Ode to a Grasshopper
11th July 2009, 06:34 PM
Seeing as Jay at least seemed to enjoy my fake news article on TFs possibly ending forever (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=4963&page=2), and since I'm now reasonably sure there's enough black humor fans here to make it worthwhile, here are a few other little gems I've come up with over the years.
Over at TFArchive we have The Adventures of Wheelie the Adventurer (http://www.tfarchive.com/community/showthread.php?t=40633&highlight=wheelie+adventurer), a decidedly underappreciated piece written to show how awesome Wheelie is based on his tech specs...:rolleyes:
On a non-Transformers note, these are the Titus Files (http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendId=148053120), the result of a few bored/cynical/quite intoxicated philosophy graduates happy discovery that the Dr Phil website has a message board, and their consequent mission to see if anyone at drphil.com was educated enough to guess that Titus Andronicus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Andronicus) might not be a genuine supplicant of good ol' Southern wisdom. Sadly, the answer was no, though we did find out that advocating locking your children in cupboards for extended periods of time is fine, while bad language is a big no-no.
Sadly missing is the illustrated "Hiding in the Shadows", possibly the worst creative writing assignment I've ever read which I subsequently illustrated with crayon stick figures, and "Captain Capitalism", my magnum opus (written as a uni assessment to get a tutor I didn't like to quit - which worked :cool: ), which isn't really on the 'net and so isn't postable, but there're still quite a few good ones out there.
EDIT - Found an online copy of Captain Capitalism! I'd forgotten about at gamebanshee.com...it comes in 2 parts.
Captain (http://www.gamebanshee.com/forums/blogs/2853/blog151.html) Capitalism! (http://www.gamebanshee.com/forums/blogs/2853/blog152.html) - Sorry people, the latter are now defunct.
Over at TFArchive we have The Adventures of Wheelie the Adventurer (http://www.tfarchive.com/community/showthread.php?t=40633&highlight=wheelie+adventurer), a decidedly underappreciated piece written to show how awesome Wheelie is based on his tech specs...:rolleyes:
On a non-Transformers note, these are the Titus Files (http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendId=148053120), the result of a few bored/cynical/quite intoxicated philosophy graduates happy discovery that the Dr Phil website has a message board, and their consequent mission to see if anyone at drphil.com was educated enough to guess that Titus Andronicus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Andronicus) might not be a genuine supplicant of good ol' Southern wisdom. Sadly, the answer was no, though we did find out that advocating locking your children in cupboards for extended periods of time is fine, while bad language is a big no-no.
Sadly missing is the illustrated "Hiding in the Shadows", possibly the worst creative writing assignment I've ever read which I subsequently illustrated with crayon stick figures, and "Captain Capitalism", my magnum opus (written as a uni assessment to get a tutor I didn't like to quit - which worked :cool: ), which isn't really on the 'net and so isn't postable, but there're still quite a few good ones out there.
EDIT - Found an online copy of Captain Capitalism! I'd forgotten about at gamebanshee.com...it comes in 2 parts.
Captain (http://www.gamebanshee.com/forums/blogs/2853/blog151.html) Capitalism! (http://www.gamebanshee.com/forums/blogs/2853/blog152.html) - Sorry people, the latter are now defunct.