• SL4ever wins Dr. Seuss' "How Beginning Text 7>:-#ed up Christmas," the heartrending tale of how the much-despised software patch revealed the contents of all the Whos' stockings days in advance!
• TemporalFlux wins Raggedy Quinn and Maggie IN "As the Worm Turns... Its Head"!
• MissingSliderRyan wins a framed print of her classic Cannibals Anonymous cap!
• The_Seer wins a cassette of Mallory's Greatest Pickup Lines, including the can't-miss "So... ever done it in a pickup?"
• DieselMickeyDolenz wins a bag of movie theatre popcorn!
• Joey_Starr wins the autograph of Geritol "Old Spice" Halliwell!
• Slider_Quinn21 wins the late Charles Schultz's cartoon masterpieces "Good Grief, Casey Brown!" and "You're a Good Man, Casey Brown, But Also One Hell of a Lousy Editor!"
• Alternity_Orange wins Josef Anderson's lost masterpieces "Rules of Gerald's Game" and "The Firestarter Within"!
• Vigeant wins a potted plant... namely Bennish the Kromagg Spy!
• ThomasMalthus wins Adrian Pasdar and Diane Lane IN "Title Signs," as well as the GOLD STAR OF MODESTY for not only downplaying his feat of outlining a post he hadn't read yet, but also ascribing his own catchphrase to some tufted interloper who did nothing more than "go with it"!

=== SHOW AND TELL: EXODUS 1 ===

BLINKER: Exodus! Exodus... Exodus... you go first.

SYNTHIA: Okay, I've got a cesium-fountain atomic clock. It's the only timekeeping instrument fine enough to measure the length of Arturo and Maggie's screen time together.

BLINKER: Arturo really *was* underused in this episode, wasn't he? I mean, Quinn and Maggie have the adventure plot, Rembrandt has his little buddy Malcolm, Wade has the angst of choosing who lives and dies, and Arturo's got... nothing.

THIRD SEASON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID PECKINPAH: That's why we fired the guy! His character always did the most *useless* things. Like in last week's, all he did was get eaten by a freakin' WORM! What the hell was THAT, JRD?! You ahould be *ashamed*!

MISSINGSLIDERRYAN: [MSR "No Comment Necessary" Face #1]

SYNTHIA: Moving on...

BLINKER: I bring my horrible crushing guilt. Yes, people... it's all my fault.

SYNTHIA: Wha?

BLINKER [sighing]: The year: 1997. The episode: Exodus, Part I. There I was, really enjoying the half-hour "mini-slides" Quinn and Maggie had embarked on. It was like a whole new format for the show: five-minute "vignepisodes" with a half-sized cast. And I found myself idly wondering... wouldn't it be neat if Maggie became a permanent character? [buries face in hands] You see? It's all my fault!

SYNTHIA [eyes focused on ceiling fixture]: There, there...

BLINKER: Oh, sure, a moment *later* I realized that (a) Maggie had absolutely no motive to forgo joining the colony and take up sliding with a group of people she hated, and (b) if the writers had dispensed with cool Fifth Sliders like Ryan and Michele without a second thought, there's NO way someone like Maggie would be granted so much as a FIRST.

SYNTHIA [playing along for the heck of it]: But the damage wa...

BLINKER: Are you STILL on about that?! We're waiting to see what everyone else brought in! Come on people, let's hear it!

- Blinker 7:-P
http://slidersweb.net/blinker

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partially eaten apple lodged in ... plump green pimento stuffed Spanish olives ..."