Fwd: The 64th Post --- Running Across Thin Ice With Tigers!

--- In [hidden email], "phydeaux44
<phydeaux44@h...>" <phydeaux44@h...> wrote:
(ring ring!)

"Hello! Mojocave . . . home of Mr. & Mrs. Wolff, versions One and
Two! Slip the wedding gifts under the door. It's your dime."

"Michael. Kez here."

"I sort of guessed. I've been meaning to ask you . . . how do you
manage to get your voice all rumbly and thunderous and full of
echoes?"

"Temperate living."

"What can I do for you? Wait . . . don't tell me. Let me guess.
You've gone out and bought Marvel Comics."

"Wow. Good guess."

(Sound of body hitting a floor in South Carolina.)

"I mean, I got this Chitty Chitty Bang Bang board game, and
discovered almost a million and a half dollars hidden in the lining.
Enough to make a down payment!"

(Sound of body groaning horribly in South Carolina.)

"But mainly what I wanted to chat about was your most recent post.
I'm afraid you made some serious errors concerning the release dates
of the comics."

"Kez, that's impossible. I distinctly recall getting my information
from a schedule posted in an e-mail. The one clearly marked 'Under
No Circumstances Use This Schedule . . . oh!"

"Yeah."

"Well, fudgebuckets! Now I've gone and made myself look like a
complete idiot!"

"Yeah, well, you've always been a nut for consistency."

"Yeah well you're . . . wait a minute!"

"Okay, but listen. We've got to set the readers straight."

"Oh, so we're trying something totally new here."

"Yeah we're trying something totally . . . wait a minute, Wolff."

(Hee hee hee)

"Okay, getting back on subject here. This is what I want you to pass
on to the Readers. You writing this down?"

"Every jot and tittle."

"Okay: the way I've got it set up now, Fireball XL5 will be hitting
the stores at the end of April, and UFO will be in the stores at the
end of May. We're going to alternate the titles on a bi-monthly
basis to sort of ease things up for the creative team."

(Sounds of anxious scribbling emanating from South Carolina.)

"Getting all this?"

"Yeah. Kez, can I mention the hmm-hmm-hmmmmm?"

"No. It looks as if Gerry Anderson's going to be reworking the hmm-
hmm-hmmmmm."

"So nothing on the hmm-hmm-hmmmmm."

"Absolutely nothing."

"Okay." (Sound of infinite relief coming from South Carolina due to
the fact that the beans weren't spilled about the hmm-hmm-hmmmmm.)

"Okay, Michael, read back to me what we've got."

"Wait a minute." (Numerous rustling sounds coming from South
Carolina.) "Here we go . . . Fireball XL5 makes its initial
appearance at the end of April 2003, and UFO will first appear at the
end of May 2003. The titles will alternate, swinging like a pendulum
do!"

"I never said anything about a pendulum."

"I know. I threw that in there for poetry. Anything else?"

"Don't . . . think so." (Sound of notes being consulted in
Dallas.) "Nope. That's it. You can go back to bed now."

(Sounds of confusion coming from South Carolina.) "Bed?"

"You know. The soft comfortable squeezy thing."

"Kez, that's Denise."

"No, no, no . . . the soft comfortable squeezy thing with the
blankets and sheets."

"That's still Denise."

"The flat one."

"Oh. That thing. Yeah . . . okay."

"I'll get back to you in case you mess up again."

"It's an honor and a privilege working for you, Kez. An honor and a
privilege!"

"Yeah, I'm a peach."


Michael Wolff
The Mojocave
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