<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><FONT FACE="Geneva" SIZE=1 COLOR="#000000">The earliest Deja News results I could find was this full-fledged utilization of clue anything. It uses "clue by four," my favorite.<BR>
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"</FONT><FONT FACE="Geneva" SIZE=2 COLOR="#000000">Nia was talking about jms's writing style this evening, I tried to get her to make a post on it, but she didn't want to, and it's relevant to this post, so... I'll see if I can give it justice.<BR>
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"First jms jumps out in front of you says "The clue train leaves in an hour", and hands you a clue card. On the front it says J. Michael Straczynski, you turn it over and it says in small letters 'a clue'. jms runs off into the shadows again.<BR>
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"Presently you find yourself at the clue train station, jms runs out again, presses a clue train token into your hand, and bodily throws you on the clue train.<BR>
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"After riding the train for awhile, jms comes down the isle dressed as a conductor, he takes your clue token, and then whips out his clue by four and bashes you senseless with it. He then says "Next stop, the clue hospital".<BR>
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"You wake up, and find yourself on a operating table. Then you notice you're Sheridan. jms appears in surgical scrubs, cuts you open, and inserts the clue forcefully into your body.<BR>
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"(but, being Sheridan.... you still don't get it)."<BR>
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