Fan Fic Q&A

[dogma]

ashatan said:

I got another question. Is the locker room unisex? If Karen went to change would she go there or somewhere else?

i would imagine it is unisex,, all the locker rooms at the hosp are unisex,, and they have at least two bathrooms ( not stalls ) for changing

i've always wondered why karen called thru the door in the episode jim cracked his shin,, why she just didnt' saunter in,,

[greenbeing]

I've never beta-ed before, but I'd be up for it, too, if you wanted more than one opinion.

I'd never thought of the locker room as being the sort of place in which one would change. The door is always open, there's got to be fifty lockers in there... I always thought of it as more of a storage place. Especially since it has windows, right? Next to the door? Not exactly private.

"Are you going home to change?"
"Why, you saying I look slouchy?"

Then again, they all changed when Jim went undercover... Do they just randomly keep clothes in their lockers to change into? Or do they have a stash of "costumes" like a theatre? In this case, I agree with Kenina on the "equal opportunity nudity" in the NYPD. I'd bet wherever the clothes are, Karen would change with the guys. I have always wondered where the clothes came from, though... Hmm... Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Karen had a kevlar vest in her locker, but I never noticed any undercover clothes in there.

--GB

[Dreamfire]

Hi GB,

I would be honored if you would beta for me, can I send you the story on a PM? I'm not sure how to do that.
Natascha
PS My favourite song is the chicken song from the muppets movie.

[Dreamfire]

dogma said:

ashatan said:

I got another question. Is the locker room unisex? If Karen went to change would she go there or somewhere else?

i would imagine it is unisex,, all the locker rooms at the hosp are unisex,, and they have at least two bathrooms ( not stalls ) for changing

i've always wondered why karen called thru the door in the episode jim cracked his shin,, why she just didnt' saunter in,,

Thanks Dogma, me too, it seems a little inconsistant as in other eps she is already in there and seems quite confortable. I always assumed she just felt a little self conscious checking up on him being hurt as he is so touchy and " I AM OK!!!" not being willing to ever show weakness.

Natascha

[greenbeing]

ashatan said:

PS My favourite song is the chicken song from the muppets movie.

When the chickens are water skiing?

--GB

[Dreamfire]

greenbeing said:

ashatan said:

PS My favourite song is the chicken song from the muppets movie.

When the chickens are water skiing?

--GB

Um, no it is the one conducted by ( ooh I can't remember his name the little guy withthe BIG nose and the little voice,name starts with G...) and the lyrics are:

Bark ba bark
Bu Bu Bu Bu Ba Bark Be Bark
Bu bu bu bu bu ba bark be bark be bark...
To the tune of You've got cutest little baby face.

Blushing N

[dogma]

ashatan said:

[quote author=greenbeing board=fanfic Um, no it is the one conducted by ( ooh I can't remember his name the little guy withthe BIG nose and the little voice,name starts with G...) and the lyrics are:

his name is gonzo,, a chicken hawk,,, he is by far my favorite muppet,, i love him dearly,
i have pez dispensers of gonzo

[greenbeing]

ashatan said:

greenbeing said:

When the chickens are water skiing?

--GB

Um, no it is the one conducted by ( ooh I can't remember his name the little guy withthe BIG nose and the little voice,name starts with G...) and the lyrics are:

Bark ba bark
Bu Bu Bu Bu Ba Bark Be Bark
Bu bu bu bu bu ba bark be bark be bark...
To the tune of You've got cutest little baby face.

Blushing N

Ah, I was thinking of where Gonzo and the Chickens join the waterskiing act and Gonzo, I think he gets shot out of a canon and does stunts while the Chicken girls cluck, is the 1812 Overture? But now that I think about it, that bit was in The Muppets Take Manhattan...

I must admit, I haven't seen the original Muppet Movie quite as often as the others, as I didn't grow up watching it (how could my parents have not taped it--I didn't find out there was a third movie until I was 20...), so now I'll have to go home and watch it again.

Dogma, a chicken hawk? I'm not saying yes or no, as he could literally be anything, but this is the first time I've heard that. I've always just called him a "whatever," even after Muppets from Space came out. My doppleganger wasn't even supposed to be a frog originally, so I will totally buy into the chicken hawk theory

--GB

"A bear in his natural habitat... a Studebaker."

Whoops, this is supposed to be about writing, so let's throw in some interesting quotes on the subject:

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
-- Julie Burchill

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
--Elie Wiesel

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
--E.L. (Edgar Lawrence) Doctorow

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
--Ernest Hemingway

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
--Samuel Johnson

Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
--William Strunk, Jr.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
--Tom Clancy

If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.
--Barbara Greene

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
--Anton Chekhov

The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.
--Will Shetterly

Books aren't written- they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
--Michael Crichton

The difference between the right and the nearly right word is the same as that between lightning and the lightning bug.
--Mark Twain

The wastebasket is the writer's best friend.
--Isaac Singer

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.
--Elmore Leonard

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.
--Donald Hall

Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.
--Jean Sibelius

What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working even when he's staring out the window.
--Burton Rascoe

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
--William Somerset Maugham

When I was a young boy they called me a liar. Now that I'm all grown up, they call me a writer.
--Isaac Singer

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
--Groucho Marx

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.
--Richard Peck

Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and what happens, and they need me to help get it down on paper because they don't type.
--Anne Lamott

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
--Mark Twain

[anna]

A favorite quote from Eudora Welty's One Writer's Beginnings, more about reading than writing, but still . . .

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they came from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them—with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them.

[dogma]

greenbeing said:

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Dogma, a chicken hawk? I'm not saying yes or no, as he could literally be anything, but this is the first time I've heard that. I've always just called him a "whatever," even after Muppets from Space came out. My doppleganger wasn't even supposed to be a frog originally, so I will totally buy into the chicken hawk theory

--GB

i did alot of searching,, i would've bet the farm he was a chicken hawk,, and since he is such a sensitive creature, a skinny chicken hawk,, the following is from the mugget site Q & A

43.) I looked at the profile for Gonzo, but didn't find the answer to my question there. Is Gonzo a chicken hawk? Alien? Something else?

Thank you for your query regarding Gonzo. What good timing - Jim Henson Pictures is about to release Muppets From Space - a feature film about Gonzo's search for his roots. You'll learn all about his character's family history.

In regard to the actual design and build of the Gonzo puppet, it was created originally as a "Frackle" character. Frackles were the bad guys in a 1970 Christmas Special Jim Henson made (produced by Ed Sullivan) called "The Great Santa Claus Switch". However, I don't think that Gonzo actually appeared in that show. I do think he appeared in 1974 on a Herb Alpert show.

Someone once wrote Jim Henson a letter asking about Gonzo, and Jim answered that he was a sort of bird-like character in the turkey family. But Gonzo didn't really become the Gonzo we know and love until Dave Goelz started performing him on The Muppet Show.

So, no, Gonzo is not a chicken hawk.

Karen Falk
Archivist, The Jim Henson Company

[greenbeing]

dogma said:

So, no, Gonzo is not a chicken hawk.

Hmm, interesting. I do know all about Muppets from Space, but I'd never believed that was what Jim Henson had in mind when he originally designed Gonzo, who is a bird-like creature from the turkey family, apparently. Good to know. Since Jim Henson's death, I've taken any new info with a grain of salt. Even though Jim gave us at least two origin stories of how everyone originally met.

--GB

[Dreamfire]

Hm, the muppets, bliss,....good honest laughs, crazy characters who are bit more human than many of the peoope we meet in our own lives and as good for a laugh today as when I was 5!
Natascha

[greenbeing]

dogma said:

ashatan said:

I got another question. Is the locker room unisex? If Karen went to change would she go there or somewhere else?

i would imagine it is unisex,, all the locker rooms at the hosp are unisex,, and they have at least two bathrooms ( not stalls ) for changing

i've always wondered why karen called thru the door in the episode jim cracked his shin,, why she just didnt' saunter in,,

The locker room I always took to be more of a break room, somewhere to store your stuff, get coffee, keep your sandwich in the fridge... I never thought of it as somewhere to change.

As for Karen not sauntering in when Jim hurt himself, I figured she was doing it out of respect. He purposefully removed himself from the room in order to "check it out" and she was giving him that chance.

I still don't know where they keep the "undercover" clothes, but here's a pic of Karen's locker. Looks like she's got a lot of hairspray up there!



--GB

[dogma]

i emailed the disney Q & A people about gonzo,, and here is their reply
( wish i had a cake job like that )

Dear Judy,

Thank you for your e-mail regarding GONZO. We appreciate your interest.

Gonzo is a furry thing that loves chickens, expecially Camilia.

Again, thank you for taking the time to contact us.

Regards,

WDHE Consumer Relations
US and Canada

[greenbeing]

dogma said:

Thank you for your e-mail regarding GONZO. We appreciate your interest.

Gonzo is a furry thing that loves chickens, expecially Camilia.

Hee hee hee hee! That's just grand! I agree, this is the perfect job, how can we get jobs there?? I'd love to be able to e-mail people so randomly all day: "Gonzo is a furry thing." What a lovely answer! Karma.

Note to self: get job answering random questions at Disney...

--GB