DISCUSSION -- The 75 word Challenge, April 2011

[Perpetual Man]

The story I want to tell seems to be rather elusive, I can do it, just not in 75 words, not even close. (I might save it, it might come in useful for a 300 word challenge somewhere down the line....)

However I worked out another and after reading it to Mrs P. have been informed, after she nearly cried, that if I did not post and use it. She would kill me... so...

 

[alchemist]

I can make my wife cry pretty easily too, and she often responds by saying she'll kill me. All this without needing to write anything.

 

[The Judge]

What? You mean none of us gets a chance to catch up to him?

Look on it as this way we all have a chance of beating him, even people who only had one or two entries last year because they came to the Challenge late. (And if he leaps into the lead again, we'll have to find a blasted tortoise to race against him.)

 

[nixie]

Not sure if I'll manage this month. I've got an inclining but not sure if I'm talented enough to make it work.

 

[Ursa major]

Next thing you know, TJ, there'll be calls for a solution with something of the slap dash about it....

 

[Mouse]

OK, ladies. Hands up who considers writing love poetry to be in the Mr Romantic Top Ten Things To Make Her Swoon...!

*raises hand*

My on-off told me he'd marry me if I could learn to cook and pole dance. I told him I'd only cook on special occasions.

That's as romantic as my life gets! (Though a guy who looked like a pirate once wrote me a limerick.)

Best tell people worried about the efffect of HB's underwear to put a sock in it....

Dirty bear!

On topic... I like Taly's story!

 

[The Judge]

Oh, ho, nixie... Not sure if we can let that one pass...

 

[Ursa major]

Dirty bear!

<--- Looks innocent (although not snow white, for obvious reasons).

*raises hand*

My on-off told me he'd marry me if I could learn to cook and pole dance. I told him I'd only cook on special occasions.

You could have added that you would be prepared to pole dance, and in public, but only on May Day (and, perhaps, Whitsun).

 

[Arkose]

However I worked out another and after reading it to Mrs P. have been informed, after she nearly cried, that if I did not post and use it. She would kill me... so...

Now I can't wait for this moving story. You set the expectation high.

 

[The Judge]

Read it and see, Arkose!

 

[Arkose]

Read it and see, Arkose!

ah, yes. I read alchemist's story thinking it was the only one I haven't read.

I have a story I want to run by "the powers," to make sure I don't cross the line. Should I wait until later? I am not sure if I will use it yet but if it crosses the line, I would like to remove it from my list.

 

[The Judge]

Send it across as soon as you want, Arkose.

 

[Hex]

However I worked out another and after reading it to Mrs P. have been informed, after she nearly cried, that if I did not post and use it. She would kill me... so...

Awww. It nearly made me cry and I am all cynical and annoyed about the royal wedding (I hate commemorative mugs).

 

[Brev]

Just putting the finishing touches to mine and I have a question??

"Re-living" or "Reliving"? (as in remembering) And if the former, is that two words? Can find examples of both of the net, and dont want to be disqualified on a technicality...

 

[The Judge]

It looks ugly as "reliving", certainly, but "relive" (no hyphen) is one word according to my ODE, so yes, it's fine.

 

[Brev]

It looks ugly as "reliving", certainly, but "relive" (no hyphen) is one word according to my ODE, so yes, it's fine.

Thankyou, (or is that thank-you)....

 

[The Judge]

Neither! Two separate words there.

 

[Gary Compton]

Good grief. Not romantic. *joins Teresa in muttering, though for a different reason*

OK, ladies. Hands up who considers writing love poetry to be in the Mr Romantic Top Ten Things To Make Her Swoon...!



New year, new tally. Everyone starts at zero again.

I once wrote to my beloved:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Get the beers in love
And you have one too

 

[TheDustyZebra]

What? You mean none of us gets a chance to catch up to him?

I don't know, I'm pretty sure I have a much better chance of catching up to him if we all start over at zero for the new year!

I'm not sure if I'm waving my hand in the air or not. If someone wrote me a love poem, I would likely laugh and blow tea through my nose, and that's a painful thing. On the other hand, I do have a poem that someone wrote my mother once, and that one makes me cry. So, at least in theory or at one remove, love poems are a good thing.

Oh, and I would say reliving, but even if it were re-living, it still would not be two words because "re" isn't a word.

 

[Ursa major]

Re your last post, TDZ.

Re is a word (and not just a golden drop of sun...).



EDIT (for TDZ): Definition for re: re - Wiktionary.

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