Round 3: The Peanut Gallery

Birol · Apr 27, 2005

Dang! Jenna's not giving them a moment's rest, is she? You have to start the entry with one of two sentences? That's, that's tough. I mean, outside of the contest, people do things like that all the time as a starting point or a jumping off point, but if it doesn't work later, you get to delete it. But that's not Jenna's rules.

Hmmm.... Wonder if the readers will get glossy-eyed reading the same opening sentences over and over and over again....

:Cheers: :popcorn:

JennaGlatzer · Apr 27, 2005

I will get progressively more evil. Just warning you.

Melina · Apr 27, 2005

Oooooh! Brilliant! I'm wondering now, will the required first sentence stifle the contestants, or inspire them? There were several of them who were struggling last week, trying to think of something to write. Will this make it easier? I can't wait to find out!

Melina

Birol · Apr 27, 2005

Get as evil as you want, Jenna. I'm not a contestant.

awatkins · Apr 27, 2005

Same here. Heh.

firehorse · Apr 27, 2005

Birol said:
Get as evil as you want, Jenna. I'm not a contestant.

Oh, you sadistic voyeurs! :whip:

firehorse · Apr 27, 2005

Geez, I didn't mean you had to stop

(I don't like killing anything, even threads)

astonwest · Apr 27, 2005

Next week, you'll have to start with the word 'Hominy' and finish in 100 words...just warning everyone up front...

firehorse · Apr 27, 2005

Would a recipe count?

reph · Apr 27, 2005

astonwest said:
Next week, you'll have to start with the word 'Hominy' and finish in 100 words.

Hominy words? A hundred, was it?

JennaGlatzer · Apr 27, 2005

Reph, I do hope you're saving these usage tips somewhere. They're excellent. And someday, we're going to have a real live grammar board for you to put 'em on.

reph · Apr 27, 2005

JennaGlatzer said:
Reph, I do hope you're saving these usage tips somewhere. They're excellent.

Thanks. I'm keeping a handwritten list.

astonwest · Apr 28, 2005

reph said:
Hominy words? A hundred, was it?

Yup, you've got it...
Although maybe we'll have to set it up like the Price is Right. The closest piece to 100 without going over...

"Hominy is the cause of all my problems..."

firehorse · Apr 28, 2005

astonwest said:
Although maybe we'll have to set it up like the Price is Right. The closest piece to 100 without going over...

But then we'd have to guess the correct word count, wouldn't we? :idea:

"953!"

What about a Jeopardy round, in which each contestant picks her own category (first come, first serve): "I'll take Paleontology for 800 words, Jenna. No, wait. I'd rather take Crypts of Note [famous musicians' interrment places] for 1200... What do you mean, Haskins already took that one?!"

Unique · Apr 28, 2005

astonwest said:
Next week, you'll have to start with the word 'Hominy' and finish in 100 words...just warning everyone up front...

"Hominy! Yum, yum. Nobody cooks hominy like my Aunt Martha." :Coffee:

If I don't get enough hominy in my diet, I get :Hammer:

. My friends don't like to be around me because I'm always :Headbang:

. Everyone needs to :popcorn:

hominy once in a while. Even if it does taste like:horse: .

S orry. Newbies shouldn't be :poke:

smarta$$, but I couldn't resist. :wag:

DJP · Apr 28, 2005

Finally, someone found somewhere to use the horse smilie! That brings to mind a story. When I was in Switzerland, my host mom cooked steak for supper. AFTER the meal was done, she fessed up that we'd eaten horse, imported from Canada, no less!:faint:

astonwest · Apr 28, 2005

firehorse said:
But then we'd have to guess the correct word count, wouldn't we? "953!"

And you would be DISQUALIFIED!
953 is way over 100...

SueB · Apr 28, 2005

astonwest said:
Next week, you'll have to start with the word 'Hominy' and finish in 100 words...just warning everyone up front...

Well, kiss my grits!

pepperlandgirl · Apr 28, 2005

I'm going out of town this weekend, and next week I'll be busy, so I went ahead and posted my entry tonight.

Birol · Apr 28, 2005

Yea! Something to read while I should be procrastinating. Err... Wait. That didn't come out quite right.

jdkiggins · Apr 28, 2005

Congrats! on posting first again Pepper. I was right behind you.

Woo Hoo. Party time.

BlueTexas · Apr 28, 2005

We're all speed queens this week, aren't we? I have mine written, just finished, but I need to let it sit a day to proofread. It should be up tomorrow night.

Congrats you two! Let's make the guys feel REALLY slow this week!

jdkiggins · Apr 29, 2005

Woo Hoo. Congrats! and good luck, Blue.
Three up, five to go!
:partyguy:

BlueTexas · Apr 29, 2005

I can't believe I was able to come up with something that fast. Last week I didn't even have a workable idea until the day before the deadline.

Good luck everyone!

pepperlandgirl · Apr 29, 2005

Eh, don't be freaked out by how quickly I write. See, unlike other people in this contest, I don't have a life. I don't have anything better to do with my time. No kids to worry about, my husband is more than able to keep himself entertained, I don't have a full time job, I skipped my classes this week...there'd be something wrong if I didn't get any writing done....

Round 3: The Peanut Gallery

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