons. And I think I can speak for all of us when I say that we'd appreciate it if you'd stop trying to fill a vacancy that doesn't exist.

Your entire existence is, fundamentally, a void- alas, you cannot fill a vacuum with a vacuum.

Now make me a double espresso, and try not to get any tears in the cup, you mochacino fa[i]ggot.

SECOND RESPONSE


Uhh... I dunno, a profit maybe?

P.S. Do straight men ever order mocha lattes? Call my query professional curiousity. It seems to me that mocha lattes are the caffeinated equivalent of a Strawberry Daiquiri.

Edited, Tue Feb 24 02:01:47 2004 by Thundra

I'm honored by your ... umm... ********* However, I'm just the Queen's Security. Think of me as a cross between Allakhazam and Leeloo*.

/flex

*meaning, clearly, that I can't act.

/sigh

Edited, Tue Feb 24 01:27:49 2004 by Thundra

Is there an OLD Angua pic that I don't have?!?

Yes.

(Although this isn't as shallow as I'm able to get in this conversation it's pretty decent considering I just crawled out of bed 10 minutes ago.)

You can have your belief as long as you don't tell my wife. :D

It's no secret that I've always simultaneously detested and adored the inhabitants of this forum.

My relationship with the board is much like the relationship the Hindi people of New Delhi have with their beloved 'Ganges River'- the most polluted body of water on the planet. The river is sacred to the people, and has been for thousands of years. Yet, ironically, the festering cesspool which they are so dependant on, physically and spiritually, kills hundreds of faithful Hindus every day.

If this board were the Ganges, I would treat it like a toilet - just as the people of India treat their sacred stream - by emptying the souplike contents of my bowels into the river while tears of joy well up in my eyes as I submerge my first born into the foul and fetid baptismal waters.

And that! is how I feel about this board.

Edited, Tue Feb 24 20:53:56 2004 by Thundra

/bump

Damn dog, I burned you. You must have made me sleep in the wetspot the previous night.

Does knowing that I'm jerking off because you replied to my thread make you gay?

What, and chill with Taco all day? Tempting, but I think I'll pass. I think I'll stick with the "I'm not a hasbeen" over-reacting style for a while.

Just bumping this thread so that I might relive the glory days of yore when I was an is-being rather than a has-been. Ahh, those were the days.