User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/2nd Anniversary Special, featuring my first userboxes/@comment-2021069-20120213035922/@comment-1874924-20120213041952

No, I made up the Staci quote, which is why I ascribed it to a "deleted scene". The joke is that Staci's parents "invented" one-joke characters when her mother bore her.

The picture on Harold's userbox is from the cliff diving episode, when he racked himself upon hitting the water.

As for the length of FYE (which, as you've undoubtedly noticed, I'm happy to plug at every opportunity because it's a great story) I'd say it's verbiage well spent. Although your style is perhaps not as description-heavy as mine, it's still pretty darn descriptive, and a high word count is the price of that.

As for your progress on LTDI, I eagerly await your feedback, and don't forget the polls that every chapter (so far) has on the talk page. (Some of the guessing games still have open spots as well, if you're into that sort of thing.) I can't guarantee that every future chapter will have polls, but the cliffhanger structure does lend itself well to that sort of thing.