From: "L-Soft list server at Indiana University (1.8d)" To: "ARTF@MemoryAlpha.nil" File: "LOISCLA-GENERAL-L LOG9909E" ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:58:52 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wendy Richards Subject: OUATIM: Clark to Martha and Jonathan MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Mom, Dad!! *Wonderful* news! Lois and I are *so* excited - we wanted to call you last night but I think your phone line must have been out of order. I really hope you get this. Lois is pregnant!!! We're going to have a baby!! It's so great... I just want to tell everyone, right now. I'm emailing Perry in a few minutes with another story and I want to tell him, but... well, Lois isn't sure we should yet. There's the question of Kryptonian genes, and we don't know how that's going to affect the baby - or even whether anything strange would show up on prenatal checks. So - we've decided Dr Klein has to know the truth. If he'll agree to look after Lois and become even more of an expert on Kryptonian genetics than he already is, we should be fine. The Planet... Perry's still worried about circulation, and I can't blame him. I wouldn't usually do it, but I think I might create an extra-special Superman exclusive for him. It's not just playing favourites or protecting Lois's and my jobs. We really believe someone's trying to sabotage the Planet. Anyway, we'll talk to you very soon, and Lois and I will come out to celebrate with you as soon as we can. Love you both, Clark ---------------------- Wendy Richards w.m.richards@hrm.keele.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 04:57:07 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Debby Subject: Re: Debby's "My Journal" In-Reply-To: <645b33c4.25216e48@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:05 PM 09/27/1999 -0400, you wrote: >Ok it has taken me a while to get to this fanfic, but I have finally finished >reading, Debby's "My Journal." This was SUPER! The whole idea of reading >Clark's journal, made me feel like I was part of the action! I hope you >plan to write more LnC fanfics like this one, Debby. Maybe do a series? Thanks so much for the feedback! I'm currently working on a personal Y2k preparedness project (I'm one of those who think that the computer problem is going to be a lot bigger than we're being led to believe) (my motto: panic now, avoid the rush), so my creativity is on hold. After I feel comfortable and prepared, I'll be able to relax and type a lot of interesting things :) I don't see continuing "My Journal" even though I very much liked writing it, getting right into the character. One wonders what Jimmy would write :) When I get creative again, it will probably be with Dawning. >I just wanted to talk about a couple of my favorite parts in this fanfic so >here is a spolier space for those of you who have not read it. And if you >haven't read it, RUN DON'T WALK to it! =) The most recent, hopefully typo free versions, in rtf and Word97 doc form, are at my site ftp://ftp.swcp.com/pub/users/dstark/Stories/MyJournal . . . . . . . >I have to say Debby, I loved your Beatle references. I think you made one to >John Lennon, on May 10th entry and in another entry that i can't remember >right now. Being the avid Beatle fan that i am, I really enjoyed Clark's >thoughts on that. I figured his folks were coming of age in the 60s so the Beatles would have influenced them a great deal; they passed it along to their only be-given son :) >Also the ending of the story TOTALLY BLEW MY MIND!!! That was nothing like >the way i thought the story would end! I'm glad you were surprised :) >I like your theory about there being >mulitple Clarks. What's their secret? and can i have one? LOL! I got it from... the show :) Their introduction of the Tempus/Wells duo was ingenious, though I think the "John Doe" arc-lette screwed up/ruined Tempus completely :( His original purpose was a noble one: to stop Superman from engendering what he saw as a creativity-stifling utopia (8,000 channels on TV and nothing to watch). His means were not noble, of course :) His fighting against inevitablility/fate was fascinating, but to have him degenerate into world-destroying madness was a bad idea (IMNSHO) >This way by >having mulitple Clark's, our Lois and Clark from tv in 1993, could still have >happened. We're all writing our own alternatives and it's a lot of fun :) >Alexis ;-.) >{who still giggles over the fact that her mom thought she was doing homework >for her journalism major, when she was really busy reading a gripping fanfic! >LOL! ;)} You were investigating a case study, that's all. Debby Debby@swcp.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 14:23:58 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Yvonne Connell Subject: OUATIM: Perry to Lois and Clark Clark/Lois, I've agreed to meet Underhill at the Merryweather Rooms, ostensibly to clear the air between us, but if you ask me he's got something else he needs to get off his chest. Maybe we're finally gonna find out what the Star and it's owners are up to. BTW - my old dentist emailed me from the UK. Can you believe it? Turns out this crackpot he's hooked up with to build a time machine knows Dr Klein. Talk about your small world. He also mentioned something about a typing rat - Great Shades of Elvis! This is the man who used to have me at his mercy in a dentist's chair with a lethal drill in his hands! Sounds to me as though he and this guy Phil must have been doing something creative with the old knock-out drops. Anyway, maybe you should talk to Dr Klein. I know you two rely on his scientific know-how a lot, so you might want to make sure none of this hairbrained thinking has rubbed off on him. Perry [from Yvonne - please don't write to me at this email address, because I don't check it for incoming mail] ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 09:38:09 -0400 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Joy Sowell Subject: OUATIM: Ron to Perry (Double encryption) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Spooney. (I bet you forgot the nickname from freshman year, huh). I'm glad we cleared the air. I heard something else that you might want to know. I gave Courtney a few details, but It's too dangerous to tell her everything. Meet me the same place tonight, at 8. Ron _______________________ Shameless plug for the NKerths, FoLCs: Don't forget to vote, and tune in. It should be Super. JOY:) __________________________________________________ FREE Email for ALL! Sign up at http://www.mail.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 09:45:57 -0400 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Joy Sowell Subject: OUATIM: Ron to Courtney Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Courtney. I'm thinking that things should be looking up for the Planet soon. Spooney, um I mean Perry, and i talked last night. It turns out that our whole feud was because of a misunderstanding that was due to a set up in the first place. Before you ask, some guys in the dorm called Perry "Spooney" because they thought he couldn't be trusted with a fork. I mean it was only a little incident, and it was only a professor, not a dean or anything. I've got some more information for you. Meet me in my office as soon as you get this message. Ron __________________________________________________ FREE Email for ALL! Sign up at http://www.mail.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:02:14 +1000 Reply-To: lizo@ozemail.com.au Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Liz O Subject: Re: Not OUATIM: Dr Atcliffe to Dr Klein MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit LOL! Brava! Brava! or as Barry McKenzie would say Beauty, Bonza mate! I know its not strictly part of the QUATIM continuity but its a fine addition. I am sure that you and Bernie have much to talk about. Keep it coming! Liz Olsson Phillip Atcliffe wrote: > > Hi, Bernie! > > Owyergoinmateorright? I know, I know -- ethnic humour... Actually, > one of my uncles really talks like that. > > Just touching base (while I can) at the start of a new academic year...... ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 15:31:06 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: LabRat Subject: Re: Caped Fear MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Anne wrote: >As well you should be ( ducking and running for cover that is. So you have >any idea how many reams of paper it took to print the original 6 gazillion >parts of Caped Fear?) > >I'm sending you the bill for the ink. Ah well, learned my lesson. In 20 years I never released a story half written. Don't know what got into me last year. You may well be safe for a time because I think I'm going to have to put Operations on hold. Bernie's been acting awful suspicious lately. With the amount of important government projects he's involved with - not to mention acting as Superman's personal physician - I certainly hope its not early senility creeping in. Yesterday he cleaned out my cage *three* times! Luckily, I always know when Bernie's on his way - he's the only one here who wears Adonis cologne - so I was able to shred the paper, mix it in with my hay, and push the pencil through the bars before he arrived. Was a close call third time around though. He'd only just been gone 10 minutes before he was back! Lost three pages of story, but am sure I can reconstruct them from memory. The pencil is a goner though. Some helpful bright spark saw it lying on the floor, picked it up and wandered off with it. Hate that. Anyway, Bernie wandered off again, muttering something about knowing that Phil was just pulling his leg and "Mehitabel? Hah!" Whatever *that* means. Maybe I should talk to Clark next time Superman arrives for his checkup and ask him to keep an eye on him for a time. It's worrying, all this abnormal behaviour. He'll know what to do. It's nice having someone to rely on here in Metropolis who understands these things and can understand Ratspeak. You humans usually can't cope with the increased pitch and speed, but then, of course, there's that superhearing thing. Which helps. Ooops. Wasn't supposed to mention that, was I? Although, why you puny humans can't seem to figure out that Clark = Superman just kills me. Lots of times the rest of the guys and I just fall about laughing at that one. I mean...it's *so* obvious! Anyway, I think it might be prudent to abandon my usual Friday raid on Bernie's computer. I like to try to type up my notes at least once a week. Sometimes those pencils are hard to get your claws around. And, besides, bouncing up and down on the keys of the computer is always lots of fun. Usually, Bernie leaves early on Fridays and the lock on this cage is a joke, so it's no problem. But with him acting this way -- ....oh oh. I smell Adonis. Darn. And I'd just gotten the cage fixed up the way I like it again....sigh.... LabRat :) Doc. Klein's LabRat labrat@ukf.net "They couldn't hit an elephant from this dist...." The final words of General John Sedgwick, spoken while looking over the parapet at enemy lines during the Battle of Spotsylvania in 1864. "You will never amount to very much." - Munich Schoolmaster to Albert Einstein, aged 10. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:41:07 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wendy Richards Subject: Re: Caped Fear In-Reply-To: <005601bf0a8c$64a38340$1a9501d4@default> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 15:31:06 +0100 LabRat wrote: [snip] > Anyway, Bernie wandered off again, muttering something about knowing that > Phil was just pulling his leg and "Mehitabel? Hah!" Whatever *that* means. > Maybe I should talk to Clark next time Superman arrives for his checkup and > ask him to keep an eye on him for a time. It's worrying, all this abnormal > behaviour. He'll know what to do. It's nice having someone to rely on here > in Metropolis who understands these things and can understand Ratspeak. You > humans usually can't cope with the increased pitch and speed, but then, of > course, there's that superhearing thing. Which helps. Ooops. Wasn't supposed > to mention that, was I? Although, why you puny humans can't seem to figure > out that Clark = Superman just kills me. Lots of times the rest of the guys > and I just fall about laughing at that one. I mean...it's *so* obvious! ROFL!!! I nearly fell off my chair! Wendy ---------------------- Wendy Richards w.m.richards@hrm.keele.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:27:50 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kathy Brown Subject: Re: Debby's "My Journal" In-Reply-To: <199909291102.FAA07960@kitsune.swcp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 4:57 AM -0600 9/29/99, Debby wrote: >After I feel comfortable and >prepared, I'll be able to relax and type a lot of interesting things :) I >don't >see continuing "My Journal" even though I very much liked writing it, getting >right into the character. One wonders what Jimmy would write :) When I get >creative again, it will probably be with Dawning. Well, Debby, just be sure you have plenty of fully charged laptop batteries on hand, so when you are holed up in your home/basement/bomb shelter , you can type to your heart's content. Then, when the rest of us dig ourselves out, you can supply us with plenty of fanfic to help distract us >from our lack of ATMs and the decimation of our mutual fund accounts. Glad to hear you haven't abandoned Dawning! I have a soft spot for that universe and I'm looking forward to visit it again someday. :) Kathy ______________________ Kathy Brown kathyb@springnet1.com kathyb@lcfanfic.com KathyB on IRC ______________________ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:34:44 EDT Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kath Roden Subject: Re: Caped Fear Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >>Anyway, I think it might be prudent to abandon my usual Friday raid on >>Bernie's computer. I like to try to type up my notes at least once a week. Sometimes those pencils are hard to get your claws around. And, besides, bouncing up and down on the keys of the computer is always lots of fun. Usually, Bernie leaves early on Fridays and the lock on this cage is a joke, so it's no problem. But with him acting this way -- ....oh oh. I smell Adonis. Darn. And I'd just gotten the cage fixed up the way I like it again....sigh....<< LOL!!! This just goes to prove, you can't keep 'our' good rat down! Lab, I have every confidence that you'll keep outsmarting the good Dr.! KathR ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:44:47 EDT Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kath Roden Subject: Re: Debby's "My Journal" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >>When I get creative again, it will probably be with Dawning.<< YES!!! Yippee, thank you Debby! KathR ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:12:50 EDT Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Laurie Dunn Subject: Re: Not OUATIM: Dr Atcliffe to Dr Klein and S6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Take your "name in vain?" No, never! Especially, having just finished the final episode of S6! Your writing was rich and descriptive. The action was entirely believable (in the L&C world), and brought all the plot lines/ themes to a wonderful conclusion. Great effort, Phil! I, too, am guilty of not posting my comments after every episode. Thank you everyone for a fabulous Season 6. If only WB could have consulted you for ideas and continued filming.... ROTFL!!!!! Between you and LabRat, Bernie's going to have to work extra hard to keep juggling. I had told Yvonne she should have Bernie in the story for comic relief, but I had no idea I'd get such expert help! LaurieD ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:26:45 EDT Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: No Name Available Subject: Re: OUATIM: Perry to Lois and Clark MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 09/29/1999 9:24:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, yconnell@LINEONE.NET writes: << BTW - my old dentist emailed me from the UK. Can you believe it? Turns out this crackpot he's hooked up with to build a time machine knows Dr Klein. Talk about your small world. He also mentioned something about a typing rat - Great Shades of Elvis! This is the man who used to have me at his mercy in a dentist's chair with a lethal drill in his hands! >> LOL Yvonne!! A great way to turn a lemon into lemonade . --Laurie ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:41:21 +0100 Reply-To: Yvonne Connell Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Yvonne Connell Subject: OUATIM: Arbitrator to Eavesdroppers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We seem to have developed a breach between universes, so that one of your number is getting gradually sucked into our story. I'm not sure how long the rift will remain stable, and if he's caught on the wrong side when it collapses, I fear for his safety. However, he's a very welcome visitor, and I know Dr Klein enjoys discussing the more esoteric aspects of time travel with him, so in light of this, I have decided to grant him honorary membership of the OUATIM team. Welcome to the Other Side, Dr Phillip Atcliffe! As we say here at OUATIM: Don't ask *me* about the peanut butter jars, I thought they were your idea. Yvonne Arbitrator, Once Upon A Time In Metropolis PS: You have Wendy to thank for your honorary status :) ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:58:57 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: James Tull Subject: 7 days of Superman - oops MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii The subject line should have read 7 Days of Superman - Act I. James __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:52:18 -0400 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Sandy McDermin Subject: Re: Caped Fear MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit LabRat: Did you say your story would be put out on the Debby/Joyce list? I wondered since I hadn't seen an ad for it. Sandy -- frustrated because she's missing so many nKerth nominated stories from her collection she can't vote. smcdermin@erols.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:53:43 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Debby Subject: Re: Debby's "My Journal" In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:27 AM 09/29/1999 -0500, Kathy wrote: >At 4:57 AM -0600 9/29/99, Debby wrote: >>After I feel comfortable and >>prepared, I'll be able to relax and type a lot of interesting things :) I don't >>see continuing "My Journal" even though I very much liked writing it, getting >>right into the character. One wonders what Jimmy would write :) When I get >>creative again, it will probably be with Dawning. > > >Well, Debby, just be sure you have plenty of fully charged laptop batteries I just bought a spare ($239.00!!!!--the cheapest price I've seen 'em). Our local power company is working hard to become Y2k compliant and I think they may succeed. Fortunately for me, their main office building is about 2 blocks >from where I live ;) >on hand, so when you are holed up in your home/basement/bomb shelter , >you can type to your heart's content. Yes, precisely! >Then, when the rest of us dig >ourselves out, you can supply us with plenty of fanfic to help distract us >>from our lack of ATMs and the decimation of our mutual fund accounts. Don't forget that water and sewer works run on electricity and computers... I hope to have a lot of stuff to put on my ftp site eventually :) I bought extra paper and pens too ;) >Glad to hear you haven't abandoned Dawning! I have a soft spot for that >universe and I'm looking forward to visit it again someday. :) Me, too, actually! It's more fun than reality :) >Kathy Debby "I don't think the universe is as it seems. I don't think time is what it seems. I don't think *we* are what we seem." --W. Strieber, 1988 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 21:43:11 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kathy Brown Subject: nKerth stories (was Re: Caped Fear) In-Reply-To: <37F2A632.5474D33E@erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 7:52 PM -0400 9/29/99, Sandy McDermin wrote: >Sandy -- frustrated because she's missing so many nKerth nominated >stories from her collection she can't vote. Sandy, this isn't due to the MBs, though. This year's nKerths cover stories from the last 3-4 years, before the MBs and various websites came into play. I read most of the nominees even though I don't visit the MBs. Between Debby/Joyce and Anne's nfic archive for the round robins, I was able to get the vast majority of the stories. As for Caped Fear ... Labrat did say she sent it to Joyce, but remember, Joyce is swamped right now dealing with all the requests she's receiving due to the nKerths. I don't blame her for not getting it out ASAP. Since the file is around a Mg, I can see she'd need to wait to find some time before sending it out to her distribution list. Kathy ______________________ Kathy Brown kathyb@springnet1.com kathyb@lcfanfic.com KathyB on IRC ______________________ ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 23:51:48 -0400 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Sandy McDermin Subject: Re: nKerth stories (was Re: Caped Fear) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kathy Brown wrote: > > At 7:52 PM -0400 9/29/99, Sandy McDermin wrote: > >Sandy -- frustrated because she's missing so many nKerth nominated > >stories from her collection she can't vote. > > Sandy, this isn't due to the MBs, though. I didn't say it was due to the message boards. > This year's nKerths cover > stories from the last 3-4 years, before the MBs and various websites came > into play. I read most of the nominees even though I don't visit the MBs. > Between Debby/Joyce and Anne's nfic archive for the round robins, I was > able to get the vast majority of the stories. Over the years, I haven't collected all the stories, although I seem to have plenty on more than a few disks and on my c-drive. But, despite that, I just don't have them all. I took myself off of Joyce's automatic receipt list a long time ago so that I could decide which stories I wanted. Maybe I have different taste from that of the nominators. And, I've never been on Anne's nfic archive. As I said, I stopped collecting passwords. However, I have been on Zoomway's old message boards -- Nfic 1 through Nfic 6. So, I had a password to those >from a while back and am quite happy about that. > As for Caped Fear ... Labrat did say she sent it to Joyce, but remember, > Joyce is swamped right now dealing with all the requests she's receiving > due to the nKerths. I don't blame her for not getting it out ASAP. Since > the file is around a Mg, I can see she'd need to wait to find some time > before sending it out to her distribution list. I wasn't criticizing Joyce -- especially since she just sent me 4 stories. I was simply asking LabRat if she had sent her story to Joyce as I thought I remembered her saying. As you know usually when a story goes to Debby/Joyce's list, the list members receive an "ad." Sometimes the ads ask us to wait before requesting a story because Joyce is swamped. When I didn't receive any notice -- the size of which isn't around a Mg -- I began to think I had misunderstood LabRat. That's all. Sandy -- not only frustrated at not *having* all the stories in her collection, but also frustrated over not being able to remember the finer points of the ones she has. I'm afraid I'm going to have to start flipping my lucky coin. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:18:20 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: LabRat Subject: Re: Caped Fear MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sandy wrote: >LabRat: > >Did you say your story would be put out on the Debby/Joyce list? I >wondered since I hadn't seen an ad for it. > Debby - quite sensibly - doesn't send out her ads. until Joyce sends her a copy of the story and lets her know that it's about to be sent out. As a matter of fact, I received a message from Joyce just this morning to say that CF will be sent out on the list soon. Which, to be honest, utterly amazed me because I too assumed that she would be swamped with nkerth requests and wouldn't get to it for a time. Which was just fine by me as I knew she would be. Way to go, Joyce! In fact it might well have been out already, except that I messed up on the attachments and had to send Joyce two of them again. Which is what I get for trying that kind of thing at four in the morning. LabRat :) Doc. Klein's LabRat labrat@ukf.net "They couldn't hit an elephant from this dist...." The final words of General John Sedgwick, spoken while looking over the parapet at enemy lines during the Battle of Spotsylvania in 1864. "You will never amount to very much." - Munich Schoolmaster to Albert Einstein, aged 10. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:56:01 +0100 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Wendy Richards Subject: OUATIM: Clark to Perry [encrypted]; copy to Lois MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Chief - Sorry for the encrypting on this one, but there are a few sensitive issues here.... First, the bomb. I'm back up to speed on that one since getting back >from East Timor. We've had word from Henderson that one of the chemicals used has been identified as potassium chlorate, which is illegal in this country and is mostly manufactured in India. Which seems to lead to Chemco again, since one of their plants is just outside Delhi. Lois's sister Lucy knew Harriet Dow (Harry) years ago, so she's trying to do some digging for us. There was another chemical in there as well, though, and that's still unidentified. We're trying, but even Dr Klein can't work out what it is yet. Maybe this Brit friend of his, Dr Atcliffe, could help? You know, the one who's friendly with your dentist. Did you manage to sort out the truck drivers? You know, we always had good industrial relations at the Planet, and I wasn't aware the Star had any problem either. I might contact the union officers and see what's going on there. You think someone might be trying to stir up trouble there too? Could it be Underhill? You know, the word on the street is he's not a crook. Just weak - so if he is involved in all this, it's not as the kingpin. Someone else has to be pulling his strings. We've got to do something about circulation. I've been thinking... you know, Superman's a big fan of the Daily Planet. Of all the papers that've covered him since he arrived here, the Planet's been concistently fair to him. I'm sure he'd like to help - how about I ask him for an exclusive interview? When I was in Taiwan with him, he was talking about all the times he gets asked to act as an international mediator, and he feels that the UN would do a much better job if its own internal difficulties could be sorted out, and I think he has some ideas about that. I'm sure he'd do a state-of-the-world interview for us if we asked. Lois and I could write it, unless you'd like to interview him yourself. Speaking of Lois, we have some good news... really great news, in fact. You'll probably guess what it is, and I know you'll be delighted for us. I can't tell you here, but maybe you and Alice could come over to dinner soon? Keep taking the Paava leaves! Clark. ---------------------- Wendy Richards w.m.richards@hrm.keele.ac.uk ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 07:07:49 EDT Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "C.C. Malo" Subject: OUATIM: Cat to Perry, cc: Lois , Clark MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Perry, Had lunch with Harry P Dow and an interesting chat about her world travels -- she was in Zaire six months ago. She gave me some helpful tips on how to get around customs. Wonder why she wanted to and how often she does that? btw, Lisa tells me that Jeffers has been seeing Roxanne for the last couple of months. She's pretty sure the two were together the morning of the bombing. Looks like Jeffers isn't connected with the bombing but I wonder if he saw anything unusual as he sneaking in and out of the building. So your old dentist's hanging out in the UK with nefarious scientists -- probably thought he was picking up extraterrestial signals from your fillings. No wonder you had problems, Chief. Cat ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:36:08 -0400 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Sandy McDermin Subject: Re: Caped Fear MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit LabRat wrote: > > Sandy wrote: > > >LabRat: > > > >Did you say your story would be put out on the Debby/Joyce list? I > >wondered since I hadn't seen an ad for it. > > > Debby - quite sensibly - doesn't send out her ads. until Joyce sends her a > copy of the story and lets her know that it's about to be sent out. As a > matter of fact, I received a message from Joyce just this morning to say > that CF will be sent out on the list soon. Thanks for the info. As I responded to Kathy, sometimes ads go out telling people about a story, but with the proviso to wait a few days before putting in a request which is ... sensible too. In any case, it's got to feel good knowing that people are anxiously awaiting your work.:) > In fact it might well have been out already, except that I messed up on the > attachments and had to send Joyce two of them again. Which is what I get for > trying that kind of thing at four in the morning. You should have seen the problems I had with "Taken" which made me swear I would never write something that large again. Sandy smcdermin@erols.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:11:16 EDT Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Charlotte Fisler Subject: Re: S6 finale (and thanks) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/27/99 3:15:46 PM !!!First Boot!!!, Phillip.Atcliffe@UWE.AC.UK writes: << Oh, boy.... Guess I've found the topic for CP6 then (or is it CP7?). Of course, it does mean that I'd have to go and buy a copy of the SR/SB comics. Are DC doing a TPB? >> Not sure yet. I'll check the new previews and see if anything is listed. I brought one Superman Rad/Superman Blue special about six months or more ago, but it was only a partial story. Charlotte ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:12:26 EDT Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Charlotte Fisler Subject: Re: S6 finale (and thanks) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <> Yes, Sheila. That seems to be the reason, although I'll probably get in trouble for writing this. Frankly, since Lois and Clark, I haven't wanted to watch Chris Reeve as Superman, although before it I liked the film. At least the first two films got Lois and Clark together and Chris SEEMED like Superman, if a whimpy Clark Kent. But then that was the Superman of the 70s and early 80s. I hated the rest of the movie series because they dropped the Lois Lane character and tried to involve Clark Kent with Lana Lang (or eventually no one) when that didn't work. Now Hollywood seems to want to go completely in the opposite direction with Nicholas Cage. A good actor, but Superman? What are they thinking? I hope Phil finishes his series on the films and gives it to them good. And I'd cheer if he tackled the comics as well. Phil seems to be a very widely read individual with knowledge of SF and comics as well as history, etc. If anyone can do it, he can. Charlotte ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:12:55 EDT Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Charlotte Fisler Subject: Re: Fanfics in progress (was RE: Universal Union) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/27/99 2:20:24 PM !!!First Boot!!!, jsowell@MAIL.COM writes: << Sandy wrote: ... now that the S6 stories are over, this list is in desperate need of fanfic of all sorts, at all stages to stimulate all kinds of conversation. I'm beginning to mourn a little here. >> Okay, okay. I'll post part 1 of Cruising Revelation this week. Not like one from labrat or Zoom or Sheila or .... but maybe it will give a little water in the middle of a drought. Charlotte aka daydreamer80 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:56:37 EDT Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Charlotte Fisler Subject: Cruise pt1 pg1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is my personal revelation story. The entire story is in three parts. This is part 1 and it too is divided into 3 parts. I am posting this in three pages, @ 15KB each Please advise if this is too long for e-mail. The archive says 20KB is okay. Also page 3 includes a steamy part in which I describe how Clark (Dean Cain) looks in nothing but a pair of black briefs and Lois Terri Hatcher) in a white lace teddy. The scene is written with no actual sex described, so I am assuming this is no more than PG 13) Please advise, if my interpretation is incorrect. Neither character is dressed as, or described in less than, he/she was on the show, although the show didn't dwell on the scenes. (BG) Revealing Cruise, Part I. Undercover on a cruise Ship Summary Lois and Clark investigate an international drug cartel. During the cruise, they each learn some starting facts about themselves and their partner. As always, comments welcome. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Daydreamer80 Cdfisler@aol.com Revealing Cruise Part 1 Undercover on a cruise ship. By Daydreamer80 Lois Lane sat at her desk on a Monday morning. Clark Kent wasn't in the newsroom. Perry White had asked her where her partner was, and Lois told him he was meeting with a source. **At least, I'm getting expert at making up excuses for Clark, ** she thought. Considering how eventful the last few weeks had been, this one seemed at first almost anti-climactic. Clark had not yet told her whatever secret he'd intended to impart after the cruise ship they had been on sailed into Metropolis harbor. But Lois now knew how much her partner loved her and she understood the depth of her feelings for him. She'd vowed that she would trust him. **That, ** she thought ironically **was probably a good thing, ** for that love had been tested many times during the succeeding two weeks. Clark had taken her back to her apartment Sunday evening after they finished writing up the cruise story for the Daily Planet. The newspaper account, both partners were certain, was Kerth material, and could conceivably garner a Pulitzer. **If, that is, it ever sees the light of day, ** Lois thought. The partners passworded the story and LAN'd it to Perry, who was under orders to keep the story under wraps until Interpol contacted him to allow publication. "We have to have that talk I promised you now," Clark had told her, but as they were about to enter Lois's apartment building, he said that he wouldn't be able to come up after all. This time, instead of getting angry, Lois really looked at her partner. She could tell by his face that he was trying to think up an excuse for leaving. **He doesn't want to go, ** she thought, as sudden understanding burst on her like the return of the sun after a summer thunderstorm. **He wants to stay. He wants to talk to me, be with me, love me - but he can't. Why? ** Warmed by that thought, even if she didn't understand the reason behind it, Lois kissed Clark, told him she'd see him the next day at work, and sent him on his way. Armed with this new insight into Clark's odd behavior, Lois started covering for him at work. She kept the vow in spite of having no idea what could be so pressing as to require his presence over the next couple of weeks, and even made what sounded to her own ears like ridiculous excuses for her absent partner. "He had to return a book to the library, Chief," she told a skeptical Perry White. "Really, really, overdue." Fortunately after more than a year of excellent journalism by her coworker, no one including Perry questioned her partner's whereabouts any longer. **Clark may not know it but they consider him one of the best reporters on the Daily Planet's staff, after me of course, ** Lois thought smugly. The newspaper's readership eagerly looked for Clark Kent's by-line, and that after all was the bottom line. SSSSSSSSSS Lois and Clark had been getting closer, and had even been out on a couple of almost dates and one real dinner date. Lois smiled, thinking about that wonderful four-hour meal. They just talked, but somehow it felt right. "I had a really good time," she told him, "really, really good," before she slammed the door in his face. Fortunately, she regretted that action the next day, and apologized before Mayson Drake, who had been attracted to her partner, could horn in on the relationship. Mayson had subsequently moved on to a position in the DA's office at the state capital, and was out of the picture, much to Lois's delight. Lois could never warm to a woman who was so antagonistic toward Superman. True, she'd given up her fantasy of loving the superhero, but he was still a good friend, and the Assistant DA's attitude irritated her. **Maybe I should be grateful. Mayson blew any chance she might have had with Clark when she said: "I always knew he was a menace, and now he's proved it" about Superman, who'd just been tricked into stealing nuclear warheads for Intergang. ** **Lois, ** her inner voice pointed out, **you were the one who, however unwittingly, tricked Superman. ** **Well, it all turned out okay, ** she retorted. **Superman recovered the warheads and captured the Intergang contact and Lucky Leon, the perpetrator of the whole mess. Too bad - or maybe too good - that Mayson didn't understand that Clark's also a special friend of Superman. ** SSSSSS Her thoughts turned again to the event-filled cruise investigation and its wonderful culmination, and Lois smiled to herself. Lois and Clark had been working on separate stories on a Thursday morning when they were summoned to a meeting in one of the smaller, more private Daily Planet conference rooms. Three additional men were already in the room. **Must have come up the back way, ** Clark thought. Perry introduced the visitors as agents Conners and Philipps of Interpol's London and Paris offices, and agent Willard of its Metropolis arm. Suspicious, Lois wanted to know what representatives of the international police were doing in a meeting with Lois and Clark, and Perry White. Perry explained that Interpol needed help from his pair of seasoned investigators with a sting operation intended to break up an international cartel. "The cartel deals in UN donated medicines intended for plague victims in Africa and South America," explained agent Willard. "The medicines are intercepted and resold on black markets in Europe and Asia." "Why us?" Clark asked, more intrigued than wary. "Simple," responded the Metropolis agent, "a number of clandestine, late-night meetings are scheduled to take place on a cruise ship departing on Saturday from Metropolis and returning the following Friday. We need to know what's said at those meetings. The cabin, next to the one where our sources tell us the meetings are to take place, will contain surveillance equipment, and we have to have people we can trust in that cabin as well, experienced people. If the cartel gets wind that the cabin is inhabited with Interpol's people, they'll become suspicious, call the whole thing off, and the operation will fail." "But Clark and I are well-known in Metropolis," Lois interrupted. "Yes, but you won't be yourselves. You two will be provided with false identities and complete backgrounds," the agent assured her. Perry told them: "You'll pose as well-to-do newlyweds, who secretly eloped against the wishes of their families, and are traveling incognito on an ordinary tourist ship. On a large ship like that, no one will suspect honeymooners." "Honeymooners, oh, no, Perry, absolutely not," Lois objected, focusing on the unacceptable part. "Lois honey, it's a natural. You two already posed as honeymooners once before at the Lexor hotel. This is no different," he added smiling broadly. "The Daily Planet has been promised an exclusive after the gang leaders are rounded up, and Lois, this is Kerth material for sure, maybe even a Pulitzer," Perry said, dangling his most persuasive argument before the eyes of both his star reporters. "Clark and I together sharing a cabin on a cruise ship, no way." Lois wasn't sold. "Will you excuse us for a minute," Clark interjected, taking his partner by the hand and pulling her out of the room. Walking to the copier room - his super hearing told him it was unoccupied - Clark proceeded to try to sway his reluctant partner to take the assignment. "Lois, what's the problem? We get the goods, stop a particularly nasty operation, and the planet gets the exclusive." "Clark, no!" "Maybe even a Pulitzer." Lois could see that her partner hungered for the journalism award every bit as much as she did. **Clark's a good reporter, worthy of all the accolades, ** and he was her partner and her best friend. "Only if you promise that you won't break my rule against getting involved romantically with anyone I work with," she concluded. Now Clark understood Lois's problem. He didn't want to add to Lois's concern, so he decided to make light of the possibility: "Not unless you want me to," he said slyly. "Clark!" "Okay, okay, I promise," he reassured his partner. Clark had proved worthy of Lois's trust, and she knew he would never make her do anything she wasn't ready for, so she agreed grinning: "Then, let's go nail that Kerth." Clark and Lois returned to the conference room, where they were filled in on the specifics of the plan. "Interpol will pay for suitable clothes for Mr. Kent and Ms. Lane," they were told. "You heard the man, Lois and Clark. The two of you have fitting appointments for 3pm at 'Well-fitted Lord and Lady' this afternoon." Lois whistled. "Wow, that place is expensive. I didn't know they rented." "They don't. You two get to keep the clothes. Consider it 'payment' for your services," agent Conners told her. "Here are the other pieces for your disguises." He took out a plain paper bag, and removed a small jewelry box that he handed to Lois. Inside was a wedding ring, set with the largest diamonds Lois had even seen. In addition, he handed Clark a pair of diamond cuff links and Lois a pair of diamond earrings. "Wear them everywhere on the cruise ship. Verisimilitude is absolutely vital to the undercover operation." "I don't suppose we get to keep these," Lois asked. "No, those are rented. One of our operatives will collect them at the Daily Planet, on the Monday after the cruise." SSSSSSSSSS Lois and Clark went to the store and chose traveling suits, formal dinner- and evening- wear, and casual clothes. The wardrobes were altered to fit them perfectly. With the exception of Lois and Clark's choices for the day of embarking, everything was sent directly to the ship. On Friday, they each received detailed copies of the invoices. When Lois saw hers, she grabbed Clark and went into Perry's Office, closing the door behind them. "Perry, what is this? I can see an evening gown and sport clothes, but a white lace teddy?" "You're supposed to be on your honeymoon. What are you gonna wear, pajamas and a frumpy bathrobe?" Still he had the grace to look abashed. "Honey, the Interpol guys insisted that you two be dressed appropriately at all times during the sting operation. These aren't kids you're playing with. This is the big time. Wear the teddy, Lois." "What did you get Clark," she asked sourly. "Briefs, just briefs." Suspiciously she asked, "what color briefs, Clark?" "Black," he admitted flushing. "Great," Lois said. Then she dropped the whole subject, and told them: "I have to finish writing up the story I was working on," as she hastily left her editor's office. "Sorry, Clark. She seems upset. Do the best you can son, this is important." "Right, Chief." Leaving Perry's office, Clark assured his partner that what they wore wouldn't affect their actions. "This is strictly business, Lois." **Ha. Good thing he doesn't know about the nightgown and peignoir set I chose as well. The teddy stays in the suitcase. ** "I can be businesslike too," Lois promised, "and I can pretend as well as anyone else when we're in public. Just watch it when we're alone, Kent." Clark had no idea that, what had really bothered Lois in Perry's office was a vision she had of Clark, clad only in a pair of black briefs, very brief briefs. She'd run out before he could see her blushing. SSSSSSSSSSSSS Continued in Cruise pt1 pg1 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:14:03 EDT Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Charlotte Fisler Subject: Re: Cruise pt1 p2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Revealing Cruise, Part I, pg 2 Undercover on a cruise ship Summary Lois and Clark investigate an international drug cartel. During the cruise, they each learn some starting facts about themselves and their partner. As always, comments welcome. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Daydreamer80 Cdfisler@aol.com Revealing Cruise pt 1 Undercover on a cruise ship. By DayDreamer80 xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Saturday morning dawned bright and clear. Clark dressed carefully in his choice of outfit, then went to pick up Lois at her apartment. His knock on the door was answered almost immediately as Lois came to the door and opened it just enough to poke her head out. "Hi," Clark said, just a little shyly. "Hi," was the response. Stepping aside, Lois signaled for him to come inside. When she stepped away from the door, Clark was hard pressed not to gasp. Dressed in a sleeveless burgundy A-line dress with a low collar and a matching jacket, Lois was dazzling. "You look fantastic," Clark breathed. Lois's eyes too had gone wide at the sight of Clark. "That's a charcoal suit, isn't it?" was all she could manage. "Yeah. I can change if you don't like it," Clark assured her, mistaking her intention. "No, no. I like what you're wearing. I'll get my coat and we can go." A blue BMW sports car was waiting in Lois's parking spot in place of her jeep. "Another present," Clark said grinning, "do you think we'll get to keep this one?" "I doubt it. They'll probably demand the keys back as soon as we disembark. Still that suit is almost worth the whole sting operation. I-I mean it's a pretty expensive looking suit." Hastily, she continued: "Well, we'd better be going. We don't want to miss the boat. That would really be bad. What kind of investigative reporters would we be if we didn't make the boat?" Clark silenced her. "I'd better drive. I mean that's probably the way it's done. Verisimilitude, you know." He was starting to babble himself, so he abruptly shut up. "Right." Lois got into the passenger side of the BMW, and they were soon on their way to the docks. The car's top was down, and out of the corner of his eye, Clark could see the wind blowing her salon dressed hair. **Concentrate on your driving, ** he told himself firmly. **This is business. ** Lois too was having a rough time staying focused on the matter at hand. **He's really something at the wheel ... in that suit...wow! That cabin had better be big. ** That, however, was not the case. Clark was expecting it. As soon as they got on the ship, the Captain himself greeted them: "Mr. and Mrs. Karl Jensen. It's a pleasure to have you on board," he said, as he invited them to dine at his table during the voyage. While Lois was engaged looking around the ship, he took Clark aside and confided: "The cabin is small, a single bed, no couch. Late reservations and a crowded ship," he reluctantly informed his wealthy guest. "It'll be all right. We're honeymooners," Clark assured him. **Yeah sure. Wait until Lois finds out. ** The little voice inside his head actually sounded gleeful about the whole affair. Lois took his arm and pulled him along with her. "Come on Clark. Let's get settled, then we can go for a swim before dinner. Might as well enjoy ourselves while we can. So, where's our cabin?" "Level C, in tourist class," he admitted. "Tourist class?" Lois asked becoming suspicious. "What about verisimilitude? Karl and Lucy Jensen are supposed to be rich." "I guess they had no choice. It has to be one of the two cabins adjoining the one where the meetings will be held." "Yeah, you're right. They showed me the floor plan of the meeting cabin, and it was a pretty good sized one." Indeed, as they walked down the corridor toward their cabin, the tourist facilities looked quite luxurious. The door to the meeting cabin was open, and they glanced into a sitting room with doors leading to separate rooms on either side. "According to the floor plan, one door leads to a large bedroom and the other to a full bath," a reassured Lois told her partner. "Here's our cabin," she told Clark as she flung the door open and walked in. Her face fell. "It's so small," Lois said in an equally small voice. "The Captain said this was the one the agent insisted on. I guess the one on the other side was already booked." "Clark there's only one bed, and the bath is tiny. There isn't even a couch for one of us to sleep on." Lois was becoming angry, so Clark tried to soothe her: "It'll be okay, Lois. I don't need as much sleep as you do, so I'll just sleep in one of the deck chairs." "No, that won't work. These guys are pros. Both of us have to be here when they have their meetings. If only one of can verify the meeting tapes, their lawyers will have the evidence thrown out of court. Besides we don't know when the meetings will take place, and I'd have no way of getting in touch with you if you're sleeping on deck." **Lois, all you ever have to do is whisper, and I'd be with you in a heartbeat. I wish I could tell you that. ** But he only said: "All right, but I sleep on the floor." "Don't you want to alternate, like we did in the Lexor hotel?" "No. That time we had a couch for the other to sleep on. This time we don't; no arguments, Lois. I've made up my mind." SSSSSSSSS They changed into casual clothes and went to explore the ship. Since they had their swimsuits with them, they decided to go for a dip first. Clark found he had to grab for a towel and spread it over his trunks, when the sight of Lois diving into the pool had an unexpected effect on him. Except for that small problem, they spent a delightful afternoon strolling around the deck and visiting the ship's stores. Lois even purchased an exquisite underwater castle for her fish tank, telling the clerk to send the bill to 'Karl Jensen' when they got back to shore. "Lois," Clark groaned when they were out of earshot, "there is no Karl Jensen." "So, let Interpol pay for it," she told him. "Lighten up, Clark. I'm not gonna bankrupt the organization, but I think we are entitled to a few souvenirs from the trip." The rest of the afternoon was spent trying out some shipboard games like shuffleboard and horse races, and even playing a few quiet board games in the lounges. Unbeknownst to Lois, Clark let her win whenever a competitive game involved just the two of them. He knew how much she liked to win, and he definitely did not want her upset on this trip. Besides using his super powers would have been cheating, and Lois was well able to beat an ordinary man. At six, they changed back into the clothes they'd worn earlier in the day and went to dinner. Lois couldn't help noticing the envious looks on the faces of so many of the ship's female passengers as they were escorted to the Captain's table. Glancing sideways at her partner, who was dressed again in the charcoal suit, she could understand their feelings; Clark certainly was a fine figure of a man. Lois and Clark proved they could hold their own in conversation with the cream of Metropolis's society during dinner. Lois particularly shined. She was utterly charming, as she relaxed in the company of friendly, intelligent people, none of whom knew 'Mad Dog Lane.' After they left the table, Clark overheard compliments, from people who had dined with them or at nearby tables, about the excellent choice Karl Jensen had made in a bride. The evening was spent in the ship's club, having drinks and enjoying the music of its band, and listening to its resident singer, who happened to also be the cruise director. Lois, in the burgundy dress but not wearing its matching jacket, was a vision of loveliness. At one point, Clark walked up to the bandleader and requested a particular song, then took Lois's hand to dance. The strains of 'I've got a crush on you' filled the air. "You sing it better," Clark whispered as he drew Lois closer. Lois smiled, remembering that early investigation. After all this time, she was ready to acknowledge her feelings of jealousy, when she'd seen the interest Toni Taylor had taken in Clark. A midnight walk in the moonlight put the finishing touches on a near perfect day. Noticing several passengers watching them, Clark pulled Lois into his arms and kissed her passionately. Feeling Lois stiffen, he whispered "verisimilitude," and Lois relaxed, participating fully. **Just like in the honeymoon suite at the Lexor Hotel, ** Clark told his aroused libido, although he wished with his whole heart, that this time it could have been real. "Come on Kent. Time to retire to the cabin and get ready for bed. It's not likely that any of the meetings will take place tonight, but we will have to spend the bulk of the nights sleeping there while we await some action on the part of the cartel. We might as well get used to it." Back in the cabin, Clark was relieved when Lois told him, in her normal take-charge manner: "You get ready first, then I will. At least, we have a private bathroom even if it's tiny, so we can get undressed separately." Continued in cruise pt 1 pg 3 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:30:11 EDT Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Charlotte Fisler Subject: Cruise pt1 pg 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is the page which has the early steamy part. Also, although I do not describe it, I do have Lois and Clark, unmarried friends, become lovers. (In case anyone, objects to the concept of premarital sex, do not read Charlotte. Revealing Cruise, Part I. pg 3 Lois and Clark investigate an international drug cartel. During the cruise, they each learn some starting facts about themselves and their partner. As always, comments welcome. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Daydreamer80 Cdfisler@aol.com Revealing Cruise pt 1 Undercover on a cruise ship. Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx By DayDreamer80 A short while later, Clark came out of the tiny bathroom dressed in nothing but the pair of black briefs. They were cut high on his thighs and crossed in front, well below his navel. He looked over at Lois and shrugged, as if to say: "What else could I do?" Lois's eyes couldn't help following the small line of hair, which started at that amazing part of his anatomy and continued down, to eventually disappear into the slightly rounded dip that made up the top edge of his briefs. Finding her eyes focused on the bulge between his upper legs, she pulled her gaze off Clark's lower body. Without conscious consent, Lois's eyes traveled upwards to Clark's well-sculptured pecs surrounding perfectly rounded nipples, and Lois had a sudden urge to circle each nipple with her tongue. There didn't seem to be much hair on his decidedly manly chest. Magnificently muscled arms and strong shoulders completed the vision of male pulchritude. He slouched slightly, she noted, but that was definitely not a defect. "Lois," Clark's voice interrupted Lois's reverie. "You...you didn't tell me how brief they were," she breathed, before she could stop herself. Blushing furiously, Lois determinedly turned her back on her partner, and went to remove the peignoir set from her own overnight bag. After searching through all the suitcases, she realized the nightgown and robe were not among the clothes that had been brought on the ship. "Clark, you didn't take anything out of my bags, did you?" she asked anxiously. "Of course not. Is something wrong Lois?" "No, no, nothing's wrong." Lois had no choice; she'd have to wear the teddy after all. She retired to the bathroom to shower, change, and get ready for bed. While Lois prepared, Clark tried to concentrate on getting acquainted with the surveillance equipment that took up much of the cabin's free space, but he found his eyes traveling toward the glass bathroom door. **Stop that Kent, ** he told himself, for what seemed like the hundredth time since the trip began. Despite his efforts, when Lois finally returned to the main cabin room, all coherent thought seemed to flee as Clark took in Lois, clad in the white teddy he'd heard described previously in Perry's office. **A black teddy is supposed to be sexy, but on Lois a white one is every bit as enticing, ** Clark thought, as his eyes traveled over Lois, seemingly of their own volition. His gaze started at her perfectly formed bare feet, and continued up her long, shapely legs to the slightly rounded hips, barely covered by the brief teddy. Following the garment upwards, he noticed the outward curve of those hips. contrasting with the inward dip at her small waist. He stopped and stared for a moment at her full breasts as they emerged from the sea of white, then went on to gaze at two creamy shoulders, divided by a pulsating white throat. Finally, he found himself arrested by the face of the woman he loved more than anyone else on Earth. Clark Kent, whose writing could bring a reader to tears or to chuckles depending on the effect he wanted, could only murmur breathlessly: "Oh, Lois." Lois saw all that in his eyes, and she too was filled with desire. She walked slowly across the room, placed her arms around his neck, and gave Clark a kiss that soon set both of them on fire. SSSSSSSSSS They continued like that for a time, each of them caught up in the moment, wanting at last to experience what both had dreamed of for so long. Then in the middle of another passionate kiss, Clark felt Lois's wet tears on his cheek. Using every ounce of super strength he had to pull out of the embrace, he sat both of them down on the edge of the bed and asked: "What is it Lois? What's wrong? Don't you want this?" "Clark," Lois said, as the tears coursed down her cheeks, "I want you more than I've ever wanted anyone. It's just that...I'm a-a little skittish about crossing the intimacy threshold with you of all people." "Why, Lois? Because of rule number 1?" "That's part of it, certainly. But it's more because I don't want to lose my partner and my best friend. I-I haven't had a lot of intimate relationships, but all the ones I have had turned out to be Federal disasters." "This one wont be, Lois, I swear." "I know you mean that, but Clark, I've seen what happens when men and women become lovers. That's the real reason for rule number 1. Sooner or later, one of us will slip, and pretty soon everyone at the Planet will know." "Would that really be so bad? I mean, we both want it so what's wrong with people at the Planet knowing?" Lois sighed. "Clark, the one thing I've learned is that, no matter how modern we are, when two people become intimate and others learn of it, it's the woman who bears the brunt of the gossip. It's the old double standard, you know, it's okay for a guy to decide to have sex but a woman is still expected to resist, even if she doesn't want to." "Oh," was all Clark could say. "I just have much more to risk then you do, so no matter how much I want it, that makes a part of me unwilling to do what my heart wants to," Lois concluded. Clark wondered what he could do to make her understand that the risk was just as much on his side as hers. Peering at her tear-streaked face, he decided there was one thing he could say to her. He could let her know about, not his biggest secret, not yet, but about a smaller one he hoped would put her mind at ease. "Lois, I'm gonna tell you something about me, something no other person knows, not even my folks." **Although they may suspect it, ** he thought. "Lois, I'm a-a little skittish too," he assured her. "That's hard to believe. After all, you're not a teenager anymore, you've traveled the whole world, and you're a handsome guy, Clark. Surely some of your sexual experiences were rewarding, not disasters like all of mine were, even if none of yours were of the lifetime commitment kind." Clark was silent for a moment, this was much harder than he'd imagined, and none of his super powers were of any help. Finally, visibly squaring his shoulders, he began. "You're right in part, Lois. I have had girlfriends; I have dated, but the intimacy threshold, the big threshold...." He paused and looked directly into Lois's eyes - she had to believe him, not think he was making this all up just to trick her. "I've never actually crossed it," he concluded in a rush. Lois just stared at him, not knowing how to respond to this startling revelation. Clark went on, desperately trying to recover from what he was beginning to think was a big mistake. "I've stepped right up and taken a good look..." but all Lois could manage to squeak out was: "Oh, my Lord." SSSSSSSS They sat silently for several minutes, until Clark got up, grabbed the shorts and top he'd been wearing before dinner, and walked to the door. Lois couldn't help contrasting his carefully folded items with her carelessly heaped pile of discarded clothing. **What's wrong with me, thinking about piles of clothing at a time like this?** she chided herself, as Clark's voice broke into her irreverent thoughts. "I-I won't bother you any more, Lois," he told her in a voice filled with despair. "I'll just go up on deck for a while, **and take a swim...in the waters off Antarctica. ** I'll come back later when you're...composed, and we can go on the way we intended to before tonight. I'll sleep in my clothes so..." Unable to go on, Clark's hand grasped and turned the doorknob, as he prepared to leave, and Lois was brought abruptly out of her frozen state. "No, no, don't go! Please, Clark come and sit here," she told him patting the bed beside her. He never could deny her anything, so he walked dejectedly back, and sat down. Her thoughts in a whirl, Lois thought about what Clark had confided. **It's not true! ** her suspicious inner voice screamed, but Lois had seen the sincerity in Clark's face, and she knew that it was indeed the absolute truth. **So what does that mean? Why did Clark reveal something that neither he, nor any other man, would normally tell another living soul? What did telling me accomplish, and why? ** It had, she realized, turned the whole intimacy thing upside down. No longer was it Lois who was at risk. Whether or not they decided to act on their mutual desires, Lois need only whisper the secret to a few select people at the Daily Planet, and it would be Clark who would be the recipient of knowing looks and pitying shakes of the head. And that of course was exactly why he'd told her. She looked over at her partner, the one person in the world who loved her enough to trust her with that kind of power, and her heart swelled with love. Yes, she loved him and she knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he loved her as well. "Why, Clark?" she asked. She had to know the reason he'd waited. "You're a good-looking guy, surely there have been women you were attracted to." Suddenly she had an idea, "Clark, you aren't...you know." "No, no," he assured her. "I just...wanted to wait...until I-I was sure it was really love," he admitted miserably. Lois's face broke out into a broad smile, confusing her unhappy partner. "Lois, I-I know it's a little different, I'm a little different," he tried, praying Lois could accept this little difference so later on, when he told about the really big difference, she wouldn't turn away in disgust. Taking his head in her hands, she lifted his chin so he would have to look at her, and, smiling, she said softly: "My dearest Clark, we have all the time in the world. We're on a cruise alone together, and I intend to spend as much time as either of us needs to ensure that when we do make love - and we will, my love, we will - it will be perfect for both of us," she promised. Gratified by the relieved grin that suffused Clark's face at hearing her words, Lois sealed her vow with a kiss. Clark responded with all the pent-up emotion he'd been holding inside for close to two years, and soon they were passionately engaged once more. While the night was still young, they discovered to their mutual delight that, while Clark paced his love making until he detected that Lois was completely ready, it was no trouble at all for either of them to cross the intimacy threshold. All that night, and many more times during the rest of the cruise, Lois and Clark enjoyed that most precious of human experiences, full and complete physical love. SSSSSSSSSSSSS The following morning, Clark determined to tell Lois he was Superman. **A cruise is the perfect place, ** he thought, but that was not to be. They were kept so busy between their surveillance work at night, and shipboard activities all day and into the evening, that the only free time was late at night. With Lois eager to repeat the joyful 'activities' of that first night, Clark just couldn't bring himself to spoil everything with his revelation. He would tell her, he promised himself, as soon as he could, when they got back to shore. sssssssssss "Lois," he told her, after the final night of passion, "there's something I need to tell you." But all Saturday and most of Sunday, Superman's presence was required around the city. **Every time I take a few days off, every crook and petty criminal in the city comes out of the woodwork,** he thought, when things finally quieted down late Sunday afternoon. He went to the Daily Planet to meet Lois and file the story. **Right after we get done here, ** he vowed, but on the way to Lois's apartment, he heard a police report of a five alarm fire in suicide slum. The dispatcher warned of explosive materials stored in one factory. Superman was needed. The subsequent two weeks continued to be every bit as busy for the by-now-desperate Superhero as they had been at the start, and the opportunity to have the long awaited talk just never materialized. SSSSSSSSSSSSS To be continued in Revealing Cruise part 2 Which takes up where this section ends. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 13:26:39 -0400 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Joy Sowell Subject: Re: Cruise, Part 1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This contains a spoiler, so if you haven't read it, you are warned. Charlotte, I for one enjoyed your revelation story. When will we see Part 2? I don't think it is aove PG-13ish, but the "ish" is kind of a gray area. S P O I L E R S P A C E Two weeks? Just how bad *is* Lois going to flip when she finds out that she's been sleeping with Superman all this time? OUCH!! __________________________________________________ FREE Email for ALL! Sign up at http://www.mail.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 13:52:07 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Carolyn Schnall Subject: Re: The Innocent Bystander's Survival Guide In-Reply-To: <4.0.2.19990927171328.008b5320@mail.swcp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Oh Debby:) This is hilarious!!!! I'm so glad you found and posted this!!! Keep 'em coming!!! Thanks, Carolyn cschnall@mail.med.cornell.edu > ###################################################### > WARNING! THIS MAIL SENT BY AN UNVERIFIED USER! > READER BEWARE!!! > ###################################################### > >>>From John Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:55:47 -0400 >From: John VanSickle >Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.sf.written >Subject: The Innocent Bystander's Survival Guide >Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:55:47 -0400 > >Now it's pretty obvious that the Hero's job would be ten times easier if it >weren't for the >normal human beings who are constantly wandering into the combat scene during >struggles >with Bad Guys. With reporters getting held hostage, kids who happen to be >standing at the >point of impact for a plummeting grand piano, parents worrying about >psychically overactive >children, and so forth, we can see just pages and pages of unnecessary action >getting >crammed into each and every tale of heroic struggle. Come on, people. Let's >just try to stay >out of harm's way so that Superguy can finally rub out the scum once and for >all, eh? > > DISCLAIMER: The use of masculine/feminine pronouns and assignment of >gender roles >is not intended to preclude a reversal of gender roles. It is, however, >intended to offend >those who think that Plato and Aristotle conspired to oppress women. Nyah. > >This list is kept at http://users.erols.com/vansickl/innocent.htm > >1. Never take on someone that has just beaten the Hero, unless it is to >distract him just >before the Hero delivers the killing blow. > >2. If the Evil Overlord announces to the world that he has reformed and wants >only to help >people, throw a party, and give away money, don't go. Not even if he's playing >Prince's >music. Especially if he's playing Prince's music. If he's lying, you'll be a >hostage or a >statistic. If he's telling the truth, catch the next one. > >3. Watching the Evil Overlord's interview on TV will certainly be interesting, >but do not be >in the studio audience when he/she/it hosts "Saturday Night Live." Tape it, >and wait a week >or so to see if any other viewers had any seizures or mind-control problems >before you >watch the tape. > >4. If you're riding on public transport and the Magnificent Seven board your >train or bus, get >out immediately and wait for the next one. Especially if they're in their >street clothes. > >5. If you are exceptionally attractive, stay away from banks. It's always the >buxom redhead >who gets taken hostage by the bankrobbers. > >6. Do not run back to get your teddy bear or puppy. > >7. If you have small children, keep them on one of those kid leashes when in >public, so that >they won't go running back after their teddy bear or puppy. > >8. When a Bad Guy uses you for a human shield, certain delicate areas of his >body are in >striking range of your heel. Go for it. > >9. If an acquaintance of yours seems to disappear everytime the Hero puts >in an >appearance, >rub some of those brain cells together and see what comes up. > >@@10. If your child has an adult friend who frequently urges your child to >clear his/her >mind, or tells you that your child has "a rare gift," set your affairs in >order. Your days are >numbered. > >11. If you are a news reporter, find a happy medium between the people's right >to know and >your right to not get kidnapped/held hostage/etc. > >12. Likewise, if you are a policeman, bank guard, or night watchman, and your >first shot >bounces off of the intruder's chest, try shooting other areas of the >intruder's >body, like their >face, groin, etc. If this also fails, do not waste the rest of your ammo on >him/her/it, or risk >your neck in hand-to-hand combat; instead, fall back and observe. > >13. Do not attempt to duplicate the means by which the Hero gained his/her >powers. You >will either fail and die a lingering, agonizing death, or succeed, lose >control >of your powers, >wreck half of the city, and make it necessary for the Hero to kill you to >neutralize the threat >you pose to everyone else. > >14. If you associate with the Hero, you run the risk of becoming a True >Love or >a Sidekick, >depending on your availability and mutual gender preferences. The former >situation will >involve hostage situations on a semi-regular basis, but chances of survival >are >optimal. The >latter position can be quite hazardous to your health; avoid it. > >15. If the Hero and the Evil Overlord are engaged in mortal battle, go >somewhere else as >quickly as possible, before you are squished by a car, the statue of the >city's >founder, or a >collapsing skyscraper. > >16. If you notice that your fellow reporter can type 1,024 words per minute, >you should be >able to tell that something's up. > >17. If the Evil Overlord offers you immortality, superpowers, or infinite >wealth, and all you >have to do is something that seems terribly trivial, don't. It's a trick. You >will be used as a >pawn in a larger game, and then crushed like a bug. > >18. Don't try to impress your significant other by emulating something that a >Hero once did. >Doing so usually results in said Hero having to come and save your butt. And >you look like >a complete loser, too. > >19. When you hear reports that the Hero has been involved in some illicit >activity, remain >skeptical; it's probably a frame-up. > >20. Never purposely investigate the Hero in order to learn his true identity. >Even the >appearance of success will get you kidnapped by the Evil Overlord. > >21. If a Superhero takes up residence in your city, a nice spacious estate in >the country will >help you to actualize your potential lifespan. > >22. If you are a security guard for a vast, powerful corporation, try to get >assigned to the >Marketing or Personnel departments, rather than R&D. > >23. If there's a shy, quiet kid in your class that everyone picks on, treat >him >with respect and >kindness. When his psychic powers are made manifest, you may actually survive. > >24. If you are spending the night in a spooky old house on a dare, do not >sneak >away to >another part of the house for romantic interludes with your Significant Other. >Instead, wait >until you can get a nice, clean, safe motel room. > >25. If you come across a body, do not walk slowly in the direction of a >suspicious noise, or >stand above the body in a stunned state of shock. Instead, call the police on >your cell phone. > >26. If your Mom or Dad is an eccentric researcher, insist that you live close >to civilization >so that you can socialize with your peers and date. That way you'll be able to >judge the Hero >and the Evil Overlord on their own merits. > >27. If your Mom or Dad is an eccentric researcher, insist that they educate >you >in their >specialty, so that you can duplicate their research as the need arises, and >excercise some >restraint on their schemes should they become mad. > >28. If the Hero says "wait here," it really doesn't matter whether you obey >him >or not. If >you stay, you will be captured by the Evil Overlord's henchmen as soon as the >Hero is out >of earshot. If you tag along, you will be caught by the Evil Overlord's >henchmen as you >stumble along. > >29. Evil Overlord's friendly overtures are never sincere. If he is suddenly >friendly to you, >answer him with courtesy and skip town at the first opportunity. If he has >always been >friendly to you, answer him with courtesy and feign utter uselessness in his >designs. > >30. Learn to control sneezing, coughing, and other bodily noises so that you >won't give >yourself away when you're trying to hide from tyrannosaurs, henchmen, etc. > >31. If you enter a house, fortress, cave, temple, tomb, graveyard, etc., >especially one with a >malevolent aura or history of macabre events, and an eerie, disembodied voice >orders you to >depart the premises, go. > >32. If the mere presence of your new sweetheart provokes a hostile or fearful >reaction in cats >or dogs, terminate the relationship immediately. > >33. If someone chasing after someone else asks you to catch the latter, feign >incomprehension. If you comply, you'll either catch the hero (and thereby play >into the >villain's hands), or catch the villain (who will waste you or use you as a >hostage). > >34. If you are a police man, bank guard, or night watchman, and somebody >breaches the >concrete walls of your facility, it is generally a waste of time trying to ask >them about their >business. > >35. If a new hero shows up who take business away from the old one, keep your >distance; >he's either a Bad Guy pretending to be good, or their powers are not fully >deveolped and >will soon go out of control. > >36. Do not attempt to observe the Hero's fights in person, but rather, content >yourself with >watching it on the nightly news. > >37. If mysterious strangers appear at the birth or adoption of your child and >make epic >proclamations about him/her, listen. > >38. Don't make friends with the Hero's True Love. You'll buy it when she gets >kidnapped. > >39. Do not take a shortcut through the woods. > >40. Do not make the snack run alone. Bring someone else with you. > >41. Do not actively try to become a Sidekick or True Love. If you really have >what it takes, >you'll wind up with the role no matter what you do. > >42. If your corporation conducts research, do not volunteer to work after >hours. That's when >the experiments go awry. > >43. If you run a corporation that conducts research, do not fire one of your >researchers >without first dismantling every bit of their laboratory equipment. > >44. Do not attempt to chase custom-built vehicles, even if you are a >policeman. > >45. If you are singled out as the Chosen One, politely inquire as to what this >entails. If the >job description involves "Defeating the Darkness," and involves long years of >danger and >struggle, you've just been made a Hero, and the person naming you as the >Chosen >One is >your Mentor (or can direct you to your Mentor). If the position of Chosen One >involves >being pampered by half-naked temple virgins, then it will end with you being >sacrificed to >the volcano, and the person calling you the Chosen One is the Evil High >Priest(ess) who >intends to perform the ceremony. > >46. Any artifact named as if it were a part of somebody, especially if it >really was once a >part of somebody, is a Talisman of Purest Evil, and should only be dealt with >in a manner >pursuant to its destruction. > >47. Stay away from all buildings or natural features of the landscape that >resemble skulls, >fists, fanged mouths, etc. > >48. Before going off the beaten path for your vacation, check the police >archives, and with >the old people who live in the region, taking note of any mysterious deaths or >disappearances. > >49. No matter how hooked you are on phonics, don't try to pronounce things you >find >inscribed in ancient artifacts. > >Know of any more? E-mail me! > >Regards, >John ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 16:00:03 EDT Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: No Name Available Subject: Re: Cruise pt1 pg 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 09/30/1999 11:21:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Cdfisler@AOL.COM writes: << To be continued in Revealing Cruise part 2 Which takes up where this section ends. >> Soon, I hope! --Laurie ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 17:40:19 -0600 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Debby Subject: Re: Caped Fear In-Reply-To: <001801bf0b2d$478510c0$199501d4@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:18 AM 09/30/1999 +0100, you wrote: >Sandy wrote: > > >>LabRat: >> >>Did you say your story would be put out on the Debby/Joyce list? I >>wondered since I hadn't seen an ad for it. >> >Debby - quite sensibly - doesn't send out her ads. until Joyce sends her a >copy of the story and lets her know that it's about to be sent out. /me deletes short message I just wrote to this effect... >As a >matter of fact, I received a message from Joyce just this morning to say >that CF will be sent out on the list soon. Which, to be honest, utterly >amazed me because I too assumed that she would be swamped with nkerth >requests and wouldn't get to it for a time. Which was just fine by me as I >knew she would be. Way to go, Joyce! We've probably gotten another 30 members, which means we have over 400 on the list (I haven't counted recently; it's just "a lot!") >In fact it might well have been out already, except that I messed up on the >attachments and had to send Joyce two of them again. Which is what I get for >trying that kind of thing at four in the morning. Four in the morning is a wonderful time! Just ask my cat... Debby Debby@swcp.com whose most use phrase at home is "Shut up, Little!" ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 20:57:32 -0400 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Sandy McDermin Subject: Re: Fanfics in progress (was RE: Universal Union) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Charlotte Fisler wrote: > > In a message dated 9/27/99 2:20:24 PM !!!First Boot!!!, jsowell@MAIL.COM > writes: > > << Sandy wrote: > ... now that the S6 stories are over, this list is in desperate need of > fanfic of all sorts, at all stages to stimulate all kinds of conversation. > I'm beginning to mourn a little here. > >> > > Okay, okay. I'll post part 1 of Cruising Revelation this week. Not like > one from labrat or Zoom or Sheila or .... but maybe it will give a little > water in the middle of a drought. > > Charlotte aka daydreamer80 Charlotte: WONDERFUL! I promise you I'll get some comments in. I'm halfway through writing some comments up on Wendy's Congoian Opus. *And*, I also have to vote in the nKerths before midnight tonight EST, I assume -- I think there's a category or two in which I've read all the stories and can therefore vote. Strangely enough, not one of these categories includes my stories.;) (I don't read 'em; I just write 'em.) Anyway, just got back from seeing Dave Barry at our local "Politics and Prose." He was giving a talk and signing his new novel. He was simply hilarious! I swear he was funnier than both Franken and Belzer put together. I almost choked on my gum and shot it across the room laughing so hard. God, is he single? (Barry ... not God.) Sandy -- nothing sexier than a funny man (with Woody Allen as the exception). smcdermin@erols.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 21:12:45 EDT Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: No Name Available Subject: Re: voting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 09/30/1999 9:01:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, smcdermin@EROLS.COM writes: << *And*, I also have to vote in the nKerths before midnight tonight EST, I assume >> Hmm, well, Sandy's message reminded me that I've been too busy to pay this much attention and hadn't even managed to get over to the site so I just tried and can't get in at all!! Guess I'm not voting this year. :( --Laurie ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:15:47 -0700 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: "Irene D." Subject: Re: Fanfics in progress (was RE: Universal Union) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Sandy McDermin wrote: > Charlotte Fisler wrote: > > > > In a message dated 9/27/99 2:20:24 PM !!!First > Boot!!!, jsowell@MAIL.COM > > writes: > > > > << Sandy wrote: > > ... now that the S6 stories are over, this list > is in desperate need of > > fanfic of all sorts, at all stages to stimulate > all kinds of conversation. > > I'm beginning to mourn a little here. > > >> > > > > Okay, okay. I'll post part 1 of Cruising > Revelation this week. Not like > > one from labrat or Zoom or Sheila or .... but > maybe it will give a little > > water in the middle of a drought. > > > > Charlotte aka daydreamer80 > > Charlotte: > > WONDERFUL! I promise you I'll get some comments in. > I'm halfway > through writing some comments up on Wendy's Congoian > Opus. *And*, I > also have to vote in the nKerths before midnight > tonight EST, I assume > -- I think there's a category or two in which I've > read all the stories > and can therefore vote. Strangely enough, not one > of these categories > includes my stories.;) (I don't read 'em; I just > write 'em.) > > Anyway, just got back from seeing Dave Barry at our > local "Politics and > Prose." He was giving a talk and signing his new > novel. He was simply > hilarious! I swear he was funnier than both Franken > and Belzer put > together. I almost choked on my gum and shot it > across the room > laughing so hard. > > God, is he single? (Barry ... not God.) I think I read that Dave Barry is now divorced, Sandy. Go for it! Irene ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:40:58 -0400 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Maggie Subject: Tan: Dave Barry & Karen V [was Re: Fanfics in progress] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Barry Babble and Reading Recommendation hey folcs! Sandy, Dave Barry was married to a lovely lady named Beth then I stopped reading his column for a while and Zas! he was suddenly married to a lovely lady named Michelle (who works in sports section of the herald). Bet ya' next time I check he'll be engaged to some lovely fanfic goddess named Sandy Anyway, I still remember the post-hurricane column Dave wrote after Hurricane Andrew. My mom cut it out and keeps it in a corner of her jewelry box, for posterity. There *can* be humor in the middle of a natural disaster, just ask Dave ;o) Thinking of him reminded me of Karen V, [you did know I was going to relate Dave to Lois and Clark right? Everything *is* related to LnC now isn't it? ] Uhm, where was I? Ahh yes, Karen -- who I've always thought of as folcdom's version of Dave Barry. (For her, Lois's Ultra Woman costume *was* a natural disaster) She has a website called the Diva Factor, home of the walking opinion, and columns like "The Divine of Mindy Church" (one of my favorites) that just crack me up. The column about the UltraWoman outfit (yes, she wrote a whole column about it) is called "pure disgust" She also wrote one called the Annoyance of Mayson and Scardino, a folc after my own heart. I haven't asked her permission to quote her, but since her column is freely accessible to anyone who can spell the word modem -- I'm gonna live dangerously! ;o) Karen on Scardino....... "Dan Scardino: Unlike my feelings for Mayson, my hatred for Dan Scardino has not subsided. You know why? Because *I*, yes, I, Karen, the all knowing psychic friend of television romance, know the true nature of Dan Scardino. They tried to sell his character as a suave, rebellious, fun-loving guy. I happen to know Dan Scardino is the kind of guy who goes home every night to sprawl out in his stained Barco-Lounger, watch midget-wrestling, and eat generic-Spam straight out of the can for some "good eatin' ". They tried to sell his character as an impulsive romantic. I happen to know Dan Scardino's idea of a romantic night is buying a woman a 59 cent Taco Bell feast, taking her home to his ratty apartment, and having her powder and diaper him while making fun of his S.A.T. scores. I mean, come ON Lois, what choice is there? A tall, muscular, smoldering hunk of a man, or a man who is emotionally, mentally, and definitely physically inferior to said smoldering hunk. Someone once asked me, "Where do you think Dan Scardino is now?" - I think it's obvious. Either expanding his proud collection of belly button lint (not to be confused with his enormous earwax/rubber band ball!), or selling dead flowers by the highway while maintaining, "It's a cover for an undercover operation to bust" Anyway, if you're in the mood for a laugh, here's the link for the divine of Mindy Church : http://users.aol.com/ladyfolc/4.html If you do go to her site, and want to read more, start from the bottom of the list of columns up, those are the Lois and Clark related ones. Maggie Kerth Groupie and Column Recommender Girl ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:24:34 -0400 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Pam Jernigan Organization: http://www.geocities.com/~chiefpam/ Subject: Re: Fanfics in progress (was RE: Universal Union) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > God, is he single? (Barry ... not God.) I've been reading Dave Barry since college (which was in DC, for a thoroughly uninteresting coincidence). I just bet he'd be hilarious in person -- and last I heard, he was divorced :) Go for it, Sandy! -- ------------------------------------------------------- Pam Jernigan | jernigan@bellsouth.net ChiefPam on IRC | ------------------------------------------------------- Lucy: "You could get any guy you wanted, but ... do you have to be so smart all the time? So ... intense?" Lois: "Look, I'm just being myself. If they're not man enough to handle me, then ... I'll wait for someone who is," --Lucy & Lois Lane discuss men, "Lois & Clark" pilot ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.geocities.com/~chiefpam ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 21:57:16 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kathy Brown Subject: Re: Cruise comments (spoilers) In-Reply-To: <5518fd4e.2524c615@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" This is cute, Char. I had a few comments, but all in all, keep up the writing ... I'll look forward to seeing what comes next. :) >I describe how Clark (Dean Cain) looks in >nothing but a pair of black briefs and Lois >Terri Hatcher) in a white lace teddy. The scene *Teri* Hatcher. *Teri*. Part 1 > "Only if you promise that you >won't break my rule against getting involved romantically >with anyone I work with," she concluded. I'm a bit confused over Lois's attitude here. This sounds more like a S1 Lois, not a mid-late S2 Lois who has already begun dating Clark. She admited in the Pilot that she'd broken that rule already, but besides that, why would she agree to go out with Clark at all in Lucky Leon (which you imply this story follows) if she doesn't want to get involved with a co-worker? I don't think she was dating him just to lead him on ... usually people go into something like this hoping for a future together. Part 2 >"The >cabin is small, a single bed, no couch. Late reservations >and a crowded ship," he reluctantly informed his wealthy >guest. When you say single bed, do you mean a twin bed, or one bed? >A midnight walk in the moonlight put the finishing touches >on a near perfect day. Noticing several passengers >watching them, Clark pulled Lois into his arms and kissed >her passionately. Feeling Lois stiffen, he whispered >"verisimilitude," and Lois relaxed, participating fully. Again, I'm a bit confused on when this story is set. In Lucky Leon, she *definitely* didn't stiffen when he kissed her ... she wanted him to. Why does she have an aversion to him now? >"Why, Lois? Because of rule number 1?" Rule number 3 ... 1 is "I never get involved with my stories", 2 is "I never let anyone else get there first" and 3 is "I never sleep with anyone I work with." That's it ... like I said, send us the next part. Like Joy said, I can't wait to see how she reacts given he's been sleeping with her for 2 weeks already. Kathy ______________________ Kathy Brown kathyb@springnet1.com kathyb@lcfanfic.com KathyB on IRC ______________________ ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:04:15 -0500 Reply-To: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" Sender: "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Fanfic" From: Kathy Brown Subject: Re: Cruise comments (spoilers) In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 9:57 PM -0500 9/30/99, Kathy Brown wrote: >>I describe how Clark (Dean Cain) looks in >>nothing but a pair of black briefs and Lois >>Terri Hatcher) in a white lace teddy. The scene I'm sorry, I forgot to add the answer to your question about the PG-13 "ish" of the story (good term to coin, Joy ) While I loved your description (especially of Clark ), I probably would recommend you tone it down slightly before you submit it to the Archive. It right on the line, and I'd rather be safe than sorry, so I would have the GE work with you to rephrase. :) Kathy ______________________ Kathy Brown kathyb@springnet1.com kathyb@lcfanfic.com KathyB on IRC ______________________