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Steven OliverMember for 23 years 11 months
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Alrighty, I haven’t seen one of these around here, so I figured that I would get one started.

You are limited to 15 words and must start where the last word left off.

It was a dark and stormy night, and Walters copy of P3 had just ......

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    Gwen Blair ·
    printed the hit list of targets to exterminate Planners who refused to convert to P3eV5!
  2. 0
    Larry Blankenship ·
    "My God!" he thought. "So the doomsday prophesies of Nostraplunus are finally coming to pass!"
  3. 0
    Philip Jonker ·
    Dammit was Nostradamus. And try P3fix, or maybe dream about Enterprise PM or a nightmare
  4. 0
    Larry Blankenship ·
    T’was Nostraplannus, Nostradamus’ evil twin! The author of The Necroplanicon, the Book of Dead Projects.
  5. 0
    Philip Jonker ·
    Are we building a pyramid, EPS, recurrent nightmares, where are the dreams, like immortality and
  6. 0
    Christian Adrian De Vera ·
    so he tried to look back agian at the list and realize that the printout was crap!
  7. 0
    Joanne Foster ·
    but his manager found the list and then told his manager...
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    Gwen Blair ·
    Steven,
    Methinks our learned freinds are unaware of "It was a dark and story night" contests.

    A little light reading for enlightenment.

    Take a look at the winners of this year’s Bulwer-Lytton Contest - which
    is also known as the "It Was A Dark and Stormy Night Contest". The
    contest is sponsored by the English Department at San Jose State
    University in California. The rule is simple: Write only the first line
    of a bad novel.

    1. "As a scientist, Throckmorton knew that if he were ever to break wind
    in the echo chamber, he would never hear the end of it."

    2. "Just beyond the Narrows, the river widens."

    3. "With a curvaceous figure that Venus would have envied, a tanned,
    unblemished oval face framed with lustrous thick brown hair, deep
    azure-blue eyes fringed with long black lashes, perfect teeth that vied
    for competition, and a small straight nose, Marilee had a beauty that
    defied description."

    4. "Andre, a simple peasant, had only one thing on his mind as he crept
    along the East wall: ’Andre creep... Andre creep... Andre creep.’"

    5. "Although Sarah had an abnormal fear of mice, it did not keep her
    from eking out a living at a local pet store."

    6. "Stanley looked quite bored and somewhat detached, but then penguins
    often do."

    7. "Like an over-ripe beefsteak tomato rimmed with cottage cheese, the
    corpulent remains of Santa Claus lay dead on the hotel floor."

    8. "Mike Hardware was the kind of private eye who didn’t know the
    meaning of the word ’fear’; a man who could laugh in the face of danger
    and spit in the eye of death -- in short, a moron with suicidal
    tendencies."

    AND THE WINNER IS ...

    "The sun oozed over the horizon, shoved aside darkness, crept along the
    greensward, and, with sickly fingers, pushed through the castle window,
    revealing the pillaged princess, hand at throat, crown asunder, gaping
    in frenzied horror at the sated, sodden amphibian lying beside her,
    disbelieving the magnitude of the frog’s deception, screaming madly,
    ’You lied!’"
  9. 0
    Sen Moc ·
    Been awaken! And he said: What did you do f---? Go home, it’s late!

    Next day, Poor Walter was k- - - - - in the a- - !
  10. 0
    Se de Leon ·
    Hi Gwen,

    I’ll continue with your second post.

    but P3e V5 is not the issue but the earlier version of P3e.....
  11. 0
    Gwen Blair ·
    Steven,

    I give up and will return to bashing my head against the wall.
  12. 0
    Larry Blankenship ·
    Gwen, I tried!

    Larry
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    Forum Guest ·
    You guys are the best !!

    Nostraplannus indeed. I am in the PP Admin hot seat for the day, and spat and choked my coffee all over the keyboard when I read it. Terrific.
  14. 0
    Larry Blankenship ·
    I have some experience writing absolute drivel, so if with your permission, I’ll start posting a daily addition to this tale of terror. I will, however, need an exemption to the 15 word limit. My imagination runs rather wild some days.

    Larry
  15. 0
    Steven Oliver ·
    Sorry, you must maintain the 15 word limit
  16. 0
    Larry Blankenship ·
    Can I post more than once per day?
  17. 0
    Steven Oliver ·
    Nothing in the rules to say you cant
  18. 0
    Larry Blankenship ·
    Methinks I’ll just start my own thread, just to be ornery...:)
  19. 0
    Gwen Blair ·
    Steven

    Ahem nothing in the original rules to limit speelmongers to 15 words. Would appreciate if you could send me this years winners. They now have a various sections and there was a cracker about Snowhite & the 7 Dwarfs.

    Lets see what the evening in the Europe/Africa/Stateside trawls up. BG and PJ surely will have some crackers.

    I also think a thread on site names, tales,legends etc would be good. Par example
    Sullom Voe referred to as Sullom Woe
    Melkoya as Melkotrazz.
  20. 0
    Philip Jonker ·
    Can’t you guys focus? All this this jabbering, in between the story, not a good habit for planners. How about one about an undo button? Seems to be a favourite topic around here?
  21. 0
    Philip Jonker ·
    Moodley, was walking his dog, it left a packet, oh for an undo button!
  22. 0
    Sen Moc ·
    Daily distraction indeed!

    Here’s an icebreaker for all you guys,

    > > The European Commission has just announced an
    > > agreement whereby English will be the official
    > > language of the European Union rather than German,
    > > which was the other possibility.
    > >
    > > As part of the negotiations, the British Government
    > > conceded that English spelling had some room for
    > > improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan
    > > that would become known as "Euro-English".
    > >
    > > In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c".
    > > Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump
    > > with joy.
    > >
    > > The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This
    > > should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have
    > > one less letter.
    > >
    > > There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the
    > > sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be
    > > replaced with "f". This will make words like
    > > fotograf 20% shorter.
    > >
    > > In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new
    > > spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where
    > > more komplikated changes are possible.
    > >
    > > Gove rnments will enkourage the removal of double
    > > letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate
    > > speling.
    > >
    > > Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent
    > > "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go
    > > away.
    > >
    > > By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such
    > > as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".
    > >
    > > During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd
    > > from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer,
    > > ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
    > >
    > > Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun
    > > vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a
    > > united urop vil finali kum tru.

    (Just a joke; no offense meant.)

    Cheers!
  23. 0
    Sukumaran Subaramaniyan ·
    Fantastic Sen Moc.
    Language transition from English to German.
    We shall call it Euro-Gerlish (german+english).

    Cheers!!!

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