Muenkel 0 #1 December 3, 2002 That Jessica and Michele should collaborate on a book. Both their writing skills are phenomenal. I think they can write a best seller! With that in mind, what do you folks think the book should be about? _________________________________________ Chris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheBile 0 #2 December 3, 2002 Good Call. I agree. Title for the book. SKYDIVING THROUGH THE AGES How skydiving would have been perceived in the Stone Age, The Iron Age and The Ice Age, and how it relates to todays Information Age.Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michele 1 #3 December 3, 2002 LOL at Muenkel...Jessica is a wonderful writer with a slick sense of humor and irony. I love reading her posts. As for me, I gave some of my jumping stories to trusted colleagues and friends who are whuffos, to see if they liked them. I'll let you know if they liked them... Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #4 December 3, 2002 Michele.... did you recieve something in th mail yet from Jessica? And please no projects... I barely get to see her as is and if she gets into a project there is no telling how little I'll get to see her. Actually... if you work on Volume 3 of the Parachute manuals, I'll be mucho happy!Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michele 1 #5 December 3, 2002 Morning, Eric... I am expecting it any time...and actually, I was thinking about a version of a Parachuting Manual...as to the project, that will be kept to a minimum. Jess needs to live her life. I haven't got a life, so it doesn't matter much to me. But she needs to live!Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hooked 0 #6 December 3, 2002 QuoteLOL at Muenkel...Jessica is a wonderful writer with a slick sense of humor and irony. I love reading her posts. As for me, I gave some of my jumping stories to trusted colleagues and friends who are whuffos, to see if they liked them. I'll let you know if they liked them... Ciels- Michele No LOL! Your writing is very good Michele! Please let us know the 'whuffos' remarks on your writings. J -------------------------------------- Sometimes we're just being Humans.....But we're always Human Beings. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ernokaikkonen 0 #7 December 3, 2002 I think he was referring to volume 3 of The Parachute Manual(by Dan Poynter)... Which I would like to see as well. Written by you, Michelle, volume 3 would be much more enjoyable reading than the first two(which are rather boring but packed with good info), but would also have twice as many pages... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
suz 0 #8 December 3, 2002 Hell yeah! Michele's post the other day " A long walk home" was awesome. Don't bother me, I'm living happily ever after Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildblue 7 #9 December 3, 2002 You have more?! You must send them to me... these are getting stale!it's like incest - you're substituting convenience for quality Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michele 1 #10 December 3, 2002 Quote I think he was referring to volume 3 of The Parachute Manual(by Dan Poynter)... I don't have that one yet. I have the Skydiver's Handbook though. Maybe I should get Volume 2 and read it... Quote Which I would like to see as well. Written by you, Michelle, volume 3 would be much more enjoyable reading than the first two(which are rather boring but packed with good info), but would also have twice as many pages... What I can promise you if that if I wrote it, it would not be packed with good info...I don't have much information in my skill bucket yet. Thank God I haven't depleted my luck bucket. I know - I'll write the Whoffos Survival Guide to Skydiving!!!Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sonic 0 #11 December 3, 2002 They know it all anyway from Point Break. you get out at 5000, have over 4 minutes in freefall, dock on a 5 way, and pull at under a 1000.----------------------------------- It's like something out of that twilighty show about that zone Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jessica 0 #12 December 3, 2002 Quote That Jessica and Michele should collaborate on a book. Both their writing skills are phenomenal. I think they can write a best seller! Garsh! I don't know if such a collaboration would work, though. Michele would say, "Let's talk about how pretty the clouds are!" And I'd say, "No, I want to write about how everyone's an asshole but me."Skydiving is for cool people only Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Muenkel 0 #13 December 3, 2002 That's the brilliance of it! It's sort of like the "Odd Couple" concept. _________________________________________ Chris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #14 December 3, 2002 Quote No, I want to write about how everyone's an asshole but me So it's going to be fiction? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Muenkel 0 #15 December 3, 2002 You know, maybe Clay should be the editor. Hmmm..... I think I am on to something here. I don't know what, but it is something. _________________________________________ Chris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ernokaikkonen 0 #16 December 3, 2002 Quote I don't know if such a collaboration would work, though. Michele would say, "Let's talk about how pretty the clouds are!" And I'd say, "No, I want to write about how everyone's an asshole but me." Something like this? Quote Remember the book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"? Well here's a prime example offered by an English professor at an American University. In-class Assignment for Wednesday "Today we will experiment with a new form called the tandem story. The process is simple. Each person will pair off with the person sitting to his or her immediate story. The partner will read the first paragraph and then add another paragraph to the story. The first person will then add a third paragraph, and so on back and forth. Remember to re-read what has been written each time in order to keep the story coherent. There is to be absolutely NO talking and anything you wish to say must be written on the paper. The story is over when both agree a conclusion has been reached." The following was reputedly turned in by two English students: Rebecca and Gary - last names deleted. STORY: (first paragraph by Rebecca) At first, Laurie couldn't decide which kind of tea she wanted. The camomile, which used to be her favorite for lazy evenings at home, now reminded her too much of Carl, who once said, in happier times, that he liked camomile. But she felt she must now, at all costs, keep her mind off Carl. His possessiveness was suffocating, and if she thought about him too much her asthma started acting up again. So camomile was out of the question. Meanwhile, Advance Sergeant Carl Harris, leader of the attack squadron now in orbit over Skylon 4, had more important things to think about than the neuroses of an air-headed asthmatic bimbo named Laurie with whom he had spent one sweaty night over a year ago. "A.S. Harris to Geostation 17," he said into his transgalactic communicator. "Polar orbit established. No sign of resistance so far..." But before he could sign off a bluish particle beam flashed out of nowhere and blasted a hole through his ship's cargo bay. The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out of his seat and across the cockpit. He bumped his head and died almost immediately, but not before he felt one last pang of regret for psychically brutalizing the one woman who had ever had feelings for him. Soon afterwards, Earth stopped its pointless hostilities towards the peaceful farmers of Skylon 4. "Congress Passes Law Permanently Abolishing War and Space Travel," Laurie read in her newspaper one morning The news simultaneously excited her and bored her. She stared out the window, dreaming of her youth ? when the days had passed unhurriedly and carefree, with no newspapers to read, no television to distract her from her sense of innocent wonder at all the beautiful things around her. "Why must one lose one's innocence to become a woman?" she pondered wistfully. Little did she know, but she had less than 10 seconds to live. Thousands of miles above the city, the Anu'udrian mothership launched the first of its lithium fusion missiles. The dim-witted wimpy peaceniks who pushed the Unilateral Aerospace Disarmament Treaty through congress had left Earth a defenseless target for the hostile alien empires who were determined to destroy the human race. Within two hours after the passage of the treaty the Anu'udrian ships were on course for Earth, carrying enough firepower to pulverize the defenceless planet. With nothing to stand in their way they initiated their diabolical plan. The lithium fusion missile entered the atmosphere unimpeded. The President, in his top-secret mobile submarine headquarters on the ocean floor off the coast of Guam, felt the inconceivably massive explosion which vaporized poor, stupid, Laurie and 85 million other Americans. The President slammed his fist on the conference table "We can't allow this! I'm going to veto that treaty! Let's blow 'em out of the sky!" This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of literature. My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic, semi-literate adolescent. Yeah? Well, you're a self-centered tedious neurotic whose attempts at writing are the literary equivalent of Valium. "Oh shall I have camomile tea? Or shall I have some other sort of FUCKING TEA??? Oh no I'm such a air headed bimbo who reads too many Mills & Boon novels." Asshole. Bitch. Wanker. Slut. Get fucked. Eat shit. FUCK YOU - YOU NEANDERTHAL!!! Go drink some tea - whore. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jlmiracle 7 #17 December 3, 2002 they should write a book on dz.com. the characters (i mean people), stories and fabulous quotes. I am not an avid reader, but when they have something to write, they can keep my attention. JudyBe kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
outofit 0 #18 December 3, 2002 it should be about a secret lesbian affair. It is better to be dead and cool than alive and uncool! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Muenkel 0 #19 December 3, 2002 Quoteit should be about a secret lesbian affair. They both have more class than that. _________________________________________ Chris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
outofit 0 #20 December 3, 2002 it was just a little joke. lighten up! It is better to be dead and cool than alive and uncool! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jessica 0 #21 December 3, 2002 QuoteThey both have more class than that. I don't, but I think Michele does.Skydiving is for cool people only Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #22 December 3, 2002 Quote I don't, but I think Michele does That's a GOOD GIRL!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michele 1 #23 December 4, 2002 Quote I don't, but I think Michele does. LOL!!!!!!! I disagree that you don't have class...you most certainly do... Quote That's a GOOD GIRL!!! [Laugh] Hey, Clay? I would say something, but it might destroy any class it's perceived I have.... Someday, some wonderful hunk will see me as more than just the bitter, dateless, cynical, sour old woman I've become, and do a Henry Higgins on me...and will earn my eternal gratitude in the process.Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingnut 0 #24 December 4, 2002 Quoteand do a Henry Higgins on me not sure what that means, but.........i think your awsome.......if i only lived in cali.... ______________________________________ "i have no reader's digest version" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vallerina 2 #25 December 4, 2002 Quote I don't, but I think Michele does. Good! Maybe I won't be the only sloppy, classless drunk this weekend!There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
