Discussing the Writing Challenges -- November and December 2010

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Napier: Thanks for the kind words.

On the spelling front I find the ABC Check icon at the top of the IE window is excelent for as a spell checker. My english is the envy of many a chinese instruction booklet translater and the spelling matches up too.
 
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Of course TEIN, if you used Firefox your spell checker would be on all the time, and it would only be your grammar that was rubbish.:p:D
 
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Can you lobotomise it? I quite like spell checkers telling me I've hit the "H" key too gently again (and they don't even manage tat, if the word I missed on was "that") but I hate them telling me "discombubulate" is not a verb.
 
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chrispenycate said:
Can you lobotomise it? I quite like spell checkers telling me I've hit the "H" key too gently again (and they don't even manage tat, if the word I missed on was "that") but I hate them telling me "discombubulate" is not a verb.
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Surely that should be "discombobulate" Chris? No wonder your spell checker objects. :p
 
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Yes, the font on Napier's was a challenge to the aging eye, so I've used my super powers to enlarge it (not something I would ordinarily do), so that our elderly members don't pass right over it when it comes time to vote.

The problem with that particular font, "Calibri," is that it goes from too small to rather big without a satisfactory intermediate stage.

Something that everyone should keep in mind is that there are people of all ages on these forums, and the default is set at a size that should be comfortable for everyone to read. If you choose a smaller font like Calibri or Garamond, then you have to go up one or two sizes to make it readable.

However, Napier, if you prefer the smaller size, I will change it back.
 
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Teresa Edgerton said:
Yes, the font on Napier's was a challenge to the aging eye, so I've used my super powers to enlarge it (not something I would ordinarily do), so that our elderly members don't pass right over it when it comes time to vote.

The problem with that particular font, "Calibri," is that it goes from too small to rather big without a satisfactory intermediate stage.

Something that everyone should keep in mind is that there are people of all ages on these forums, and the default is set at a size that should be comfortable for everyone to read. If you choose a smaller font like Calibri or Garamond, then you have to go up one or two sizes to make it readable.

However, Napier, if you prefer the smaller size, I will change it back.
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Ahhh Teresa Edgerton - Such power



I'm reminded of the line in Blazing Saddles where the towns folk chorus

"Ahhh Randolf Scott"
 
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It was the impulse of the moment. Undoubtedly I should have asked first.

Alas, the old are not always wise.
 
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That's got me thinking -- since the youngest forumites will probably be viewing the entries on their smart-phones with a resolution of 1600x1200 in a two-inch screen, an increase in font size might be useful for them, too.

And to widen the demographic appeal of my next entry, I'm going to make sure it includes both a nice cup of tea and lots of spiky purple hair.
 
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Yes, I think I'll start a sub-genre where all the machines are powered by the steam coming from the spouts of kettles being boiled for a lovely brew. Most of the machines, of course, will be dedicated to the manufacture of digestive biscuits. And giant cannon.
 
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Now that's sounds like a story one could read, learn and inwardly digest. :)


(And with the cannon, the reader might be blown away....)
 
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Aside from the fact that I've had to go and find chocolate biscuits to have with my coffee this morning, (thanks guys - weight loss stalled for this week methinks!:p) I'm just going to drag my little post back to the challenge.

Really enjoying the stories this month, and loving the spooky and macbre twists.

For me, I found it the hardest so far to get something together. Especially when Oxman beat me to pretty much the title (almost word perfect to mine) and the general gruesome idea I was having, (but did it so much better than I was ever going to get so a bow in your direction Good Sir!).

So I had to go and start again, and a random line from a song on the radio got me thinking - now here's one for you. I don't know the name of the song, or the group, but the line was:

'Calling occupants of interplanetary craft' or very similar.

Anyone?

And it's back to chocolate cravings and coffee for me. . . ;)
 
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My first thought for this month was to use All Hallows Eve but I couldn't quite get it. I then found myself pondering it after I posted. Wish now I'd have waited as I finally came up with something that I'll post once this month's challenge is over.
 
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Aside from the fact that I've had to go and find chocolate biscuits to have with my coffee this morning, (thanks guys - weight loss stalled for this week methinks!:p)
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Do you want us to talk about celery instead? Or does the suggestibility only work one way? ;)

So I had to go and start again, and a random line from a song on the radio got me thinking - now here's one for you. I don't know the name of the song, or the group, but the line was:

'Calling occupants of interplanetary craft' or very similar.

Anyone?
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The Carpenters. And there is a point in the song when the spacemen talk back, which sounds pretty sinister. Doesn't it go "We've been observing your earth, and one night we'll make a goulash with you" or something? I can see how it led to your story (which made me laugh btw).

And it's back to chocolate cravings and coffee for me. . . ;)
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Fudge's white chocolate and cranberry biscuits are especially good dunked in coffee. :)
 
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Yes, I think I'll start a sub-genre where all the machines are powered by the steam coming from the spouts of kettles being boiled for a lovely brew. Most of the machines, of course, will be dedicated to the manufacture of digestive biscuits. And giant cannon.
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Well let's hope you win this month - It'll be interesting - just look at the posts it's sparked already.


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Modern barbarism.

**In my fictional world, there will be a holy inquisition to make sure such practices are firmly stamped out. If I can fit it into the 75 words.
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LOL

But why only in the fictional world - Surely such heathens need to be put to death in any world.
 
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StormFeather said:
'Calling occupants of interplanetary craft' or very similar.

Anyone?

And it's back to chocolate cravings and coffee for me. . . ;)
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It was the carpenters, but they wanted to 'make a contact with you', not a goulash....

I'm still struggling for ideas, think I'll probably go right down to the wire this month.....
 
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surely if you go down to the wire you'll fall apart
 
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