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Everyone kills Hitler on their first trip
posted March 19, 2:31 pm by fiziko

Category: Books Desmond Warzel's first published story is a good one, and it can be read here.

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bravo
posted by octa on March 19, 3:14 pm
That was excellent.

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Very Funny
posted by theangrymob on March 19, 3:36 pm
Everyone here at work is getting a huge kick out of this. Truly witty!

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Digg Users
posted by theangrymob on March 19, 4:12 pm
If you've got a Digg account, be sure to wander by and vote to get his story on the front page.


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Cute story
posted by J_W_W on March 19, 3:42 pm
Well done story.

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That's beyond awesome
posted by Cerberus7 on March 19, 4:50 pm
That story is so full of awesome, I can't stand it. Somebody pinch me! I mean, don't, but you know what I mean.

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Well dang
posted by PuppetSocko on March 19, 5:49 pm

That was interesting, but I couldn't find out how to post to that forum.

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Re: Well dang
posted by fliptw on March 19, 8:21 pm

That was interesting, but I couldn't find out how to post to that forum.


you need to get form #421722b from the brown drawer of the blue desk in the green room atop the Burj Dubai in 2430, anytime after labour day.

Or anytime in 2234 - just don't tip the bellhop. Or make eye contact...

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Brilliant!
posted by Erf on March 19, 9:08 pm
Spouse and I loved it -- especially the ending. ;)

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This Gives Me An Idea...
posted by rickyjames on March 20, 6:19 am
...what if we could go back to September 2002 and save Firefly?

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Re: This Gives Me An Idea...
posted by Jethro on March 20, 8:47 am
...what if we could go back to September 2002 and save Firefly?


How are you going to do that? Make another network pick it up before Fox does?

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Re: This Gives Me An Idea...
posted by joe__gee on March 20, 11:27 am
...what if we could go back to September 2002 and save Firefly?


Then we'd be on season 6, complaining about how the quality of the show has been lacking, how we still can't get over the Kaylee musical number in season 4 (how terrible Nathan Fillion's singing voice is), why they would have killed Jayne in season 3 and then gone on the quest to resurrect him, and how in season 6 we still think it would be better if Book had stayed a Shepherd and not gone back to his life as an Operative.

Someone would be saying Inara is really a vampire -- someone would reply that the whole affair with Spike was Joss on bad drugs. Our favorite cameo would have been Sarah Michelle Gellar as Badger's sister. The worst cameo(s) would have been the twin blue-gloved William Shatners.

The general consensus would be that the whole show has gone downhill, that it merits a mercy killing, and the characters we love today wouldn't be nearly as precious as they are, because we'd have seen them used and abused from six seasons of occasional questionable writing decisions, network screw-ups, and poor direction.

Feh.

Give me three real seasons of BSG in the hand, and leave that elusive might-have-been Firefly bird over there in the bush. :) If you want to correct a timeline, have Rick Berman take a cruise in the Bermuda Triangle and the writers of ST: Nemesis fall into a crevasse. IMHO, THAT would be a correction worthy of unimpeded temporal adjustment. :)

-Joe

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Re: This Gives Me An Idea...
posted by Timeshredder on March 20, 3:34 pm
...what if we could go back to September 2002 and save Firefly?

Then we'd be on season 6, complaining about how the quality of the show has been lacking,
-Joe


Well, if that Berman-directed ep with the sex scene between Inara and Badger's sister hadn't garnered such high ratings, maybe the show wouldn't have spiraled so completely.

I blame the fans.

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Re: This Gives Me An Idea...
posted by joe__gee on March 22, 8:40 pm

Well, if that Berman-directed ep with the sex scene between Inara and Badger's sister hadn't garnered such high ratings, maybe the show wouldn't have spiraled so completely.

I blame the fans.


I knew it was heading south when Zoë started wearing a catsuit in season 4.

-Joe

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Re: This Gives Me An Idea...
posted by paulm on March 27, 9:37 pm
I knew it was heading south when Zoë started wearing a catsuit in season 4.


Indeed, the all-nude season 3 was much better.

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Re: This Gives Me An Idea...
posted by J_W_W on March 21, 4:27 pm
...what if we could go back to September 2002 and save Firefly?


Then we'd be on season 6, complaining about how the quality of the show has been lacking, how we still can't get over the Kaylee musical number in season 4 (how terrible Nathan Fillion's singing voice is), why they would have killed Jayne in season 3 and then gone on the quest to resurrect him, and how in season 6 we still think it would be better if Book had stayed a Shepherd and not gone back to his life as an Operative.

Someone would be saying Inara is really a vampire -- someone would reply that the whole affair with Spike was Joss on bad drugs. Our favorite cameo would have been Sarah Michelle Gellar as Badger's sister. The worst cameo(s) would have been the twin blue-gloved William Shatners.

The general consensus would be that the whole show has gone downhill, that it merits a mercy killing, and the characters we love today wouldn't be nearly as precious as they are, because we'd have seen them used and abused from six seasons of occasional questionable writing decisions, network screw-ups, and poor direction.

Feh.

Give me three real seasons of BSG in the hand, and leave that elusive might-have-been Firefly bird over there in the bush. :) If you want to correct a timeline, have Rick Berman take a cruise in the Bermuda Triangle and the writers of ST: Nemesis fall into a crevasse. IMHO, THAT would be a correction worthy of unimpeded temporal adjustment. :)

-Joe


Great post!! And I fear you're exactly right. It better to have a little bit of awesome than to have to watch awesome turn to crap.

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Re: This Gives Me An Idea...
posted by TwistyHat on March 21, 7:24 am
...what if we could go back to September 2002 and save Firefly?


No you need to go back much further and start spreading the word. Tell people that to keep an eye out for this show wich will start in a few years called Firefly ;)

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Everyone tries To Save Firefly First Time Out
posted by $tarbuck on March 21, 1:11 pm
...what if we could go back to September 2002 and save Firefly?


{SIGH} Sorry Ricky but ,as the regulars here all know, if Firefly went on to a second season than Ron Moore gets brought in as a Story Consultant and guess which series never comes to the big screen??

Please PLEASE don't try to act on this as I have a very busy weekend ahead and do not want to be bothered correcting some noobs mistake AGAIN!

Besides I've sored some tickets to the 1938 Olympics sitting right above "You know who" and I have a .38 Special with that Bastards name written all over it.







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Re: Everyone tries To Save Firefly First Time Out
posted by Timeshredder on March 21, 6:14 pm

Besides I've sored some tickets to the 1938 Olympics sitting right above "You know who" and I have a .38 Special with that Bastards name written all over it.
--$tarbuck


Or are you just heading back in time to open your #$@%& coffee franchise a few decades earlier?

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Re: Everyone tries To Save Firefly First Time Out
posted by $tarbuck on March 21, 8:35 pm
[quote]
Or are you just heading back in time to open your #$@%& coffee franchise a few decades earlier?


Don't curse at me ShredderBoy. You think that's funny? Why don't you ask your older brother how funny it is?

What's that ?
You don't have an older brother you say?

Mu ha ha ha !

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Re: Everyone tries To Save Firefly First Time Out
posted by rickyjames on March 22, 3:53 am
guess which series never comes to the big screen??


Of all the arguments you could use to dissuade me, this one is a non-starter. Serenity killed the franchise deader than Fox ever did.

No matter, I've run a fractal temporal chaos simulation on the quantum calculator I brought back from 2437 and now it's back to 1969 to give Star Trek a fourth season! How the SF world would have changed for the better if only "Spock's Brain" had been revisited in the mirror universe for all to see...

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Re: Everyone tries To Save Firefly First Time Out
posted by rickyjames on March 22, 3:55 am
Oh, and by the way, today's my birthday. Anchorage, Alaska in 1956, 5005th USAF Hospital, to save you the trouble of looking up my Nobel Prize bio. Good luck overcoming my Norton reality lockdown defenses.

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Re: Everyone tries To Save Firefly First Time Out
posted by rickyjames on March 22, 4:08 am
my Nobel Prize bio.

Make that either of my Nobel bios.

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Marty McFly, is that you?
posted by joe__gee on March 22, 8:48 pm

{SIGH} Sorry Ricky but ,as the regulars here all know, if Firefly went on to a second season than Ron Moore gets brought in as a Story Consultant and guess which series never comes to the big screen??

Please PLEASE don't try to act on this as I have a very busy weekend ahead and do not want to be bothered correcting some noobs mistake AGAIN!

Besides I've sored some tickets to the 1938 Olympics sitting right above "You know who" and I have a .38 Special with that Bastards name written all over it.

You really should get back to the future. Your kids are a mess!

-Joe

P.S. True story: this reminds me of a spam email I got one time from a fellow claiming to be a stranded time traveller. He was looking for a specific part, so he could fix his ship and return to his time.

I answered him, chiding him for not packing a spare, and telling him that I would lend him mine except I had a pressing appointment yesterday.

He *replied* that was too bad. If I ran into anyone else would I send them back for him? Needless to say, I never encountered anyone else from his "frame of reference."

I later read that this fellow was a schizophrenic who had been using spamming software. Poor fellow. http://www.lindqvist.com/index.php?ID=1203

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Hah
posted by Jethro on March 20, 8:48 am
That was pretty funny.

Now, who's Desmond Warzel?

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Speaking Of Cute SF Short -Short Stories...
posted by rickyjames on March 20, 12:41 pm

Everybody here IS aware of 365 Tomorrows, right?

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Who is Desmond Warzel?
posted by TwistyHat on March 21, 7:27 am
Someone we should know?

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