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Aliens Do the Damnedest Things
Apr. 15th, 2010 09:05 pmIn my imagining of the distant future, Reader's Digest still exists. And they have a humor section called "Aliens Do the Damnedest Things."
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Unfortunately, story readers don't have this context and so find a line like "So write Reader's Digest" to be incredibly anachronistic. And they're right, because the story doesn't have space for the explanation, which would ruin the joke anyway. But! Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
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Unfortunately, story readers don't have this context and so find a line like "So write Reader's Digest" to be incredibly anachronistic. And they're right, because the story doesn't have space for the explanation, which would ruin the joke anyway. But! Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
