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[Aslaug]

Actually, bible thumpers is just one of two used expressions. One rarely hears it on this side of the Atlantic, which may account for why I use bible-beaters instead.

Just an FYI.

And the 7-11's here, run on the same franchise and selling many of the same items as in the US (even the same brands -where- it is possible...), do sell fruit. No veggies...but certainly fruit.

[Styx]

Huh, okay

[Aslaug]

Got that across wrong. The point I was trying to make is that you're probably right about bible-thumpers, Styx...I am just simply -used- to the alternative expression, which is why I am using it. I'm convinced yours is probably the more correct one but I'd have to go back and correct a -lot-...in T1 too if I fixed it now so better to stick with the expression I've established, that's all.

[AmigaDragon]

[Wolf Starchaser]

[Tigermark]

Note from the editing crew* While we strive to help Aslaug in matters of grammar and punctuation, and where slang or phrasing don't make sense in our version of English, we don't quibble of every slang term or phrase, such as when she writes that someone "puts the kettle over" for tea. that's a decidedly European phrase, but Aslaug is writing from her perspective and her experiences, and so we try to keep the "flavor" of her writings as intact as possible, unless what she's written is not easily understood in English. Thanks!

Tigermark (Who bows humbly to the Filly and slinks back into his proofer's hole)

[Aslaug]

Well, this monday it's time to return to Transitions 2 for a few chapters. I know I left people with a pretty nasty cliffhanger last time so I hope you won't be disapointed in what you get

[Aslaug]

And it's up. In both HTML and PDF formats so people can pick and choose. I think Fikrann gets a kick out of tinkering with homepages, really

[Shirh Khan]

Well, now we've gotten confirmation about a certain male's proclavities. I can't say it's a surprise- I can't imagine how Emma could have been injured in the way she was in the way she explained it to folks. I've heard enough from various friends and associates to recognize, to some extent, when I'm hearing like what Emma's been put through beneath the relatively tranquil explanations a femme like herself gives to others.
Personally, I'd like to offer up a few ways on how to deal with the issue. Suffice it to say that this fur, while normally a very even tempered and good natured fellow, can think up methods of.....justice, that would likely have many hardened folks cringing, if not outright losing their appetites.

In a way, that almost makes the atrocities of the WTC attack pale in comparison. Yes, it is indeed a tragety what happened, and those who perpetrated the attack should be thought of as negatively as they are, but if one *must* look for something reasonable out of that, it could be said that the WTC attack was (most likely??) motivated by religious beliefs.
What's happened to Emma wasn't anything so clean or technically righteous. Emma's suffering wasn't something done in the name of spiritual expression, but because of some fur's needs to act on his id, to let loose his inner child and rage because he can. Such a being shouldn't be allowed to continue breathing, in my opinion.

I will wait as patiently as I can, to see just what happens to such a fur. And no, folks- if the opportunity came up for me to be able to do something, you'd have to line up behind me. Provided that you didn't loose your lunch, watching me at my self-appointed task.

**Humming a jaunty tune, while squeezing sulfuric acid up into a certain fur's interesting places, then supergluing said places shut...**




-Shirh Khan

[James R. Lane]

[Nameless]

Interesting read. Can't call it a good read, not with all the things that are happening, but...

Anyway there are a few things that struck me as odd:
When Malcolm gets out of the bus both towers are burning. As far as I can remember there was almost half an hour between the two crashes. Either he'd have to have been unconscicious for a long time or it had taken the police furs a long time to clear the area around the WTC of traffic.
Or, of course, things happened a little different in that reality...

[Aslaug]

*nods* I have to admit I took some liberties with the timeline. The towers, in real life, were hit with about half an hour's interval as you said. I'm assuming it's probably a little shorter between the two hits in this story. However...after the first one hit, the situation was absolutely chaotic. Eyewitnesses describe a state of absolute confusion on the ground. The bus had apparently emptied, and the cops would have to deal with a lot of frightened people. Neither Malcolm, not the one he carried out of the bus, would've been visible from the outside. I'm guessing Malcolm was probably out for about twenty minutes. He got trampled pretty bad and knocked his head.

But you're right, the interval between the two hits as we remember it, real life, would lead to the confusion you mention.

[shadowjaguar]

[James R. Lane]

[anthony]