Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:54:19 -0500 From: BARBARA HARRIS Subject: INT: F: Valentine's Day Gala!!! -- [ From: Barbara Harris * EMC.Ver #2.5.1 ] -- Barbara, Bunny, and Hagatha all stood looking together into the large mirror. Barbara was dressed in a long strapless velvet gown of dusty rose with tiny silver stars embroidered through the fabric. Hagatha had an identical dress in deep purple with gold stars. And they had finally agreed to allow Bunny to dress in teal with sparkling copper stars, deciding that while it didn't exactly match the color scheme, it did at least complement it! The three women had been up at the crack of dawn, tallying the final votes from twenty eight WRITERS who all deserve big hugs for getting them in on time! Without voters, we wouldn't have a contest!!! Barbara was thrilled that there were no last-minute snafus in sight... there weren't even any ties for first place to have to break... though some of the places were so close that wasn't a sure thing until the last moment! The three went downstairs and strolled casually through the Front Hall, turned into a grand ballroom. The tulips planted a few weeks earlier had all bloomed prolifically in Anthony's pots, and the room was a mass of bright purples and pinks of every shade. Barbara caught sight of Izzy in an elegant tuxedo just being announced at the front door, and ran over to give her a hug. It seemed that she'd had a nice refreshing winter's hibernation after all! She saw Kate descending the stairs in a lovely white lace gown, and pulled Izzy towards her. "Have you two met? Please... chat, have fun... join the party. The band will be here soon, and I'll be announcing the contest winners about two o'clock! I don't want to make everyone wait *too* long!" Izzy and Kate both smiled at her and walked off together chatting. Barbara turned and saw Hagatha and Bunny standing by the transporter with a newly arrived group, and went over to join them and greet the new arrivals. "BT! It's so good to see you! You've been so busy since you opened that cafe, that we hardly have time to talk anymore!" He gave her a big hug, and she smiled in pleasure. Hagatha had wrapped her arm in the Secret Elephant's trunk, and was escorting him into the Lounge. She knew his preference for lurking quietly in a dark corner where he could watch the action. Alcmaeon looked at Bunny in her teal gown, and said, "Why my dear, you're as lovely as the Pond on a sunny day!" "Well, Alc, I've time for a short stroll out to see the Aquatic Gardens if you like... everything is blooming marvelously." They were followed out the door by that big bucket of bolts who *looked* like a frog, more or less, but wasn't a lovely shade of green like Alcmaeon. Bunny looked at him a little askance, and not wanting to hurt his feelings, whispered to Alcmaeon, "Is something wrong with Rivet? He looks adorable in a tux , but he seems a little unhappy or something!" "Ah, he's just beginning to find his emotional self, and something's eating at his heart," Alc whispered back. "We were hoping the party would cheer him up." "Oh, I'm sure it will!" Alc looked up in surprise as a much larger frog wearing a shawl about it's shoulders hopped by, croaking, "Fake Prince, Fake Prince!" Rivet's attention was riveted on the frog, and he followed her across the lawn. "Who was that, Bunny?" "Granny Roz... she's fallen off her rocker... we're hoping to try putting her back on it after Valentine's Day.... she doesn't come out with nearly as many witticisms in this form! We're really worried though that perhaps she was really a frog after all, and some *fake* prince did indeed kiss her, and so the human form didn't last, you see? Well... it's a mystery to me. I'm beginning to worry considerably about how one tells a fake prince from a real one anyway!" They continued to walk, and Bunny continued to chatter, and Alcmaeon continued as his usual deep thinking self.... (You didn't really think I was gonna tell you who won YET, did you? Gotta have a little suspense! But I will get it out early afternoon... to be sure none of you who are getting your mail at work miss out! Back soon!) -- @>-->-->------ Love & ------<--<--<@ Light, Barbara, wishing Spring would get sprung! @)--,--'-- @>-->-->-- @}~~~~~ @)--,--'-- @>-->-->-- @}~~~~~ @)--,--'-- Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithemetical ratio. -Thomas Robert Malthus (1798!) (He said that without seeing "The Trouble with Tribbles"!) --'--,--(@ --<--<--<@ ~~~~~{@ --'--,--(@ --<--<--<@ ~~~~~{@ --'--,--(@ Barbara Harris ~ TCZJ32B@Prodigy.com "The A-Bomb enables no man." -Bigfoot Heh, and I thought the *Adam* bomb caused the population explosion! -Hagatha, wielding Eternal PUN-ishment.