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[blamebrampton]

In breaking news, someone said something silly on the internet. Full story at nine.

I just had to physically restrain myself from replying to a very nice person who had written a well-worded rant complaining that people writing Star Wars fics continually give the characters stupid dialogue and idiotic reasoning skills.

My response: 'Surely that's canon?' would not have contributed meaningfully to the conversation.

Bedtime, life is chaos, deadline filled with madness. Back to the world shortly with news about fire recovery and HP10K and more ...

Comments

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Every now and then, G cracks me up.

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

Have I ever told you about his seventh-grade invention of Xeroxeus, the Greek god of plagiarism (Roman name Mimeo)? That is one of my favorite G stories.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Ooh! That's very very good, he should be rightly proud.

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

His teacher wrongfully accused him of copying a presentation from a children's magazine, so when it came time to dress up like a Greek god and tell the god's story, he chose to assume the identity of "Xeroxeus."

As the myth goes, Xeroxeus was created by Hephaestus in response to a challenge by the mighty Zeus, who claimed to be the only god capable of generating others. Though Hephaestus eventually met the challenge, he was not the cleverest or most creative of the immortals, and the god he forged, Xeroxeus, was modeled on different parts of other gods, Frankenstein-like.

The temple of Xeroxeus is long gone, but it is said to be a copy of other Greek temples. Xeroxeus only achieved minor status in Greece, but Mimeo, his Roman counterpart, was a major deity - because the Romans copied so much from the Greeks. ;)