There's SO much truth to the acceptable use policy. When I worked for Geico, they blocked pretty much anything that wasn't their site or something that could help us (like reverse address/phone searches to get in touch with claimants we didn't have full info on). Made me long for the days I worked in college admissions - so long as it was within reason, we could do whatever we wanted during the SLOW summer season (knowing they keylogged things).
I had a hunch it was Perry, not Clark. Clark would have used Bills' not Bill's, since he's a Buffalo Bills fan. Or, at least, that seemed to be a tip-off for me.
I laughed a lot during the fic. Thanks for sharing it with us. Well worth the wait for you to post it!
Battle On, Deadly Chakram
"Being with you is stronger than me alone." ~ Clark Kent
"One little spark of inspiration is at the heart of all creation." ~ Figment the Dragon
This was great! I loved it. Perry being Bill's Fan was perfect. Also love that she and Clark made a bet about it. Would love to see him rub that in via another sequel. But this was just perfect, and Jimmy's help with the Blue Suede Shoes inclusion was artfully perfect.
Brava!
Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eye witness. --Mark Twain
Thanks for the reminder of how good it is to work in academia. Good for you for catching the placement of the apostrophe. I figure that as poor as Lois's spelling is, she wouldn't have done so.
Thanks, MouseRocks. Actually, the filk wasn't inserted into the story -- the story was written around the filk. Don't ask me why or how, but a lyric of the song ("stay off of my Star Fleet boots") came to me first and I knew I wanted to write a story to share the silly song. I'm glad that the wraparound story was apparently strong enough that its origins weren't immediately apparent.
Thanks. Elvis and ST is a pretty odd combination, but no moreso than Elvis and L&C itself is. Any time I can do anything akin to an L&C/ST crossover, I'm happy.
Ooooh! That was a fun one! And probably a good thing that I wiki-read Kill Bill some time ago.
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“Well, the bean counters and the IT people got together and--“
Lois couldn’t help interjecting, “Now there’s a super-villain team up.”
It really depends on ‘IT people’, though. One group’s from Jupiter, the other from Saturn.
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“—and they came up with some new rules.”
Ooookay?
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Perry looked unusually grim and his voice was subdued but firm when he said, “You can’t ignore them this time, Lois. If you do, you’re fired. And this time the bigwigs mean it. The accountants say the changes are a cost-cutting measure; the IT Police say they’re for security. Either way, the grand poohbahs have made it clear that any infractions will result in termination.”
Yeah, right. Wonder what they will say to a sudden and steep decline in Superman interviews and exclusives while, let’s say, the Metropolis Star suddenly gets way more Superman stories than any other publication on the East Coast. Might cost the Daily Planet an advertiser or two and a couple of subscribers.
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I know – no more than three sentences in an e-mail?
No, but close. You see, studies have shown that news stories now must be formatted in 140 characters, including punctuation. The entire Sunday edition can thus be printed on a single sheet of paper, with the rest of usual paper free for advertising.
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“No with the paper towels. Too close with the e-mail. They are saying that company computers may only be used for work purposes; any personal usage is a fire-able offense.”
That’s…that’s…that’s actually kind of a often seen practice. I mean, these days it’s probably often outfitted with *some* leeway even in the more beancountery companies, but I guess for instance the NIA will frown upon the use of Savebox by their IT guys.
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“So, why are you telling me this?” Lois hoped he hadn’t known about her forays into the Star Trek fanfic web site stficmbs.com; she had thought she had been sufficiently circumspect with them.
Been writing about a young female transporter operator hasn’t she? In the most recent episode, said operator met a handsome rouge. She ended up in his bed, as it so turns out ()
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“They’re starting right now. I’m about to make the general announcement, but I wanted to let you know first. Now I don’t want to have to fight the bureaucrats to make them let me keep my favorite reporter, so don’t try to bend these rules – no more fanfic, no more reading feedback, nothing. I’m not even visiting Graceland’s web site anymore. It’s hitting all of us.”
But what if Lois where to write a report on the fanfic subculture and it turns into a semi-monthly column for the Sunday extras? The she would have to continuously research this topic, wouldn’t she?
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“Really. I’ve suspected you off and on for years. At first, I just dismissed the idea as silly and too much of a coincidence, and then when I believed it, I respected you enough that I’ve played along with your pretense, but do you really expect me to believe that, considering…?” Lois surreptitiously made the flying-hand motion that was their own private sign for Superman.
Oh, they’re already at *that* stage in their relationship. But likely before they got back together?
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Lois playfully adopted a fake German accent when she said “I haff vays of finding things out.”
Oh dear. You mean, like Elsa on Indy 3?
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“And when I have proof that it is you, we’ll be heading to a day in Hawaii via Big Blue Airline.”
Yes, but wouldn’t the suggestion of her in an, at best ambitious, imitation of a bikini in one of the natural Hawaiian pools be enough of an incentive for him to spring for a trip any random weekend she requests it?
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“So you mean that we could see infractions from the past? Maybe you can help me. I’ve, uh, been working undercover on a story off and on for years. I’ve been posting on a Star Trek message board hoping to track down someone going by ‘Bill’s Fan.’ I think he may even work here, but I haven’t been able to catch him.
Fun fact. Lois actually started working undercover at the Planet for this story. In reality, she is the Met Star’s most prized reporter and when she finally unmasks Bill’s Fan, it will be a Pultizer at the very least. Possibly even a bio-pic.
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then let’s go to the Chocolate Hut right now and I’ll fill you in once we’re there. <And by then, I should have dreamed up a plausible story.> I’ll just leave Clark a note to let him know I’ll be back in an hour.”
LOIS: “Chocolate.” CLARK: *sigh* she’ll be back in an hour the earliest.
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“Sure thing. It won’t take me long to write a script to look through the data files.
Good old days of non-secure Internet traffic and companies being allowed to actually do deep-packet inspections. Must be a hold-over when Lex owned the place.
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Jimmy grinned and shook his head. “Who’d have thought Perry was almost as much into Star Trek as he is into Elvis?”
/scratches head/ I think I thought it was Perry back in the day, didn’t I?
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I’m gonna kill Bill’s Fan!
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“Lois was right. In Bill’s Fan’s, I mean in Perry’s, response to her filk, he wondered whether admiralty sang. I checked our data, and sure enough, some of the bigwigs were playing online poker yesterday. Seems they thought that only us peons would be monitored. So to save face – and their jobs – they reversed the policy.”
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Lois thought that maybe she would kill Bill’s Fan after all, just for not being Clark. She had really wanted to get lei-ed.
That one was quite the creative exercise!
Michael
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Would love to see him rub that in via another sequel. But this was just perfect, and Jimmy's help with the Blue Suede Shoes inclusion was artfully perfect. 
It really depends on ‘IT people’, though. One group’s from Jupiter, the other from Saturn.
Michael