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Posted by Dread Pendragon (Member # 7239) on :

This just proves how much quality work lies unnoticed in the great literary slushpiles. That Weston seems like quite the leader, he really has a handle on his men. [Dont Know]

Slush Pile

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

[ROFL]

OMG! That stuff is really bad!

Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :

T'was a dark and stormy night...

-Trevor

Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :

Ouch.

Posted by Dread Pendragon (Member # 7239) on :

This is one of my favorites:

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Instinctively, without thinking about it, he grabbed the woman and hugged her and then gave her breasts a couple of playful pinches. "Commander please," she said as she blushed and began yodeling.

I'm going home to talk to my wife about the yodeling stuff. I think I've been missing out on something. [Monkeys]

[ March 28, 2005, 06:03 PM: Message edited by: Dread Pendragon ]

Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :

I can't even get through them all I'm laughing so hard.

Remind me to use a few of these the next time I try to write a paper for class.

Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :

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"Corporeal, we've got to do our best to keep this from the public."
"I know sir, but its already too late."
What do you mean, the general inquired?
"While you were gone I let a curious private in on the secret."
"We've got to stop him."
By now he's long gone. Sorry sir."
"Oh no."

Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :

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I let a curious private in on the secret

Curious privates get many a soldier in trouble.

Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :

Particularily if someone has a firm but genital hold on their men.

[Big Grin]

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

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There was an "evil hint in the air," as a professional writer might put it.

Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :

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And he was damned attractive physically, too. When she looked at him she felt...unusual.

See, I just think this is funny.

Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :

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He was tall, thin and bony, like a cadaver trying to remember something, what was it? oh yes! I'm dead, I shouldn't be walking around like this.

Posted by Dread Pendragon (Member # 7239) on :

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The two naked bodies, which were lying beneath the satin sheets, were no longer the people whom everyone, who was anyone, knew whenever reality was in existance.

Boy, does that sum up my sex life! [Wall Bash]

Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :

Does it? I don't even know what that said!

Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :

I swear, that's how one of our programmers writes his emails.

Four different ideas rolled together in a marriage of incomprehensible gibberish.

-Trevor

Posted by Irami Osei-Frimpong (Member # 2229) on :

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He was tall, thin and bony, like a cadaver trying to remember something, what was it? oh yes! I'm dead, I shouldn't be walking around like this.

Let's give a little bit of credit. This is a funny joke that works. From my POV, the writer shot and scored. Say what you want about the rest of the piece, but this description is funny. Funny is hard to do, and I haven't seen any excerpt from a hatracker that's actually made me laugh, on this side or the "Writer's Workshop" side. An occasional post, but never a set joke pulled off with this kind of aplomb.

CT made a comment about a woodchiper, and TomD is clever, and mothertree places her finger on the funny everynow and then, but for the most part, these two lines are as good as anything I've read here, and a lot better than most.

[ March 29, 2005, 01:08 AM: Message edited by: Irami Osei-Frimpong ]