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Drabble Contest Vote
2006-12-08, 7:26 AM #1
Voting Closes in 72 hours. Vote for the corresponding number. I will reveal who wrote each drabble after the voting ends.

1.[Quote=Number One]
"My Workday Woes and the Worst Gift I Have Received In My Life: A Relational Study of the Woes of Everyman in His Daytime Workplace and Their Effects on the Quality of Workday Gifts Given and Received On Various Special Occasions – Including Birthdays, Retirement Parties, Office Warming Ceremonies, and Christmas Celebrations – With Special Emphasis On the Positive Correlation Between the Average Number of Woes Per Day (WPD) and the Average Quality of Gifts Received As Rated On the Gift Quality Distribution and the Negative Correlation Between the Average Quality of Gifts Given and Average Happiness in Daytime Workers."

Work sucks.[/quote]



2.[Quote=Number Two]
Our Hero was flying high as the grueling twelve hour day was coming to an end. There was just one cage left to clean: declaw cat...too easy! She placed the purring beast down on the floor and-- Blood was flew everywhere: white walls, Our Hero, puppies. Everywhere. Catching the animal proved to be a task of great skill. By the end of the ordeal, the room and Our Hero were red. Aid had finally come to bandage the feet of the feline. Going home never felt so good. Our Hero still wore those pants, unwashed, well into the week.[/quote]

3.[Quote=Number Three]
The alarm tolls again. Another day, another dollar. I roll from bed, into the bathroom. I brush away the morning breath and run a comb through my hair. Nothing new happens on the freeway. I arrive at work, and punch in. Twenty-seven games of solitaire later, I punch out and head for the car. It's been a day like any other. The drive home is equally uneventful. A few hours of television, and I'm back in bed, a book a few inches from my eyes. I'll fall asleep again without turning out the lights. I'm another day closer to death.[/quote]

4.[Quote=Number Four]
He came. He saw. He gave me cancer. That is how I met, loved, and left Henry Gelford. We met at a Star Trek convention; I was a Klingon Warlord’s daughter, he a Ferengi merchant. Our chance meeting quickly led to friendship, which quickly gave way to a passionate affair. I told him about my job as a desk clerk at a pornography studio, he told me about his work with nuclear reactors. Our love soon blossomed to its steamy summit as I lay draped, orgasming, inside his plant’s nuclear reactor, thinking “Do they really turn these off at night?”[/quote]


Everyone Vote!
2006-12-08, 7:34 AM #2
3 for me, though they are all decent.
Was cheated out of lions by happydud
Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2006-12-08, 7:44 AM #3
It's a toss up between 3 and 4.

And It's pretty obvious who wrote 4 due to the type of humour. :P
nope.
2006-12-08, 8:08 AM #4
Originally posted by Baconfish:
It's a toss up between 3 and 4.

And It's pretty obvious who wrote 4 due to the type of humour. :P


And the fact that he posted it in the original drabble post.

(Steven you should keep these going, their good, just need more participation)
Was cheated out of lions by happydud
Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2006-12-08, 8:59 AM #5
I'd like to do more. We need a prize for winners, though. Contests without prizes are dumb. I'm going to talk to mb about making it better.
2006-12-08, 10:00 AM #6
I say the winner should get to cyber with JG for a night.
Was cheated out of lions by happydud
Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2006-12-08, 10:04 AM #7
1 loses because of the caps.
2 loses because it's not very coherent.
4 loses because it's apparently fiction.

3 is funny and none of the above things. 3 wins.
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2006-12-08, 10:56 AM #8
Freelancer- aren't they supposed to be fiction...?
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2006-12-08, 1:43 PM #9
Nobody ever said it had to have actually happened.
nope.
2006-12-08, 1:48 PM #10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drabble

Quote:
A Drabble is an extremely short work of fiction with exactly one hundred words...


The winner will be allowed to select the theme for the next contest, as well as another... 'perk'. The next contest will start in the next or two. We don't want to get burned out on these too quickly, although they are relatively easy to write.
2006-12-11, 11:28 AM #11
Well, number 4 wins.

Number 4 was written by Happydud.
Number 3 was written by Sarn Cadrill.
Number 2 was written by quedsadilla red.
Number 1 was written by smocc.

Apparently, there wasn't much interest in the contest. No more!
2006-12-11, 11:35 AM #12
You might as well run at least one more. More people might get involved with a different topic.
2006-12-11, 1:08 PM #13
I would participate if another contest were conducted.
2006-12-11, 1:21 PM #14
I think:

A) The time should be shorter. Two days, max. Same with voting. A week (or two weeks?) for 100 words is way too much. If you had a shorter time, you could have more topics and it would generate more interest.
B) What does the winner get!?
C) There is no C.
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2006-12-11, 2:03 PM #15
The winner gets to choose the next topic (we'll discuss it, dudly), and... SOMETHING ELSE..

I'll let you know what it is.

Also, on other note, this is your option: you can be a judge for the next contest, but you won't be allowed to participate, or I can do all the work again, and not get to show off my awesome writing skills (or lack thereof).

Next contest begins: whenever dud chooses a topic and tells me what it is IN PM (or shortly thereafter). It ends 72 hours after I make the next contest post. Sound better?
2006-12-11, 2:58 PM #16
OK, the winner of this contest, one Mr. Happ Y. Dud, gets to choose a custom title for me, as will the winner of each susbequent contest. The title will be changed after each contest to one chosen by the new winner, or until the contests end and I get tired of the current title. The winner will also get to have their own custom title personalize to whatever they so choose.

I am frightened.
2006-12-11, 3:31 PM #17
Pick a more interesting topic.
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2006-12-11, 3:35 PM #18
It's up to Dudly, but I might offer a few suggestions to him, the next time I see him.
2006-12-11, 5:15 PM #19
The topic is up to dud?

It'll be something like "Why Jewish Vikings made of glass like to search in long grass for their long lost Pandemonium while riding a sparrow."
nope.
2006-12-11, 9:05 PM #20
Don't need a drabble for that. The answer is clearly "Because."
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2006-12-12, 2:16 AM #21
Guys, I got votes! Awesome!
Ban Jin!
Nobody really needs work when you have awesome. - xhuxus
2006-12-12, 9:51 AM #22
I voted for you SMOCC!

(instead of me, go figure)
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

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2006-12-12, 9:25 PM #23
You did the right thing! I voted for happydud instead of myself.

But dud voted for himself! He has no honor!
Ban Jin!
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