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Thanks to Virginia for the great line and to Iolanthe for the suggestion.
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Well, gee, Female Hawk, "Headline Lover" could mean quite a few things.   Enjoyable little vignette!
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I was choking with laughter here. (And am still grinning from ear to ear.)
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light is the office grapevine. (from Nan's fabulous Home series)
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  The BEST LAUGH of my day, thank you so much !!
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I am going to be chuckling quietly for the rest of the day!  Perfect answer to the challenge!!!
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A writer's job is to think of new plots and create characters who stay with you long after the final page has been read. If that mission is accomplished than we have done what we set out to do, which is to entertain and hopefully educate.
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It had been an emergency. <raises one eyebrow quizzically> Someone had needed Superman. Clark needed skivvies in a hurry? the red briefs had been temporarily mislaid. Pink leopard spotted briefs instead of the red ones? Superman - sans the red briefs - could *not* be seen in public hastily purchasing underwear on his way to a rescue. Could have skipped the briefs like the new comic books... :rolleyes:  Lois had seized the Victoria's Secret bag she'd hidden in the closet, extracted the red panties, and shoved them at Clark. Famous last words. Sure, she'd known the panties' distinctive feature was heat-activated. Uh oh! "I didn't anticipate that you'd put them on backwards." "It was meant to refer to our job." She strangled the budding upsurge of giggles. "I mean ... it *is* true. Of both of us." Hmmmmm...... The message - proclaimed by Superman himself and currently being beamed around the news services of the world. The Man of Steel was a:
HEADLINE LOVER! <gasps for breath> What a great little tale! Way too funny! I needed that laugh!!!!!
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
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This was awesome and made my weekend! Thanks Corrina
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Ok this one I get, headline lover because she is a reporter. I am still working on the nfic punch line. though at least I understand what the column was about now.
Clark: “If we can be born in an instant, and die in an instant, why can’t we fall in love in an instant?”
Caroline's "Stardust"
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Ooooh fun! Lois stifled her amusement. Tied it up. Smacked it down. Attempted to smother it to death under a thick blanket of solemnity. "It's not funny," Clark said.
No. It wasn't. It wasn't. It really wasn't. Uh-huh. the red briefs had been temporarily mislaid. Hmm...mislaid or 'mislaid'? The other Suits were at the cleaners.  He'd checked them for lace, frills, or any other explicitly feminine frippery, and finding none, had stepped into them and flown out the window. But he would have to heat-vision her for that, no? But she hadn't known the emergency was a fire. Oops? "It was meant to refer to our job." She strangled the budding upsurge of giggles. "I mean ... it *is* true. Of both of us." /raises eyebrow/ Michael
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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eye witness.
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OH NO YOU DIDN'T. Poor Clark!
What we've got here is failure to communicate...
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Thanks to everyone who responded. I'm glad you liked this little bit of silliness.  Corrina.
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Haven't been on the boards awhile... but, oh so glad I didn't miss this LOL little gem! Well played, Corrina, well played!
Reach for the moon, for even if you fail, you'll still land among the stars... and who knows? Maybe you'll meet Superman along the way.
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