ciroccoj | brief brain break

So I said I probably wouldn't do the Fanfic Appreciation Week thing, and I probably won't. No time. But as the Review article is threatening to make my brain implode from sheer frustrated boredom, here's a list off the top of my head of people whose work I've really liked, in no particular order, and only mentioning Law & Order (TOS) writers because if I tried to remember all the various authors of the other L&Os and The X-Files and Star Trek(s) and Homicide and Queer As Folk and Lord of the Rings and you get the picture I would never go back to my stupid article again because... well, would you?

bear,

snarkhunter,

bast2,

woffproff,

sugarkane_59,

tobiascharity,

cassatt,

medee6040,

jenniferjames,

culturevulture7,

gypsum,

senza,

leaper182,

jessebee, Leslie Rampey, Twins of Hazzard, Karen Howard-Joly, Trig, Gwenn McNabb, Major Houlihan, JillC, and one of the slashy Dorothys.

And I know I'm missing lots and lots and lots, especially people who haven't written in a while, because my brain has filled in every available cranny with Admin & Const Law CRAP that has pushed out many a lovely fic that made me happy and made me sigh. One of the reasons I'd like to archive t100+ stuff this summer (after I finish this *&%$ing term) is that I'd like to go back and re-read old fics, and fall in love once more ;)

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And now for something completely different:

One hippopotami
Cannot get on a bus,
Because one hippopotami
Is two hippopotamus.

And if you have two goose,
That makes one geese,
A pair of mouse is mice,
A pair of moose is meese.

A paranoia is
A bunch of mental blocks.
And when Ben Casey meets Kildaire,
That's called a paradox.

When two minks fall in love,
With all their heart and soul,
You'll find the plural of two minks
Is one mink stole.

Singulars and plurals
Are so different, bless my soul.
Has it ever occurred to you
That the plural of "half" is "whole"?

A bunch of tooth is teeth,
A group of foot is feet,
And two canaries make a pair--
They call it a parakeet.

A paramecium
Is not a pair.
A parallelogram
Is just a crazy square.

Nobody knows just what
A paraphernalia is.
And what is half a pair of scissors,
But a single sciz?

With someone you adore,
If you should find romance,
You'll pant, and pant once more,
And that's! A! Pair! Of! Paaants!