Search results

  1. newsmanfan

    Anyone worried about the next generation?

    ---------------- This isn't new. Has been for decades. Wasn't it in the 80s when a slew of shows designed solely to get kids to buy action figures and sweet cereals pandered to an already-becoming-spoiled Me Generation? Not just cartoons, since kids of all ages these days are exposed to so...
  2. newsmanfan

    Realistic Eyeball recipe

    -------------- Nifty! When I was a kid I thought for a while I would become a gore special-effects artist. ----------------
  3. newsmanfan

    When you need to rant...

    What's the deal with people thinking they're smart and talking incessantly? ;) -------------------
  4. newsmanfan

    TV shows you wish would come back

    --------------------- The original, classic Brit "Danger Mouse." A better spoof of Bond flicks in cartoon form never was. I feel old. You guys are all listing shows I've barely heard of, much less ever seen... --------------------
  5. newsmanfan

    Do you have any special talents?

    -------------------- I can pick up flies with chopsticks. Still working on the "out of midair" part. -------------------
  6. newsmanfan

    When you need to rant...

    Silly rabbit. Tomatoes is POISON! ------------------
  7. newsmanfan

    Stupidity Strikes Again

    ---------------- Years ago, a coworker of mine at Barnes & Noble was rushed to the hospital with burns in his mouth. He'd grabbed a Pop-tart right out of the toaster and bit into it. Turned out he was okay, healed fast... The next day when he returned to work, some buddies had copied, enlarged...
  8. newsmanfan

    The Legal Side of Being an Author

    --------------- US copyright law, as I understand it, states that if you create it, you AUTOMATICALLY own the copyright, period. You CAN register it with the Library of Congress for some paperwork and a small fee, but it isn't actually necessary to do so before agent- or publisher-hunting. I've...
  9. newsmanfan

    A Fanboy News Flash!

    -------------- *kicking self, forgot AGAIN to bring the transcript to the library to post here* Sah-ree...will do so tomorrow... Uh. I always thought the Chef was from Lake Wobegone, or somewhere in Minnesota, anyway... ;) Oh doncha know. --------------
  10. newsmanfan

    I'm an organ donor. LoL!

    -------------------- I keep mine too short to do this, but yes, a great cause. Anyone know whether clinics would test your organs for anything which might prevent an eventual donation without charging an arm and a leg (so to speak, wocka wocka) for it? I think mine could be donated, except...
  11. newsmanfan

    New Members: Please Post and Introduce Yourself

    ------------------ Welcome in gumdropgirl! Er...you're not actually, um, a gorg, right? (pssst...we never did find the money in the budget to enlarge that door, did we? oh dear. um. well, this is awkward...) Uh...right. So. Welcome! Enjoy your stay, don't tip the rats if they eat your...
  12. newsmanfan

    Hensonville City 2011

    -------------------------- (Newsie knocks on door to Apt 10) :news: Ahem. Excuse me, Link? Link, are you home? Would you be willing to grant me an exclusive interview on your feelings after your egregious omission from the credits of the new film? I'm still investigating how it happened, but I...
  13. newsmanfan

    So We'll Go No More A-Roving, for Fear of Furry Monsters

    Thank you...working on it, ideas bashing around in my skull...almost done with the final/third part of "Uncredited Performances" and then it's back to this! Still waiting on a reproduction book of circa 1910s Halloween books I ordered last week. Should give some inspiration. :news...
  14. newsmanfan

    The Fanfic Research Thread

    To #3: Yes. No. Sorta. I agree with others here who regard it as a sort-of-fictionalized account of how the Muppets started in show biz. Think of it as a highly simplified, some-parts-played-for-laughs version of the truth...which then does mean that Muppet Babies never actually happened. But...
  15. newsmanfan

    She Gets What She Wants

    ---------------------- Wonderful! Some serious, honest, well-thought-out drama here. Love that Kermit still loves her enough to go crazy wondering who the father will be if not him...and that Piggy is woman enough to explain it calmly to him. Of course, the line about a certain frog growing a...
  16. newsmanfan

    My own personal open rant

    ----------------- Sheesh...is the term "snerts" still in use? VERY glad I don't really spend much time online. What a soul-sucking void much of it is, with too many emotional-seven-year-olds given far too much power and control. Small wonder advertisers dumb down, at that rate, if this is the...
  17. newsmanfan

    Well, now I've seen everything...

    ------------------- Fads amuse me or disgust me...but patronizing, gender-based ads REALLY tick me off. At a great company called Northern Sun (www.northernsun.com) they used to have t-shirts with 1950s-era art of a man and a woman, saying, respectively, "Don't assume I fix things," and "Don't...
  18. newsmanfan

    Hensonville City 2011

    ---------------- Rhonda: What are you doing? :news: Thog...Wayne and Wanda...the sheep...Droop...Nigel... Rhonda: Oh. Still working on that list of everyone left out of the credits? :news: *throws pencil on desk in frustration* It's an outrage, Rhonda! How could they have left out so many...
  19. newsmanfan

    Uncredited Performances

    Part Two Kermit was enjoying, for once, a leisurely brunch with his wife at about eleven in the morning when the sound of crickets chirring came from upstairs. Piggy shot him a wry glance across the sunroom table. “Don’t answer that.” Shrugging, nodding, Kermit resettled himself in the...
  20. newsmanfan

    My own personal open rant

    --------------- Self-promotion is ESSENTIAL. Always has been but today, with SUCH a glut of stuff in every possible medium out there, you do really have to push your work. (Says the writer who hasn't finished a marketable novel in years, heh.) But yes...learn social media, or get your new Comm...
Top