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THANKS

 1\chapter{Thanks}
 2
 3When BenBiddick showed up, with enough of a sense of humor to not only
 4laugh along with us, but also endorse our fan-fiction to the point of
 5judging winners, it was feel-good thread of the year for me.  Combined
 6with Melodywise introducing me to beekeeping, and the revelation of
 7something called a ``neti pot'', I felt like I'd gotten way more than my
 8ten bucks out of my Something Awful Forums account.  I coughed up
 9another ten for a platinum upgrade (which allows a user to send and
10recieve private messages), and began working on putting together an
11actual book.
12
13Thanks to all the goons who wrote the stories in the first place, and
14then went through the hassle of going to a new thread to accept the
15license terms.
16
17Thanks to AYBraham for giving the idea momentum in the form of a
18contest.
19
20Thanks to BirdZerk!\ for helping me with some of the initial conversion
21from the forum to LaTeX.
22
23Thanks to Hamelin for suggesting I list the authors who still needed to
24assign permission, and for telling me about Mediafire, so I could host
25draft copies without letting a thousand goons know who I really am.
26
27Thanks to benitocereno for reminding me about the "any similarities"
28disclaimer, which probably has no legal weight whatsoever, but looks
29cool.
30
31Thanks to Ridgley\_Fan for submitting {\em three} git patches, one of
32which contained the cool idea of putting a Beretta image on the winning
33stories somewhere.
34
35Thanks to Discount\_Bees, for doing so freaking much artwork (8 pieces!)
36
37Thanks to Part of Everything, for doing a lot of artwork too (6 pieces),
38and PMing me so much that I was unable to forget that real people were
39involved with this effort.
40
41Thanks to rinski for the foreword, just when I was feeling burned out.
42
43Last but most, thanks to Ben Biddick for inspiring 117 crappy authors
44and one crappy bookmaker to come together for a great thing.  Terrible,
45yes; but great.
46
47--- cruft, July 2009
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