who knew you could create a script about a script writing forum and the people on them....pretty tight group, the lot of you

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Erm....welll...I believe someone was missing from this....lol

They said some people weren't in it. I wondered what happens if those people were in it.

I'm really, really late inputting here, I know.  Bad me.  *slaps own hands here*  

I must confess I haven't exactly read a script on this site in many moons, but this short was hysterical!  Excellent job.  I can see why Andy is so amused by it she is promoting it.  The nuances are dead on from those members I am familiar with in the script.  Wes, these guys seem to really know you.   And that cool little ride of yours is too much!

But I thought it was Shaman who used all the "haha's" at the end of his posts?

according to don wes does it at the end of im convesations.

Watch the first Back to the Future, I think the whole haha thing was a nervous George Mcfly type laugh which he does a lot in that film. Probably that could be a way to look at it, otherwise the dialogue doesn't work in a technical way.

I do use it a lot on the boards and in private messages but only because I hate LOL so much. Instead of Laugh out loud I say ha-ha. I do use the little hypen between it though.

Oy, may the heavens rain down fire and brimstone. We missed the little hyphen thingy. Touche...

Actually, a few of the jokes would not work on screen at all. We're taking advantage of the medium we're actually in, acknowledging that this script will likely not be produced. After all, if this were to be used as a film blueprint, the name of the van would have to remain the same throughout. We had some fun with the fact that the script was meant to be read.

I understand, but for it to ever be filmed they'd need all of us to be in the same place.

It's weird how this was so well recieved and it'll probably become one those things of legend like Midnight Moves was a year or so ago in another lifetime.

Well, haha has been used a little more than before, and someone asked Andy not to "cutlass" him for not knowing Data's name. It will have its run, and then will go as you suggest, I'm sure. I suppose that'll be about the right time for a sequel or something. Just when it passes out of memory...BAM! You're hit with something even worse than the first.

Well in a week or so I'll take the proverbial torch and run with it in a different direction. Revenge, sweet revenge Muhahah.

I did notice though that if not for us and a few generic posts here and there this thread is all but dead. I did enjoy being portrayed in a noir setting and if you want another unintentional reference by you is the fact that I'm a detective in a film noir script and in my series (No cheap plug) I have an episode called Le Noir Detectives where two of my characters are Noir detectives over the murder of John (And yours is Don)

I don’t even know if Bert realized the reference since he has read the originals of the above mentioned non plugged series.

I find small things like that in scripts.

I had no idea having not read your unplugged series. Kinda wild. There may have been some intention in it somewhere though, knowing Bert.

Ah well, if the thrill is gone so be it. Easy come, easy go. However, if anyone wants to read the 2 extended endings we cut out, I can still put them up. They were cut for two rather strange and contradictory reasons... 1) Bert didn't want to be the killer and 2) Bert didn't want Don to live.

Ok, discuss!

Don didn't want Don to live so I guess you'd conflict what he said about himself as portrayed in your script.

Bert or Don would have made good killers but we always have future installments by you guys so I wouldn't throw out those ideas just yet.

You should compile every deleted part into another script with like you giving us reasons why it was cut and why you like it and all as like a social commentary before we read the script and even give it a title like Alternate Ending.

At one point was the busses name like the love bus or something but I got no love

Well, you did have "Wesley's Love Machine" as well as the "When-Rockin'-No-Knockin' Machine". However, you got no rockin' during the course of the script. Sorry. We spoke to a lot of people who might be willing to portray some kind of love interest, and we couldn't get anyone to get into that rickety old VW van we dug out of the junkyard for you to ride in. Something about roaches in the mattress in the back or something.

Yeah, you missed some great jokes at the expense of my characters love life, just what you said now could have been added in at some point.

I don't know why I was thinking of a love bus.

Quoted from Old Time Wesley I don't even know if Bert realized the reference...

My influences were legion haha.

Let me chime in late with a coupla' things:

*  I have no idea what your laugh should sound like on the screen, Wes.  And yet, I could hear it perfectly in my head while composing your dialogue.  Weird, huh?  Go figure.
*  I didn't want Don to live?!  Sheesh...don't say it like that for pete's sake.  I didn't want him to come back at the end.  Post the alternate endings.  They're worthy.  Just unused.

And I am sorry about your love life, Wes.  Tell you what -- in the (pretty darn) unlikely event of a sequel, tell us who, exactly, you would like to be hooked up with and we'll see if we can't make it happen.