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permalink #0 of 272: David Gans (tnf) Thu 1 Nov 01 09:22
    

In our last episode, Ada Lovelace was having some Tr-
  
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permalink #1 of 272: Fuck art. Let's dance. (izzie) Thu 1 Nov 01 11:18
    

-oubles With Tribbles, but in a mo-
  
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permalink #2 of 272: David Gans (tnf) Thu 1 Nov 01 12:23
    
re sympathetic tratment than she usually gets from the wri-
  
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permalink #3 of 272: Cynthia Dyer-Bennet (cdb) Thu 1 Nov 01 12:46
    
thing worms she keeps tied to the tops of her feet. Mostly, she was ti-
  
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permalink #4 of 272: Ghost of JaNells Past (goldennokomis) Thu 1 Nov 01 19:09
    
ed up all day, every day. In ways you don't want to im-
  
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permalink #5 of 272: Rip Van Winkle (keta) Fri 2 Nov 01 14:25
    
agine.  See, Ada worked as an operator at the Cosmodemonic Telegraph
Company.  Her officemate, a thirtyish gentleman, prematurely balding,
named Henry Miller, was always writing her s-
  
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permalink #6 of 272: David Gans (tnf) Fri 2 Nov 01 15:31
    
illy love songs, which he'd tap out on the telegraph key in that sp-
  
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permalink #7 of 272: Rip Van Winkle (keta) Fri 2 Nov 01 16:15
    
rightly nimble style that was all his own.  His fingerplay always un-
  
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permalink #8 of 272: Sherry Thrash (izzie) Fri 2 Nov 01 17:51
    

 nerved the shy Penelope, though, and she st-
  
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permalink #9 of 272: John M. Ford (johnmford) Fri 2 Nov 01 22:30
    
-uck the trailing battery wire casually but firmly against the back of
his neck.  He smoldered.  No, literally, sent 73 OM, then turned to
the demure YL with a glazed look (as in doughnut, not windowpane) and
said, "Ob-
  
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permalink #10 of 272: double-axled haywains and Harpo Marx going honk-honk (lioness) Sat 3 Nov 01 00:24
    
tetrical knowledge is advancing by leaps and boun-
  
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permalink #11 of 272: David Gans (tnf) Sat 3 Nov 01 11:46
    
dless budgets!  We must do more RESEARCH!  Fnd out what makes mother ti-
  
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permalink #12 of 272: Martha Soukup (soukup) Sat 3 Nov 01 12:12
    
gresses nuzzle their cubs' necks, and then apply that finding to bus-
  
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permalink #13 of 272: Rip van Winkle (keta) Sat 3 Nov 01 13:25
    
iness districts in remote rainforest towns!"  

Smoke poured from his ears, and a small voice squeaked, "Girls, I
think that's enough torturing Mr. Miller for one day."  

Ada, Penelope, and Yolanda turned to the window, where Charlotte's
great great great great granddaughter had spun her web.  The spider had
been more bold of late, ever since sh-
  
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permalink #14 of 272: John M. Ford (johnmford) Sat 3 Nov 01 22:23
    
-adowing the pigs hadn't turned up one who could read.  (All the smart
livestock were hiding until the foot-and-mouth thing blew over.)
    Yolanda looked at the letters in the silk.  "'Some Object
Orientation?'" she said.  "What the hell does that mean?"
    Lady Lovelace blinked.  "Excuse me," she said, "I have some no-
  
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permalink #15 of 272: double-axled haywains and Harpo Marx going honk-honk (lioness) Sun 4 Nov 01 00:31
    
torious biscuits. Or at least I did. They were in that tin, over there, next
to the cre-
  
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permalink #16 of 272: Martha Soukup (soukup) Sun 4 Nov 01 01:37
    
tin who keeps poking the ladyfingers in his no-
  
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permalink #17 of 272: Wednesday Addams (johannabobrow) Sun 4 Nov 01 14:33
    
tice board, though they don't work half as well as tacks.  Once the
flyer has fallen down for the 6th time, he cr-
  
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permalink #18 of 272: repatriated serpent (mpk) Mon 5 Nov 01 06:00
    
abwalked down the street to the House of the R-
  
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permalink #19 of 272: Rip Van Winkle (keta) Mon 5 Nov 01 09:59
    
ising Sun, where he worked a second job as a piano player.  In- 
  
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permalink #20 of 272: Ghost of JaNells Past (goldennokomis) Mon 5 Nov 01 16:11
    
digo Ghouls, that's who he played for, the post-vampiric modernist
apocalypso fenn bar stuff. Like that "Midnight Blew" son-
  
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permalink #21 of 272: Jo Simons (josparrow) Mon 5 Nov 01 16:14
    
-net-riff combo he'd mixed up the other n-
  
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permalink #22 of 272: Rip Van Winkle (keta) Mon 5 Nov 01 17:17
    
ight after having one of Ada's notorious biscuits.  He es-
  
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permalink #23 of 272: Ghost of JaNells Past (goldennokomis) Mon 5 Nov 01 18:34
    
pied with his little eye...
"Whoa, Ada, what'd you slip into the biscuits this time? They're
Absinthfully Good!" he slur-
  
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permalink #24 of 272: Rip Van Winkle (keta) Wed 7 Nov 01 10:55
    
red.  Ada just smiled.  This cretin was turning out to b-
  
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permalink #25 of 272: ... (goldennokomis) Wed 7 Nov 01 13:23
    
e the easiest mark she'd ever sharpied. The whole experience,
indelibly chiseled into his too-stupid-and-too-rich brainp-
  

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