Steve's Place
        by Steve Ellen  (friction@Writing.Com)
New! Improved! Now with Writing ML allowed!

"Walk right in, sit right down... Daddy let the good times roll..."



I always wanted to have my own In&Out and now I do...

Why "Steve's Place"? Because sometimes the action on my favorite In&Outs slows to a crawl and I get tired of waiting for you lazy posters to drag yourselves away from the TV or ebay or your family or wherever you waste your time when you should be posting. Now I have a little place where I can post when everywhere else is closed down.

And you can post here, too!

YOU... What should I post?
ME.... Who am I? Your mama?

Thanks to Sierra Mist for providing refreeshments. Thanks to Daddy Ziok for providing spell check services. Thanks to Angelwoods for keeping him under control. Thanks to 'Ropa for being my SECRET girlfriend that nobody knows about (not even her). *Heart* Thanks to Princess♥BooBoo for being my PUBLIC girlfriend that EVERYBODY knows about. *Rolleyes* Thanks to Dark Angel for being my ILLEGAL FANTASY girlfriend. *Cool* Thanks to artistic girlfriend Aria loves Bertie and Jeeves for feeding the penguins and making Europa think she's just a normal girl after all. *Smirk* Thanks to Spink - Remembering for keeping the bar stocked. *Pthb* Thanks to Mark for wandering in off the street. *Confused* Thanks to TSC- In the Organ's Jaws for ripping a hole in the fabric of reality. *Shock* Thanks to catty WDC since 2003 for building the reading room treehouse annex. *Cat* Thanks to GrimReaper-WDC Angel Army for letting me live one more day. Smile Thanks to pentatonic for showing me that yes, you CAN have the same handle as your user name. *Paw* Thanks to The Unknown King for being our king *Crown*) and thanks to Summer... who's she again? for slamming the door on my thumb. *Cry* Thanks to 'Rav - Overflooding... for donating a free set of cookware to the Steve's Place kitchen *Cart* and thanks to Confused *MJ Quixote* for cooking breakfast and thanks to Dad for making sure MJ doesn't spit in the eggs *Sick* and thanks to ΚΙΣVΣ for the goat cheese *Inlove* and thanks to Mr. Chowda Head for the chowder *Yawn* and thanks to Elfstone4114 for coming back year after year *Clock* and thanks to Ravenwand, Rising Star! for waiting five years to get thanked *Hourglass* and thanks to Suze spreading GPs for reviews for being whatever it is she is *Pencil* Thanks to PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters for giving me an excuse to change the font color. Thanks to Singular Scribbler for putting stars in my eyes. *Starstruck* Thanks to Melissa Murphy--Soon Published for being a prolific email writer *Reading* Thanks to Mrs. Penguin for returning after a long trip to ******* *Silent* Thanks to Evertrap  for catching all the mice! *Puzzle1*
And many many thanks to everyone who has ever posted here!!! *Delight*

A VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO MaryLou She knows why.*Bigsmile*
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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE IN&OUTS (Note: There have been hundreds of In&Outs created. I have only included some of the ones that I often visit.)
2001
"Poetic Insanity
2002
"What's Last is First
2003
"The Top Ten List
"Fortunately/Unfortunately
"Questions
2004
"Steve's Place
"Ask Catty
2005
"Attack and Defend -- February Fracas
"Linericks
"Let's Write A Country Song!
"The Abyss
2006
"Rancho Spinksy
2007
"Message in a Bottle
"Odd questions.
"Catty's Tree House
"The Creator's Castle
"Battle 101
"The Raven's Nest 150
2008
"The King's Planet
"Sick Decrees of WEIRD Association
"Summer's Cafe ~ Grand Reopening!
2009
"Morning & Night
2010
"What Was Last Is Still First
2011
"PurpleHaze's Aperitifs
"Invalid Item
"Emoticon Puzzles
2012
"The Editing Room

[01-20-12 @ 10:39pm] And they're the lucky one. ... And, yes, Suze, you do have couties.
  :: Dad

[01-21-12 @ 9:45am] Where I grew up, it was called COOTIES, no "u". I, for one, am too busy writing VH2 for any reading, but I will sometime soon, I promise, Suze. So, in my case, you do not have cooties.
  :: PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters

[01-21-12 @ 9:43pm] Sure ya do,. Whether they are couties or cooties (obviously, my spelling abilities continue to be glaringly noticeable) your lack of time for reading doesn't mean you don't have cooties. Just less time to do anything about them.
  :: Dad

[01-22-12 @ 9:58am] "Couties" is the French spelling. Les couties de la tête.
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-22-12 @ 4:13pm] Oh, Steav, Yu doant hav tu dephend meye obveeus lak uv speling abillutee. Ai kann doo taht onn meye oan jst find.
  :: Dad

[01-22-12 @ 7:48pm] Yo southin accent iz gettin ta be too much!
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-23-12 @ 6:03am] Wut choo tockin bout, Willis? Dis ain't no southin axent, it's south-Central, homes. Taint no big thing to wait for the bell to ring. I'm gonna git you, sucka.
  :: PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters

[01-23-12 @ 8:04pm] By jove, you Americans are jolly good at accents.Oim 'enery the eighth, I am!
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-23-12 @ 10:03pm] You got married to the widow next door! She's been married seven times before, and every one was an 'Enery! (When you were in school, did you need a Tudor?)
  :: Dad

[01-24-12 @ 6:06am] He didn't need a Tudor, because they had a four-door with a rear hatch for their boot. Colour My Wourld!
  :: PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters

[01-24-12 @ 9:15pm] Harry Potter never could get the cars he preferred. He wanted Mordor's.
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-25-12 @ 4:49am] Harry who?
  :: Mr. Chowda Head

[01-25-12 @ 7:51am] You're mixing genres again, Steve. Just like taking Johnre Lennon and comparing him to Karl Marxre.
  :: PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters

[01-25-12 @ 7:52am] Wasn't Steve's post sponsored by Genrel Motors?
  :: Ravenwand, Rising Star!

[01-25-12 @ 9:36am] PH-you are right, it is cooties--I started the misspelling that led into these crazy posts with mis-typings. I started the fire-- of which I am not ashamed. *Blush*
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[01-25-12 @ 9:09pm] You didn't start the fire, Suze. It's always been burning since the world's been turning.
  :: Singular Scribbler

[01-25-12 @ 9:25pm] Someday we'll build a time machine and go back and thank that first caveman fire user. He was a giant! ... What's wrong with "Harry Potter"? That's his name, ain't it?
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-25-12 @ 9:52pm] At least his name isn't Harry Palmer.
  :: Dad

[01-26-12 @ 7:51am] Speaking of names.... Steve has his place, Purp has his bar, I have my nest... When is Dad going to get a place? Like Dad's Den or something!
  :: Ravenwand, Rising Star!

[01-26-12 @ 7:53am] Dad's Den of Inequity. I'm sorry, Iniquity. Ichabod's Iniquity Istablishment. Nahh. If Dad's willing, I'll be the DJ at HIS place! Shen's Den.
  :: PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters

[01-26-12 @ 8:42pm] Dad's Den. No other name will sound as good.
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-26-12 @ 10:10pm] I've thought about opening up Dad's Bar and Grille, but I didn't want to compete with PurpleHaze's Apertifs. Then I realized I'm not upgraded. So I'll just haunt your places.
  :: Dad

[01-27-12 @ 7:50am] And the angel came out with her wand and magically turned him into an upgraded Dad.
  :: PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters

[01-27-12 @ 12:53pm] *Confused* upgrade? What is an upgraded Dad called? What does one look like? I feel scared.
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[01-27-12 @ 6:19pm] Upgraded dads shower and shave every day and like to wear a fresh T-shirt. They don't spit on the floor or scratch themselves in public. They never fart and if you ask them for directions they don't try to send you the wrong way.
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-27-12 @ 9:45pm] But what the hell fun is that?
  :: Dad

[01-28-12 @ 5:51pm] Hey, I am warning you against upgrading. I have to change my socks every day now. It's like every day is Sunday. Frown
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-28-12 @ 5:52pm] NEW IN&OUT! ... "The Editing Room ... Post in it! *Bigsmile*
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-29-12 @ 11:38am] Vampires are NOT overdone, they are just often done incorrectly.
  :: Singular Scribbler

[01-29-12 @ 9:27pm] Whoever heard of a vampire named Thad?
  :: Dad

[01-29-12 @ 9:32pm] I don't care how vampires are done - I don't like them.
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-30-12 @ 1:40am] Not overdone, Scribbler. Overused. Overdone makes it sound like they spent too long in the oven.
  :: Mr Zaborskii

[01-30-12 @ 5:49am] Exactly, MrZ... Overdone Vampire, in a creamy wine sauce? Don't get me started. Or even one of those baked-in-a-pie vampire dishes. I LOVE those. Crispy on the outside... But I digress.
  :: PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters

[01-30-12 @ 5:37pm] I think we evolved from Vampires, much like apes--only Darwin had it all wrong. That's why they can't find the missing link--they should look in Transylvania. I know there are a lot of blood suckers in my family
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[01-30-12 @ 5:47pm] I guess it's because I don't like the sight of blood. So naturally I am opposed to all things vampirish. What puzzles me is why anybody is actually attracted to vampirism. *shudder*
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-30-12 @ 5:58pm] well, women like their necks nuzzled but can only acknowledge that lust by inferring a monster taking them by force...wait, is it getting hot in here? Anyway, as I was saying...women like neck nuzzles--
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[01-30-12 @ 10:36pm] *pointedly ignores Suze's last post, and returns to her previous post* Lotta bloodsuckers in your family, Suze? Exactly how many lawyers are you related to?
  :: Dad

[01-30-12 @ 11:39pm] I don't know about the neck nuzzling thing. Most creatures would end in a puddle of blood if they tried to nuzzle anything on me without my permission. I'm not going to argue with you all. I can deal with a lack of interest. It's better than Twi-tards.
  :: Singular Scribbler

[01-31-12 @ 6:04am] One thing about vampires - they have no blood. Right? They crave it? Then, after the neck-nuzzling, how do they engorge their... well, you know. They can't!!!!!!! (sorry ravey, too many exclamation points?)
  :: PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters

[01-31-12 @ 4:28pm] Oh Dad, you are so silly and so smart too....*Wink*
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[01-31-12 @ 6:24pm] I have discovered an incredible hidden WDC writing ML secret! Press the control key and then i. Or press the ctrl key and then u. See how that works? Wow! And don't tell me you knew about it all along! *Delight*
  :: Steve Ellen

[01-31-12 @ 11:01pm] i u I get nothing. Yes, I did know that.
  :: Dad

[01-31-12 @ 11:39pm] Okay, then. I won't tell you. But I may use excessive subtlety to imply something.
  :: Singular Scribbler

[02-01-12 @ 5:35am] Are you trying to subvert the system again, Steve? Big WDC Brother is watching you. Be careful. I'd hate to lose such a quality place to hang out and shoot the breeze.
  :: PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters

[02-01-12 @ 6:29pm] Oh no. This is not another one of those deals where only my computer will do it, is it? What do I have? A Twilight Zone model?
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-01-12 @ 10:28pm] *listens to spooky music and sees a dead guy with no lower lip talking about the sign post ahead*
  :: Dad

[02-02-12 @ 11:06am] That CTRL key of yours is very special Steve. Mine did nothing except giggle uncontrollably when I pushed it.
  :: PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters

[02-02-12 @ 11:07am] Well, I didn't know that! I think that is cool! I'm glad you go to the meetings, Steve and then pass this information along to us. Poor Dad, he should never have upgraded. We tried to tell him. So many things do not work for him as it is.
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[02-02-12 @ 6:39pm] Yeah, upgrading Dad was like putting hubcaps on a cow.
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-02-12 @ 9:16pm] BUT I HAVEN'T BEEN UPGRADED!! It didn't work. But that can't crush the good mood I'm in. LIFE IS WONDERFUL!!!
  :: Dad

[02-03-12 @ 7:07pm] It sure is! Except when it stinks. But otherwise... it's great!
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-04-12 @ 12:55pm] Things that are 52... Dad. A deck of cards. A pickup. A bottle of wine. A bottle of 60-year-old scotch from 1952. What? Okay, forget that last one. It's been sold already.
  :: PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters

[02-04-12 @ 5:46pm] On the news last night: 52 is the largest age group in the country, followed by 53 and 51. Next largest? 21!
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-04-12 @ 8:51pm] Researchers were surprised to find that most 21 year old men still have a favorite number. They were amazed to discover it's 77. Then they learned that it's a lot like 69, but you get 8 more.
  :: Dad

[02-05-12 @ 7:19am] Oh? Is it silly joke time?
  :: PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters

[02-05-12 @ 7:20am] I went to the movies alone. I heard a strange sound. After the movie, I waited outside and sure enough, saw a lady walking her dog on a leash. I stepped up to her and said, "I'm not mad and I'm not going to turn you in."
  :: PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters

[02-05-12 @ 7:22am] She smiled. I said,"But I found it odd that your dog and I laughed at the same parts and - even cried at some of the parts. Don't you find that unusual?" She said, "Yes... He hated the book!"
  :: PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters

[02-05-12 @ 6:30pm] Do you ever look at the line of ML boxes above the submit box and wish you knew what "drop" & "pop" were? Doesn't it sound like a gym teacher's command? Drop and pop!
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-05-12 @ 7:21pm] No, I never did before. But, now that you've pointed it out to me, I'm gonna have to spend five or ten minutes wondering about it before saying the hell with it and moving on to something equally unimportant.
  :: Dad

[02-05-12 @ 7:22pm] And when is it not silly joke time?
  :: Dad

[02-05-12 @ 11:29pm] Dropnote


  :: Singular Scribbler

[02-05-12 @ 11:30pm] PopNote


  :: Singular Scribbler

[02-06-12 @ 5:44am] Shyte. So a Dropnote can be used for Shameless Plugs... And PopNotes are silly but useful in a way. Thanks SS.
  :: PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters

[02-06-12 @ 5:49am] Singular


  :: PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters

[02-06-12 @ 7:09am] LINK TEXT HERE


  :: drew from sam's townn

[02-06-12 @ 7:17am] uh, so this is how it works! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Steve.


  :: drew from sam's townn

[02-06-12 @ 8:49am] So...


  :: Singular Scribbler

[02-06-12 @ 2:01pm] Everyone is fading away into some sort of text limbo! Where did everyone go? I'm afraid
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[02-06-12 @ 8:46pm] My fault. I tossed a toy into the cage. They'll get bored with it soon. VERY short attention spans. Smile
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-06-12 @ 10:38pm] shiny!
  :: Dad

[02-07-12 @ 6:53am] I'm waiting for the doggy treats.
  :: Ravenwand, Rising Star!

[02-07-12 @ 9:51am] We'll be back right after this brief message from our sponsors:

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by Suze spreading GPs for reviews

  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[02-07-12 @ 7:46pm] New Again? Is this like Trash and Treasure thrift stores? How about Dusty Retreads? Or Recycled Rejects? *Laugh*
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-07-12 @ 10:36pm] Why does Dusty Retreads sound like a Dusty Springfield tribute band? We have a Jethro Tull tribute band here. They call themselves Aqualung!
  :: Dad

[02-08-12 @ 2:59pm] I liked Dusty Springfield, not jethro---I was Motown, Al Green was the best, now I like country. My sister-in-law is an ELvis freak. The velvet makes me puke.
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[02-08-12 @ 7:44pm] You're putting too much of it into your mouth. Just lick it, don't swallow it. (Now watch somebody try to turn that into something vulgar. *Rolleyes*)
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-08-12 @ 8:50pm] Stewve! *Shock* Appaently, your mind is in the gutter. *Frown* Remind it to say hi to mine! *Smile*
  :: Dad

[02-09-12 @ 12:40pm] Thanks Steve! Once again your advice proves invaluable. The chaffing went away as soon as I switched from the steel cuffs to the muff ones...you have so much expierence and you give and give and give...a saint, pure and simple, a saint.
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[02-09-12 @ 8:42pm] Thanks. Not many people notice my "I am a saint" button. I wanted the 3 inch size but all they had was this. Do you really like country music? I only like it when it's more like folk music, like Johnny Cash or Willie Nelson or really oldtime singers.
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-09-12 @ 10:25pm] I like the older country, too - you know, from the 50's to the early-to-mid 80's. What they call country today is, by and large, just a different form of pop. *waits for Mom to smack him in the head*
  :: Dad

[02-10-12 @ 3:14pm] country before country was cool...*Heart*
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[02-10-12 @ 8:30pm] Although in our opinion that's when it was cool and now it's not. *Pthb*
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-10-12 @ 9:45pm] Strangely enough, that's the era for all music that I like. Regardless of what label you put on it, if it was recorded between 1950 & 1990, chances are I like it. Bobby Bare's "Singin' in the Kitchen" being the exception that proves the rule.
  :: Dad

[02-11-12 @ 5:20pm] Don't forget Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey", a song no one was able to destroy quickly enough before it became a hit.
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-11-12 @ 6:23pm] I like the 50s, but I think I've got a thing for the 20s and 30s too. I just can't decide. I sometimes walk down the hall, snapping while I pretend I'm wearing a zoot suit and fedora and there's jazzy music in the background .
  :: Singular Scribbler

[02-11-12 @ 8:39pm] I like some music even older. Glenn Miller, the Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw. "Rhapsody in Blue" as recorded by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra is awesome!
  :: Dad

[02-12-12 @ 7:45pm] I like all that too. I even like jug band music.
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-12-12 @ 8:30pm] OK. Now you've reached the limit. Bands I like. Music I like. Jugs I like. *RollEyes* Jug band music I do not like.
  :: Dad

[02-13-12 @ 7:42am] Bluegrass is awesome... Gimme some bluegrass!
  :: Ravenwand, Rising Star!

[02-13-12 @ 7:42am] Hoo Hoooooo - I'm playing a jug right now. In fact, I think I'll ask my favorite DJ to play some jug band music in my bar.
  :: PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters

[02-13-12 @ 11:07am] not familiar with jug band music ????? I really must have led a sheltered life, not that I was in the pound or anything--just well protected.
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[02-13-12 @ 8:12pm] I'm with you, Suze. I can guess what it is, but I'm not entirely sure how that one works.
  :: Singular Scribbler

[02-13-12 @ 8:26pm] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfpRt1SE7YE ...for a little jug band music. Smile
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-13-12 @ 10:54pm] And what's so bad about "Honey?" Bobby G is a ... kinda good singer.
  :: Dad

[02-14-12 @ 5:47am] How it works? Honestly, neither of you have ever held a bottle up to your lips and blown across it? Even by accident?
  :: PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters

[02-14-12 @ 3:02pm] I have accidently blown a few things in my time, but never a jug.
  :: Suze spreading GPs for reviews

[02-14-12 @ 10:23pm] I blew a fuse once. Remember fuses?
  :: Steve Ellen

[02-14-12 @ 10:48pm] *looks at Suze's post, checks item rating, looks at Suze's post, checks item rating, looks at Suze's post one more time, rechecks item rating, decides to say nothing*
  :: Dad

[02-15-12 @ 5:47am] Let's hope Suze was performing those activities over the age of 18 and everything will be okay, Dad. Although I must admit, I like checking out Ravey's posts over and over again, some days. To hell with the rating.
  :: PurpleHaze - 5 VH2 chapters

[02-15-12 @ 6:05am] And I find your post very intriguing, Purp.
  :: Ravenwand, Rising Star!

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