User talk:Ljlego/America

So you think we should write the whole rewrite with this concept, or scrap this for something else? Have you had any other ideas that might work better? --THE 22:00, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Nah, I really like this idea. I just got sidetracked writing UnNews:Gandhi posthumously accused of mass genocide. Upon the bittersweet reception on VFH, I am toying with the idea of a self-imposed sabbatical from writing. I just don't think people like my writing anymore, and that's no good. Anyway, I'll continue this project with you, but it may not work as fast as we'd hoped.-Sir Ljlego, GUN VFH FIYC WotM SG WHotM PWotM AotM EGAEDM ANotM + (Talk) 22:48, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey dude, don't let one mediocre reception drive you away from writing. How many FA's have you had? 87? I've had articles bomb on VFH before. It happens. Three against votes doesn't mean that people don't like your writing anymore. But anyway, it's okay if we work slowly on this, I can start getting really into it after Columbus day weekend. --THE 01:29, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

I'll get to work on it after I finish my serious short story I'm working on for school. Literary magazine, you know. It's a great concept.-Sir Ljlego, GUN VFH FIYC WotM SG WHotM PWotM AotM EGAEDM ANotM + (Talk) 01:35, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Remember, the 40% is the amount of space taken up by the United States. The remaining 60% is Greenland, Canada, and Mexico.-Sir Ljlego, GUN VFH FIYC WotM SG WHotM PWotM AotM EGAEDM ANotM + (Talk) 19:06, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Convo

<Ljlego> so

<Ljlego> what shall we do with America

<Ljlego> I've decided to scrap Scientology and start over

<Ljlego> but our idea is great

<THE> ah, indeed

<THE> well, the ==history== section comes first

<THE> gotta figure out where we're going with that

<Ljlego> true that

<THE> the approach we have going so far is that America is a restaurant within the country of the United States

<THE> perhaps instead we should just have America, the restaurant, be the same thing as America, the nation.

<Ljlego> yeah

<Ljlego> I was going with the former

<Ljlego> but I think our initial conception was the latter

<THE> "The fast food restaurant was established by colonizers from England in the late 1600's. The walls of the restaurant were made out of dead Native Americans"

<THE> I think it might be easier to go with the latter

<Ljlego> hmmm

<THE> mind you, that quote I just did was only a preconception

<Ljlego> yeah

<THE> a....rough early version

<THE> but stuff along those lines

<THE> just having the country and the restaurant being the same thing would be less confusing, methinks

<THE> but either way, there's plenty of ways to satirize American...stuff in restaurant form

<THE> there are so many issues that could be done

<Ljlego> I would work that more into something like "After garnering the shoulder bones of buffalo from the Native Americans, the English colonists set up the walls of their restaurant, the biggest in the Western world. The Native Americans claimed they were wasting the bones, but the colonists believed that their use was far more useful than the sacrifices popularized by the "red people""

<Ljlego> oya

<THE> yeah

<THE> better

<Ljlego> red people

<Ljlego> got that from a song, actually

<Ljlego> listen to Monster/Suicide/America by Steppenwolf

<Ljlego> written in the 70s

<Ljlego> and is incredibly

<Ljlego> relevant to today

<THE> indeed

<THE> we'll have to include something about natural resources

<THE> and wasting of them

<Ljlego> they use pure crude oil to deep fry their foods

<Ljlego> or something

<THE> yeah!

<THE> and they only use about 5% of the ledduce they pick

<THE> or something like that

<Ljlego> "They give the other 95% to impoverished African countries, oblivious to the perishable nature of the foodstuffs"

<THE> I was thinking that, or "they throw the other 95% away, refusing to use if it's more than a day old"

<Ljlego> or compromise

<THE> yeah, we could split the percentages up easily enough

<Ljlego> no, wait

<Ljlego> shit

<Ljlego> I had it all typed

<Ljlego> and I closed out of the dialog

<Ljlego> anyway, I was thinking the charities they give to funnel to garbage dumps through bureaucracy

<Ljlego> because "food that isn't fresh might as well not be food ata ll"

<THE> oops

<THE> sorry

<THE> I got enthralled

<THE> yeah, that works well

<Ljlego> alrighty

<Ljlego> you copy paste the stuff to the article, please?

<Ljlego> since I lost it all?

<Ljlego> you can just do the whole convo

<Ljlego> we'll weed out later

<Ljlego> or you can weed out now