Discussion -- June 2011 Challenge

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Tnakyou again to everyone who put me on their short (or short,short) lists , and to TJ for the accolade; it hopefully shows that being a member of this forum is having a positive effect on the quality of my entries to the Challenge.
 
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For those of us who've done with voting here, there's always June's photographic competition...
 
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Thanks, No One! And now you've been brought up before the beak I hereby exonerate you from all insinuations of fowl play -- a poultry recompense for your vote, undoubtedly, but I'm no coxcomb.
 
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A very different, and difficult, challenge this month, and yet so many were able to not only take it in their stride but produce amusing and/or moving entries. It was difficult to choose between them, but here are my final choices listed, by date within category:



Honourable Mentions:
  • Best Served Cold by TheEndIsNigh
  • If Only... by Boneman
  • An Iffy ballad to over-nourishment by Brev
  • When the World Was New And All by Grimbear
Runners Up:
  • The Emetic Danger of Official Health Advice (or: Cookery Columns) by HareBrain
  • East is East... by Pyan
  • How The Tiger Lost His Crown by mosaix
Winner:
  • The Hungry General by Paranoid Marvin.
 
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Blimey! I nip away for a few days and then come back and PANIC STATIONS! Vote time is almost up. I’d mixed up my days. So a re-read and a re-re-read led me to vote for...

MOSAIX!​
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Grimbear came a close second. Honourable mentions to The Judge, Pyan and Teresa Edgerton.

Like Mosaix, my biggest Kipling influence was the Just So Stories. I loved them as a kid, so honed my vote in on the ones that brought about that same warm feeling AND told a fresh story AND got the “Nourishment” theme across. Again, there were many entries of staggering quality on display and this month really was a “challenge” so kudos to everyone.

It was wonderful to get a more mentions (thank you TheDustyZebra & Boneman) and I was flabbergasted to get a couple of votes! Brev and The Judge, I tip my imaginary hat to you. Now I just need to think about getting a real hat...
 
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I only have one small quible about the entries: I didn't see one about the work of arable farmers. You know, one in the style of a Just Sow story....
 
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No, actual Pigs. Pigs who like arable farming, but also enjoy embroidery in their spare time, sewing away with their piggy little trotters...

Those Just so the sow can sow (and sew) Stories.
The little cheeky so-and-so's...
 
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Well, if there had been three of those, I would have written one, too. And sow on and sew forth.
 
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Couldn't go past mosaix this month. Honourable mentions to digs and Teresa - despite the latter's being in verse, which generally turns me away. But I appreciated the step into a distinctly different genre amidst all these Kiplingesque stories - a tactic I adopted and embraced myself, though not nearly so successfully...
 
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And our winner is:
mosaix!!


Congratulations on an impressive victory.
 
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First, Oxman and Cul thanks for the votes and thanks to others for the mentions.

When I first saw the challenge Chris presented I have to admit I was stunned. I was convinced I wasn't going to enter - I hadn't got a clue what I was going to do. But, over the next day or two a couple of ideas presented themselves and I was finally able to knock something into shape.

I have to say I've been very impressed with what people came up with, especially the poetry - just how do you guys do it?

Anyway thanks, Chris. As someone has said, the Challenge should be about stretching ourselves and it certainly did that. :)
 
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Nice job Mosaix congratulations. Look forward to seeing what you come up with for next months challenge. Though I may just observe on that one :)
 
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Congrats mosaix! I said when I saw that story that it was going to be hard to beat, and I was right!

Can't wait to see what the next Challenge will be. And we also have a new 300-word one coming, yay!
 
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Keri said:
Nice job Mosaix congratulations. Look forward to seeing what you come up with for next months challenge. Though I may just observe on that one :)
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I hope this is not because you think it is too hard. As time goes on we all get better at this.

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Congratulations Mosaix

That was a cracker jack of a story!!

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Well done, Mosaix!

 
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A truly challenging and rewarding month, well done to everyone who took part, and a round of 'earty congratulations to Mosaix, a worvvy winner.

I could keep going, singing his praises until his ears blush, but I figure He'd see right through a blatant attempt for something easier next month... ;)
 
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Well done Mosaix, a truly impressive entry, and a comfortable win. :)

Thanks to Parson and to my mystery voter, I was very pleased to get a couple of votes, I know my entry wasn't much of a story, but I do have a confession, my entry was part of a poem that I wrote a long time ago, I tried to write a poem in Kipling's style around the idea that British culture had been nourished by immigration from other countries, specifically those that were part of the British empire, but I didn't feel I acomplished that, I thought Pyan's entry was very good and a similar idea to mine, but based on cuisine.

I did write a poem, but it was a complete rip-off of Destroyers at Jutland, it went

Encouragers of Britain

‘Have you flown the Union Jack?’
Not this year.
‘Our Britishness is under attack!’
Not by these peoples or this year.

‘Are you proud of this great nation?’
Not this year,
Nor any year,
It sinned and brought ruination
For many people through many years.

‘Could you replace cultural histories lost?’
Not this year,
Nor any year,
We plagued their lands then became the host
And welcomed all people this and every year.


And as I said my actual entry (which garnered 2 votes somehow) was part of a poem I had written many years ago, called Helplessness. I had to cut some of it out as it went over 75 words, but for those of you who may wonder, here it is.


Helplessness

Would you live on bread and water
If all the world had enough to eat?
Would you dwell in small cramped quarters
If all the world could be housed for sleep?
Would you place yourself before a bully
To stop him from bullying another?
Would you suffer more everyday
If it lessened the suffering of others?

I didn’t and I haven’t and I don’t everyday
I feel little and embarrassed and awfully ashamed
What kind of life is this?
Where we share such helplessness


And thanks to Chris for such a challenging challenge. :)
 
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Congratulations, mosaix!
 
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