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Ghost horse.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Near Hershey, PA
Posts: 22,702
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A human hangs it there... And technically speaking, someone is in place to Id it and take it off down the line. Which they did. Also, Technically speaking, the hangers are trained to Id and NOT hang the rotten corpses. Yeah.
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Just a Fairy Princess
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Enchanted Forest and/or editing cave
Posts: 23,900
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There has been so much yelling in this office today
twice I've had people ask who or what is yelling who or what and once, a salesman asked if coworker was yelling at him, and I said, around a burbling laughter, "not this time, right now she's yelling at somebody else, consider yourself lucky." New office motto: $h!+ rolls downhill! F#$K Everybody! We're going to have it monogrammed on tshirts.
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Ghost horse.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Near Hershey, PA
Posts: 22,702
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Consider yourself lucky your shit only rolls. My office shit flies onto clothing or worse. And when not flying, it's still prevelant.
I'm still helping, right?
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word-slinger
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Not Really Here
Posts: 38,255
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If the universe implodes, it has nothing to do with my having finished my first new story in longer than I want to admit to, AND having subbed it to a contest.
Seriously. Not my fault.
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Ghost horse.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Near Hershey, PA
Posts: 22,702
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What's that distant roaring sound?
Luckily, the Cantina is it's own universe. We should be safe here.
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INTP
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: the everlasting universe of things
Posts: 3,770
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reverse the polarity of the multi-quote!
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Looking back at what I wrote on LJ that day, it's full of a lot of stuff that, in hindsight, I wish I could have told myself to not worry about (fear of having premature twins), not care so much about (my job, which was shortly to go full-tilt into suckville) and to let go of (my novel out on submission, which broke my heart -- there's a reason I haven't managed to send out another since.) Couldn't take a handful and stick 'em out in the company break room when she wasn't around? To get to the other side? Quote:
Even with them drilling into the concrete directly over my office, or the cockroaches in the basement big enough that I've mistaken them for mice on first glance more than once, or last week when apparently they bolloxed up the sewage system for the entire 1500 ACRES (6 sq km?) my workplace covers and had to email 30,000 people begging them not to flush any toilets for the next several hours, it's never been anywhere near that bad.
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zanzjan.net - twitter - facebook "It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much." -- Flannery O'Connor Last edited by zanzjan; 03-01-2012 at 04:07 AM. Reason: clarity |
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INTP
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: the everlasting universe of things
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Yay! Best of luck to it!
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zanzjan.net - twitter - facebook "It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much." -- Flannery O'Connor |
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Dreams of Dragons
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Colorado
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Just a Fairy Princess
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Enchanted Forest and/or editing cave
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INTP
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: the everlasting universe of things
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certainly maggots were one element of the vast and diverse bug demographic.
sorry. i should go write and stop saying icky things.
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zanzjan.net - twitter - facebook "It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much." -- Flannery O'Connor |
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The Alydar of Writers
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: sunny*snork*California
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No, no! Don't stop! The movie in my head is horrible, but beautiful at the same time. The intensity of the raining maggots...
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word-slinger
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Not Really Here
Posts: 38,255
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But it's fascinating. I also find it amazing that no one thought through the consequences of poisoning the pigeons.
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I got Kraken Treats, $1.50 a bag.
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Japan
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My basic rule for life= All people is stoopidz, until proven otherwise. My bar for an acceptable level of proof is actually quite low. Generally walking and breathing at the same time gets you pretty close. (All people in the cantina automatically qualify as not-stoopidz, cause this is a cool place to be and it takes smartz to know that.) |
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word-slinger
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Not Really Here
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Such as: don't stand too close to the pinata. And, if it seems like a stupid idea, it probably is. And, boys (and men) seem to have a preponderance of stupid. I'm hoping she retains that last lesson through the next ten years or so.
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I got Kraken Treats, $1.50 a bag.
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Japan
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The Alydar of Writers
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: sunny*snork*California
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Of course, now that they are only allowed to hunt paychecks...let's just say, they really, really like fast cars and roller coasters. |
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word-slinger
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Not Really Here
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Searching for Wonderland
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Appalachia
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EPIC! *tackle hug* we missed you! we figured your sister had killed you and buried you in the back yard. Not that that precluded your return (in handy z-person form). It just slowed you down.
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I got Kraken Treats, $1.50 a bag.
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Japan
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![]() Watching those video clips, I often find myself praying that they would neuter themselves....And I'm agnostic. |
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yes
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Wicked Little Town
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hey hey!
I tried to post yesterday, but I can't find my post? SO I guess it got ated somehow. TO recap: THANKS for the release-day love! And WOOOO SPACE PIRATE YES PLEASE morning.
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Pollyanna
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: not here, I swear
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Dudes, I was having breakfast while backreading.
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Undercover, sort of...
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Alaska
Posts: 7,973
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Do space pirates make you ill?
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I blink
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Aldershot, UK
Posts: 4,323
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Amazon UK have despatched my copy! It's approaching ever nearer, it's coming up the road, it's nearly at my letterbox...
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"The afterlife is like Aldershot." (from Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel) Works in progress: Partings and Greetings (contemporary 14+ YA novel) - Version 3.0 48,641 words and counting. Short fiction: "Mourning Becomes Me" - 9359 word draft, a likely novella in the making "Treffpunkt" - 2754 word draft Untitled story (collaboration with Fenika) - 1729 words and counting |
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