Script Ideas...

[Cornell]

I'm not sure what section to put this in, but it's in regards to passing on script ideas that are spawned from news stories, etc. Many folks have expressed interest at how to find ideas for scripts, so there's an article below that's happening in the city in which I live, if anybody is interested and would like to run with it. I'm polishing-up two scripts now, then working on finishing another five, consecutively. So, I'm really busy, but I think this would be a great story for a script! Gee...should it be called, the obvious--"Sex Education" or "Young Rising" or "In The Cloakroom" or "Behind The Chalkboard" or "5th Grade Sex Lab" or "Fizz Boys" or "Soda Girls" or "Soda Pop Salute" or "Sugar Babies" or "Lunch Pimps" or "Lunch BOX Traders" or "Brownbag Bargains"...just a few titles to work with (grin). Anyway, to be quite honest, the story's horrible, but here's the article, if anyone's interested or if you have ideas to post because you're too busy but would like to see something done with the idea (gee--did I say *idea* enough?....

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CITY Police Investigate School Sex Reports
CITY Police on Saturday were investigating reports that pupils at a CITY elementary school were swapping sexual favors for soda and candy. The allegations surfaced this week when a fifth-grade girl at COMMUNITY Elementary School told the principal at least five other girls and 15 boys were involved in sexual activity in school closets and other secluded places, according to school district SPOKESWOMAN. The principal informed parents about the sexual activity in a letter Friday. None of the half-dozen students questioned by police confirmed the allegations, said LIEUTENANT COMMANDER of the CITY personal crimes unit. The girls allegedly received soda, snacks and some jewelry in exchange for performing sexual acts, the fifth-grader said. END

[callitt]

That's just plain fuc ken sick. qualifies as kiddie porn in my book. Damn scary. my daughter enters the public school System in september. Her school is supposedly blue ribbon, but jeez, that kind of crap can happen anywhere nowadays.

Makes me wonder what kind of values/personal ethics parents are teaching their kids these days, when a child of that age ALLOWS themself to be used in such a manner.

[ToddinHB]

One of my favorite news items that I always thought would make a great Jim Carrey-esque comedy was in the LA Times about a year (or two) ago. It was from the AP wire service, and was no more than two paragraphs.

I don't have the text in front of me, but it basically said that a plane was forced to land when a friend of the co-pilot entered the cockpit and said hello. It wouldn't have been a problem if the co-pilot's name wasn't "Jack." When the air-traffic control heard, "Hi, Jack," all hell broke loose.

Now, that's comedy!

[Cornell]

Todd, I've been there! There's a guy in our accounting office whose name is Dick. I turned around one day, while in the process of jotting down some revenue numbers, and asked, "You have a pencil, Dick?" Everyone howled except me...it went right over my head! :rollin g

And, Callitt--it is sick! Unfortunally, I think the stories that are true are sicker (jot down please--new word) than made-up stories.

[PteranoDon]

So isn't this just vocational training? Inner city schools prepping girls for careers in crack-whoring?

[Rayborg]

The above responses remind me of a software firm I used to work at. Our customers used light-pens, which were popular in the early 90s.

One person at the helpdesk typed in a customer call - the user was having trouble with their light-pen. She wrote up the incident, but left out the important space between "pen and "is".

"Penis not working. Wants to use it today."

That note was circulated throughout the office and resulted in many snorting gaffaws.
Ray