tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9791523.post115824088781437651..comments2024-03-04T03:40:11.172-05:00Comments on No rules. Just write.: Scary Harry vs. the TSA?Brenda Coulterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13528691681455659296noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9791523.post-1158425283084005362006-09-16T12:48:00.000-04:002006-09-16T12:48:00.000-04:00Exactly, Michelle. We called that game "telephone"...Exactly, Michelle. We called that game "telephone".<BR/><BR/>Anonymous, I'm fascinated by all sorts of things. A curious mind is a novelist's best friend.Brenda Coulterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13528691681455659296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9791523.post-1158373815244811802006-09-15T22:30:00.000-04:002006-09-15T22:30:00.000-04:00Sounds like that old game we used to play in schoo...Sounds like that old game we used to play in school where you whispered something to one person then passed it around the room. Generally, the final version was NOTHING like the original. Sounds like a lot of free publicity for the next book though. <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.michelleswritingspace.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">Michelle's Writing Space</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9791523.post-1158371935804797052006-09-15T21:58:00.000-04:002006-09-15T21:58:00.000-04:00Why does this facinate you? Yoy must not have see...Why does this facinate you? Yoy must not have seen A few weeks ago some perv got days of attention from all the medias a lobster dinner champagne and a free ride home. This should not facinate you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9791523.post-1158371480893375362006-09-15T21:51:00.000-04:002006-09-15T21:51:00.000-04:00Thanks, Lori. I noticed that just a few minutes ag...Thanks, Lori. I noticed that just a few minutes ago.<BR/><BR/><B>Greetings, CLICKED readers! Thanks for stopping by.</B>Brenda Coulterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13528691681455659296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9791523.post-1158370351053085412006-09-15T21:32:00.000-04:002006-09-15T21:32:00.000-04:00Hey, Brenda, you got a mention on "Clicked" again!...Hey, Brenda, you got a mention on "Clicked" again! Oh, to have my own plane... Do they do security searches on private planes? What if you loaded yours up with explosives???? Scary thought.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9791523.post-1158281488414117092006-09-14T20:51:00.000-04:002006-09-14T20:51:00.000-04:00Sounds like somebody missed his nap today.Sounds like somebody missed his nap today.Brenda Coulterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13528691681455659296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9791523.post-1158279367817745662006-09-14T20:16:00.000-04:002006-09-14T20:16:00.000-04:00So you take issue with the "whisper down the lane"...So you take issue with the "whisper down the lane" phenomenon of bloggers not quite getting their stories straight about the actual quote from J.K. Rowling....yet you'll spew hundreds of pages of fiction celebrating "traditional values"....which are the byproduct of a very old "whisper down the lane, God told me to write this!" book called The Bible. Interesting.<BR/><BR/>Traditional Values SpyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9791523.post-1158267959454416702006-09-14T17:05:00.000-04:002006-09-14T17:05:00.000-04:00The scary thing, Bill, is that I knew exactly what...The scary thing, Bill, is that I knew exactly what you meant. ;-) Thanks for the laugh.Brenda Coulterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13528691681455659296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9791523.post-1158266796088117832006-09-14T16:46:00.000-04:002006-09-14T16:46:00.000-04:00Sheep skin, I mean. To write on. Not "ship skin."Sheep skin, I mean. To write on. Not "ship skin."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9791523.post-1158266306622308702006-09-14T16:38:00.000-04:002006-09-14T16:38:00.000-04:00p.s. - Sadly, they also took the rough drafts of m...p.s. - Sadly, they also took the rough drafts of my forward, preface, introduction, and dedication. I thought they USED ship skin in the old days. They have yet to return the carcass.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9791523.post-1158265947359061492006-09-14T16:32:00.000-04:002006-09-14T16:32:00.000-04:00The airlines DID actually prevent me from carrying...The airlines DID actually prevent me from carrying my manuscript onto a plane. Well, you see, I had inscribed the entire book onto the wide blade of a WWII vintage machete with a metal etcher. This was the machete my dad used to hack through vines in the jungles of South America during the Big War.<BR/>That wouldn't have been so bad, but they also took my notes. I guess I can't totally blame airport security. It's kind of a funny story, really. I ran out of index cards and was looking around furiously for some notepaper. My brother had left an unopened box of shotgun shells at the house. He's a big hunter, you know. I scribbled various important secret notes on the sides of the box with one of those pens that writes on plastic shrink wrap. <BR/>I'm not saying it was the airline's fault.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9791523.post-1158264322044904932006-09-14T16:05:00.000-04:002006-09-14T16:05:00.000-04:00Dear Gods of Literature:May I one day be so famous...Dear Gods of Literature:<BR/>May I one day be so famous an author that my argument with a TSA employee will make international news.<BR/>AmenToni Lea Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05019145772583242781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9791523.post-1158263050720654542006-09-14T15:44:00.000-04:002006-09-14T15:44:00.000-04:00I was in England at the time, and the story there ...I was in England at the time, and the story there was that it was all flights, coming and going. But since they don't directly control security on the incoming flights, anything's possible.<BR/><BR/>The escalating story itself is funny, though. I hope more authors make off-hand comments about worries they'd had. Think of all the problems that they could have resolved, through pure force of will!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9791523.post-1158261152754605412006-09-14T15:12:00.000-04:002006-09-14T15:12:00.000-04:00As I understand it, the no-carry-on rule was for f...As I understand it, the no-carry-on rule was for flights departing from the U.K., and it just lasted for a few days. But airport security isn't the issue here. <BR/><BR/>What fascinates me is how news sites and bloggers have jumped to conclusions about Ms. Rowling's airport experience. She did <I>not</I> say she'd had trouble getting her manuscript past the security checkpoint. She mentions no arguments and no bending of rules. The way I read her words, she simply thought getting her manuscript onto the plane might be a problem. It wasn't.Brenda Coulterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13528691681455659296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9791523.post-1158257959858793942006-09-14T14:19:00.000-04:002006-09-14T14:19:00.000-04:00It's a bizarre story, since, you know, nothing act...It's a bizarre story, since, you know, nothing actually happened. But it's not entirely crazy: TSA might not have ruled out briefcases, but there was a week in August in which the British transportation security agency (I don't know what it's actually called) wasn't allowing any carry-on luggage at all for all flights to and from the country. So flying from New York to anywhere else would have been fine, but flying from New York to the UK actually did mean that your carry-on luggage would have become checked luggage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com