Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Denouements

Here on CM, we've seen the beginnings of some pretty entertaining stories. Snowflakes make ridiculous requests, say offensive things, send fuckheaded e-mails. I love reading these stories. The problem is, they often stop in the middle.

They'll end with something like "We'll see what happens when No-Pants Nora comes into class on Monday!" Then new posts replace the old, and I never find out what happens.

Sometimes people post a follow-up in the comments, but if that happens a few days later, I never see it. (I know some of you have RSS feed thingies that alert you whenever a new comment comes up, but I'm a Luddite.)

So here's what I want: Reply to this post with an update on a funny story you've posted in the past. If you can, include a link to the original. Let's see where these snowflakes are today. Give me something entertaining to read while I eat lunch.

6 comments:

  1. Compound CalicoFebruary 9, 2011 at 9:47 AM

    Shit, Ruby.

    Could we just come to your lunch spot and act out all of the things that happened instead? I mean, while we're entertaining you, you could throw us crusts from the bread bowl...

    :-)

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  2. Dr. MindbenderFebruary 9, 2011 at 10:19 AM

    My story's denouement is anticlimactic. It turns out that Hippie Dippie, the student who made "like, far out, man" comments and asked me for a fist-bump, has some sort of medical issue that gives her insomnia, and she hadn't slept for two-three days before she came to class. Now that she's got some sleep, she's bright, perceptive, and one of the more on-the-ball students. Her hamster fur knitting is coming along nicely. She's still a hippie, though.

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  3. Contingent CassandraFebruary 10, 2011 at 12:45 AM

    @Mindbender: hamster-fur knitting seems like an appropriate activity for a hippie. Or maybe I'm confusing it with macrame?

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  4. Academic MonkeyFebruary 10, 2011 at 1:44 AM

    This is such a great idea for a post... but it's a tall order! Many times these things just drop off. Maybe we should have a writing contest: "How should this Snowflake Story end??"

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  5. Wombat of the CopierFebruary 11, 2011 at 9:43 PM

    A student told her lab partner that one of her professors thinks she's pregnant and keeps asking her if she'll 'make it' to midterms. I laughed and said one of my idiot students from last term ( http://collegemisery.blogspot.com/2010/12/creepy-christmas-card-giving-kiss-ass.html ) kept doing that to me. Then I turned around and Creepy Kiss Ass was right behind me.

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  6. Wombat of the CopierFebruary 11, 2011 at 9:57 PM

    PS I want to suggest that this topic be added to the three static links (the glossary and the rules). Things roll by so fast, I would bet people had things to say, but lost the topic before they had a chance to comment.

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