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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
It had to happen sooner or later
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 09:14 pmIt had to happen sooner or later: I was cycling home from work the other day, when I had a story idea. (Actually an idea at the edge of a fuzzy area of ideas I had had before.) Now what am I going to do with it?
This had to happen when the two people most likely to tell me to write the story,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rysmiel and green_knight are both away from LJ. It would be easy, actually, to tell myself other people have probably thought of the idea before, and done a better job with it.
Speaking of which, an idle thought left me thinking what an interesting steampunk setting would be the alternate world populated with towers by the Victorian engineer Isengard Kingdom Brunel. A quick Google reveals I've not been the first to have the idea. Most of the hits appear to be genuine mistakes, though.
At least one, however, isn't: a blog whose top entry on the appropriate archive page reads:
This had to happen when the two people most likely to tell me to write the story,
rysmiel and green_knight are both away from LJ. It would be easy, actually, to tell myself other people have probably thought of the idea before, and done a better job with it.Speaking of which, an idle thought left me thinking what an interesting steampunk setting would be the alternate world populated with towers by the Victorian engineer Isengard Kingdom Brunel. A quick Google reveals I've not been the first to have the idea. Most of the hits appear to be genuine mistakes, though.
At least one, however, isn't: a blog whose top entry on the appropriate archive page reads:
The Bible is a collection of scriptures that form the basis of the Christian religion. It includes stories, psalms, pictures and pop-up sections.I scrolled down a bit more and got as far as reading:
It comes in two parts, the left testament and the right testament. The former was so called because it was left to Christians by their forefathers. It tells the history of the ancient tribes of the near East, and the prophets and kings who led them. It is also the source of most of our knowledge about the dinosaurs.
The right testament includes the stories of Jesus and his Apostles: Paul, Simon, Garfunkel, Andi Peters, David Jason, Jimmy Kranky, and Peter formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince.
Today you will often find bibles in hotel rooms. They are left there by God, who is omniscient and omnipresent but sometimes a bit forgetful.
Monuments are sculptures or structures with ritual or symbolic value....before I had to stop because I was laughing so much.
Famous examples include Stonehenge in Wiltshire, Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, and Ted Heath, who is frozen in carbonite and on display in Birmingham city centre.