I meant other regular profiles. No sex stuff.

In Portugal Hi5 is much more used than facebook, even though it isn't half as good. Here's a photo from my profile there:

I'm a big profile-whore. It used to be for fun and now that I have to do it for work I feel kinda bored by these sites.

So, Tom, are you the type of writer who twitches everytime someone gets a line wrong or are you okay with someone getting the gist?

A friend of mine wrote a parody song and gave it to another friend of mine to sing but added an extra syllable into a line making it difficult for her to sing. I suggested an alternate word that meant nearly the same thing but had one less syllable, she tried it out and was able to carry the note better. Everyone was pleased, then she sang it for the writer and the moment she came to that word his head just snapped up as if he had been slapped. Apparently the word that he had chosen had a triple meaning and without that one word his theme would not make sense. At the time I was vastly amused, but then people started changing my lines in a play and that put the boot on the other foot. Some of those changed lines were good changes, but a lot of the changes were changes to make changes (I wrote the spine, the setup for the jokes and the punchline only to have someone want to claim the laugh by changing the punchline).

An example: A cast member was supposed to suddenly notice me (the villain) and ask who the idiot in the cape was. I would then act insulted and make her sing for her life. She decided to change it when she got her prop, a studfinder, so now her line was; who's the stud in the cape? Not much of an insult so the first time I heard it it really tripped me up (changing the emotion of the scene and the character of the villain if I didn't react angrily). The second time I added the line; Excuse me? Are you calling me a two by four?' then I acted insulted and made her sing. It worked but the problem was the original joke was on her line and my reaction, and with the change I got the laugh from the reaction and the line. It didn't hurt the play but I felt like I was stealing a laugh.

Seeing your work put on by someone else, to see what changes they might have made, that seems very exciting but also really frightening. The baby flying on its own as it were. Hope it's as much fun for you as I'm sure Aesop's Foibles will be for the audience.

Excuse me; Tom French's Aesop's Foibles (that's the full title, right?).