Subject: Re: [FFML] MST's
From: "Robert Morrison" <EternalLostLurker@worldnet.att.net>
Date: 9/24/1997, 6:06 PM
To: "David Johnston" <rgorman@telusplanet.net>, "Andrew Huang" <alhuang@hcs.harvard.edu>
CC: "Travis Butler" <tbutler@tfs.net>, "Fanfic ML" <fanfic@fanfic.com>

David Johnston wrote:

I know I certainly did.  Not of course that I thought that 
NGevanjellydonut was anything except genius.  But the whole
point of an MST is to try to to be funny while reviewing the
subject matter.  

You mean there's a *point* to MST? Gasp!

I don't think it works if the work itself

If a workchuck could chuck work, how much work would a workchuck chuck if a
workchuck could chuck work?

is already so funny that the MST is going to fade by comparison.

F  a   d   e       a   w    a   y   .     .    .    .    .   .   

The subject matter of an MST need not be bad or poorly written.

Of course, if it is, that just makes it more fun to poke fun at...

But it should be serious.  

Seriously?

Satirising a satire is downright recursive.

Hmmm....I never could write well in recursive...

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