Darth Michael: Thanks for reading and commenting.
Oh dear! It really is alternating bad luck with getting sick, isn’t it?
It would be nice to be pain free for awhile. /Yes, 2016, I'm eyeing you!/
/carefully hides lots of FDK in the bushes/
We had to delay Easter due to my daughter coming down with the flu Saturday night.
Thank you. I couldn't have been so long-winded without your encouragement.
No, the other thing.
CLARK: There’s a fire at the Miranda’s Secrets’ fashion show uptown. I mean, there’s an emergency!
JIMBO: Do you think Superman will need a photographer?
SUPERMAN: Always. Just make sure you don't take any photos of me rescuing fashion models.
Why did the world need Superman whenever she wanted to rake Clark over the coals?
WORLD: Still paying off that Nightfall debt.
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Awww, she wants him to take in the storage closet!
Um... sure... you could translate it to mean that.
There's no smiling during an emergency then? Noted.
Did she just come out to the newsroom?
As a nice person? Or do you mean Clark did?
The MetStar, to get her up to speed on the current standard of reporting in Metropolis? You know, maximum word length. No more than five words in a sentence. Big letters. Lots of pictures. A Page-3 girl…
LOIS: The torture! Why am I being punished?
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Clark!
CLARK: No, *Luthor*. He's the one you want to blame. Not me.
Just 8 more days till we can all deal with dragons again!
Actually, next part posts today. Dragons?... Wait, you weren't talking about my story were you?
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It's GoT season again, isn't it?
Oh look! She’s going bonkers again from not getting any loving for going on what, 5 soul years now?
Technically...
LOIS: No, let's go with 5 soul years.
So, he lies to her even about his sleeping behavior?
Is it a lie, if he doesn't know it's a lie?
Just like they do in some TV shows, huh?
Yeah. Coincidence, huh?
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Is that symbolic, her putting sharpened objects into Superman?
Um... No?
Yes, actually, I do wonder how many insects and birds get splattered against the Man of Steels scalp when he flies around town.
CLARK: Superman says he pleads the 5th.
Or Lex would be dead. Well, more Lexes would be dead.
LEX: Lex-C doesn't count as a real Lex.
Oh, look! He killed 26 miners.
LEX: I told you all that he was a menace, but did you listen?
It also separates a successful print medium from a failing newspaper only used for wrapping fish.
They predicted that outcome 20 years ago, didn't they?
Funny thing, that, actually. Part 201 would originally have been scheduled to air on April 1st, too.
That wasn't lost on me. Not posting last week had nothing to do with that date, though.
“Take up smoking this summer?” Jimbo asked, waving a hand in front of his face.
Only chimneys.
And forests.
Glancing around, he didn’t see his favorite journalist as he paused in front of her desk.
Cat? Did he forget she’s now in Houston?
LOIS: That's not funny.
That’s actually a really helpful announcement, stating the bride’s new last name in a wedding announcement. Say, what if Ari’s last name was Luthor even before she got married and she only took her mother’s maiden name after the divorce. She could be Lex’s sister or daughter!
Hmm…probably sister; she’s too old to be his daughter.
LEX: Plus, I usually go with Lois as my daughter/paramour/2nd wife.
Disturbing. Yes, one wonders why it was even printed.
LEX: Clearly, who she was before she married me is irrelevant.
Oh, look. She *can* leave meaningful notes. Only why bother? Can’t he hone in on her heartbeat like a sidewinder missile does on the exhaust heat of a jet plane?
So, Lois can't be polite? Or learn things?
Oh, it’s been for Jimmy. Duh!
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Our little raccoon is in the zone, huh?
Is that a bad thing?
“Don’t lie to your girlfriend.”
“Make sweet lovin’ to your girlfriend.”
“Buy your girlfriend chocolates.”
“Don’t date coeds while you have a girlfriend.”
“Concubines are a legitimate pressure release.”
No wonder Clark got a headache.
Because she’s smart. And from what I have seen of the way she goes through fiancées and boyfriends, fast, too.
LOIS: Hey!
ER: Paul. Claude. Mitchell. Superman. Clark. Clark. Lex. Clark. And that’s just this time around.
CAT: You mean *I'm* the good girl in this story?
What if a flowerpot or gargoyle fell onto her head from the 5th floor?
It's always good to have a Plan B.
CLARK: That's not a Plan B.
LOIS: No, it's Plan C, as in "don't tell Clark!"
“Saints alive! Lois, what is all of this?”
Work?
Well, she HAS been out of the office for a while.
No, the editor of the Smallville Postillion was glad if his reporters were able to string together last night’s beer advertisement, let alone write a one-paragraph summary of the high school football game.
CLOE: Hey!
Did Cloe ever work for the local Smallville paper? I thought she went straight from the High School paper to Metropolis.
So, the good Doc is saying the truth. Why is Lois so upset about that?
ARI: Of course my articles are truthful!
Lois doesn't want everyone to pick up on the fact that Superman lies. They might tie him to Clark that way.
CLARK: Very funny.
LOIS: It’s not like I picked that one on purpose for my demonstration. /whistles innocently/
Huh, I’m thinking Lex didn’t know about that one.
What? Lex knows how stinky the Met Star is. Do you think HE reads that paper?
Now that’s not a very nice thing to say about a woman who has had romantic entanglements with just 6 men over the past 6 years.
Well, in comparison to the author of that acrostic...
Right.
TEMPUS: /on to Plan B/
Except that Tempus has been wiped out of existence. Hmmm. Maybe it's time for a refresher course.
Why she claims to be the best reporter in town. Also, he’s probably so intimidated by her, he won’t even think about sweet lovin’ her later that week, huh?
Yes, apparently all smart women have that problem. It's why so many of them fake being dumb.
“Liar,” she murmured as he tilted his lips towards hers.
ER: /Can't believe Lois b*tch slapped Clark like that/
LOIS: Well, he *did* think I really wanted to marry Luthor at one point.
Huh? A bet? A bet on when they would come out?
Kiss on the newsroom floor. Oh... you meant as a couple, not out of the conference room.
/shrugs demurely/ I try.
Did he just call her fatter than Nightfall?
No, he's playing his "I'm only human" card. Anyway, he didn't say that he WOULD hurt his back, only that he COULD. Also, she was the one who brought up that CK couldn't been seen carrying her around town as if he were SM.
Right. He might just start doing it to mess with them now.
JIMBO:
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And get birth control, huh?
Because someone cloned Jimbo?
Did ‘blonde’ go out of style since it came out that Lex preferred blondes?
No, but there's only one who's been called THE blonde, since Lois went into space.
LOIS: I'm NOT blonde!
It’s funny just how many ways you can die from silicon. Glass shards. Drowning in quick sand. Microchips controlling a Terminator that will shoot you.
Yes, but still entertaining.
Couldn’t she ask Big Louie to arrange with some guys he knows for Lex to have an ‘accident’ in the courtyard where he kinda, sorta stabs himself with a shiv in the neck. Multiple times.
Big Louie isn't bigger than THE Boss.
Still too early to joke about it?
Yes.
LOIS: Oh, I can choke him about it.
Exactly.
What about the day when Zara shows up and takes Kal-El home to Krypton? What about the day when B39 finally gets a hold of some Kryptonite bullets and plants one or two in Superman’s head? What about Lex getting released from prison on his own recognizance and kidnaps Lois into a lonely corner in the Swiss Alps — without stopping for chocolates on the way up? What about the day Cat wins the Kerth Award for Investigative Journalism for her piece on Lex’s downfall?
None of those things have happened... yet.
They’re still in public, so nothing *too* forward.
She's kicked Ralph in the crotch in the bullpen, but maybe she'll flash Clark to distract him.
So, that’s how she does it.
LOIS: That was purely an accident!
CLARK: Sure. Pure. Let's call it that, shall we?
Hey, Jimbo is their best bud! They had to work it so he'd win the pool.
Lover’s Lane! /ER gets naughty thoughts/
LOIS: Oh, no! Not that old nickname again.
And according to Ari, a red one at that.
LOIS: I swear Lucy installed that one! Wait. /grrrrr/ LUCY!
And just in time for part 200!
Yep. Only 100 parts late. :ducking:
Until someone explains to him that Lois will now expect things to progress to a more…physical nature.
CLARK: Now, Michael. That's not nice. Lois is a very nice girl. You heard Cat. Lois hasn't had sex in YEARS. Why would she want to break that streak?
LOIS:
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CAT:
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I knew I shouldn't have moved.
