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Reply #15 - Apr 10th, 2011 at 1:27pm
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  Well, then!  What's going on here?????????????

Do we get a trip down the rabbit hole for this one, Amelia?  Cheesy
  

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Reply #16 - Apr 10th, 2011 at 3:32pm
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Very emotional chapter guys! Cry I love the parallels with Ed's own son. Peter looks like he could be SHADO material with a GPA like that. :Smiley Very nice job of bringing out the human side of Ed Straker, and a very intuitive look beyond the obvious. Smiley

What's up with the twist at the end? Shocked

More please! Wink
  

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Reply #17 - Apr 10th, 2011 at 3:47pm
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OOH, a plot-twist.  Grin
  

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Reply #18 - Apr 10th, 2011 at 6:44pm
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As always, Amelia and Ed, you guys always have the  ability to get right under the skin, I love what I've read so far and these quotes I've added here are so so good.

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The Commander mused that any male lacking enough sense to suggest to Colonel Virginia Lake, for example, that women existed solely to cook a man breakfast and please him in bed, would find a saucepan wrapped around his neck, and his ability to do anything at all in bed painfully removed from him with a dull kitchen knife.


Oh so true and beautifully observed!

  
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Reply #19 - Apr 10th, 2011 at 6:46pm
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Rights that automatically go to mothers. If only I'd been in a position to raise my son. Maybe he'd be alive today, a boy as terrific as Peter

My thoughts exactly! I have often wondered if this would have been the case, well it would have been if Mary hadn't been such a horrible woman - polite version.

  
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Reply #20 - Apr 10th, 2011 at 6:47pm
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Don't worry about trying to live up to someone else's standards. There will always be people that need to feel superior, and the only way they can accomplish that is by attacking others with words. They feel more in control that way. Don't agree to play their games for which they make the rules. Be proud of who you are, no matter how insignificant anyone else may try to make you feel


YES!!! I was waiting for this, succinct and to the point.

Great great writing Amelia and Ed.  Just as good, if not better, than at Write Mice.
  
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Reply #21 - Apr 10th, 2011 at 6:49pm
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Don't hold back, Claire!  Tell us what you really think about Mary!  Cheesy
  

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Reply #22 - Apr 10th, 2011 at 6:57pm
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Neesierie wrote on Apr 10th, 2011 at 6:49pm:
Don't hold back, Claire!  Tell us what you really think about Mary!  Cheesy


'kay


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Reply #23 - Apr 10th, 2011 at 7:00pm
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Mary Rutland "I (sob) (OVERACT) ... never (snivel) want to see you (sob sob) again"

Ed Straker " YES!!!!!!! - wait, can I get that in writing"

Stupid woman, look what she gave up - aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh <pause for breath>ghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
  
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Reply #24 - Apr 10th, 2011 at 7:06pm
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What a spoilt brat she was!  It was her own fault for not keeping her kid out of the road.  "Ed, do something!" 

"Sure, Mary.  I'll bring you up on charges of criminal negligence concerning our son!"  Cool
  

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Reply #25 - Apr 10th, 2011 at 7:16pm
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Neesierie wrote on Apr 10th, 2011 at 7:06pm:
What a spoilt brat she was!  It was her own fault for not keeping her kid out of the road.  "Ed, do something!" 

"Sure, Mary.  I'll bring you up on charges of criminal negligence concerning our son!"  Cool


And for being a stupid bint into the process (bint is an English word idiotic, daft)
  
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Reply #26 - Apr 10th, 2011 at 7:24pm
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ROTF!  Smiley  Wasn't she just the worst?  I have such a hard time believing Straker could ever have married such a twit.  Tongue

Bint's cool.  Is it like twit?
  

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Reply #27 - Apr 10th, 2011 at 7:28pm
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Neesierie wrote on Apr 10th, 2011 at 7:24pm:
ROTF!  Smiley  Wasn't she just the worst?  I have such a hard time believing Straker could ever have married such a twit.  Tongue

Bint's cool.  Is it like twit?


Yep   Wink
  
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Reply #28 - Apr 10th, 2011 at 8:18pm
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Claire wrote on Apr 10th, 2011 at 6:44pm:
As always, Amelia and Ed, you guys always have the  ability to get right under the skin, I love what I've read so far and these quotes I've added here are so so good.

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The Commander mused that any male lacking enough sense to suggest to Colonel Virginia Lake, for example, that women existed solely to cook a man breakfast and please him in bed, would find a saucepan wrapped around his neck, and his ability to do anything at all in bed painfully removed from him with a dull kitchen knife.


Oh so true and beautifully observed!


I loved that line! That's my Ginny! Kiss
  

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Reply #29 - Apr 10th, 2011 at 8:22pm
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Neesierie wrote on Apr 10th, 2011 at 7:24pm:
Bint's cool.  Is it like twit?

Not really. It's Arabic for woman / girl / daughter and British soldiers who served in the Middle East around WWII adopted the word so it was absorbed into the English language. In the process, it acquired a rather derogatory undertone, more so in recent times. After the war - in the 60s and 70s I guess, it became pretty interchangeable with "bird" but still, it's not much used now. Possibly because of its Arabic origins.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_gb0078360#m_en_gb007836

I'm enjoying Rabbit's Paw... although, with five rabbits dependent on me for their dandelions, I'm a bit worried about the Paw.  Undecided

Thank you to whoever put the paragraph breaks in, though!  Cool When I first see a solid block of text, I am put off even when I want to read. Usually I copy and paste the blocks into Word and put in my own paras and then read but I don't always have time to do that.

Claire wrote on Apr 10th, 2011 at 6:46pm:
If only I'd been in a position to raise my son. Maybe he'd be alive today, a boy as terrific as Peter.

Nah, he'd still be dead. The aliens would have made him a target - Ed would never have been able to keep John safe...

...from the scriptwriters.  Cheesy
  
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