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Stern Teacher. Splitter. Serial Tweaker.

Contributions:

• Pseudo Crisis
• Tin Man
• much of The 4400 description
• Lost description
• Death Tropes category
• Never Found the Body
• Portmanteau Couple Name
• SVU description
• Idiot of the Week
• Meet Cute description (after Gus created the entry)
• Conveniently Precise Translation
• Counter Zany (named by Dark Sasami)
• Do Not Attempt
• Expanded Universe
• No Tear Gift Wrap (eventually duplicated by Hollywood Giftwrap, which was better written)
• Skepticism Failure (named by Bluetooth The Pirate)
• seed for Older Than They Think (didn't write the entry)
• Unobtainium (but my part of it ended up being Not of This Earth)
• I Have Just One Thing To Say
• Zany Scheme Chicken (named by someone brilliant on the Counter Zany page)
• The Golden Girls description
• Stereo Fibbing
• Game Show Appearance
• Eliminated From The Race (because it was sitting there all red and I felt bad for it)
• Elimination Catchphrase
• The Bachelor/The Bachelorette description (in her worst ever outbreak of serial tweaking.)
• Last Name Basis
• Retroactive Recognition
• I Remember Because
• Once More With Volume (named by a very clever Unknown Troper)
• Literal Metaphor (named by lavalyte)
• Brick Joke
• Unrequited Love Switcheroo
• Significantly expanded the All My Children entry
• Plot Line Crossover
• Always a Bigger Fish
• Lost Character Sheet (which she cannot for her life figure out how to link here)
• Foiler Footage
• Space Whale Aesop (named by Snake712)
• Prenup Blowup (named by dockmarm)
• I Should Write a Book About This
• The Heavy
• Please Dump Me
• put together Geeky Glasses because it was languishing in YKTTW
• I Never
• Sweet Valley High description
• Growing Pains description
• Who's Your Daddy?
• Miami Vice description
• Melrose Place description
• The Apprentice description
• Rule of Pool
• Informed Attractiveness
• Through The Years Credits
• Diegetic Switch
• Ridiculously Loud Commercial
• Shilling The Wesley (named by Pawsplay, now replaced by Creator's Pet)
• Lock And Load (named by Unknown Troper)
• launched Synchronous Episodes from YKTTW Salvage
• Webisode
• launched Cuffs Off Rub Wrists due to YKTTW languishing
• General Hospital description
• One Life to Live description
• Temporal Sickness
• Unexpected Positive
• Birth Death Juxtaposition
• Dramatic Dislocation
• Shoot The Fuel Tank

Her favorite show (of EVER) is Lost. As of March 2009, the show has around 1,100 wicks. Idle Dandy estimates she's responsible for at least 750 of them.