Date:         Mon, 2 Feb 1998 23:38:45 EST
From: "Trope, trope, trope the words are calling" <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      INT: And Then There Was George...

[Playing Rules Peculiar to This Interactive:

No One Shall Write A Living Breathing Person into this Interactive.
I.e., all characters herein shall be fictional, wholly fictional, and
nothing but the fictional characters, please?

The Mismanagement Tanks Ye for Your Cooperation.]

tink:

And Then There Was George...

    Once upon a time, there was George.
    He was a duck just like you and I until the fateful day that changed
his life forever.
    He waddled and fluffed his feathers like any other duck, quacked up
at his own jokes, even went bowling (not candlestick, of course) trying
to impress the hens, just like any other duck.  If you had seen him in a
flock, you wouldn't have looked twice.  Just another duck.
    I mean, after a hard day's work, George would stop by the bar with
the other ducks and have a couple brews.  Maybe a few fried
grasshoppers, a little gawking at the fandancers lifting their feathers,
and then he was off to his little bachelor pad in the pond like a
thousand other ducks.
    And then he met Winifred.  Talk about the goose that laid the
golden eggs!

(next?)

[hum, it has been a time since we had one of these...  'Salright,
you'd probably like to know what this is.  Well, in the olden times,
we would have called this a round robbin (we've argued over whether
the word is robin or robbin...I prefer the bb, although I could be
wrong).  The way the game is played is thusly...I write a little, and
post the same.  You, having read the posting, may choose to write a
bit more (continuing the tale, diverging it, splitting it, or even
possibly wagging the dog).  Someone else, conveniently, may choose to
stick their words in at this point, or I may decide to waggle the
webbed extremity across the keyboard again myself...

The easiest way to keep track of where we are (for behold, at times two
or more may add to the story to this point, and then it may grow
somewhat confused) is to keep track at the top.  Thus, where I have

tink:

the next person might very well post something with a heading such as:

tink: fish:

(where fish would be their identity in this game).  Someone else might
diverge, so we would see

tink: fish: frog:

on one thread, and

tink: fish: beagle:

on another thread, which shared the common two segments, then diverged
(in a snowy wood?  up to the writers...)

Simple?  Yes...but it can be fun...so write!  Feel free to add
characters, scenery, setting, dialogue, all that good stuff...]