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poohbear_nc · 11-16-2010, 07:28 PM

MR worldwide eBook signing tour diary -- day 1

Well, I bid good-bye today to my loving MR fans - who have apparently forgiven me for my "trick ending" that names BOb as the culprit! Again! In fact, they have provided a free plane ticket for me to embark on a signing tour! They're such wonderful friends!

I had to go through one of those new radioactive security scanners at the airport though - this one tested to see if you were carrying a bomb by heating you up to see if you would explode! For some reason, they made me go through it several times - "just adjusting the controls" the nice lady said. But finally the little red indicator widgets popped out on the two foil wrapped temperature sensors I was holding. I was a bit singed, but they applied large amounts of "healing sauce" to me. I tossed the sensors back to Am and scampered off to catch my plane! You should have heard the loud shouts of encouragement behind me! It brought tears to my eyes - which helped to wash out some of that sauce!

Wow! I nearly missed the flight! Now, you know I'm not the type of guy to criticize receiving a free prize, and I know the global recession has affected MR too, but the airline I was booked on was truly "questionable." I mean, some airlines make all the passengers run to grab a good seat. On this airline, they tried to serve the last passenger to board as the in-flight meal! That shifty-looking short pilot that cut in front of me at the airport led the hungry group! Fortunately, I was able to barricade myself in one of the lavatories for the duration of the flight, and we've now landed.

I was in such a hurry at the airport, I forgot to look at the boarding gate and see where my first stop on the tour was! I'm hoping it's Oz-land ... I have so many friends there I'm dying to meet!

SneakySnake · 11-16-2010, 08:15 PM

*waiting at Brisbane airport with napkin around neck and expectant look on face*

poohbear_nc · 11-16-2010, 08:32 PM

desertgrandma · 11-16-2010, 09:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SneakySnake

*waiting at Brisbane airport with napkin around neck and expectant look on face*

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

C'mere chickie.....I'll protect you!!

SneakySnake · 11-16-2010, 09:48 PM

*snake could be distracted by a new reader, just long enough to let go of the chook!*

dsvick · 11-17-2010, 08:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Mainly because I'm running as fast as I can away from you crazy peoples:

Running huh? Then why does the picture look more like your doing a little "I pulled the wool over their eyes and they'll never figure it out" jig?

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

MR worldwide eBook signing tour diary -- day 1

I was in such a hurry at the airport, I forgot to look at the boarding gate and see where my first stop on the tour was! I'm hoping it's Oz-land ... I have so many friends there I'm dying to meet!

This'll be good
The Travels of poohbear!!! Or maybe "A Series of Narrow Escapes" will be more appropriate!

Quote:

Originally Posted by SneakySnake

*waiting at Brisbane airport with napkin around neck and expectant look on face*

Love it!!

poohbear_nc · 11-17-2010, 08:43 AM

With apologies (but no royalties to Sir Lemony):

"A Series of Unfortunate Narrow Escapes" ?

or "Around the World As 80 Meals?"

poohbear_nc · 11-17-2010, 08:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SneakySnake

*snake could be distracted by a new reader, just long enough to let go of the chook!*

*banging snake over the head with YOUR prize ereader*
[snake let go, but your ereader now has funny zig-zag lines all down the screen]

desertgrandma · 11-17-2010, 08:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

*banging snake over the head with YOUR prize ereader*
[snake let go, but your ereader now has funny zig-zag lines all down the screen]

Call Kindle CS!!! They''ll send out a new one, honest!

(then send it to cat, who really loves the chicken.............)

Sweetpea · 11-17-2010, 09:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrscoach

Funnily, my very first inclinatin was pilotbob, but second, third and fifty-ninth guessed myself and picked randomly. I should have gone with what I thought when I saw the 'p' in the written clue from pshrynk. *thumping head against wall* *we tell students to go withn their first gut response on their tests, too*

Somehow I filled in Pshrynk... Completely forgot about PilotBob!

(which is probably why I couldn't understand that clue!)

ShortNCuddlyAm · 11-17-2010, 09:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Somehow I filled in Pshrynk... Completely forgot about PilotBob!

(which is probably why I couldn't understand that clue!)

I thought of Pshrynk, but it didn't have enough letters (each underscore in the missing words represented a letter)

poohbear_nc · 11-17-2010, 09:07 AM

MR worldwide eBook signing tour diary -- day 2 - Brisbane Airport

Well - I managed to escape from the plane's lavatory and deplane safely, despite the growls from all my fellow passengers still wearing their dinner napkins. I had to smack the short pilot with a tray to get to the exit!

And there SHE was - SneakySnake - waiting to greet me! I recognized her instantly from her avatar. But I hadn't realized she had been working out this much. She shrieked "I've been expecting you" and grabbed hold of me and gave me a BIG "Welcome to Oz" hug - and it went on and on and on and on -- man, that woman is strong! I could hardly breathe! And the other passengers began to stare and take pictures! My face was pressed into the napkin she was wearing around her neck [is this a quaint Aussie custom when greeting guests?]

I finally had to bang her in the head repeatedly with her prize ereader to get her attention, and make her let go. While her attention was focused on the now malfunctioning ereader, I made tracks for the nearest exit. Maybe I could find another Oz MR member for a bit of a rest!

bjones6416 · 11-17-2010, 09:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

I thought of Pshrynk, but it didn't have enough letters (each underscore in the missing words represented a letter)

I know. That's why I PM'd PilotBob, even before he appeared in the story, and FOLLOWED THE DIRECTIONS!

"I'm supposed to ask you, right, because you're the only mod I can find whose name begins with P and has 8 letters?"

Didn't work out for me so I looked in another direction.

poohbear_nc · 11-17-2010, 09:09 AM

Yeah - the p_______ was supposed to alert the readers to look for someone whose name began with p followed by 7 letters. Build up the suspense?

Sweetpea · 11-17-2010, 09:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

I thought of Pshrynk, but it didn't have enough letters (each underscore in the missing words represented a letter)

Oh, I thought it was simply a line representing a missing word! I never counted the underscores!

Which goes to show, I'm horrible at these kinds of things!

(I had the other words correct though...)

11-16-2010, 08:15 PM	#812
SneakySnake I'm watching you! Posts: 6,113 Karma: 22344652 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Sunny Coast Qld, OZ Device: Sony PRS-900(unused lately) iPadAir2, want me Kindle Oasis	waiting at Brisbane airport with napkin around neck and expectant look on face Last edited by SneakySnake; 11-16-2010 at 08:17 PM.

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11-16-2010, 07:28 PM	#811
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 62,854 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	MR worldwide eBook signing tour diary -- day 1 Well, I bid good-bye today to my loving MR fans - who have apparently forgiven me for my "trick ending" that names BOb as the culprit! Again! In fact, they have provided a free plane ticket for me to embark on a signing tour! They're such wonderful friends! I had to go through one of those new radioactive security scanners at the airport though - this one tested to see if you were carrying a bomb by heating you up to see if you would explode! For some reason, they made me go through it several times - "just adjusting the controls" the nice lady said. But finally the little red indicator widgets popped out on the two foil wrapped temperature sensors I was holding. I was a bit singed, but they applied large amounts of "healing sauce" to me. I tossed the sensors back to Am and scampered off to catch my plane! You should have heard the loud shouts of encouragement behind me! It brought tears to my eyes - which helped to wash out some of that sauce! Wow! I nearly missed the flight! Now, you know I'm not the type of guy to criticize receiving a free prize, and I know the global recession has affected MR too, but the airline I was booked on was truly "questionable." I mean, some airlines make all the passengers run to grab a good seat. On this airline, they tried to serve the last passenger to board as the in-flight meal! That shifty-looking short pilot that cut in front of me at the airport led the hungry group! Fortunately, I was able to barricade myself in one of the lavatories for the duration of the flight, and we've now landed. I was in such a hurry at the airport, I forgot to look at the boarding gate and see where my first stop on the tour was! I'm hoping it's Oz-land ... I have so many friends there I'm dying to meet!

11-16-2010, 08:32 PM	#813
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 62,854 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!

11-16-2010, 09:48 PM	#815
SneakySnake I'm watching you! Posts: 6,113 Karma: 22344652 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Sunny Coast Qld, OZ Device: Sony PRS-900(unused lately) iPadAir2, want me Kindle Oasis	snake could be distracted by a new reader, just long enough to let go of the chook!

11-17-2010, 08:43 AM	#817
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 62,854 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	With apologies (but no royalties to Sir Lemony): "A Series of Unfortunate Narrow Escapes" ? or "Around the World As 80 Meals?"

11-17-2010, 09:07 AM	#822
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 62,854 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	MR worldwide eBook signing tour diary -- day 2 - Brisbane Airport Well - I managed to escape from the plane's lavatory and deplane safely, despite the growls from all my fellow passengers still wearing their dinner napkins. I had to smack the short pilot with a tray to get to the exit! And there SHE was - SneakySnake - waiting to greet me! I recognized her instantly from her avatar. But I hadn't realized she had been working out this much. She shrieked "I've been expecting you" and grabbed hold of me and gave me a BIG "Welcome to Oz" hug - and it went on and on and on and on -- man, that woman is strong! I could hardly breathe! And the other passengers began to stare and take pictures! My face was pressed into the napkin she was wearing around her neck [is this a quaint Aussie custom when greeting guests?] I finally had to bang her in the head repeatedly with her prize ereader to get her attention, and make her let go. While her attention was focused on the now malfunctioning ereader, I made tracks for the nearest exit. Maybe I could find another Oz MR member for a bit of a rest!

11-17-2010, 09:09 AM	#824
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 62,854 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Yeah - the p_______ was supposed to alert the readers to look for someone whose name began with p followed by 7 letters. Build up the suspense?

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