Author Topic: The Bleachers  (Read 112964 times)

JR

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dogstoothe

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Re: The Bleachers
« Reply #2566 on: November 02, 2017, 02:33:38 am »
Robb, is that the writing thing, to see what you can do in one month?  I did that one year, jeepers, it was terrible.  Good way to get going at the typer though.

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Re: The Bleachers
« Reply #2567 on: November 02, 2017, 09:03:15 am »
Yes Dog, I've never done it before, but I'm trying to finish my 4th book before Christmas so I am giving it a try. 2500 words a day.

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« Reply #2568 on: November 03, 2017, 03:44:26 am »
That's a lot of words per day, Robb.  I never came close to that.  75,000 words is what? about three hundred pages.  Good Luck!  I had fun but ran out of steam about mid-month.

https://www.writingclasses.com/toolbox/tips-masters/elmore-leonard-10-rules-for-good-writing

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Re: The Bleachers
« Reply #2569 on: November 10, 2017, 08:48:07 am »
Some headline writer at CNN needs to be replaced: Scientists replace skin of "butterfly child"with rare genetic disease.

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Re: The Bleachers
« Reply #2570 on: November 10, 2017, 10:27:13 am »
"Ranger Dan and his big dog, Dick"

"Ranger Dan and his big dog dick"

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Re: The Bleachers
« Reply #2571 on: November 10, 2017, 02:04:52 pm »
Let's eat, Grandma!

Let's eat Grandma!

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Re: The Bleachers
« Reply #2572 on: November 10, 2017, 02:06:06 pm »
Let's eat, Grandma!

Let's eat Grandma!
Thief!

DelMarFan

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Re: The Bleachers
« Reply #2573 on: November 10, 2017, 02:16:06 pm »
Punctuation matters.

CurtOne

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Re: The Bleachers
« Reply #2574 on: November 10, 2017, 02:18:24 pm »
Quote from: CurtOne on September 22, 2017, 11:32:12 am

    Let's go eat Grandma.

Jacey, age old punctuation example.  A comma can save a life.  Let's go eat Grandma.  Or.  Let's go eat, Grandma.

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Re: The Bleachers
« Reply #2575 on: November 10, 2017, 04:05:03 pm »
Yeah, I knew it was familiar.  Just re-emphasizing the importance. 

A panda walks into a bar.  He orders a plate of bamboo from the bartender and settles in to have lunch.  Once he's finished, he pulls out a .357 Magnum, fires three shots into the air, and walks out.  Another guy at the bar gives a WTF look to the bartender, who shrugs and hands over a wildlife book opened to the page on pandas.  It says "eats, shoots and leaves."

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Re: The Bleachers
« Reply #2576 on: November 10, 2017, 04:20:43 pm »
Since imitation is the greatest form of flattery, you are forgiven.

Jes Beard

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Re: The Bleachers
« Reply #2577 on: November 10, 2017, 08:46:44 pm »
"Ranger Dan and his big dog, Dick"

"Ranger Dan and his big dog dick"

Somehow I don't think I could get away with using that in my 7th or 8th grade classes..... Though the prison inmates would have loved it when I taught there.

Jes Beard

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Re: The Bleachers
« Reply #2578 on: November 18, 2017, 10:15:05 pm »
So a judge agrees with me in the Penn State Piazza binge drinking suicide...

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/penn-state-frat-brothers-cleared-174600995.html

And had the frat boys not destroyed evidence, that might not have been the case.  http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/13/us/penn-state-fraternity-hazing-death/index.html

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« Reply #2579 on: November 19, 2017, 03:00:35 am »
I stopped caring about that story months ago Jes.

I still have no sympathy for him at all and if his family gets rich off of it I hope kharma gets the best of them in short order.

No one made him do what he did.

He willingly drank what he drank.

Thats called suicide not murder.