FORKNI-L
Digest - 3 Jul 2012 to 4 Jul 2012 (#2012-112)
Wed, 4 Jul 2012
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Topics of the day:
1. Doing the time warp.... (was Purple Thongs)
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Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 04:49:45 -0400
From: Greer Watson <gwatson2@r.......>
Subject: Re: Doing the time warp.... (was Purple Thongs)
On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Stephanie Babbitt wrote:
> I seem to recall now that the purple thong appeared in one of Tippi's
> parody fics. Do archives of the FKFIC list from this same period
> exist anywhere?
Sadly, FKFIC-L isn't archived, except for the many, many stories on
www.fkfanfic.com, which--huge though it is--doesn't have *everything*.
More's the pity. Neither there nor in the JADFE archives does there seem to
be anything by Tippi that I can find. I *do* know that, once upon a time,
she had a website (Tippi's World Wide Wickedness Site). Sadly, it no longer
exists. Nor is it archived on the Wayback Machine.
However, you did give me a name. So I tried Googling on "Wicked Cousin
Tippi". I discovered that among her fics were "The Pecan Felt Round the
World" and "That a Vampire in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?",
which--from the scant relics Google granted me--seem also to have been light
and smutty humour. And, from the FORKNI-L list archives, I found that Tippi
used a sig that included, "Wicked Cousin Tippi, Dollar Bill Wrangler of the
Thong Throng!"
Then I came across a fascinating thread from which I excerpt the following.
1. In "Weird Cousin Tippi", 12 June 1996, Amy Denton quoted the following:
"I know about the grape flavored thong."
- Nigel Bennett w/ Gillian Horvath at Syndi-Con
"That was Cousin Tippi's idea."
- Nameless con goer also at Syndi-Con
2. To which Tippi responded later that day:
Ya HA! So it was YOU! Perri told me at the Arlington LK party
that SOMEONE ratted me out! She wouldn't say who, tho.
But you've got it wrong! It wasn't my idea! Well, okay, the grape
flavoring was my idea. What can I say? I was possessed when I wrote
that EC story. But the whole Thong in General was started by someone
else entirely! Oh but what short memories these listgoers doth possess!
See, now, if I actually ever *go* to a con, I can't just go up to Nigel
Bennett and say, "Well hello Mr Bennett, I'm a great admirer of your
work." Nooo. Because the minute I walk through the doors
someone's gonna go, "Look, it's the thong girl." And that will be the
death of any intelligent conversation!
(After which Amy denies being the "nameless con-goer", saying she simply
can't remember who it was.)
3. Then Gehirn Karies goes on to write this humungous letter. (One can
only hope that you can work out the threading from the various levels of
>>>>s.)
Heather asked:
>If it wasn't you Tippi, who was it?? Inquiring minds what to know. :-)
Tippi Sputtered:
>>See, that's just it. I don't know. I've posted a couple times asking
who the heck started this whole thong thing. Nobody came forward!
I honestly don't think it was me.
When I asked back in March, after TJ's interview with The Master,
I gratefully received the response form [Name removed by request]
that I've copied below.
<<<<<Did you ask for a copy of beginning of the thong thread? i've
been off-list 'cause of finals and then skimming recently and i think i
remember you asking for a copy. Here you go, if you're looking for it
and i'm sorry if you're not! :)
[Name removed by request]
>Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 23:21:27 -0700
>From: [Name removed by request]
>Subject: Re: Saint Lacroix
>To: Multiple recipients of list FORKNI-L <FORKNI-L@p.......>
>
>Cousin Tips quotes and responds:
>
>>>i'd take my chances 'cause i know, whatever he does, whatever his
>>>motivations, intent, discontent, whatever - it'll be exciting, in any case
>>>(to say the very least)!
>>
>>Well we're in agreement there! ;) Through it all, we're still Cousins!
>
>****, yeah. No way did i just pick a faction out of the blue. i may have
>sounded really anti-LC lately (i am *not* happy with this season :) but
>i'm a Cousin, i'll always be a Cousin. He'll sicken me; he'll anger me; he'll
>dress up in a leather thong, do a lap dance and completely embarrass
>me but, deep down, i'll always love that wacky, wacky guy, LaCroix :)
>
><insert canned laughter and nauseating "family togetherness" music here,
please>
>
>
>[Name removed by request]
>
>How can you trust someone who bleeds for seven days and doesn't
>die? - BGW
Tippi:
<<< In fact I know it wasn't me -- it started out as a
purple thong with a feather in it, and I *know* I didn't say that! ;)
However, I heard somewhere that the purple one with a feather was
from a couple of gals con hijinks. Seems the subject is cyclical....
Ah ... not that I'm at all interested in this thread.... <wcg>
I'm a boxers kinda fan....
Gk
4. And then, a couple of digests later, [Name removed by request] (whoever
that was) chimed in with the following:
Erm, uh, um...
i should perhaps quote one of Sharon "Scottie" Scott's posts, dated
March 28th:
>crosses or stakes, which led to an even more erudite discussion about
>what kind of underwear the various FK vampires wear. <snip>
>recognize one another), and during the course of [Toronto Trek], I
>asked the infamous question. [A former listmember] thought a minute
>and answered, "Purple silk thong."
And, independently, Cousin Alanna Patrick and i had these private
discussions on LC in lap dances, sweat, leather-strapped-in-and-cradled
crotches... after which, i believe, i also brought up said apparel on-list.
Or maybe one of us mentioned it and *then* we started talking off-list...
***
Enlightening, eh? However, we are still only getting variant versions the
*beginning* of the Tale of the Thong. I don't suppose someone--on some
ancient disk--happens to have saved a copy of Tippi's story?
Greer
gwatson2@r.......
http://www.foreverknight.org/FK4/
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