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PART ONE:

It all started when Cesperanza had this idea to write a series of short-short stories called "101 Ways To End Up In A Canadian Shack."  She told this to resonant, who suggested the following themes:

resonant: Kidnapping ... amnesia ...

resonant: A really bad sense of direction ...

resonant: Runaway cab driver ...

resonant: "It was the only way I could quit smoking ..." Famous last words:  "It seemed like an interesting idea."

PART TWO:

Meanwhile, Ces had been hoping to get AnnaS to write some TS. With her DS idea in mind, she suggested to Anna that they collaborate on some short-short TS stories. In other words, she proposed a similar idea.  Note the word similar. Not the same.  But, alas, it all went horribly awry.

Cesca: Anna

Cesca: I'll make you a dare.

anna: yo?

anna: yeah?

Seah waits to see this dare

Terri eyes all of you warily. Except Seah.

Cesca: I had this idea in DS that I might actually do a story called 101 To End Up In A Canadian Shack—but do it actually as a series of short stories.

Cesca: However

Cesca: it occurs to me

anna: 101 Ways—?

Cesca: that you and I might attempt something similar in TS.

Cesca: 100 words

Cesca: on a stupid premise.

Cesca: A series of short-shorts

anna: Hey, cool.

Cesca: What do you think?

anna: So what was that again—

Cesca: minimum risk

anna: 101 Ways? ??

anna: Repeat the title.

Cesca: Well—not for Jim and Blair

Cesca: I don't see why they'd go to a Canadian shack

Cesca: but something along those lines for TS.

anna: It could be funny, though.

anna: J&B—Canadian Shack.

anna: Just offbeat enough to be sustainable

anna: Let's do it.

Cesca: No! wait—

Terri: The Ubiquitous Canadian Shack — every fandom should have one.

anna: Let's do it now.

Cesca: I want the shack for DS

anna: I want the shack for TS!

Terri: TS has the Loft!

anna hrhs.

Terri: And the Peruvian Jungle!

Cesca: No, the loft is banal beyond belief

anna: Harhrh.

anna: Not the jungle!

anna: Dear god.

Cesca: Not the jungle, agreed

Terri: Not?

anna: I like the shack.

anna pouts.

Cesca: It doesn't have to be a place

Terri: Hmph.

Cesca: it could be a premise

anna: That *was* the premise.

anna: You hooked me.

anna: Now you're losing me.

Cesca: 20 ways to end up with ice cream on your head, whatever, anything

anna: Sorry.

Cesca: No but

Cesca sighs

anna makes the sign of the hand.

anna grins.

Cesca: That's my DS story

anna: Shack.

anna chants.

Cesca: lol

anna: Shack. Shack. Shack.

Terri carefully disengages the hook from anna's mouth (or wherever it ended up).

Cesca: I—all right, all right!

Cesca: That'll REALLY confuse the Francesca Speranza thing, thanks a lot!

Cesca: What the fuck are Jim and Blair doing in a canadian shack for god's sake?!!

anna: That's the beauty of it.

Cesca: But

anna: I feel inspired.

Terri: I'm not sure you can get there in 100 words.

anna: No. I work well with foreign objects. Like eggbeaters.

anna: And mandolins

Cesca: Okay, fine, 20 Ways to Annoy a Sentinel With A Mandolin

anna: Ew.

Terri: Child's play.

anna shakes head.

Cesca: Terri, fine, YOU suggest something!

anna: You have no concept of my psychology do you?

anna: After all this time.

anna: You say shack.

anna: I want shack.

Cesca deflates

anna: Anything else is just...er, fish.

Terri: I suspect on some level that the mere existance of mandolins is enough to annoy a Sentinel. :-)

Cesca: Okay, shack but somewhere other than canada?

anna sighs.

Cesca: Oh all right all right sheesh!

Cesca: Fucking remind me never to...bhlre;wrjkaeksfj ;laj;

Cesca: Do the shack!

Cesca: Take the pen!

anna: If the shack is in Washington, though, it's, like, mundane.

Cesca thrusts pen!

anna: My imagination stalls.

Cesca: Okay

Cesca: do it!

Cesca: put them into a Canadian shack in 100 words

Cesca: I'll do the same

Cesca: Race ya

anna: But I'm broiling steak.

anna: You'll have to wait until I'm back here with my Meat.

Cesca: I'm eating meatloaf as we speak

Cesca: The odds are utterly even

Cesca glares

Cesca: Beef to beef

anna: Hmm. You may be right about that shack thing.

anna ducks.

anna: I was just thinking, in the kitchen.

anna: heh.

anna ducks again.

anna is an evil, evil girl, but can't help it. Psychology.

anna points to her head, winks, nods.    

Cesca is laughing

Cesca: no, no

Cesca: now we have to

anna: heh.

anna: damn you!

Cesca: This is the GREAT SHACK CHALLENGE, you stupid cow

Cesca: so get to it!!!

anna: Okay.

anna: Fine.

Cesca: You bet!

anna laughs, loving you.

Cesca: I want fucking 100 words about a canadian shack before you leave this channel PART THREE:  Having had her DS story stolen and changed into a TS story, Cesperanza then proceeded to compound her mistake by complaining about Anna to some friends.  Note to self:  do not complain about Anna to your friends.  They are as evil as she is.

Julad: I *love* the idea of a TS canadian shack challenge.

Julad: of a fandom-wide canadian shack challenge.  Ces groans

Ces: You are evil. Like her.

Julad: Buffy and Willow in a canadian shack!

Ces: We've got four already

Ces: lol Ces holds head

Julad: Tom and Harry in a canadian shack!

Julad: Danny and Casey in a canadian shack      Ces is howling

Julad: Oh, do it.

Julad: do it do it do it

Julad: or I will  

Ces: Oh god *** Mia (Mia@14fd58ce.322bbfaa.alphalink.com.au) has joined channel

Ces: oh, fine, fine fine!

Ces: EVIL COWS

Ces: Wait

Mia: what?

Julad: and I'll post the challenge in nsync fandom and you'll have a *thousand and one nsync canadian shack stories*.

Ces: In fact

Mia: lolol

Ces: NO!!!!!

Ces: NO!

Mia: wait, can I drag linda in?

Ces: NO *** resonant (resonant@362b7f89.16b4fba6.dial-access.att.net) has joined channel

Ces: oh god

Ces: yes

Julad: LOLOL

Ces: god

Ces: this is turning into

Ces: FINE

Ces: this is ridiculous

Ces: Hi res

resonant: Hey! *** linbot (linbot@2803ef39.f4f1334.optusnet.com.au) has joined channel

resonant: Ces is talking in caps!

Julad: Don't worry, I wouldn't do it.

linbot: hey, I'm here for the anarchy.

resonant: Hi, Lin. I just got here.

resonant: Hi, all.

Mia: Hi res!

Julad: Ces discovers that you can't tame a cool challenge.

Ces: Okay, look

Mia: ahahahahahahahaha

Ces: Here are the rules

Mia: ahahahahahahahahaha

Ces: And if you want to—look—it's 500 words resonant laughs

Ces groans

Ces: Criminy  linbot is laughing.

Ces: oh, why not...

resonant: Is Julad doing Methos and Duncan in a Canadian shack?

Julad: ahahaha

resonant: Round about 1815?

Julad: Stuart and Vince in a canadian shack!

resonant: Or, barring that, 2050?

Mia: yes!

Mia: stuart and vince!!

Julad: oh, fuck me.

Ces is crying

Ces: res

Ces: Okay

Ces: look

Ces: look

linbot: Joe and Billy in a canadian shack?

Julad: calming down now.

Mia: ahahahaha

resonant: God, Lin.

Ces can barely type

Julad: It's out of control, baby.

Julad: Rein it in, quick.

Ces: I was complaining about Anna and—man, they're WORSE than anna

Mia: the bunny is bleeding

Ces: Alright loo

Ces: look

Ces: If you want to do the fandom of your choice in a canadian shack

Ces: it's 500 words

Ces: and it gets sent to em

Ces: mne

Ces: me

Ces: and I'll compile them

Mia:

Cesca: Well—not for Jim and Blair

Mia:

Cesca: I don't see why they'd go to a Canadian shack

Mia: ahahahahaha

Ces: and I'll write an ending one where

Ces: they're all there and fighting over whose weekend it was

Julad: LOLOL

Ces is half-laughing, half-crying

resonant: It's actually funnier in other fandoms, Ces.

resonant: In DS,

resonant: it would be funnier to do

resonant: "101 ways to end up in the Peruvian jungle."

Ces: I never got the chance to prove otherwise, did I?!      Ces sighs

resonant: Or, you know, on a ferry to Victoria Island.

Ces: though

Ces: oh dear

Ces sighs

resonant: Or, you know, taking clown classes in night school.

Julad: No, no, it's funny with DS

Ces: Look

Julad: and then funnier that everyone else starts showing up at the shack.

Ces: I AM IN CHARGE OF THIS BUS!

Ces: SHOW YOUR PASSES!

Ces sighs

Ces: it's      resonant sets up a cash bar in the back of the bus

linbot: see the good thing about a bus is that it doesn't even *start* on the rails.

Ces: and it wasn't supposed to be funny!

Ces: It's now—oh, man

Ces: No, it did it did!

Ces: I'm just —it's like SPEED here

Julad: No, the stories themselves aren't funny.

resonant: Ces.

resonant: Ces.

Ces: you bombed my bus

resonant: Guess what.

Ces: What?

resonant: You are now TPTB.

Ces: I—oh god

resonant: Now you know how Alliance feels.

Julad: LOLOL

Mia: ahahahaha

resonant: "Whoa! That's not what we MEANT!"

Ces: My shack challenge!

Ces sobs

Ces: My beautiful shack thing

linbot: hahahaha. You're doing it wrong! You're all doing it wrong! 8)

Julad: It's okay, honey. You're the boss of the challenge.

Julad: You make the big money.

Ces: Joe and Billy...

Ces: in the shack      Ces wipes tear

Ces: Dan and Casey

resonant: WITH Fraser and Ray?

resonant: "Wait. Maybe I picked the wrong shack?"

Ces: I don't know, ask them!      Ces hoots!

resonant: "Yeah, man, you totally did."

Ces: "Sorry, your shack is up the road, there."

Ces: And they've trashed their shack

resonant: "Go, like, right over that ridge and ..."

Ces: lolol

Julad: LOLOL

Ces is laughing

Julad: nsync wander into Billy and Joe's shack. that ain't gonna be pretty.      resonant pictures about fifty miles of Canadian wilderness with a shack every half-mile

Ces: Am I supposed to—I mean, is this the same shack story? a different shack story?

Ces: Is this "The Great Canadian Shack Free-For-All"

resonant: Jim sends Blair over to the Joe/Billy shack to ask them to "turn down the goddamned music."

Julad: You want *proper* stories, right? Serious stories in which they seriously end up in a canadian shack.

Ces: What I want appears to be immaterial. <G>

Julad: and then the punchline is kind of the repetition.

resonant: "Fucker can hear us half a mile away? Riiiiiight."

Ces wanders around mumbling to herself

linbot: shacking up in diverse fandoms.

Julad: Okay, tell me what the requirements are.

Julad: shacking up!

Ces: I like the shacking up     Julad dies

resonant: Ooh. Good title.

resonant: Harry Potter and the Canadian Shack.

Julad: LOLOLOL

linbot: hahahahaha. Shine: SNERK

resonant: "You Apparated us *where*?" Shine: hee!! Julad dies

linbot: or floo powder into the pot bellied stove.

resonant: "Well, undo it!" "It's not that simple!"

Ces: I love the idea of

Ces: Canadian Wizards.

Ces is laughing

Julad: Oh, god. They'd be all polite. And say, "Expelliariumus, eh," Shine: hee!

Ces dies

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