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Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: MartinB (---.tenet.saix.net)
Date: November 07, 2006 09:42PM

...asking very nicely.

When that was done....

Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: November 07, 2006 10:11PM

…the elephant was so glad to be free that it trumpeted out loud, and dashed off with Amy and Tom hanging onto its tail and covering their ears.

Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (61.68.161.---)
Date: November 09, 2006 04:11PM

Because they each had three hands and arms. This was because...

Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: November 09, 2006 04:54PM

…unbeknownst to Amy, the officer had given her a potion that…

Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: 198505 (---.cable.ubr04.pres.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: November 09, 2006 08:47PM

glowed with strange sickly green colour, and had a symbol on the side, Amy seeing this asked

Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: aria (---.an1.ewr18.da.uu.net)
Date: November 10, 2006 03:05AM

Tom if he wanted some.

Tom couldn't read of course, but new better than to consume anything that was quite that shade of green.

Tom tried to communicate this to Amy by

Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: November 10, 2006 06:24AM

...waving his antennae, because although Amy had mutated, Tom was, in fact .....

Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (---.bur.dialup.dodo.com.au)
Date: November 10, 2006 12:46PM

A giant ant. Which was why it was rather unfortunate that the Giant Echidna was as swift as it was, because...

Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: November 10, 2006 03:56PM

…if it had been a little slower, it wouldn't have gotten caught under the (even more giant) elephant's foot just at that moment. But except for a few broken quills…

(Er…echidna do have quills, right?)

Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: November 10, 2006 04:48PM

...stuck in the elephant's foot, it was fine. Unfortunately the echidna, which was not the Mother of all Gods........

Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: November 28, 2006 04:41PM

....died because no-one had paid it any attention for over two weeks! Luckily for Amy......

Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: July 04, 2007 07:16AM

... the elephant just needed to recuperate for six months before it could continue on its trek. As soon as it was well.........

Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (149.135.106.---)
Date: July 04, 2007 01:11PM

it could be, considering it was living in a dead thread. Still, Amy knew that

Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: nemades (---.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk)
Date: July 04, 2007 11:59PM

...it was a good elephant as it has had several caps on the Scottish World champion elephant polo squad meaning that...

Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: July 05, 2007 07:20AM

...no-one would consider it to be less than a celebrity, but.............

Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: nemades (---.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk)
Date: July 06, 2007 06:38PM

...despite this, it modestly declined the offer to be in the next celebrity Big Brother house in favour of continuing on this adventure, meaning that...

Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: SLIGHTCAP (---.hsd1.va.comcast.net)
Date: July 06, 2007 06:48PM

It had more sense than most, and so instead, it decided to...

Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: July 07, 2007 12:05PM

.....join the ghost of Johnny Cash and walk the line, where.......

Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: nemades (---.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk)
Date: July 07, 2007 11:21PM

...ever there were no policemen, as it had slightly more than was good for it, and so...

Re: to make a short story long...
Posted by: mrs SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: July 08, 2007 03:35PM

it was looking slightly pink, which was confusing as....

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