# Women are from Venus, Men Blow Up Mars
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**Created:** [October 6, 2008, 7:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/women-are-from-venus-men-blow-up-mars/239385 "2008-10-06T07:16:52Z")
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### Author:  [@CustomLowz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/CustomLowz)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2008, 7:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/women-are-from-venus-men-blow-up-mars/239385/1 "2008-10-06T07:16:52Z")
This is a funny college assignment that some students did. I laughed when I read this. ;D :lol:
This is the link. [http://www.gamereplays.org/community/index.php?showtopic=408172](http://www.gamereplays.org/community/index.php?showtopic=408172)
> \> Here’s a prime example of ‘Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus’ offered by
> \> an English professor from the University of Colorado for an actual class assignment:
> \>
> \> The professor told his class one day: ‘Today we will experiment with a
> \> new form called the tandem story. The process is simple.
> \> Each person will pair off with the person sitting to his or her immediate right.
> \>
> \> As homework tonight, one of you will write the first paragraph of a short story.
> \> You will e-mail your partner that paragraph and send another copy to me.
> \> The partner will read the first paragraph and then add another paragraph to the
> \> story and send it back, also sending another copy to me.
> \> The first person will then add a third paragraph, and so on back-and-forth.
> \>
> \> Remember to re-read what has been written each time in order to keep the story coherent.
> \> There is to be absolutely NO talking outside of the e-mails and anything you wish to say must
> \> be written in the e-mail. The story is over when both agree a conclusion has been reached.’
> \>
> \> The following was actually turned in by two of his English students:
> \> Rebecca and Gary.
> \>
> \> THE STORY:
> \>
> \> (first paragraph by Rebecca)
> \>
> \> At first, Laurie couldn’t decide which kind of tea she wanted. The
> \> chamomile, which used to be her favourite for lazy evenings at home,
> \> now reminded her too much of Carl, who once said, in happier times,
> \> that he liked chamomile. But she felt she must now, at all costs, keep
> \> her mind off Carl. His possessiveness was suffocating, and if she
> \> thought about him too much her asthma started acting up again.
> \> So chamomile was out of the question.
> \>
> \> (second paragraph by Gary )
> \>
> \> Meanwhile, Advance Sergeant Carl Harris, leader of the attack squadron
> \> now in orbit over Skylon 4, had more important things to think about
> \> than the neuroses of an air-headed asthmatic bimbo named Laurie with
> \> whom he had spent one sweaty night over a year ago. ‘A.S. Harris to
> \> Geostation 17,’ he said into his transgalactic communicator. ‘Polar
> \> orbit established. No sign of resistance so far…’ But before he
> \> could sign off a bluish particle beam flashed out of nowhere and blasted
> \> a hole through his ship’s cargo bay. The jolt from the direct hit sent him
> \> flying out of his seat and across the cockpit.
> \>
> \> (Rebecca)
> \>
> \> He bumped his head and died almost immediately, but not before he felt
> \> one last pang of regret for psychically  brutalizing the one woman who
> \> had ever had feelings for him. Soon afterwards, Earth stopped its
> \> pointless hostilities towards the peaceful farmers of Skylon 4.
> \> ‘Congress Passes Law Permanently Abolishing War and Space Travel,’
> \> Laurie read in her newspaper one morning. The news simultaneously
> \> excited her and bored her. She stared out the window, dreaming of her
> \> youth, when the days had passed unhurriedly and carefree, with no
> \> newspaper to read, no television to distract her from her sense of innocent
> \> wonder at all the beautiful things around her.
> \> ‘Why must one lose one’s innocence to become a woman?’ she pondered wistfully.
> \>
> \> ( Gary )
> \>
> \> Little did she know, but she had less than 10 seconds to live.
> \> Thousands of miles above the city, the Anu’udrian mothership launched
> \> the first of its lithium fusion missiles. The dim-witted wimpy
> \> peaceniks who pushed the Unilateral Aerospace disarmament Treaty
> \> through the congress had left Earth a defenseless target for the
> \> hostile alien empires who were determined to destroy the human race.
> \> Within two hours after the passage of the treaty the Anu’udrian ships
> \> were on course for Earth, carrying enough firepower to pulverize the
> \> entire planet. With no one to stop them, they swiftly initiated their
> \> diabolical plan. The lithium fusion missile entered the atmosphere
> \> unimpeded. The President, in his top-secret mobile submarine
> \> headquarters on the ocean floor off the coast of Guam , felt the
> \> inconceivably massive explosion, which vaporized the rest of the Earth
> \> inhabitants, including poor, stupid air-head Laurie.
> \>
> \> (Rebecca)
> \>
> \> This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of literature. My
> \> writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic semi-literate adolescent.
> \>
> \> ( Gary )
> \>
> \> Yeah? Well, my writing partner is a self-centered tedious neurotic
> \> whose attempts at writing are the literary equivalent of a megadosage
> \> of Valium. 'Oh, shall I have chamomile tea? Or shall I have some other
> \> sort of F**KING TEA??? Oh no, what am I to do? I’m such an air-headed
> \> bimbo who reads too many Danielle Steele novels!’ Get a life, bimbo!
> \>
> \> (Rebecca)
> \>
> \> Asshole.
> \>
> \> ( Gary )
> \>
> \> Bitch!
> \>
> \> (Rebecca)
> \>
> \> F**K YOU - YOU NEANDERTHAL!!
> \>
> \> ( Gary )
> \>
> \> In your dreams, Ho. Go drink some tea.
> \>
> \> (TEACHER)
> \>
> \>
> \> A+ - I really liked this one.
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### Author:  [@GranMassaX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GranMassaX)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2008, 7:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/women-are-from-venus-men-blow-up-mars/239385/2 "2008-10-06T07:22:37Z")
awesome :lol
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### Author:  [@McBitchin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/McBitchin)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2008, 7:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/women-are-from-venus-men-blow-up-mars/239385/3 "2008-10-06T07:23:28Z")
:rofl that’s great
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### Author:  [@OhNoPOPO](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OhNoPOPO)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2008, 7:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/women-are-from-venus-men-blow-up-mars/239385/4 "2008-10-06T07:24:00Z")
> [@CustomLowz](#):
>
> This is a funny college assignment that some students did. I laughed when I read this. ;D :lol:
>
> This is the link. [http://www.gamereplays.org/community/index.php?showtopic=408172](http://www.gamereplays.org/community/index.php?showtopic=408172)
:excited nahaha
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### Author:  [@GearheadNY.com](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GearheadNY.com)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2008, 9:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/women-are-from-venus-men-blow-up-mars/239385/5 "2008-10-06T09:08:06Z")
OMG that was hilarious!
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### Author:  [@n\_cole](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/n_cole)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2008, 9:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/women-are-from-venus-men-blow-up-mars/239385/6 "2008-10-06T09:12:58Z")
:crackup
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### Author:  [@Lew](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Lew)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2008, 9:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/women-are-from-venus-men-blow-up-mars/239385/7 "2008-10-06T09:15:27Z")
Hahaha
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### Author:  [@Swifty](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Swifty)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2008, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/women-are-from-venus-men-blow-up-mars/239385/8 "2008-10-06T10:23:04Z")
wow… most i’ve ever laughed at anything online. :crackup
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### Author:  [@votblindub](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/votblindub)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2008, 7:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/women-are-from-venus-men-blow-up-mars/239385/9 "2008-10-07T07:58:33Z")
excellent :lol