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Spiffor is offline Spiffor
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Nov 2001
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Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Bah, you oaf, mine was an entry.

6/10
Not as stylish as Boris' before you, but just as intriguing and original. What kind of story could begin by that opening sentence?

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The cockroach realized the horrible truth: he had metamorphosised overnight into George W. Bush.

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You should at least spell "punctuation" correctly when criticizing people over it.

This is the winner so far. 8/10

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wow, i guess mine didn't even get a ranking? lol

Spiffor is offline Spiffor
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The cockroach realized the horrible truth: he had metamorphosised overnight into George W. Bush.

ROFL!

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Oct 2002
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Bridges I knew, but I had never thought to look for the bait at the end of the hook.

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This isn't the YMCA is it?

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The End.

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As She saw eternity sprawled before her, the entire contents of Everything entered Her mind, but the one thought to stay in Her head was: "Why are there so many mistakes?".

EDIT: I have a penchant for unnescesary words

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"He was lost: spinning in an incomprehensible world that resisted his attempts to find something that made sense and eluded him when he tried to impose a logical framework upon it."

I came up with this last night when trying to explain what my boss is like.

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Merrily skip we forth towards doom and beyond.

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Aug 2003
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"When Chancellor Bismarck finally woke up after a night of heavy drinking, he realized that maybe it wasn't such a good idea to give Catherine of the Russians the secret to Satellites, and a Uranium resource, for her 'service' the previous night.

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And even as the chipmunck screamed it realized that it was far too late, for the barrel of flamming monkeys was already upon Mrs. Huggleflim.

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Dec 1999
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Got spare money?

As I looked in the mirror at my sagging love handles, my thoughts drift back to Jean-Claude and that Bordeaux dumpster.

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Feb 2001
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"It would have been all right if only you had let me yiff the otter."

(probably gets a 2/10 - furry fanfic )

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"It's another Beautiful day in Lake Wobegon."


It's been to long:

Where all the men are strong, all the women beautiful, and all the children above average...

Love that show

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And even as the chipmunck screamed it realized that it was far too late, for the barrel of flamming monkeys was already upon Mrs. Huggleflim.


Now that is workable Had it been a squirrel instead of a chipmunk you'd of gotten Boshko's vote too... This is my pick 10/10

My contribution:

Threadjack, what threadjack!

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"Jack died one fine day in August."

"I too was in love once -- long ago, when I was still young and naive enough to believe in love..."

"Pathological dependency cycles occur in state-space planners when control rules cannot efficiently determine a maximal matching for a bipartite operator/binding graph."

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"When things cease to be dangerous, it loses it's demand, as was apparent in our case"

"Fiction writers can't be trusted. They make things up."

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"When Chancellor Bismarck finally woke up after a night of heavy drinking, he realized that maybe it wasn't such a good idea to give Catherine of the Russians the secret to Satellites, and a Uranium resource, for her 'service' the previous night.


I think my opening sentence may have potential on the Civ3 stories forum...

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quote:
Originally posted by Japher


It's been to long:

Where all the men are strong, all the women beautiful, and all the children above average...

Love that show



I was wondering when someone would catch.


"Lonestar knew that due to all the religious Christians were disappearing, it could mean only one thing; Thor had come for vengence."


(Oh yeah, I'm going to Hell)

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"It would have been all right if only you had let me yiff the otter."

hmmmmmm... I actually understand that sentence. John Waters (yes, that John Waters) taught me to speak Furry many years ago... and there shall be absolutely no otter yiffing here at Apolyton !

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Mar 2000
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It was a normal day.

 
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