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« on: January 11, 2008, 10:10:31 am » |
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In which there may be no-prizes, or possibly real prizes, offered for the best and most creative attempts to construct a coherent backstory for Duke.
Or at least, we can all be entertained by watching people try.
Emma says: "As soon as you're inconsistent, they know you're lying. Which doesn't bother Duke. Because he's aware that knowing he's lying still doesn't get anyone closer to the truth."
So how close to the truth can you get?
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Chaz: "As if puberty weren't stressful enough."
Todd: "See? That's why we're better than all those other law enforcement agencies. Correct use of the subjunctive."
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« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2008, 05:43:25 pm » |
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I don't know, I kind of like that I can choose what bits to construct his backstory with. Real or not bits, it's like a 'choose your own adventure' but in this case, a 'choose your own Sol Todd backstory'. *grins*
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« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2008, 07:46:17 pm » |
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He's 54, which means he would have been 26 in 1980. Lots of journalistically interesting stories going on behind the Iron Curtain around then.
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« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2008, 11:50:21 pm » |
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Hee. Oh, god. There's a Todd Tale somewhere in the comments of one of the blogs that had me laughing for several days afterwards. (It's the one about the Argentinian race horse. I think it's an Argentinian race horse. It was a while ago.)
He's *so* much fun.
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Chaz: "As if puberty weren't stressful enough."
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« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2008, 12:47:37 pm » |
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Coming Soon to Broadway:
"Solomon Tood: Gonzo Journalist of Quantico"
Story by Bear, Bull, Shetterly, et al
Music by Stephen Sondheim
(No Johnny Depps were harmed in the making of this post.)
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« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2008, 01:00:47 pm » |
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I should clarify: the character ages in their bios are as-of the first episode of SU, which is set in March of 2007. So they're all actually (currently) a yeah older than listed.
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Chaz: "As if puberty weren't stressful enough."
Todd: "See? That's why we're better than all those other law enforcement agencies. Correct use of the subjunctive."
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« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2008, 03:30:02 pm » |
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If you checked the comments on the latest post on Daphne's LJ, you might get an idea of where Sol is now.
Just sayin'.
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« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2008, 03:35:41 pm » |
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This whole SU thing has finally prompted me to figure out how to automatically follow the *comments* on peoples' LJs, instead of just the posts themselves. (Just what I needed, *more* email  ETA: damn; still haven't figured it out. I can subscribe to new comments on *an* entry, but not new comments on *all* entries. is this an LJ limitation? Are there other ways? Repeatedly refreshing the pages is so 1990s... |
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« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2008, 03:41:19 pm » |
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OH MAH GAWD, beatriceeagle! Good work!
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« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2008, 03:51:10 pm » |
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Hi Bea
I was just coming to the same conclusion . . . *G*
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« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2008, 04:01:54 pm » |
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Hi Elizabeth. It's fun, isn't it, when the characters start popping up everywhere?
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« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2008, 04:11:21 pm » |
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Now I'm wondering what happened to Chaz' screensaver....
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« Reply #12 on: January 14, 2008, 04:55:39 pm » |
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Probably nothing to his screen saver, but Sol could have done any number of things to his computer.
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« Reply #13 on: January 14, 2008, 07:17:55 pm » |
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I'm assuming it was more what was found on that unlocked computer while he was away and unable to hide it...
Or it could just be the discovery that he (and the others) are spending time posting on LJ at work, and skirting the edges of sensitive information on an unsecured forum to boot.
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« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2008, 05:20:11 am » |
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I was frankly astonished that Mom managed to wangle an unsecured outside line for her department. Of course they need one for research, but try telling that to Policy.
Either that or they've got the sort of setup I used to have: two computers, two entirely separate networks, one secure, one not. (Two monitors is optional: some folks prefer one and a switch, others not so much - or it depends on whether you wangled a switch or a spare monitor out of the tech boys (or scrounged it from a spare office). Do "real work" on the slow-ass primitive in-house thing, and while that's taking fifteen minutes to load your case file, post to LJ on the other box.
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