Percy the Plagiarist and Tracie the Troll
The continuing saga of Percy the Plagiarist and Tracie the Troll…
As we join our protagonists they are in various states of disarray. It seems Percy has been found out once again and has taken off to hide in the woods until the heat blows over. He has not been seen at his regular haunts lately and rumor has it his “House of ill begotten words” is about to be torn down for a new Starbucks.
The alleged jack of all trades and master of none, Percy is running scared, even though the unlikelihood of his total disappearance is almost guaranteed. Percy has been dancing to this tune for so long it has become his livelihood. Imagine if he had directed his energies towards something rewarding like healing others or philanthropic work. He may have turned out to be a decent man instead of a common thief of other people’s words.
Our friend Tracie the Troll on the other hand seems blissfully ignorant of her indiscretions. She wanders from locale to locale looking for a bit of attention here and a tad of attention there. To some she appears as a harmless busybody, to others she comes across as a spiteful wench bent on the destruction of ideals and merits of people she hardly knows. Tracie plods about from location to location looks for feces to stir, as that is what Troll’s do best.
It seems that lately though Tracie has had her trolling disrupted by genuinely superior intellect rather than the faux intelligence that pervades her usual discourses. Try as she may, she inevitably ends up looking like a reject from the fine arts dept. as she attempts to impress with her vocabulary skills. Maybe her talents run more to potpourri mixing and potting plants.
As we all know people like these are abundant in online life and have been since the advent of the Internet. Can we really change their habits and rehabilitate them? Are they worth the effort and time it takes to educate them to their follies? Or do we, as my fellow Men of Mischief suggested, ignore them and hope they’ll go away?
My gut reaction is to destroy, dismember, maim and obliterate them. And yet if that were to happen I would be robbed of the pleasure I receive from watching their antics and laughing at the absurdity of their actions. Such a quandary I’ve put myself into. Maybe that was their underlying motivation…to drive me fuckin’ nuts!!!
But back to our story…. Our leading lady seems to be lost without her ”paramour of putrid posts”. Wandering in the wasteland as it were. Can their love survive without the bonds of sanctimonious slander? Can this relationship come to fruition when the star-crossed lovers can’t stand to be apart longer than 48 hours? Only the Internet Gods know …and they’re not telling.
To be continued…. or maybe not.
*** Any resemblance between these characters and any persons living or dead is strictly coincidental ***
BodhiTah
"Crazy old men are essential to society.
Otherwise young men have no suitable models."
~ James Broughton ~
'As we all know people like these are abundant in online life and have been since the advent of the Internet. Can we really change their habits and rehabilitate them? Are they worth the effort and time it takes to educate them to their follies? Or do we, as my fellow Men of Mischief suggested, ignore them and hope they’ll go away?'
This struck a chord in me. I hope you all enjoy this link as much as I did!
Re: Percy the Plagiarist and Tracie the Troll
As our story reopens we fine that our “Pontiff of Pretension”, Percy, is not hiding out in a seedy motel in Encino as we thought, but has actually been committed to the “Shadeyvale Sanitarium” suffering from a “Compulsive/Obsessive Computer Virus…
<Enter Nurse “Foxie” the pediatrician> (cue music… Pum, Pum, PUUUUUM!)
Seeing her dressed in pigtails and lace Percy can not help but be smitten, (it was the knee socks that did it) and a torrid affair begins…
Will Percy disguise himself as a “Doctor” and escape with Foxie to start a new life as a “Japanese Gardener”?….
Will Foxie forsake all and go to Hollywood to start a career in children’s movies?…
Will Tracie become “Born Again” and start a crusade preaching on the “Evils of Internet Interaction"?…
And who exactly IS Vernon the Vegetarian, Man of Mystery? (cue music… Pum, Pum, PUUUUUM!)
For the answer to these and probably several other questions… stay tuned!
**** Any resemblance between these characters and any persons living or dead is strictly coincidental ****
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