Story

It was either that or ransoming the planet with a giant space laser.

WELL ! ....... YOU'RE the one who said to be creative ;-)

I guess my idea of creative is different than other folks.

Maybe I should have said creative and ORIGINAL. LOL.

Now you have a whole new premise to try and do something with/to.

Flash Point was stolen from _________, where as ransoming the earth with a space laser was stolen from ____________. A totally different universe or franchise depending on your level of suspension of disbelief.

My other premise was NOT stolen from ___ _____ ______ _________, but I can see where you might think that.

LOL It would seem that the Story is getting deeper by many many fathoms!! I hope nobody drowns!!!

I'm not sure which way I want to go next. I guess that depends on what I find next time I log on. Whether I want to do damage control or just go with the flow in whatever new direction its gone.

I've already over used the Achilles Segue.

(I think I just coined that phrase.)

Remember our new demi-hero Agent Bean may not yet have seen John's video clip at the end of the recording. Certainly Bennie Bean hasn't seen it. I suspect if Agent Bean had seen John defame the Secret Service his suspicion level about the whole thing might be a bit higher, well, and he wouldn't have needed his ten year old son to tell him what he was listening to.

gahaaa gurgle gurgle,

And that shall be placed on your Tombstone!! :-)

At the rate I'm goin - - - - - when they open my tomb 5000 years in the future all they're going to find is glasses, false teeth, hearing aids, and a heart valve repair kit.

LOL I would suggest that you come up with a significant branding iron logo and mark some of those devices so the archeologist will have something to ponder. Maybe not the repair kit but the others would be possible. :-)

Les

You just gave me a great idea. I just thought of some things I'm going to have buried with me.

1, A pair of Groucho glasses, nose and mustache 2 Some teeth from a wolf, a donkey and an elephant 3, An ear trumpet. 4 and the penis from a horse.

C-O-O-L!!!!!! Go for it!!!!

Did you hear about the guy that made a deal with his Undertaker to start a recorder with a speaker inside the casket. The recording was the guy pounding on the casket and saying things to those that would be at his funeral.

The undertaker hit the play button when the casket was lowered to the bottom of the hole.

People went nuts but they then realized that the guy was a very funny guy and it went to the grave that way.

When I started down this path I was originally thinking very fast paced hacker-centric action adventure. Motor cycle chases. Brutal police tactics. Fleeing for you life in the face of overwhelming odds, and seeking a way to turn the tables in a grand unstoppable manner. It has slowed down. Become more procedural. With one of our protagonists now being a ten year old I'm not sure the brutality of a modern high impact action thriller tells well. Its not like I can retell Treasure Island after all. Maybe Bennie Bean needs to become superfluous soon. Identify some key points, and leave it to his dad and the hackers. Obviously Agent Bean needs to learn more before kicking it upstairs since his own agency has now been implicated in who knows what.

Hi Bob,

It is my humble opinion that you should consider writing a book, get it published, and sell a boat load. Like Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm books, or Ian Fleming's James Bond.

They did it, why not Bob La Londe's Agent Bean??

You will never know if it will work, until you try.

Honestly with all typing you do in the newsgroups your typing skill could are certainly good enough. You can't be a "Hunt n' Pecker"!!

What is the worst that could happen??

You got my VOTE!!!

Les