FOLC Central
Newsletter #39
November 14,
1998
In This
Newsletter...
What's New?
Maggie's
Mouthful
Trivia
L&C Questionette
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What's New?
Hey, FOLCs! How's it going? Well, I'm up to my neck in
Furbys. Have you seen those things? If not, go to http://www.furby.com
immediately. They are so weird! But this has to do with L&C because
apparently (and you did not hear this from me), Furbys are supposed to be the
"it" toy of the Christmas season this year, not unlike the Atomic Space Rats on
L&C. But enough babbling! Here's some actual important stuff that you should
know...
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Remember to vote for Teri and
Dean! :)
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Maggie's Mouthful
by Maggie13@bellsouth.net
Previously on Lois and
Clark: Alternate Clark found his Alternate Lois and
those Kents lived happily
ever after too.
We now turn our attention to *our* Mr. & Mrs. Kent
and a lovely Season 5
episode called "It Happened All Weekend". It was
written as if it was the
100th episode of Lois & Clark and just like we
all have our favorite
resolutions of the fate of our Alternate Kents, this is
my favorite fantasy
as to what the 100th episode could have been
like.
This ep was super*bly written by Dom Melaragni, Lori McElhaney,
Adrienne
Vukovic, and Nancy Merkle and Edited by Donna Hafner. They tried
to
celebrate the best of Lois and Clark and reminisce about favorite
moments,
just like TV shows that make it to 100 do. This story is full of
flash
backs, sweet memories and waffy moments. If you are ever caught
off-guard
suffering from acute LCWS, read this ep. The waffyness factor is so
high,
it's better than
aspirin.
http://www.tempus.simplenet.com/season5/episodes/ihaw.htm
A
couple of things about Season 5 you should definitely know and you will
most
certainly like: Not only do you have one terrific group of writers at
their
very best and most stupendously super, there are PICTURES. Yes,
folcs,
pictures. Throughout the story, at appropriate moments, there are
screen caps
and even edited pictures that tie into the story you are
reading.
It's a simple thing, the pictures concept, and yet it is one of
those,
sweet pleasures of life we are usually to busy to take a moment and
savor.
One of the things I so much enjoy about my folcy life is I get to
stop and
reminisce about favorite moments, well written stories, and things
like
pictures and just be happy I am alive to enjoy it all. I also get to
make
new happy memories with my folcy buddies and that is just the coolest.
Not
to mention I get to babble to my heart's content, uh, now where was I?
Ah,
yes, pictures. Well, they just make me so happy, I had to share.
The
idea is well executed and I look forward to seeing which pictures
they
picked almost as much as I look forward to the story.
Now, how
about a Jonathan and Martha Moment? Lois and Clark are
visiting
and
Jonathan and Martha are reminiscing.....
"I was
talking to Lois earlier about her first trip here when Clark first
got
Kryptonite poisoning. Look at her now. She seems perfectly at
home
here."
Jonathan chuckled as he thought back four years. "I have
to say that I
wondered if she'd ever set foot in Kansas before or would
again. She was so
determined to hate everything."
"I still have that
instant mental image that came to me when Lois guessed
you were a cross
dresser. My emerald dress and your knees sticking out
from under the hem with
your farming boots on."
"Strange..." Jonathan mused, "I'd always thought
red was more my colour."
He pulled Martha to him and kissed her warmly,
disregarding her soapy hands
swatting at him.
See? and that's just the
parents! This is one wonderfully waffy ep! Read
it, enjoy it, and
smile.
I think it's time now for me to wish you all Super Days and
Dean
Dreams................
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Remember
my column is your column, do you have a fanfic you want to see
here? Write to
me and tell me about it. If you have a comment, suggestion,
or even a random
attack of Lois-Inspired-Babble, you know where to find
me.
maggie13@bellsouth.net Oh! and if you are ever on IRC and see
supermags,
that's me!
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Trivia
Well, only one person sent in a correct answer for last
newsletter's question, and that was mary-j.juan@usa.net!! So congratulations,
Mary, you get the 50 superdollars!
Last
newsletter's question was...
>>There are 3 different versions of
the L&C Pilot...the original one-part Pilot, the two-part Pilot (this is the
one they show on TNT), and the UK version. Tell me...
1) One quote that
is in the original one-part Pilot and the UK version, but NOT in the two-part
Pilot
2) One quote that is in the two-part Pilot and the UK version, but
not in the original one-part Pilot
3) One quote that is in ONLY the UK
version, and not in the original one-part Pilot or the two-part
Pilot<<
Answer to #1--There are several small quotes during Clark's
conversation with Beatrice. Also, the quote "Oh, you mean like in Kansas...where
you meet my parents and then try and give me a hickey in the vacant lot behind
the dairy freeze..." qualifies!
Answer to #2--There are a bunch of quotes
you could have said for this one! Lois's conversation with Lucy, where Clark is
floating outside Lois's window...Lois and Jimmy's conversation about
Cat...Jonathan asking Clark if he wants him to wire him some cash...Perry
talking to Clark when he is in the storage closet, etc.
Answer to
#3--(Mary sent in this one) "Mmmm, I like the beard. But the mustache isn't
working for me." -Jimmy
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L&C
Questionette
In the last newsletter, we
asked...
It's almost Thanksgiving, and Lois and Clark have been married
for two years. And Lois wants to have all their relatives over for a
Thanksgiving dinner in L&C's tiny brownstone/apartment. Two words: bad idea!
Describe all the possible things that could go wrong. You can pretty much make
up anything you want! Will Sam Lane bring another cyborg date to dinner? Will
Ellen have an anxiety attack? Will Lois burn the turkey? You do know you have to
make the stuffing, it doesn't come in the bird. ;-) What about Lucy? Martha?
Jonathan? L&C's kids (if they have any by now)?
Here are some of the
responses we recieved! Thanks to everyone who replied :)
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Lucky Winner #1
Can Nothing Go Right
"Clark honey, I really don't mind helping
you!" Clark smiled at his very bored, very pregnant wife through gritted teeth.
He realised that she had nothing to do until their parents arrived, but helping
him involved using the oven, a feat that his wife; unable to walk around without
stumbling; would not be safe doing.
"Lois, as much as I appreciate your
wanting to help, it's not practical for you to be around knives and hot ovens in
your condition." He winced the second he'd finished that sentence. His wife went
into warp-fury,
"How DARE you dictate what I can and cannot do, Clark Kent!
You are my husband, NOT my keeper and you can't control me. I am just trying to
be nice and you are treating me like a five year old with a shiny, sharp object.
I'm not made of porcelain, I won't break, and if I did break it WOULD NOT be
your responsibility to clean me up!" With that said, she marched towards him
ready to grace him with some close-up yelling, which might have been more
appropriate for producing the desired affect of an apology had she not tripped
up over a stray wire and almost hit her head on the newly-polished kitchen
tiling. As it happened, her husband was Superman, and with little more than an
exasperated whoosh, he had managed to provide a carpet for her to fall
onto.
Lois propped herself up on her husbands shoulder blades and looking
into his sparkling eyes, wondered what to do next. Clark tilted his head
uopwards for a kiss but Lois blocked her mouth with a slender hand.
" Don't
think you're getting off that easily, Mr." She might have continued had Sam and
Ellen not walked into the room thus interuptting their interlude.
"Lois,
isn't it a bit early in the morning, and a bit late in your pregnancy
for...."
"Mother! We were simply looking for...... a missing needle." Sam
chuckled loudly
"And you found it in Clark's shirt pocket did you, Princess?"
Lois climbed off of Clark and gave her father a winced smile for the sake of
courtesy. Ever since her parents had remarried earlier that month, Ellen had
become twice as dissaproving as she had ever been and her dad had become "a
comedian." A poor comedian without a funny joke in his repartee, but a comedian
nonthless.
Lois entertained her parents in the living room
while Clark finished dinner preparations for an hour before Clark's parents came
and after dismissing Clark, like a naughty schoolboy, into the living room to
accompany Lois, they finished dinner in ten minutes. The three couples sat down
to a full turkey dinner with stuffing, which Lois was able to explain; did not
come with the turkey. Sam told everyone who would listen about the honeymoon,
and although all the listeners were consenting adults, Sam told them much more
than most eould have wanted to know, and way more than Lois wanted to think
about, much to Ellen's dissaproval.
Clark couldn't help but look around the
table and grin, even though Ellen was glaring, Sam was cracking jokes, Lois was
binging, and Martha and Jonathan were sharing knowing smiles about everything
and nothing, this was his family, all five, well all six of them when the baby
arrived. Just then, Sam raised a glass of champagne in the air, as drops of the
liquid flew aroungd the table, Lois stopped guzzling, Ellen stopped glaring, and
Martha and Jonathan watched with smiles, Sam grinned broadly and said,
"G-d
help any child who's being born into this family!"
The
End
--Michell944@aol.com
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L&C's first Thanksgiving party.
EVERYTHING will go wrong. Ha-Ha-Ha!
Wait, not everything, but a lot of it.
First off, before this whole
'everything-will-go-wrong' thing is started,
they do get the turkey
*started*. Then, Clark has to rush off and save the
day on the other
side of the world. This takes a while and Lois starts
decorating the
brownstone. For her, this is slightly complicated because
Chris, their
son, got up on the wrong side of his crib today. Clark comes
back, sees
Lois hasn't got far with the decorations and does them himself.
Then he
smells something burning. It's the turkey! The kitchen is filled
with
smoke and Lois is appologizing repeatitivly. Eventually, Clark flies
off
in search of another turkey, Lois stopped talking and Chris took a nap.
Clark had came back before everyone was to arrive. About 5 minutes
before, but still before. Everyone got there and ready to eat. Chris had
been woken up by his grandmas, so he was happy. Clark was in the
kitchen, speeding around, getting everything ready, but what happens
now? The food is brought out and it's dinnertime! Everyone compliments
on the food, except for Chris. He threw some at Clark. Lois got angry,
but Clark was laughing. At that point in time, someone yelled for help.
Clark took advantage of the situation and 'went to go change'. He came
back a couple of minutes later. They finished dinner. All were happy.
Sam and Ellen left first. Martha and Jonathan insisted on getting a
hotel room instead of staying with L&C. Chris was out 2 hours ago, so
Lois and Clark went to bed. That is, until there was another call for
help. Clark didn't go because he was kind of already a bit preoccupied
with something, or should I say someone?!? No details on that
:P
Jessi
--Elfsrcool@hotmail.com
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Lucky Winner #2
So there they all
were...Lois, Clark, Michelle, Sam, Ellen, Jonathan and Martha....all sitting
there eating pizza and having a wonderfull dinner.....THE END.......Oh, wait a
second.....I think I forgot something......OH YEAH!! The whole story.....silly
me, it must've slipped my mind
Seven ays
later, everything that could possibly go wrong for Lois, while she was cooking,
*WAS* going wrong!!! The turkey was still cooking, as it had been for the last
SEVEN hours.....for it seemed that everytime she checked on it to see if the
button had popped up(signalling the doness of the bird), it was still down and
the turkey looked as white as it had when she'd first put it in the oven. Clark
had of course offered to cook it ofr her, but she's refused, insistifng that it
just needed "a little more time".....now hours later, she was having second
thoughts, but Clark was nowhere to be found.
The mashed potatoes were all
burnt, because she hadn't put enough water in them, and now had no choice but to
just leave them there. She'd been awake since 5 AM, wanting to give the turkey a
LOT of time to cook.....well....now it was 1PM and she was exhausted!! Michelle,
bless her little heart had played all morning in her playpen and was now
peafully napping until her grandparents got there for dinner.
The
stuffing, that was in the bird, was probably burnt to a crisp...who knew. Lois
just *knew* that she had only ONE hour to get everything done, before her and
Clark's folks showed up, expecting a nice dinner.
One hour later,
Jonathan and Martha and Ellen and Sam showed up....ready to eat until they
popped(unlike that blasted turkey's button)!! Clark, had thankfully re