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Jan, I think what your saying is that it might come out in Oct 09, 10, 11, etc? Unfortunately that doesn't help CJ since the discussion is if a long delay between chapters constitutes a cliffhanger in 2008. This means that he could be also elected for 2009, 2010 and 2011 . Remember CJ posted the original story in the winter of 2007.

Now Eric/Phantom , may I suggest an alternative to your choice based on this criteria. In August CJ announced that Jake should have been up then, and it will not be up until October. Now here we are in January, and where is Jake? How long has it been since CJ released the anthology story to the next chapter as promised??? I think I need a calculator to figure it out. So, no matter how much bleating the goat does about long waits between chapter releases with either Shadowgod or Krista, CJ has much surpassed both of them. Steve

Well I have an opinion on who should win, and here is the reason why: For the past three years, we the readers of CJames' work have pleaded with him, begged him, even threatened him to get help. We suggested support groups, we suggested professional help, we even suggested addiction counseling. The one message that came through loud and clear, was that he needed to make the first step to recovery by admitting his weakness. Then on April 29, 2008 CJ made a momentous post by finally admitting that he wrote a cliffhanger. Now I believe in the concept of positive reinforcement. Be it with children, adults, dogs, or even goats. In order for something to become a habit, you must reinforce the positive things they do with positive actions. We must as a group elect CJ as the King of Evil Cliffhangers for 2008 as the positive reinforcement for his huge admission in 2008. I don't believe that with the exception of Dan, anyone else has made this admission, therefore we must reward CJ, as he took so long to admit to it. I actually shudder when I think of the consequences of not reinforcing his admission. So if you care about CJ, even so much as to say you love CJ, then do the right thing and cast a vote for him. I'm sure we will all reap the rewards for years to come. Long live the King :king:

Now when you say staff members, do you mean people? Cause if you mean people, than it would be fair to assume Goats are excluded :wacko:

Sadly, I only got one of the seven right . I especially did bad on ones involving women :wacko: .

Against??? So your saying you want Steve to campaign for you? A wee bit of a Freudian slip me thinks

'Cause we are nearing the release of the next chapter, I am beginning to wonder more about the lemons that the general requested. I made an earlier guess at what they may be used for, but then I noticed that part of the supplies that the general requested was 5000 hand grenades. Doesn't that strike you as being a bit useless for such a small attack force. Even if there was 50 people going (which I'm not sure is accurate, I'm guessing around 12 people), that would be 100 hand grenades each. There has been no mention of and ground vehicles being brought in on the Hercules, how will they transport and use these grenades. I'm beginning to wonder if the lemons being painted and the real grenades might be a way of scaring away the Iranians if dropped from the Hercs. Any ideas out there? Steve Edit to add: Do any other airforces other than the Canadians refer to the C-130's as Hercules??

CBOATS

well since that is cleared up, I'd like to offer the members of the WST seats at the head table for the roast instead

OMG, what a loophole the WST has given CJ. So you are telling me if he manages to get nominated in four different categories, then HE gets to choose what 3 categories he will compete in???? Does this mean he could possibly choose himself not to be in the King of Cliffhangers category? Looks like we might have to get a bigger fire pit and multiple spits. We may be having the WST and The Goat roasting in the near future . Then again, we might have to make sure he gets out nominated in all other categories. Steve (who is shocked that CJ may outsmart us all once again)

Hmmm, CJ must have made a new year's resolution to not write any more evil cliffhangers by the way that chapter ended . Don't have too much time to comment, but something came to mind for the exchange between the General and The Scar. CJ has us wondering about chemical equations and such and lemons. For the military people/readers out there, isn't a hand grenade about the same size as a large lemon? A little paint and all of a sudden the Iranians don't know what is being thrown at them. Like I said, don't know anything about guns and weapons, so if I'm totally off base, let me know, it won't hurt my feelings . Thanks for the chapter CJ, Steve

Thanks for the chapter CJ

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Happy Birthday Jack!!! It will be great to read something new from you soon

I got the chance to reread the chapter and found a couple of interesting points, but I'm at a lost with what clue Felicia dropped . The one thing that surprised me was this little bit of a tidbit:

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas this year. I'm not sure how we'll reciprocate CJ's gift to us all, but I do wonder if a tank of propane, a spit, and some select spices might be worth collecting? All the best in 2009

Santa delivered!!!! We have the cliffhanger(s) that we should expect from CJ!! Let's list them off: Please add on others that I may have missed out on. BTW, I should have known that CJ was up to something when I received his personal Christmas card in the mail yesterday Merry Christmas everyone!!

Well, I know what I want for Christmas . I kind of miss having a major cliffhanger in CJ's stories, so maybe if I wish really, really hard, Santa might give us one. Unfortunately I have a feeling the dear ole goat is withholding a cliffhanger until the new year in the hopes that we forget about a certain cliffhanger involving a disabled bizjet, homing in missiles, a murdered security chief, and numerous other cliffhangers in the past year, so nobody will vote for him to retain his title. Well, I guess we can always hope .

Sorry Jack Maybe if it was somewhere more mid country with warm weather like Winnipeg in February, I could make it . I agree that the Toronto to Montreal corridor might be the best place due to numbers, but let me know if anything comes up closer to summer. Steve

Hmmm, I wonder if this is another example of Goat Misdirection . It makes sense that CJ would post that it is impossible, and Steve has been silent, that they may be working together in having another chapter with both stories involved. I can hardly wait to

Happy Birthday Jon!!! Hope you have a great day!!

Welcome back CoLeYy I was wondering where you had disappeared to, so it is great to see you back! Graeme, don't make me send the goat down there with a bomb strapped to him .

Hey all, Jon had an idea about a poll and I thought it would be a great idea to get some of your thoughts I know there is a lot of question in this poll, but there seems to be a lot of questions about Keith and Jansen. Go ahead and post what you think about all of this. It should be interesting to see what what you all think. If I missed a option for a question, let me know and I'll try to add it. Steve

I get the other feeling, with Kieth seeming to be jealous of Eric around Jansen. Jansen seems to be more comfortable around Eric in states of undress, more like someone who has played a lot of sports who don't really look at it as a sexual thing, just a guy thing. The other thing is with Keith's protectiveness of what Jansen might say, kind of like he doesn't want him to blurt out that Keith has the hots for Eric. Who knows? Besides CJ

Well, obviously Eric knows that their not a romantic couple. I have a feeling that they are not related but with the 'growing up together' comment I think they are childhood friends. I know that Eric knows by the way he booked two bedroom suite for them and now he upped the ante by asking them to kiss, which neither seem to keen on doing. Maybe that is what Eric's instinct went off about, the fact that they are lying about being together. It seems that he hasn't had any problem with them since the first meeting and is actually seeming to have some fun in trying to get them to admit it. So typical Eric, plan everything except the beach, the minister, and the license . My question is, how did Eric arrange for the beach to be closed and the local police to help out? BTW, thanks for the chapter CJ