Fish Camp Tale

Sincerest Form of Flattery Challenge

Fish Camp Tale

By Distracted

Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine
Genre: “Sincerest Form of Flattery Challenge”, humor

Summary: Another indirectly TnT tale.

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When the weather’s still warm here in South Louisiana, right after the sticky heat of the summer and right before huntin’ season, me and a few a my friends like ta hang around the camp after a weekend of fishin’ in the Gulf and tell stories. Some a those stories get pretty wild. Maybe it’s the comp’ny. Maybe it’s the beer. I dunno which. Last weekend, Mike Breaux, a friend a mine from over by Donaldsonville, brought a cousin a his from Mississippi along… some old coot by the name a Jackson. He was a character, lemmee tell ya. Had a Mississippi accent so thick ya could cut it and spread it on bread. He told a story we all had a hard time swallowin’. This is what he told us. I didn’t leave nuthin’ out. Not a single word.

“Ya’ll’re allus tellin’ them tall tales ’bout the one that got away, but they ain’t nuthin’ compared ta the story my friend Charlie told me a while back. Bein’ as how he ain’t here, gimme one a them long necks and lemme tell ya ‘bout Charlie Tucker’s boy, Trip.

“Umm, yeah. That’s damn good beer!

“Anyways… y’all know Tucker’s boy’s some high powered engineerin’ type out there on that starship, right? Charlie’s been braggin’ on him somethin’ fierce fer a couple years now. Well, come ta find out that the boy changed horses in mid-stream there and left Enterprise fer that new ship… what’s it called? Challenger maybe?

“Oh, yeah. Well, I knew it started with a “C”.

“Anyways… Charlie told me it was ‘cause the new ship’s engines needed overhaulin’ and his boy was the only one for the job. I have my own ideas ‘bout that, though. Seems like every week Charlie was braggin’ about how young Trip was just a chip off the ol’ block with the ladies. I’m thinkin’ alla that charm finally caught up with the boy. Heh. Yeah. A starship’s a mighty small place if ya got two females after ya… maybe more if Charlie weren’t exaggeratin’ too much.

“So young Trip was on that there other ship, just travelin’ along, and they came across Enterprise and met up with ‘em, and they went along together for a while. Seems Trip had a buddy named Mal back on Enterprise who got a hankerin’ ta do some fishin’, but there weren’t nothin’ ta catch out there a course, being as how there weren’t no fish within ‘bout 200 light years, so Mal decides he’s gonna set out a line and catch himself a ship. Well, before ya know it, them two ships are travelin’ along at warp speed connected to each other by a big fat fishin’ line!

“Well, Trip, he don’t wanna be left outta the fun, so he decides ta grab that line… and guess what he does? He rides the damn thing from one ship t’other just ta pay a visit! Scares the pee-wocky-doo outa Mal an’ everybody else. Mal figures he’s caught the biggest catch anybody ever caught, though, what with how big that there ship is… Columbia, right?... so he don’t mind much.”

Then Jackson just shut right up and wouldn’t do nothin’ but drink more beer. When he told that tall tale, well, none of us believed it. We just figured it was all in fun. There ain’t no way he was tellin’ the truth. I mean, I’d sooner believe the boy was sleepin’ with a Vulcan, ya know?

End

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hahahahah! good one. now tell about the one that got away too :-D

I think my brain hurts. Sure does remind me of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, though. Am I right? Maybe?

Twain is the only one on the list capable of writing in southern dialect. :) Kinda gives it away.

Gotta say, you caught the flavor of it nicely. You really are from the south, ain't ya?

One minor typo. It ain't swallowin'. It's swallerin'.

Sorry 'bout that. Dunno WHAT I was thinkin'! Come to think of it, prob'ly shoulda been "catch hisself" instead of "catch himself", too.

Yeah. Guess it is pretty obvious. Bether guessed first this time, though, so she wins! Yay!

Yep. I HATED Huck Finn. Couldn't ever forget that. You did it quite well. No offense to the famous author, of course. I just prefer romances, LOL!

I really need to... read more. Yeah. That's the ticket. 'Cause I don't do nearly enough of that, nooooooo, of course not.

Awesome stuff, D, now get back to writing the next part of "Paradox"! I want more, gorramit! ;)

(..Just kidding, write whatever you want, but don't ever stop. It's far too good!) :)

If you've missed out on Mark Twain, Windrider, you really ought to give his work a try. The man was very funny.

I know, I need to get back to Paradox. I just keep getting ideas... and no one else is writing these. Now, if someone else would try their hand... like maybe YOU... or even enterpriseScribe, whose idea this infernally addicting challenge was to BEGIN with... than maybe I wouldn't feel so compelled to do EVERY author myself.

I got it! That's two! (sad)

Sleep with a Vulcan.- Yeh like that Happen lmao.

Very funny. I gota say this is a neat twist.

Lisa

Hey, you don't have to do EVERY author...I did Joyce! =)
I got Twain, but I've got to say that I wish this piece had a bit more T/T.
Nevertheless I think you've got Twain fairly well, from what I recall, with not only the dialect but the anecdotes and mishaps. Now if you could work in a river... ;)

"Hey, you don't have to do EVERY author...I did Joyce! =)"

Yes, you did! And for that I am most eternally grateful. Hmmm. More TnT, huh? I'll have to think on that a while. I just had a hard time making their story FUNNY, you know? Maybe epic romance, tragedy and pain is what I need... Lemme go back and look at that author list again.

i did really get this!

this was awsome! and sooo funny! i got bored on FF so i decided to vists this site for a few fics, and found this one! it twas awsome! seems like i'm reading a lot of stuff written by you lately...

this was awsome! and sooo funny! i got bored on FF so i decided to vists this site for a few fics, and found this one! it twas awsome! seems like i'm reading a lot of stuff written by you lately...

this was awsome! and sooo funny! i got bored on FF so i decided to vists this site for a few fics, and found this one! it twas awsome! seems like i'm reading a lot of stuff written by you lately...