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The Compulsive Thread-Derail Attempt Landfill
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come in, all you jesters
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and where there
is cray there is haiku
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8. Rewrite until it stops being a horrible incoherent mess (in other people's opinion, because what do I know). -- RichardGarfinkle |
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Fear the Death Ray
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Is it time for LOLCatz?
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I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself. -- Agatha Christie ![]() ![]() The Pacific Between • A Bunch of Stories (2006 IPPY Award) WIP: Beyond the Banyan Tree - draft 9, 125,000 words Home Page | Blog | Reviews |
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teh evil broad
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yes.
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come in, all you jesters
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It is NEVER time for LOLcatz.
... oh, awright. ken we has lolcatz plz, okthxbai (OW. OW. OW. I think I'm getting an ulcer.)
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8. Rewrite until it stops being a horrible incoherent mess (in other people's opinion, because what do I know). -- RichardGarfinkle |
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rockin the suburbs
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Was it me? That kind of sounds like me. I've kept all my snide comments to rep points so far in this thread.
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Ribbed for your pleasure.
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Me <<< Paying it forward.
KTC, Your frown is so shiny and lovely today Jo, nice gloves Bart, you're so cute. Como te va con el Espanol (with a thingy over the n) Inky, ![]() Roger, your head is so very very round, and your software ROCKS! Yes, I went all caps, peeps, how sophomoric of me, eh? You don't know how hard it was to refrain from spelling it 'rawks' cuz I know KTC loves that ![]() Potato in a hat, have some chateau spam, honey...in a sammitch, with gubment cheez Unique, you're such an original See, look, my head didn't burst into flames or nothin'
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“You write how you write. If I were a calculating careerist, I would not be a novelist.” Justin Cronin "I'd rather shoot myself in the face than have another discussion about the difference between one category of literature and another." Colson Whitehead facebook.com/jes.bosworth |
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Thanks, Voyager.
Nice people bring out the nice in me. Other people .. not so much.
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Eat right, exercise, die anyway. |
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Moderation in All Things
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We have GOT to plug that information leak.
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Darth Vader is my co-pilot
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Hint: the moderator is the guy in the caterpiller, trying to figure how to repair this wreck.
-Derek
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Absolute Visions Anthology of Speculative Fiction 19 tales of magic, wonder and science. |
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Moderation in All Things
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Er...that would be Take It Outside. What do we do when a TIO thread gets derailed?
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We need a, "Take it Outsider" board?
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“You write how you write. If I were a calculating careerist, I would not be a novelist.” Justin Cronin "I'd rather shoot myself in the face than have another discussion about the difference between one category of literature and another." Colson Whitehead facebook.com/jes.bosworth |
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Come on you stranger, you legend,
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Maybe it's like Tourette's syndrome.
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"Dude, sucking at something is the first step toward being sort of good at something." --Adventure Time |
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Man, you peeps got way too much freetime on your hands.
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Ribbed for your pleasure.
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You can go to the naughty chair now.
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“You write how you write. If I were a calculating careerist, I would not be a novelist.” Justin Cronin "I'd rather shoot myself in the face than have another discussion about the difference between one category of literature and another." Colson Whitehead facebook.com/jes.bosworth |
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teh evil broad
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I don't think you can, Jason.
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Fear the Death Ray
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KTC is trying to make a point.
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I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself. -- Agatha Christie ![]() ![]() The Pacific Between • A Bunch of Stories (2006 IPPY Award) WIP: Beyond the Banyan Tree - draft 9, 125,000 words Home Page | Blog | Reviews |
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"No. YOU move."
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Candies Samples? (And anyone who GETS this will get immediate and profuse reps from me ...)
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The little red x at the top of the screen.
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“You write how you write. If I were a calculating careerist, I would not be a novelist.” Justin Cronin "I'd rather shoot myself in the face than have another discussion about the difference between one category of literature and another." Colson Whitehead facebook.com/jes.bosworth |
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teh evil broad
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I don't think we have an official one but people seem to know where it is anyway.
WTF? It's like a cheater code on a video game - they searched the net found the abbxybba code that creates that *tone*. |
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there's no more room in hell, boys
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perhaps i should alert a mod? |
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"No. YOU move."
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Is the One Ring resting in the center of this post somewhere? Are we in Rivendell?
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The grad students did it
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I take back my nomination. You are unable to distinguish between what is said and how it is said. Now the issue is nudging toward censorship. Those who are looking for a flounce may well get one soon.
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Phoenix (Historical - 2006)First Place, 2007 Arizona Authors Assoc. Book Awards Whiskey Creek Press Something Bad (Horror - 2007) Medallion Press. Silver Medal, 2008 IPPY awards, Horror category Rollicking Anthropomorphisms (Poetry Collection - 2008) 2009 EPPIE Award Finalist Whiskey Creek Press Agnes Hahn (Psychological Suspense 2008) Medallion Press Silver Medal, 2009 IPPY awards, Horror category Imola (Sequel to Agnes Hahn 2009) - Medallion Press 3.99 (Psychological Suspense/Mystery 2012) - Musa |
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"No. YOU move."
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I will take it! I will take it! I will take the One Ring to Mordor!
Someone had to say it, right? :-) |
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rockin the suburbs
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I thought you were the Orlando Bloom of the group, JST.
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