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Paul in Cannon Beach · February 2004

To keep the story clear and un-cluttered, please post your Build-a-story comments like "what a stupid idea" or "does Paul have too much time on his hands?" here. Thanks!

ray a · February 2004

On another forum they started a story line like this almost 2 years ago. It is still going with well over 5000 posts.

mwild31 · February 2004

Hi Paul, I love the idea & want to participate, but I'm unsure what the story line is - it seems to be all over the place. Could you go in & recap?

HRsage · February 2004

I like the idea too, and I agree there seems to be 3 different stories developing now. I went off the line above mine instead of trying to bring it back on track.

mwild31 · February 2004

Ditto to you HRSage - I followed your story. x:-)

Don D · February 2004

This is a novel approach to keeping RaBeegull from hijacking the thread. Creative indeed.

Paul in Cannon Beach · February 2004

My advice is to ignore story lines that don't develop the plot or are self-serving. Its gone pretty fast so far. Hopefully people will slow down and let the plot develop a little.

Up to this point its had more suprises than the Superbowl half-time show.

Don D · February 2004

Watch closely. The sexuality of the players will be crucial. Things unfold rather rapidly relying on redundant revelations.

ray a · February 2004

Don, the alliteration in your tertiary sentence is simply astounding.

Jaded · February 2004

Great idea! I have one question: has the crying employee been identified yet?

Don D · February 2004

We're waiting on you to identify 'it'.

Parabeagle · February 2004

I just looked at the thread for the first time a moment ago. Everyone's storytelling skills are astounding and it's clear to me that before it reaches 100 posts Paul will sell the script to the Fox network and they will run it as a summer replacement.

I keep looking for an opportunity to post "Suddenly, a shot rang out!" but so far it hasn't seemed appropriate.

Human Resources Manager · February 2004

Please don't! This reminds me of an exercise we did in a high school creative writing class. Everyone wrote a paragraph starting a story, then passed it to the person behind them, who wrote a paragraph, etc. The person in front of me only put two characters in his story, and had them shoot each other at the end of the paragraph. It was a huge pain.

Paul in Cannon Beach · February 2004

Too late.. I noticed the morning that a shot has rung out. Now we have employee violence issues, FMLA/ADA/workers comp issues...

All you East coasters get to sway the story your way in the wee hours of the morning but remember that the West Coast gets the last word.

safety · February 2004

I wanted to follow your post with, “and with that shot came an end to the frazzled female at the top of the revamped HRHero Forum web page.”

HRsage · February 2004

I think it should be acted out during the Forum Cruise.
I'm wondering who's going to play the characters.

Paul in Cannon Beach · February 2004

Somehow I think the body count is going to be adding up faster than a Dean Koontz novel.

I hope everyone here has an EAP program and reports to counseling immediately.

marc · February 2004

Hey Paul, great idea. I'm going to sit out a while and see what developes. Lots of twists and turns - and I must admit, the transgender idea occurred to me as well. You know what they say about great minds...

HS · February 2004

Remind me never to work at your places of employment. I thought my workplace was a soap opera, but this...

Talk about hijacking a thread! It has gone too off base to even respond.

ray a · February 2004

And I can't be blamed for this one. In fact, I've even tried to bring it back twice. But, it is fun.

HS · February 2004

Hey Paul, are you going to intervene? Maybe we should start over and set additional ground rules. This story has more curves than Marilyn Monroe. Good idea in theory, but in application it's bound to make your head spin like Linda Blair.

rad · February 2004

Its a little hard because two people may be responding to the same thing at the same time, so it doesn't always make sense. But it is fun!

Paul in Cannon Beach · February 2004

I'm trying to find out if there is a way to remove my name from the original post..

No, its been fun to watch the twists and turns. There was no lack of contributions.

Now that we have learned its all been a dream, it will be interesting to see if it dies a slow death or revives.

HRsage · February 2004

I figured the best way to try and bring it back on track was to say it was just a dream. It was getting pretty far out there.

If it worked for DALLAS it should work for our story. Now that I think about it...did it even work for DALLAS? :-?

Parabeagle · February 2004

Of course, that dream device is about as old as the shot ringing out device, so I don't think we're plowing any new ground with this story. My next goal is to wait very patiently and try to plant the phrase "it was Col Mustard in the den with the pipe."

Beave · February 2004

Seems as though we can't get away from dreaming can we. I gotta see how Beagle gets a den into the office ... lol.

Don D · February 2004

Sorry fellas: We've gone from pipes in the den to turds in the pond. Jump right in. (pun intended).

Paul in Cannon Beach · February 2004

In the spirit of the upcoming Academy Awards I am going to take a moment and nominate the following people:

Betty LO - for actual writing ability and creativity.

Don D - for creativity, alliteration, and references to HR forum people (including the frizzy haired Medusa) and for contributing two posts within 30 minutes

Parabeagle - for creating his own game within a game.

Cebudragonlady - for bringing the phrase "turkey headed coward" into our national lexicon.

AnneHA - for introducing us to the ill-fated Bubbles LaFurze

SMoll - for putting the words "intelligent" , "ravishing" and "blondes" together in the same sentence in a row with an apparently straight face.

And so many more...

Don D · February 2004

Little did I know that Paul had set himself up as the matronly 11th grade English teacher, judging and grading our contributions, offering critical judgements along the way, nudging the direction of the 'story build'. He should absent himself from the process altogether instead of attempting to direct its course or tilt its slant. x:-)

System · February 2004

>SMoll - for putting the words "intelligent" ,
>"ravishing" and "blondes" together in the same
>sentence in a row with an apparently straight
>face.
>
"Like, what's so funny about that?" she said with a Betty Boop twang. "Is that supposed to be an oxycontin, like 'military intelligence'?"

Don D · February 2004

Uh Oh. Sorry. I put the guys in the outhouse and had them slide into the pond. I failed to realize beetul had removed them from the pond. Due to my oversight, I still have them in the pond. Since I point out my own error I won't need eleven of you to do it for me. Thanks. x:-)

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