Buzz Around Town.    Responses from our survey on How the Writer's Strike Affects You!

"Same as always: one scotch, one bourbon and one beer!"

"Let me spell it out for you. No more M&Ms until we get it in writing!"

 "I may be forced to copy from illiterate people."

"Finally! No More SPAM!"

 "Don't we have Mexicans to do the jobs that writers don't want? "

Out of sympathy for writers everywhere, I'm putting condoms on my pencils and not allowing any conjugating of the written verbs, and burning my erasers!"

"What writer's strike?"

 "I don't buy them to read the articles."

"Same as always: we burn books every night!"

"I'm sticking to charades whenever I go into chat rooms; it's just as well since they aren't any my type in there!"

 "TV reruns. This is stranger than fiction!"

 "Now maybe, just maybe, writers on strike__ means No More Blogs!"

"Oh sure they say they're on strike, but really, who do they want us to think wrote them picket signs?"

"I knew this whole internet mess was just a passing fad!"

 "You don't no writer to spell ESPM!"

 "I burned my notebook battery!"

"I've stopped balancing my checkbook, because it involves writing!"

"I didn't get the writers before the strike, and I sure as heck don't get them now!"

"I'm reading The Word only, because I'm not aware if The Trinity is one of the unions on Strike! Everybody knows that there is no I AM in TEAMsters!"

"I'm carefully guarding my words, although I have quite a few to spare at you!"

 "Since I can't read questionable written content, I'm just going to watch ReplayTV!"

"I'm going to work for Junk Bros News and I certainly would NOT expect to see any writers there!"

"I'm blacking-out every late night joker that somehow leaves a scab!"