================================================ Subject: Re: Who wants to be a roadie? From: "Lee Reed" To: Date: Tue 5 Feb 2002 02:04:46 -0500 ================================================ hey joe, is that the third installment of otherland? i haven't been to the library in ages...but if it is, i need to get there soon! >From: Joe Earles >Reply-To: Joe Earles >To: CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM >Subject: Re: Who wants to be a roadie? >Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:06:25 -0500 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Verrronica Smith > To: CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 5:35 PM > Subject: Who wants to be a roadie? > > > For those of you going to the Detroit show...the radion station WRIF is >sponsoring a contest to be a roadie for Creed. You get backstage passes, >to work with the crew, eat the bands food (lol) > > For some reason that wording just struck me funny. I get this mental >picture of a hand reaching up from under a table, grabbing a cheeseburger >and disappearing. Scott Stapp turns around to grab it, looks around >confused going, "What the..... Flip, did you eat my burger???!???!?!!" > > It also reminded me of a very unfortunate line in Tad Williams' >Otherland: Mountain of Black Glass wherein one of the main characters is >stuck in a computer simulation of Homer's Odyssey. He kills a cyclops who >has in his possession, among other things, a large heard of sheep. His >witless friend, who has gone without food for days and is rather exuberant >over the fact that he'll be able to dine on rack of lamb for the >foreseeable future, surveys the situation (oh, and the line was purposely >written this way): > > "The old bastard went up like a torch! FOOF! And now, we eat his meat!" > > All I can say is.... EEEEEW! _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp