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[NaughtyGirl2012]

So awhile back I read "Babysitting Elsie" and loved it. I can't find it on the site and was wondering if anyone knew what happened to it or where I can find it now.

 

[lovecraft68]

So awhile back I read "Babysitting Elsie" and loved it. I can't find it on the site and was wondering if anyone knew what happened to it or where I can find it now.

This is just a guess, but at some point Lit made a rule that the word "babysitter" could not be used in a title most likely because of the underage connotation.

You can write stories about them, but can't use it in the title. So this story may have been pulled. If its old and the author is no longer "active" here they may not be aware of it.

 

[nakdsub]

Wow LC68...

I was not aware of that. Sometimes Lit rules are a little over the top.

 

[PennLady]

This is just a guess, but at some point Lit made a rule that the word "babysitter" could not be used in a title most likely because of the underage connotation.

You can write stories about them, but can't use it in the title. So this story may have been pulled. If its old and the author is no longer "active" here they may not be aware of it.

LC, I think you're misinformed. I just did a search on Lit for stories with "babysitter" in the title and got 202 hits. The most recent was this past Tuesday, June 5.

I think it's far more likely that this story was pulled by the author. A search for "babysitting Elsie" in the title turned up nothing.

 

[Darkniciad]

"Baby" and any variation are only banned as keywords, not part of titles.

 

[NaughtyGirl2012]

Does anyone know what author wrote it?

 

[PennLady]

Does anyone know what author wrote it?

No, sorry.

 

[sethp]

My story "The Busty Babysitter" is still up and being read quite a lot!

 

[Vioan]

I know the feeling. I was heartbroken when Baby Fish Mouth was deleted...

 

[lovecraft68]

"Baby" and any variation are only banned as keywords, not part of titles.

Ahhh, okay I stand corrected, especially since I had thought that you were the one who told me that. I just confused the "keyword and title."

But, well for the record what is the difference?

 

[Vioan]

Ahhh, okay I stand corrected, especially since I had thought that you were the one who told me that. I just confused the "keyword and title."

But, well for the record what is the difference?

A keyword implies that that term plays a big role in the story. A title can be a metaphor or a quote, or anything you can come up with.

 

[Tyro999]

When I was a babysittee in the late 1940s/early 1950s, all of my babysitters were 14-16 y.o. Oak Park HS (IL) students.

Since I've hit Lit, all of the babysitters I run across in stories here are 18-20something college students picking up extra college money.

[sarcasm Gee, how things have changed over 50/60 years. /sarcasm]

 

[CarlusMagnus]

So awhile back I read "Babysitting Elsie" and loved it. I can't find it on the site and was wondering if anyone knew what happened to it or where I can find it now.

Are you absolutely sure that the name in the title was "Elsie"? If not, you might try searching, as PL did, and see if any of the titles you come up with are for the story you're looking for.

Whether or not, the moral of this story seems to be that you should download stories you like. It's pretty easy to capture a story manually. Open a page of the story, and then in the broswer window, select the text you want to capture, copy it, and paste it into a text editor window (or M$ Word). Do it for each page of the story, in order, and paste, in order, into the same text editor window. Then save under an appropriate title.

If you can do some programming, this can be automated, but it requires that you be able to use some unix and that your program be able to do some very simple parsing of the HTML pages. I've written such a program, but it's bug-ridden because I didn't spend enough time on it, and it requires a very expensive (over $1K) package to run it. But that package is one I use all the time and am pretty decent at. (perl would probably be better than what I used—but I'd need to spend months coming up to speed before I could use it for this. And I'd get even further behind on the stories I'm trying to write.)

 

[PennLady]

Are you absolutely sure that the name in the title was "Elsie"? If not, you might try searching, as PL did, and see if any of the titles you come up with are for the story you're looking for.

Whether or not, the moral of this story seems to be that you should download stories you like. It's pretty easy to capture a story manually. Open a page of the story, and then in the broswer window, select the text you want to capture, copy it, and paste it into a text editor window (or M$ Word). Do it for each page of the story, in order, and paste, in order, into the same text editor window. Then save under an appropriate title.

You could also -- and I don't mean to be promoting another site -- see if the story is up at StoriesOnline.net. A lot of authors here post over there. SOL offers various ways of dl'ing a story such as text, HTML, zip and epub.