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Subject:RE: the technical writer: a real movie From:"Samuel Choy" <schoy -at- us -dot- ibm -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:42:30 -0600
Please forgive me for the following, but it is Friday.
I would have preferred a story line like this:
A withdrawn technical writer working for a government contractor meets with
an engineer to test his documents. He meets the engineer in the basement of
some top-secret research lab. The engineer leaves the technical writer
alone in the lab for some unrealistic contrived movie-script type reason
(simultaneously breaking several dozen federal security laws). While alone,
the technical writer unwittingly stumbles across one of the following (I
don't care which):
* I top-secret government cyborg assassin
*A top-secret weapon that the contractor plans to sell to the top paying
rogue state
*Some sort of top-secret plot to rule the world
*Top-secret evidence that there really are aliens among us. And they are
not nice.
The remainder of the movie consists of Aliens/cyborg/contractor or
government goons chasing the technical writer and blowing things up.
OK. It isn't original. But it would make more money : )
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