Why I am not Cool (a continuing series)

[steepholm]

Every now and then LinkedIn sends me an email with a subject line of the form: "Sukie Brown's New Occupation, and Other Updates from your Network".

Without fail, my brain fools me momentarily into thinking it's the title of a book of short stories. And then I feel a stab of disappointment when I realise it's only real life.

Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Does never having heard of Sukie Brown make me less cool than you? Google is no help on this one, unless it means a woman who died in 1865 and is buried in the State of Maine.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

That was just a made-up name, prettier I hope than 'X', to stand for any of my LinkedIn contacts. Apologies if I put you to fruitless googling.

[mount-oregano.livejournal.com]

Challenge: let's write those stories.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

That's a neat idea. Sukie Brown has assumed quite a vivid shape in my imagination now, with her ornery eccentricities and dogged vivacity.

[sovay]

Sukie Brown has assumed quite a vivid shape in my imagination now, with her ornery eccentricities and dogged vivacity.

Definitely story.

[sovay]

"Sukie Brown's New Occupation, and Other Updates from your Network".

Enid Blyton for the age of social media.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Enid Blyton, with just a touch of Mrs Warren's Profession.