Hi Terry,
I still have quite a backlog, but luckily, Bean22 popped this one back up
OOooh!, those are always fun. What did Lois do this time?
or, as in the case with Clark Kent and Lois Lane, roll seven or eleven.
I don’t know that colloquialism and it’s fun to just make stuff up, so, it’s either Clark’s a seven and Lois an eleven—
LOIS: You bet I’m twice as good as Clark!
-- anyway, it’s either that or because Lois and Clark work from seven a.m. to eleven p.m.
“And your name and title, sir?” “Perry White, Managing Editor for the Daily Planet.” “Yes, Mr. White, I can help you with that. Can you give me your most current manager’s access code, please?”
I can’t believe the amount of competence on display here! So rarely seen in fictional bureaucracy. Also, I just realized, that’s “bureau” and “crazy” right in there. I wonder if that’s intentional or just lucky happenstance.
He was certain they were a front for an illegal puppy mill,
An illegal puppy mill? Another term I would need to look up, so… let’s see. I’m going with a facility that grinds up puppies. And “illegal” means there’s also legal ones? Like those factories that make insect protein powder by grinding up mealworms and locusts?
read ahead of his stumbling classmates and drawn the ire of the teacher when she found him going that much faster than the rest
So, what happened really? Because that doesn’t sound like something the teacher should be mad about. Unless Ralphs interrupting the class.
When he’d tried to write science fiction in junior high, one of his classmates had found his notebook and read it aloud to the bullies and snooty girls
About tall green women with a severe lack of complexity?
didn’t blame them. After all, he rarely stood up for himself.
You’re working really hard to make Ralph sympathetic. I’m wondering about the endgame.
Ralph either didn’t understand how social graces worked or he didn’t care. His co-workers found him cloying or standoffish with no middle ground,
One wonders how much todays workplace would have some HR rule about persons with social disabilities. Because this sounds like he’s on the spectrum.
The man was a good writer, and when he got his sources lined up correctly he could deliver a solid assignment,
You’re really working on de-joking him. Of course if he’s a joke, then what’s the person who hired him? Only thing that remains is Ralph’s drunken hitting on Lois during the S4 holiday episode. Hmm…just how drunk was he before the timeloop started…
He paused, took a deep breath, and let it out slowly. “I – I have Asperger’s Syndrome.”
Oh you went there completely. Didn’t think it would be this explicit
Ralph’s explanation was a great write up. I do remember the first time AS came up for me was with one of the lawyers in Boston Legal.
just like Lois has to deal with being an attractive woman who men like to hit on,
And here we go again with the inappropriate remarks
Perry winced at the reference to Lois’ stint as editor. She’d had to slap Ralph down pretty hard when he’d tried to turn in a story that fell apart when she double-checked his assertions.
Oh wow, it’s set in Season 5!
So, that was a great piece, Terry! I so did not expect it to be this deep from the title.
/goes on to check the FDK/
Oh, yes. I see. Wonderful write-up! Thanks for sharing!
I also never realized how many FoLCs here are programmers. It's eerie. Good thing I never wanted to do computer stuff in a fic half-chumped. The liberties you get on TV regarding computers is just staggering.
Michael
