(Warning: the reading itself came out as a sort of soft R-rating due to pre- and post-story commentary from the performer. Approach at your own risk.)

Surprise?

So from all available evidence, the final as-it-is punchline does not travel across the Atlantic particularly well...

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Gail never goofed on grammar ...

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So. Today is the first day of Cokemas. Last year, the My Coke Rewards program decided to release one new item per day, one day only on each, from December 1st through the 12th. Gift cards, mostly. Each one went up at midnight and predictably, the site slowed to a crawl, occasionally crashed, generated thousands of complaints -- but most people who stayed up or woke up to make their attempts under Moon got their items. Which was, of course, most of the Facebook complaints: how dare

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(Or: In The Heart Of The Featured Storm II: The Category Five.)

...wait a minute...

All of them managed blinks and four came a little further into awareness, at least for a few seconds. A mention of Equestria Daily could do that. It was a little like mentioning a high explosive which knew your name, had the keys to your residence, and mistakenly thought you owed it money.

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Seriously, someone actually asked which order they all take place in. I answered as requested -- in private message -- and then was told by that person that it would potentially make a good blog post. This is possibly true. And it's also one I should put up before next Friday because dear gawds, at that point, it might come across as Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here, and that's really more appropriate for the NBC fall schedule. So I'm putting this up now and scheduling a displacing post

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Never read an article's Comments section. Ever.

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I am now awaiting the first of the inevitable crossover stories.

...wait. Would 'dreading' work better in that sentence?

*considers*

I reserve the right to edit that later.

So. Annoying clueless younger sibling nostalgia. Apparently that's a thing now.

Yay, trends!

(Because I really just felt like making a totally boring blog post.)

I don't have The Hub.

This is, put mildly, annoying.

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So I see Triptych made the feature box.

*long silence*

One of the bigger shocks of my FIMFic life, really.

*even longer silence*

How long do you think I've got before someone accuses me of plagiarizing Daetrin? Ten minutes?

*glacial quiet*

Five?

Carp.

(If not for suspecting I've got some below-graduation readers on this blog, I would have said something other than 'carp'.)

*sigh*

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