tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421039709321794850.post3186815407639948250..comments2023-10-23T14:33:38.071-07:00Comments on Burg Berry: Sammy's Cheyenne Star Gate EscapadeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421039709321794850.post-50903469063144532902011-05-17T11:36:30.532-07:002011-05-17T11:36:30.532-07:00@ Jon -- Aww, you're sweet. They're really...@ Jon -- Aww, you're sweet. They're really not that good. The fun thing about bedtime stories is I can plagiarize ideas, make mistakes, and just practice in a low-stress environment.<br /><br />If I were actually trying to publish, I would need to do lots more revisions.<br /><br />As the kids read more, they will doubtless come to recognize some of the cliches. Of course, they will also be more likely to want to read to themselves at bedtime. I have mixed feelings about that.Gailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13719154384364654744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421039709321794850.post-57675512647577281542011-05-17T08:56:36.903-07:002011-05-17T08:56:36.903-07:00Again, any of you who haven't already heard he...Again, any of you who haven't already heard her bedtime stories are really missing out. Maybe Gail could begin recording them and sell the videos online.Jonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421039709321794850.post-79933355280552732062011-05-16T18:58:40.150-07:002011-05-16T18:58:40.150-07:00Yeah, but Macgyver was worse. Macgyver was a '...Yeah, but Macgyver was worse. Macgyver was a 'hero' engineer, who was basically a private international spy and general do-gooder, who routinely SUCCEEDED at impossible tasks through his 'engineering genius'.<br /><br />Miraculously, despite doing three impossible things each day, and having to subdue a guard or flee a firefight every second episode....<br /><br />Macgyver never carried anything other than a swiss army knife, and somehow solved every problem, in a timely fashion, with materials on hand.<br /><br />He routinely built electric shock devices... but refused to ever carry a taser.<br /><br />He would improvise body armor, but wouldn't pay the money for ACTUAL body armor.<br /><br />He'd build potentially lethal potato guns or other explosives... but refused to carry a gun, or even a properly safe explosives detonator.<br /><br />home-made flash-bangs, but never REAL flash-bangs. Routinely stole car batteries, but never tucked a 9-volt battery into a pocket! salvaged electrical wire from a farmer's fence, but never carried a roll of wire! estimated complex current flow without a multimeter!<br /><br />Macgyver was the ANTI-engineer. he's almost as bad as Star Trek. there has to be a lesson out there about engineers who depend too much on luck, on not enough on proper preperation.Krennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05709359305577677184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421039709321794850.post-79370963394173338312011-05-16T18:36:06.470-07:002011-05-16T18:36:06.470-07:00Carolyn -- already doomed, might as well anticipat...Carolyn -- already doomed, might as well anticipate.<br /><br />Ronald -- Jon runs a "Mad Scientist" series where idiotic errors result in the Mad Scientist dying at the end of each story, only to be inexplicably revived for the next installment.Gailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13719154384364654744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421039709321794850.post-91956518711151180362011-05-16T18:05:47.026-07:002011-05-16T18:05:47.026-07:00For your next bed time story, I reccomend a parabl...For your next bed time story, I reccomend a parable about Macgyver, the foolish engineer who never learned that Prior Preperation Prevents Poor Performance, but was constantly saved from the inevitable lessons by screenwriter fiat. He then goes on to embrace bizarre moral theories, like self defense is wrong, because he's been forever protected from his own mistakes.Krennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05709359305577677184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421039709321794850.post-6966571752618450822011-05-16T18:04:58.282-07:002011-05-16T18:04:58.282-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Krennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05709359305577677184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421039709321794850.post-81601369349370297732011-05-15T16:39:17.508-07:002011-05-15T16:39:17.508-07:00you know, if you keep insisting that Sammy is secr...you know, if you keep insisting that Sammy is secretly a BRILLIANT escapist / engineer / scientist, I think he's going to get some radical ideas. Ah well. He's your child!Carolynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10691867023839548351noreply@blogger.com