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Question 1

What prompted you to set up skippyslist.com in the first place?

Charles DiLorenzo

The short version is that I didn’t.  Many years ago when I was deployed I would occasionally send a letter or an email home.  I would usually end with some new rule or another that I had picked up.  One of my friends started assembling these into a list.  And then he started emailing the list around to people he knew.  He called it the “101 things Skippy Can’t Do in the Army”, but it only had like thirty or forty items on it.  I started adding items to the list when I got home, but never thought anybody who didn’t know me would ever give a damn about it.

Eventually another friend of mine became convinced that I should have a website for the list.  I still didn”t believe anyone else would ever want to see it, but I gave her permission to put the list up.  Things kind of snowballed from there.

So I guess the real lesson here is if you sit around being a smart-ass, eventually people will set you up for success.

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I’ve been dealing with medical and school issues since oh-dark-thirty this morning.  I could sit down and write out a good post…..but instead, I think I will drink, and then curl up and stop moving for a while.

So in lieu of a meaningful and well-thought out post I’ll just go ahead and put out this opportunity:

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Chris Says:

I’d missed “lon” the first couple of reads, but that was used for clones in “The Jesus Incident” and “The Lazarus Effect”. Other books in the series are “Destination: Void” (the original book in the series) and “The Ascension Factor”, neither of which I’ve read (only read TJI after seeing it on a relative’s shelf).

So he get’s to hold his head up high, on account of his literary awesomeness.  Everybody else, hang your heads in shame.

And apologies to Minty for teasing her with N. Fillian.

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A while ago Lt Ron wrote this piece.

I was getting ready to post what I felt was a clever comment on the subject.

My wife read the comment over my shoulder, and didn’t get it.  She felt, perhaps correctly, that I was referencing something too obscure, even for the kinds of sci-fi nerds that tend to frequent my site.  So I made it into a contest.

My post was the following.

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The Winner is Lord Enigma who suggested list item 198. Not allowed to lead a “Coup” during training missions.

At first I wasn’t sure if I should tell this story here.  I’ve always had a policy of not telling telling any stories that could easily be traced back to people who might reasonably still be in service.  And I definitely don’t want to tell any stories that might implicate someone in some sort of extra-legal shenanigans. (Which is, coincidentally, why many of the submitted stories don’t go up on the site.  I don’t care how funny you think the felony assault turned out. I don’t want to get involved.)

But I did promise that I would tell the whichever story got the most votes.  And this one was the clear winner.

So here it goes.  In Script Format.

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Today’s post is due to a convergence of two facts.

1) I haven’t felt particularly inspired to write for a while. Normally when that happens I pick a list item, and write the story about how it came about.

2) I still have a bunch of the Squid Pie stuff sitting around.

And so I had a contest idea.

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