DISCUSSION THREAD -- September 75 Word Challenge

[Parson]

T.E. I think the joke is on you. Karn posted precisely 24 minutes after this post. I might be quite gullible, but I don't believe that was an accident.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Oh, I knew that the time stamp on my post would give me away, Parson.

The joke was that Karn posted before anyone could place any bets.

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

When I originally posted, I really thought I'd have nothing. Three failed attempts simply due to word constraints. As I said, though, for some reason, seeing how others tackle the challenge seems to help.

 

[Perpetual Man]

Some great stories already, I am impressed.

I think everyone has got a reaction out of me - ranging from a chuckle, through to a groan (in a good way).

I did not know how people were going to react to the whole challenge this month and I'm pretty pleased to see in discussion it has been mostly positive, but I'm even more impressed with the output. I'm not surprised though because I knew the talent that congregates here and new that the challenge would be met with style and panache.

As for myself, I've got an image in my head. It popped in there while I was driving earlier today, but whether I can turn it into a 75 word story or not and make it funny is a different matter.

Which leads me to the comments this month.

How do you all feel about me doing them as normal? I'm just getting neurotic in my middle age but part of me feels that making comments on a challenge I set might not seem right...

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Garggggh perp, I worked so hard to get aliens,rayguns, dinosaurs and humour in and you say you might not comment. Nooooooooo? Who else is going to throw any light on it? So that's a yes from me plus what's a month without comments?

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I agree with springs: What's a month without comments?*


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*Disappointing, that's what.

 

[StilLearning]

Garggggh

Cheers Springs!* Sci-fi yes, dinosaur, yes. Don't know about funny, that's always eluded me, but I'm posting it before it consumes a whole month - and I end up submitting the first draft anyway.

*Read the entry and you'll see what I mean.

 

[Parson]

Please Comment Perp, I have an idea but not a story, nor a chuckle. We'll see how this goes.

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

I'll jump on the bandwagon-and hopefully not break it, as seems to be the custom when I jump on things -and I'll say I'd like comments, Perp. It's always good to see how others interpret what I put down, even if lately there's not really been any kind of hidden message in the unsung lyrics.

 

[HareBrain]

How do you all feel about me doing them as normal? I'm just getting neurotic in my middle age but part of me feels that making comments on a challenge I set might not seem right...

It might not be right if you set the challenge with a definite idea of what kind of entry would make the best answer, but from my own experience of setting them I'm sure that's not the case. So comment away, I say!

 

[Abernovo]

Please feel free to make comments, Perp. You may have set the challenge, but you know, I'm sure, that the results are unpredictable when we come at it from our own directions. All you did was put the suggestion in our heads. Which I suppose is similar to what HB said.

Anyway, I love reading your comments.

 

[Perpetual Man]

Okay then the comments is in....

 

[Hex]

Okay then the comments is in....

Yey! Good news

 

[Bowler1]

A big sigh of relief form me, I can do ray guns this month.

Time to do a bit of ground work first as the only lizard I know is the T-Rex and I'm sure he was not alone, he must have eaten something. It will do me good not to rush in for once...

 

[Ursa major]

There dinosaurs of all sorts, Bowler, including: literary/romantic (brontësaurus**), the well-educated ones (diplomasaurus), the ones resistant to heavy blows (hankylosaurus), and the ones that were originally mis-dated to the Silurian age and which policed the others (Diplodocus).







** Note that the brontosaurus is not a real dinosaur, but a mis-indentified apatosaurus.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Cheers Springs!*
*Read the entry and you'll see what I mean.

Very welcome.

A big sigh of relief form me, I can do ray guns this month.

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Ahem, if you look closely you'll see the Ray-o-maticTM is trademarked for this month.

 

[Ursa major]

But it's a Ray-o-matic, not a disruptor (or a phaser set to stun).

 

[Abernovo]

Careful Bowler, 'Apple' Springs is watching for trademark and patent violations.

 

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

By the way, a liquid-nitrogen-acid compound time machine is also trademarked this month.

 

[Ursa major]

..and then later trademarked some time in the Jurassic Period....