Okay...it seems Real World
Multimedia wants us to send them a fruitbasket, with flowers,
champagne, and chocolates (Flowers? Chocolates? Bubbly? Do they
want us to befriend them or date them? How about dinner and a
movie instead?)
Well, we'd have sent it already but one thing about us Solsbury Hill Homepage Committee members is that we're all cheap. And fruit baskets ain't cheap.
Here are some ideas that we have come up with to act as a workaround to this dilemma.
1. Lying. "The basket is in the mail."
2. Avoidance. "We really didn't *promise* a basket so to speak... just that we were *thinking* of ordering one."
3. Passing the buck. We received a letter from Andy "Pedro" Skelton, who said that he wants to join the Solsbury Committee badly. Okay, Pedro, you are now a committee member. It is now your job to send Real World Multimedia a fruitbasket.
4. Lie some more. "We sent the basket a week ago, but it looks like it went to the studio of the wrong former Genesis lead singer. Somewhere, (no pun intended) Phil Collins is probably eating your fruit as we speak."
5. Discouragement. "You really wouldn't want all of those extra calories anyway."
6. Blame it on a misunderstanding. "Fruit basket? We meant fruit *biscuit*! The fig newton is in the mail.
7. Bait-and-switch. "How about some coffee instead?"
Here's what we've already decided to say to Real World Multimedia, so listen up Real Worlders!:
We want to find the other mention of the Solsbury Committee on RRW before we consider sending anything:-)
If you can pull of a *third* SH mention on RRW, specifically in the PG bio pages, then we just might send the mother of all fruitbaskets, the Carmen Miranda Deluxe!
[a few weeks later]
Well, for a couple of days anyway, the Solsbury Miscellany was
linked to the one and only Radio Real World. The link is gone
now but we do have a screen shot of the
link plus Lith
and Vincent can attest to the fact that, yes, they saw the link,
it did exist (quote Robin Williams at VH1 Honors "Can I get
a WITNESS?!")
It was linked to the words "dubious rumors" on the Peter Gabriel news pages, and it was sort of a humorous tongue-in-cheek retaliation for the wonderfully hard time We Here at the Hill had been giving them. Anyway, we were honored to be linked!
