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FORKNI-L Digest - 13 Feb 2005 to 14 Feb 2005 (#2005-44)

Mon, 14 Feb 2005

There are 16 messages totalling 563 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. roundabout FK moment
  2. Valentines Day
  3. Valentine Day Cards (2)
  4. Redone webpage for Natalie's office
  5. fandom moment
  6. oh, and another thing... (2)
  7. Has anyone on FK Fic received (5)
  8. Translation please help (3)

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Date:    Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:55:01 EST
From:    Dory Blankenship <DORY12485@a.......>
Subject: roundabout FK moment

Just read this in my Humanities curriculum:
>In 1957, British director Tyrone Guthrie staged a production of Oedipus at the
>Stratford Ontario Shakespeare Festival.
Thought it was cool to read this about Ger's and Nigel's "favourite haunt."
AgapePhilos,
Dory.  (Who heard a commercial attracting businesses to Ontario while typing
this e-mail.)

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Date:    Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:56:00 +1100
From:    Alexander J Braun <Taliesyn@c.......>
Subject: Valentines Day

To the Forkni list everyone have a happy Valentines Day
watch the episode Be My Valentine have a glass of wine
a few chocolates put your feet up and enjoy, me I'm having a nice
red and smoked salmon watching some second season FK
episodes.

Alex



--  AIM Taliesyn55  --  ICQ 12610993  -  MSN Taliesyn55  --
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I
thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the
terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?
So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of
the universe". Marcus, B5

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Date:    Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:15:58 -0600
From:    wirickml@v.......
Subject: Valentine Day Cards

Does anyone know where I can get a FK Valentine to send?

I don't seem to have any idea where to go to get one to send.

Mary Lynn

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Date:    Mon, 14 Feb 2005 07:38:35 -0800
From:    Patty Costantino <pas_20197@y......>
Subject: Re: Valentine Day Cards

wirickml@v....... wrote:
Does anyone know where I can get a FK Valentine to send?



Try here:

http://www.dragons-lair-studios.com/valentine_cards.htm



Patty


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Date:    Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:49:04 -0500
From:    Greer Watson <gwatson2@r.......>
Subject: Redone webpage for Natalie's office

Well, the subject heading tells the story.  The webpage I have done
for Natalie's office has been redone *yet again*.  This time I have
been able to add a number of screen captures from Season III that were
made for me by Maura Tremayne.  (Thanks, Maura!)
    The url for the website is:
http://ca.geocities.com/gwatson2@rogers.com/index.html
Go to the Sets page, and click on "Natalie's office".

Greer

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Date:    Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:40:45 -0800
From:    chris thatcher <mb_the_spy@y......>
Subject: fandom moment

So it's not really an FK moment per se.  I found out
that the email address of a friend of mine is quantum
rat.  It made me laugh, thinking of the whole Lab
ratsies story arc in the recent war. <g>

chris ;?

=====
"I don't bite.... Well, that's wrong; I do bite."
       ~K'Ehleyr

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Date:    Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:46:54 -0800
From:    chris thatcher <mb_the_spy@y......>
Subject: oh, and another thing...

We often send gifts to GK (ref. Bonnie's latest post).
 how come no one else?  do they just not want such
fannish attention?  if so, ique lastima! (what a
shame!) ah, well.

chris ;? who doesn't usually post twice in a week, let
alone one day

=====
"I don't bite.... Well, that's wrong; I do bite."
       ~K'Ehleyr


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Date:    Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:50:10 -0500
From:    Libratsie@a.......
Subject: Re: oh, and another thing...

**We often send gifts to GK (ref. Bonnie's latest post).
how come no one else?  do they just not want such
fannish attention?**

I bet their fanclubs do. They just don't post the invitations to do so here,
although I have seen them from time to time. Greg's (aka Hisselfishness) gotten a
lot lately due to his surgery last year.

--Libs

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Date:    Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:39:01 -0800
From:    Kristen Fife <fenix23fyre@y......>
Subject: Has anyone on FK Fic received

Part 1 "A Higher Law"?
I don't seem to be receiving my own posts, checking to
see if anyone else has.

=====
Kristen Fife
http://www.fkvoyage.com/fkfanfic/fife_kristen/
"When a half-breed vampire becomes the object of Mafia revenge, the ensuing
power struggle pits immortal and mortal families against one another." -THICKER
THAN WATER
"The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him."

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Date:    Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:41:19 +0000
From:    Nicola De Brabant <lucien1228@h.......>
Subject: Re: Has anyone on FK Fic received

i have it


>From: Kristen Fife <fenix23fyre@y......>
>Reply-To: Forever Knight TV show <FORKNI-L@l.......>
>To: FORKNI-L@l.......
>Subject: Has anyone on FK Fic received
>Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:39:01 -0800
>
>Part 1 "A Higher Law"?
>I don't seem to be receiving my own posts, checking to
>see if anyone else has.
>
>=====
>Kristen Fife
>http://www.fkvoyage.com/fkfanfic/fife_kristen/
>"When a half-breed vampire becomes the object of Mafia revenge, the ensuing
>power struggle pits immortal and mortal families against one another."
>-THICKER THAN WATER
>"The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him."

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Date:    Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:16:08 -0800
From:    "David J. Duncan" <dante0220@y......>
Subject: Re: Has anyone on FK Fic received

Hi Everyone,

I've received it too.

Thanks

David


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Date:    Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:14:11 -0800
From:    Sherri Horun <sherrihorun@y......>
Subject: Re: Has anyone on FK Fic received

I received chapters 2 and 3 , but not 1.  Sherrilynn

--- Kristen Fife <fenix23fyre@y......> wrote:

> Part 1 "A Higher Law"?
> I don't seem to be receiving my own posts, checking to
> see if anyone else has.
>

>


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Date:    Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:24:13 EST
From:    KnghtWtch@a.......
Subject: Re: Translation please help

Requested with McLisa's permission.

As our favorite vamps on FK speak french, I was hoping someone in our family
group could give me the exact translation of this line.....

"Maria, Maria.......et twa bon ton roule."

I'm not sure  if the 'twa' is a delect or generic word or something.  Could
anyone please help me.  I'd really appreciate it.  Thanks so much.

KnightWitch ;-]=


A unique line of Forever Knight and tv/movie character t-shirts.
www.ForeverKnight.US

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Date:    Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:29:57 -0800
From:    Kristen Fife <fenix23fyre@y......>
Subject: Re: Has anyone on FK Fic received

A Higher Law
Prologue

LaCroix scowled at the crass and vulgar displays of
red hearts and cherubs facing him from storefronts as
he passed through Eton Center. He was on his way to
his tailor to pick up the new suits he had ordered.
Although HE didn’t change, his clothing did wear out,
annoying as that was. As he passed a greeting card
store, a particularly large metallic display caught
his eye.

 The History of Saint Valentine’s Day

As he read the fanciful account of the holiday of
“love” his anger grew, while in the back of his mind
memories of his early centuries as a vampire began to
invade his mind.

Rome 268 CE, Midwinter
Part I

As he was known in this life, Gauis Lucius Priscus
awoke from his dreamless slumber and felt hunger, as
usual. His preternatural hearing discerned his slaves
readying his small city house for the evening before
retiring, as per his instructions. The cool damp air
caressed his skin as he rose from his bed. The
windowless antechamber to the large bedroom beyond
served his needs very well. His slaves, most of whom
were mute-having lost their tongues for various
reasons-believed the master of the house slept in the
bedroom and did not realize the antechamber was his
sleeping quarters. The main bedroom was furnished with
a bed and several low couches, as well as a table
spread with maps and various military plans, field
correspondences, and reports of ongoing campaigns
within the empire. The retired and reclusive General
was known to prefer keeping late-night hours and early
evening appointments with his field staff as a
military advisor to the empire.

As he rose, his body servant timidly knocked on the
door bearing his shaving implements. He unbarred the
stout wooden door to allow the elderly mute slave to
enter. The man put the water, stropping belt, razor
and mirror on the low table and bowed himself out,
without ever having raised his eyes to his master.
Lucius walked over to the table and carefully
proceeded to shave his pale cheeks. It still amazed
him that even in his altered state he still needed to
shave. Ah well, some things would never change through
eternity. As he finished his toilet, he rose and
proceeded into the larger room, peering out the window
onto the darkening city streets. He could smell the
roasting of some sort of meat, and hear laughter from
laborers returning to their homes. The cool rainy
streets acted as a deterrent for all but the most
adventurous and he smiled a feral grin to himself,
realizing that his evening’s hunt would be aided by
the long night and unpopular weather.

He wandered over to the table bearing the reports and
picked up several sheets of parchment from various sub
commanders within the city. There were multiple
reports of desertion among the men in the lower ranks.
The numbers were growing daily, and all efforts to
gain more nformation seemed to be dead ends. He
sighed. It seemed he would need to do his own
investigating, not trusting to lesser beings. He
suspected that many of the disappearances could be
traced to dissatisfaction with the Emperor’s latest
frivolous and completely uninspired law. But he would
wait until he was able to track down some of the
rumors in the street.

He pulled a dark cloak out of a chest at the foot of
the bed and draped it over his pale blue tunic.
Although weather didn’t affect him per se, he still
had appearances to keep up. He left the bedroom and
antechamber and proceeded out into the hall, down the
steps and out into the cool night air. He wandered
back around the corner of the house and made sure
there was no one to witness him taking to the air. As
he silently rose, his mind continued mulling over the
disturbing reports of army desertions within the city.
As he scanned the city below him, he finally decided
on one of the poorer sections of human habitation, and
descended behind a crudely built shack. As he extended
his hearing for a telltale heartbeat, he unconsciously
wrinkled his nose at the pungent smell of garbage
around him.

Finally, he caught the seductive sound of a human
heart. He honed in on it, and saw a young woman
hurrying about her business, trying to ignore the
darkness and dampness impinging upon her. Lucius
stepped out into the deserted alley in front of her,
his senses already locking on her heartbeat. She
stopped and looked up into his eyes, unaware that his
basilisk stare was the first step on the very short
road to her death. Lucius reached out and brought her
to him, turning her back to his and leisurely pulled
her head to one side, then sank his fangs into her
creamy throat.

The intoxication of her blood filled his mouth, and
the sensations started washing over him. He sensed
sadness and desperation coupled with the sweet love of
youth tied to a young man in uniform. Then, a ray of
hope, a face of a kindly man, smiling indulgently at
her and her young man. Then blackness.

The images and emotions puzzled him. He understood her
love and desperation; obviously her beau was a munifex
in the city. That alone explained much to him. He
scowled again thinking of Claudius’ latest law
affecting the military. It was ludicrous. But who was
the older gentleman with the kindly face that the girl
associated with hope? It was a puzzle, and Lucius was
NOT fond of puzzles not of his own devising. He
absently lifted the body into the air with him and
headed for the swamps several leagues outside the city
walls to deposit the body.

An hour later, Lucius entered a tavern close to the
barracks on the north end of the city. He casually
found a seat and ordered some wine. As he pretended to
drink the wine, his acute hearing picked up the
general tone of anger that Claudius’ law had kindled.
Nearly every table held at least two or three soldiers
complaining about it. Some were moaning in
frustration, but a few of the older men were scornful.
They apparently did not feel that even the Emperor had
the right to interfere this heavily in their lives.
Lucius personally agreed. What HAD Claudius been
thinking? Even conscripting every youth over the age
of 14 was a better answer to the growing war with the
Alamanni.

His suspicions regarding the desertions occurring
increasingly were confirmed. What WAS the emperor
thinking, outlawing marriage and engagements for the
military? CANCELLING unions that had been established
for years if not decades? The man was a brilliant
martial tactician, but his understanding of the human
psyche was seriously lacking. Lucius threw a silver
coin down on the table in disgust and stalked out. His
keen hearing picked up a snippet of conversation as he
walked past a table. Something about a priest, from
the troublesome <Christos> sect. Odd that they didn’t
seem to be talking about the marriage ban. He mentally
shrugged and stepped out of the tavern to enter
another.

Again, in the next three taverns, the general tone was
one of anger and disgust with the newly enacted laws
banning marriage and engagements. And, again, there
was talk about a priest of the Christos sect, although
no mention of the ban. Lucius, being a highly
intelligent being and having had almost two centuries
to study humanity, quickly suspected something within
the Christos community that bore investigation. But
where to start? Ah, yes. Young Urban. Not only was he
the descendant of his beloved protégé Severius from
the now-buried Pompeii, Urban had apparently taken up
with the Christos sect in the last five years. Perhaps
he would be willing to tell his “Uncle Lucius” some
more about it. And, if he remembered correctly, Urban
was betrothed to a young woman; amazingly the arranged
union seemed to also be blossoming into a love
match.If that was the case, perhaps he would be given
a bird’s-eye view into this matter. Pleased with his
solution, Lucius headed back to his home. It was too
late to contact Urban, but he would leave a message
with his major domo to send by courier during the
dread daylight hours.


--- Sherri Horun <sherrihorun@y......> wrote:

> I received chapters 2 and 3 , but not 1.  Sherrilynn
>
> --- Kristen Fife <fenix23fyre@y......> wrote:
>
> > Part 1 "A Higher Law"?
> > I don't seem to be receiving my own posts, checking to
> > see if anyone else has.
> >
>


=====
Kristen Fife
http://www.fkvoyage.com/fkfanfic/fife_kristen/
"When a half-breed vampire becomes the object of Mafia revenge, the ensuing
power struggle pits immortal and mortal families against one another." -THICKER
THAN WATER
"The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him."

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Date:    Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:52:22 -0500
From:    Cecilia Long <celong@m.......>
Subject: Re: Translation please help

My daughter who speaks very good French asks.. IS that how it is really
spelled where you got it... Because TWA she says is not French.

>As our favorite vamps on FK speak french, I was hoping someone in our
family group could give me the exact translation of this >line.....
>"Maria, Maria.......et twa bon ton roule."

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Date:    Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:52:45 -0600
From:    Becky Hinson <bayoubecky@c.......>
Subject: Re: Translation please help

----- Original Message -----
From: <KnghtWtch@a.......>

> "Maria, Maria.......et twa bon ton roule."
>
> I'm not sure  if the 'twa' is a delect or generic word or something.  Could
> anyone please help me.  I'd really appreciate it.  Thanks so much.

I might be reading this totally wrong, but it sounds like the mantra of the
Cajun French here in south Louisiana...  "Let the Good Times Roll".

Now, that's assuming that what you've typed it pronounced "bahn tahm
roo-lay", spelled "bon temps roulez" (I think), but what you're asking about
is roughly "Maria, Maria ... and the good times roll."

:)
~Cousin Becky

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