Name: Jackaloob A. Crackpot
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Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Cheeseland!
Time: 1999-07-14 05:54:02
Comments: Hey, um, stranger-preson? How do you screw pictures up like that? Dang,
if I could do that, I'd be going to those 'Goosebumps' sites a whole heckuvalot more
often! And no, we're not gonna go crying to our mommies! We're not THAT pathetic! We MIGHT
go crying to K.A. Applegate, though. (At KAApplegate@Scholastic.com, in case you're
wondering. There's no guestbook or message board that I found. But there's always the
forum! And the question-mailing thingie.) You can send her scary comments. (AKA 'Hey,
KA--- You're reeeeeaallly hot, exept for one thing. I loooovve girls with pierced noses.
Do you think you could pierce your nose for me?')...Oh, no! I'm....HELPING THE ENEMY!!!!
AAAAAAUUUUUUHHHHHGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Oh, man! If Dustin finds out I'm helping the
scribblemaster, I'm gonna be tortured forever for not even making this thing funny! And
it's bad enough I signed the Animorphs-Goosebumps peace thingie! About a bazillion
times!!! And if you only saw the TV show, please read the books because the books rule and
the TV show sucks. The books really are good. But if you've only seen the show,
pleeeeeeaasse at least page through book #1. And keep slamming AniTV. Maybe if we can get
enough people dissing it and slamming it and killing it, we could get the message through
the thick, heavy cloud of THC in the Nickelodeon people's brains that we think that the TV
show SUCKS! Okay, I'm done now.
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Well said! Except G-Bumps is pretty much over, you don't
have to torture the few fans who are hanging on now. And The Strangers *have* read some
Animorphs books, they're just prejudiced against the concept of sentient alien creatures
and have apparently closed their mind to the whole thing (the most appropriate term would
be one coined by someone in one of the mailing lists I'm in -- species-isim).
Yes, 'Species-ism.' Discrimination against someone (or some, uh, thing, assuming it's
sentient) on the sole basis that it belongs to another species than you do. Speciesism
somehow looks wrong, and we have such bigoted people on this planet that the term 'racism'
has already been taken. Ugh. (Don't get me started on this; I live in the South and could
go on for hours).
Ah, well."Species-ism" is our word for today! Use it in your writing, your reports, your everyday conversation!
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