DISCUSSION THREAD -- November 75-word challenge

[Perpetual Man]

Ahhh, now that would be telling would't it.

They're not pink.

I mean if I did have some, they would not be pink

 

[Abernovo]

Perp, you do an incredible job, made even better by the fact that it's done out of the goodness of your heart. Don't beat yourself up too much.

On that other subject...altogether now:
'Hey, Mickey, you're so fine...'

 

[Perpetual Man]

Step, step, back, turn spin....

No, that's not me, I don't know where that came from

 

[Perpetual Man]

HB – Oh (or should that be double oh) MG. What can one say to something that is so full of puns that you have to check the writer and make sure it is not Ursa. Some great moments, brilliant word play – I particularly liked the Stallion Martin – and all the fun of a fire pooping horse. Combined with smoking potatoes (Was that Blackadder?) I needed to lie down after this one.

Johnny – This one is amusing, but perhaps more importantly it teaches a very, very important lesson, it does not matter how well you train, practice and ready yourself for a certain even, if one little aspect is overlooked it can lead to all kinds of disarray. Like the royal family being charcoalised by a dragon facing the wrong way.

TJ – And another alternative take on history. Loved the play on words – Drake becoming a dragon in fact rather than just name, but that was not all that recommends this tale. Loved the misused words, The Spanish Armadillo was priceless, but was beaten to the post by Singing the King os Spain’s Beard. Pure Genius.

 

[Phyrebrat]

Step, step, back, turn spin....

No, that's not me, I don't know where that came from

I'm okay with that as long as the Pom poms aren't buttons on the front of your suit... Clowns are scary. I'm a dance teacher so let me know if you want some choreography

pH

 

[Perpetual Man]

To be honest I have been promised a quick and speedy divorce, or being shot if I ever step foot on a dancefloor again. (Unless it a straight line to the bar.)

 

[Abernovo]

The judging's going to be horrendous, again. Some excellent stories.

A horse called 'Jenkin's Ear' and now a reference to the baby-eating bishop. HB, what did you unleash this month?

 

[James Coote]

That was tough, but good to see so many made it, and some interesting ideas too. I get the feeling the 'punk' part has more been taking the massive social and political changes of the time and running with them, rather than the technology of the period

 

[HareBrain]

Thanks for the review Perp -- and well-spotted on the plagiarism-I-mean-homage.

Looks like we might make the magic 42 after all, and I won't have to feel too guilty.

 

[Culhwch]

Didn't think I'd make it this month, and look at that - sixteen hours to spare!

My apologies if mine is similar to any that have gone before me - I've only read a couple from the very start and merely skimmed over the rest, but it would seem there's a few appearances by both a certain writer and a certain armada, along with a liberal dash of alternative history....

 

[Hex]

Anyway, they made me do it! *points randomly to Starbeast, Stormcrow, Alc, PM, Hex and Mouse*
pH

I just saw this (I was hiding, since I had no ideas). It's true. I made him do it.

 

[Perpetual Man]

MB – Once again a good solid story that seamlessly merges fantasy with reality, but what seemed all the ore special with this entry was the fact that the ‘new’ technology seemed to be in perfect keeping with the time. The actual payoff where we the Bishop apparently condemned for being in no way suitable for heaven was golden, but the fact he just blushed made it even better. (A line from the original Black Adder went through my head but I’m far too polite to post it here.)

James – Again another story that is in keeping in the time, but in this instance the dislocation from our reality comes from a place, rather than an invention. It conjures up quite an image, another world that is more fantasy, that allows the expansion to spread in startlingly different directions.

TDZ – A lesson in just what can go wrong with one simple time machine and the butterfly effect. It does not matter what damage you do, and how well you clean it up, one little ripple can spread and grow altering things the further away you get. Of course, in this insance it might just be putting things into place. At least as we know them...

Cul – A counter reality where the world is changed. A defeat becomes a victory and history as we know it is changed beyond all recognition. Even more spectacular is the effect it would have on the playwright, with no escape from the end, writing a play that no-one will know is the way to spend his final hours. But the true beauty is the acknowledgement of what is being lost. Tomorrows would have been better indeed.

Hope – Is Hope telling us something about herself that we do not know? Time travelling, powerful reincarnating flame bird? I loved the ending the way in getting punished sets her free. Not in the normal way of escaping pain and torment, but in allowing her to be literally reborn. A feel good story, well at least for me.

Hex – I get the feeling that I might be missing something in this one, but all the same I love the emotion it evokes. Lady Jane Grey sentenced to death, her lover destroyed, is given hope when she hears what might be celestial intervention. Unfortunately this time I get the feeling hope is not coming...

 

[Hex]

Thank you for the review, Perp. I love that you think I have hidden depths (sometimes people do -- I think it's the hat).

 

[Perpetual Man]

Thank you for the review, Perp. I love that you think I have hidden depths (sometimes people do -- I think it's the hat).

Are you saying that you don't?

Or is there a hidden message in that simple line. Something to do with a hat?

 

[Moonbat]

Thanks for the Review Perp. Your reviews are one of the perks of entering these comps.

I didn't know where the name for the Bishop came from, somewhere in my subconcious I thought, but seems like I was stealing it from Blackadder, I guess the memory of Percy, Queenie and Melchett go deeper than I thought.

 

[Luiglin]

Moonbat the good old Bishop of Bath and Wells is indeed from Blackadder II. For whatever reason it's a title that I've always found amusing

 

[Perpetual Man]

But he actually existed, Bath and Welles was quite important in it's day.

The version in Blackadder though was thoroughly detestable piece of work, and all the funnier for it.

 

[hopewrites]

Thanks for the kind words perp I had so many pencil sketch ideas that were impossible for me to flesh out, a wonderful challenge that made me take a... well to be honest a rambling lark more than a good look, at some history I never knew.

 

[Ursa major]

The November 2012 challenge is now closed to new entries. Here's the link to the Poll:

Poll-november-75-word-challenge
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[Jo Zebedee]

I thought I had decided until Ursa threw me a curvecball of a first line that made me giggle....

Which has left me a shortlist of

Stormcrow for the best use of an actual punk
Phyrebrat for an unforgettable final image....
Alc, for a beautifully spit- filled last line
Scotty, for hoots of laughter and the double joke of the uselessness of a charger anyway
Boneman, for a long groan
And ursa ( see above)

I am now tied between Scott and Ursa and will have to sleep on it... Darn the punmaster...