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[Sailor Moon/Dilbert]

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Title: How Many Pens are Needed for Your Job?
Series: Sailor Moon, Dilbert
Genre: crossover, humor
Author: Nicholas Eckert
Email: nicholec@nscc.cc.oh.us
Homepage: http://www.fortunecity.com/campus/law/44/fanfic.html

Date Sent to FFML: Sept. 30
Size: 35,780 bytes

Summary:

Hidden inside its inspiring thread, "Sailor Mixup!", it is a story of
henshin wands, pocket protectors, and hypnosis that, while not epic in
proportions, is rather long for this author.  Take the characters of
Naoko Takeuchi and Scott Adams, add a sick idea from a spamfic by
Matthew Campbell, and stand far, far back as the writer's mind stirs
vigorously.

{Paul}
  My reactions to this are twofold.

  1: BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAA!

^_^

  2: You know, Dilbert really doesn't work when you try and put it in
  prose.

Hmm...it does have its lackings in the format, I note in retrospect.
Specifically, I'd like to get to the one-liners from Dogbert a bit sooner,
but I'm forced to take time and explain in proper sentence form that it's
Dogbert who's saying them and not, say, Ratbert.  And, of course, there's
the visuals...the reader has to imagine all those plugs heading through
the same socket, and the machines themselves being lugged down the hall
while plugged together - not the clearest of images in this medium, I'm
afraid.

Ah well....

  In all seriousness, though, this was a wild and crazy ride all the
  way, mixing a somewhat watered-down version of Dilbertian chaos
  with the best of the magical girls. Although it was rather trying
  to translate this all, mentally, into doujinshi form so it could
  be seen in its original setting...as I said, some things just can't
  make the jump from cartoon to prose. 15 or 16 out of 20, though,
  simply because I was laughing too hard to care most of the time.

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As long as you were ROTFL, that's okay.  ^_^

Nicholas Eckert
vidstudent
Happy Regular of the Ultimate Video Rumble
(http://www.slack.net/~arctic/rumble.html)