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Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: kaz (---.vic.bigpond.net.au)
Date: February 06, 2007 09:49PM

Cardboard is a much better meal, Daffy. Nicely done.

I'm all for recycled water; it's a very sensible way to go these days, but I just get sick of all the carry-on about it from people who seem to think they'll be drinking pure urine. Complete ignorance is no excuse.

Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: DisturbinglyAvidFfordeWorshipper (---.kpunet.net)
Date: February 07, 2007 02:47AM

*Little Sadie* drinks pure urine. She thinks it's delicious.

Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: February 07, 2007 08:08AM

Which is probably why Bad Lee Brown shot her.

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Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (---.dialup.dodo.com.au)
Date: February 07, 2007 01:51PM

*SNORT*

Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: DisturbinglyAvidFfordeWorshipper (---.kpunet.net)
Date: February 08, 2007 03:50AM

BK! Cocaine NOT FOR CATS!!!

Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: February 08, 2007 07:19AM

Hee hee!

Nah, it's probably just ground catnip.

Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (203.37.160.---)
Date: February 08, 2007 01:00PM

a) That's speciesism
b) I aint admittin' ta'nuthin.

Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: February 08, 2007 02:16PM

compy entry:

"The sound of a million daffodils dying made Amy look for her elephant."

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Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: DisturbinglyAvidFfordeWorshipper (---.kpunet.net)
Date: February 08, 2007 03:28PM

Right on!

Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: DisturbinglyAvidFfordeWorshipper (---.kpunet.net)
Date: February 13, 2007 05:53AM

Help me...

They seem to have withdrawn their e-mail address; I ain't got no money for no postij, or no fancy 'envy loapes'. Anybody know if one can still submit electronically?

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Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: February 13, 2007 09:50AM

Go to the rules page

[www.bulwer-lytton.com]

Click on the picture at the bottom.

(I have pm'ed the e-mail address to you: if they don't want it on a web page it would be rude of me to post it - even in a garbled form.)

Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: DisturbinglyAvidFfordeWorshipper (---.gci.net)
Date: February 13, 2007 03:59PM

Thank 'ee koindly. I was not smart enough to understand their instructions, which does not bode well for my contest entry :)

Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: February 14, 2007 06:29AM

Au contraire!

Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: February 23, 2007 06:04PM

Another potential entry:

"In his day, he had been the best geologist-impersonater on the entertainment circuit, but that was now little more than a fond memory."

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Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: Lymond (---.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com)
Date: February 24, 2007 01:31AM

is there something wrong with geologists?????!!! (pointed question)

Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: February 24, 2007 08:28AM

Try and imagine it as a stage act.

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Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: DisturbinglyAvidFfordeWorshipper (---.kpunet.net)
Date: February 28, 2007 04:44PM

[back again after excruciating week-long hiatus] Hahahahaha!

Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: March 08, 2007 01:42PM

He was a dark and stormy knight.

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Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: MartinB (155.232.128.---)
Date: March 08, 2007 07:22PM

Not Bulwer-Lytton, but another writing comp:


James Patrick Baen Memorial Contest

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Posted by: PrinzHilde (---.dip0.t-ipconnect.de)
Date: March 09, 2007 10:18AM

"Write a short story of no more than 8,000 words, that shows the near future (no more than about 50-60 years out) of manned space exploration in a positive, exciting and hopeful way." Ah yes. That definitely calls for some BL opening lines:

"On the first orbit that took the spaceship around Mars, Captain Starr could clearly make out the huge glass domes of the green houses, sparkling in the cold and distant sun."


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