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− | + | This week in Tamarack Falls, I've got a<br>cute one for us. A special someone (hint<br>hint, his name rhymes with 'hill' and he<br>owns a bar here in town) is turning 65<br>next week, and he may or may not be get-<br>ting a present from a mysterious benefac-<br>tor... If I were he, I'd keep an eye out.<br>That gift looked hot!<br><br>In related news, kudos to your son, Bill,<br>though I have seldom had more cause to<br>use the 'facepalm' emoji than I did this<br>past weekend. For folks new to the area,<br>Bill's son is a trainee for the local<br>volunteer firefighters. A tourist slipped<br>and fell over the southern bridge into<br>the Tam, and they're okay, thanks to Bill<br>and some good bystanders, but they<br>wouldn't have fallen in the first place<br>if they hadn't been bending backwards<br>upside down over the edge of the railing<br>to get a selfie... Their GoPro was not<br>rescued, and neither, I'm told, was their<br>smartphone. Seriously, people. No selfie<br>is worth your life. Hypothermia is not a<br>joke.<br><br>That said, I'm human, and I can't help<br>but laugh at the selfie fails I've seen<br>on the internet. Let's turn this around<br>and check on YOU, my lovely readers: what<br>is YOUR most hilarious selfie fail?<br><br>Last but not least, for disclosure, Emma<br>Richards has paid me in Cadbury Creme<br>Eggs to publically state the following:<br>she heard on the grapevine that her long-<br>time boyfriend, who broke up with her<br>last Spring, has recently been accepted<br>into the NASA space program, and she<br>hopes he does so well that he becomes one<br>of the next astronauts to land on the<br>Moon...and stays there, preferably alone<br>and choking on his own hot air.<br><br>Sorry, Dave. Shouldn't have done that. | |
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Revision as of 16:57, 2 March 2020
Tamarack Times Gossip Column
Enid Schmitt, well-meaning and at times acidic busy-body of Tamarack Falls (and, at times, Fort Brunsett), holds the position of gossip columnist at the small town newspaper of The Tamarack Times.
Her posts are made every Thursday, based on +req/rumor entries given by players about the RP happenings of the past week, as well as ongoing plots and the story of the world and NPCs themselves.
They can be found on +bbread 3, the Media board.
This is an online archive of all of Enid's posts, to be more easily viewed in their entirety.
Archives for posts from previous years are located at the links below: | ||
March-December 2017 | January-December 2018 | January-December 2019 |
January 2, 2020
T A M A R A C K T I M E S
GOSSIP COLUMN, by Enid SCHMITT
This week in Tamarack Falls, I wish you a
bleary welcome to the year 2020. Finally,
a number easy to make silly glasses for!
If you slept through the fireworks on the
lake on NYE, you are a hardier soul than
I, and I commend you. Even this far from
the cliffs, they were dang loud, but also
worth every wince. If you've never gone
up to the top of Salvation and looked
down on it all, you're missing out. I'm
no poet, but it was a garden of light,
and kudos to the city of Fort Brunsett
and the tireless efforts of the fireworks
companies who made it possible.
Are you the type to write out resolutions
for the coming year? I try, heaven knows
I try, but the bon bons tempt me back.
If you want your name in the paper, send
in YOUR resolution, and I'll put it in
the column for next week. Let's see what
our town wants to change!
I know for sure I want to change the bear
family in the woods up on Mischance. If
they want to set up housekeeping some-
where, there are much better places than
the mine to do it. Kids, I have it on
good authority that the local officials
are taking this very seriously, so please
be smart about stupid dares. Animals
like these should be hibernating at this
time of year, and if something has them
out and about, a trained professional
should be the one to find them.
January 9, 2020
T A M A R A C K T I M E S
GOSSIP COLUMN, by Enid SCHMITT
This week in Tamarack Falls, I have a big
column for you, so let's get right to it.
Last week, I asked for your resolutions,
and boy howdy did you send them in!
* Mrs. Elsa Vayn has resolved to eat at
least one piece of fruit a day.
* David Carmichael has resolved to go on
at least one vacation every quarter,
much to the delight of his less work-
a-holic partner, Bobby.
* Joe Quinn has resolved to lose 50 lbs.
* Jane Quinn has resolved to kick Joe's
patoot into gear any time he reaches
for doughnuts instead of celery...
* Alexander Dolst has resolved to finish
the novel he has been working on since
seventh grade.
* Rebecca Fry has resolved to not murder
her niece, or brother, for spilling
neon pink dye into a vat of milk and
costing the family thousands of bucks
for wasted product, time, and inedible
ice cream. I have it on good auth-
ority that said niece and brother are
banned from the barn for the foresee-
able future to facilitate their con-
tinued survival.
* Elizabeth Fry has resolved to avoid
her aunt.
* Jonathan Fry has resolved to buy stock
in Tension Tamer tea.
* Delika Soluos has resolved to learn
calligraphy, so she can start her own
greeting card business.
* Mr. A. Nony Mouse has resolved to get
a name.
On the subject of resolutions folks asked
not to be named for, we have twelve other
people wanting to lose weight, eleven who
want to travel more, five who want to get
wealthy lovers and live out a life of
luxury, four who want to learn the fine
art of cooking better for one, two who
want to do more for the environment, and
one who wants to bone my editor.
My editor says thank you, and he will
consider your offer, anonymous lover.
January 16, 2020
T A M A R A C K T I M E S
GOSSIP COLUMN, by Enid SCHMITT
This week in Tamarack Falls, we are a
month away from Valentine's Day, but that
isn't stopping the stores, is it? Thank
you, capitalism, for giving me cheap yet
delicious chocolate and peanut butter
hearts.
On the subject of hearts, get this: Mandy
Hart thought Monday was going to be just
another morning, woke up, made her coffee
and ate food which she has told me to say
was more healthy than the Boston creme
doughnut it actually was, when there came
a banging from her garage. In she went,
and lo and behold, her garbage bins were
a mess. Thinking it was a raccoon, she
tidied up, looked for holes, then forgot
all about it by the end of the work day.
Upon arriving home again, the garbage
bins were on the floor, along with the
garbage that was in them, and what did
she find but a PIG rooting around in it?
As it turns out, a tourist family's pet
had gotten loose, and there were happy,
oinky endings all around. What a way to
spend a Monday.
This was not the only animal sighting to
occur over the past week.
A showing of "Matilda" down at the ele-
mentary school this past weekend was
disrupted by a bleating stampede of
shaggy, smelly goats -- and the high-
schoolers who set them free there are
going to start doing some very fast
community service, aren't they, Samual?
January 23, 2020
T A M A R A C K T I M E S
GOSSIP COLUMN, by Enid SCHMITT
This week in Tamarack Falls, it looks as
though we may have a new manicurist in
town! I hear tell that Lou and Bang Bang
down at Crops and Bobbers have been talk-
ing with a lovely stranger about settling
here. Lady, come stop by the office some
time and have a chat. I still have a bit
of that good coffee left that the office
vultures haven't managed to pilfer.
In other news, I finally snagged a source
young enough to clue me in on why we've
all been seeing glitter everywhere. Seems
like one of the local kids started a
viral trend on TikTok called "angel dust-
ing"... The original form called for some
sort of container of white glitter to be
placed above a doorway, with the aim of
having it fall onto the head of the next
person walking through, but one of the
younger ladies at the office has informed
me that receiving the glitter inside of
an envelope, and filming yourself doing
so, has also become a part of the trend.
Now, given the crisis going on with micro
plastics in our oceans, I did feel the
need to reach out to our mystery TikTok-
ker, and much to my pleasant surprise,
they had already established ground rules
requiring their followers to use eco-
glitters. Kudos, kid. You've got a good
head on those glitter-crowned shoulders.
Vazi, on the other hand... I have heard
a few conflicting opinions of how you
managed to break that ankle, kiddo.
1. You were chasing a flying paper air-
plane and ran off the roof.
2. You were out on the lawn and slipped.
3. Your younger brother turned into a
whirling dervish of dooooom and your
ankle was sacrificed to the Lego gods
as tribute.
I'm going for Lego gods. If you have ever
had kids who had Legos, I know you will
be too.
January 30, 2020
T A M A R A C K T I M E S
GOSSIP COLUMN, by Enid SCHMITT
This week in Tamarack Falls, I've got a
cute one for us. A special someone (hint
hint, his name rhymes with 'hill' and he
owns a bar here in town) is turning 65
next week, and he may or may not be get-
ting a present from a mysterious benefac-
tor... If I were he, I'd keep an eye out.
That gift looked hot!
In related news, kudos to your son, Bill,
though I have seldom had more cause to
use the 'facepalm' emoji than I did this
past weekend. For folks new to the area,
Bill's son is a trainee for the local
volunteer firefighters. A tourist slipped
and fell over the southern bridge into
the Tam, and they're okay, thanks to Bill
and some good bystanders, but they
wouldn't have fallen in the first place
if they hadn't been bending backwards
upside down over the edge of the railing
to get a selfie... Their GoPro was not
rescued, and neither, I'm told, was their
smartphone. Seriously, people. No selfie
is worth your life. Hypothermia is not a
joke.
That said, I'm human, and I can't help
but laugh at the selfie fails I've seen
on the internet. Let's turn this around
and check on YOU, my lovely readers: what
is YOUR most hilarious selfie fail?
Last but not least, for disclosure, Emma
Richards has paid me in Cadbury Creme
Eggs to publically state the following:
she heard on the grapevine that her long-
time boyfriend, who broke up with her
last Spring, has recently been accepted
into the NASA space program, and she
hopes he does so well that he becomes one
of the next astronauts to land on the
Moon...and stays there, preferably alone
and choking on his own hot air.
Sorry, Dave. Shouldn't have done that.
February 6, 2020
T A M A R A C K T I M E S
GOSSIP COLUMN, by Enid SCHMITT
February 13, 2020
T A M A R A C K T I M E S
GOSSIP COLUMN, by Enid SCHMITT
February 20, 2020
T A M A R A C K T I M E S
GOSSIP COLUMN, by Enid SCHMITT
February 27, 2020
T A M A R A C K T I M E S
GOSSIP COLUMN, by Enid SCHMITT