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#952 Aug 16 2010 at 8:30 AM Rating: Decent
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page 20 get ?
#953 Aug 16 2010 at 8:34 AM Rating: Good
Tarub wrote:
page 20 get ?


No one likes a Tarub showoff.
#954 Aug 16 2010 at 8:36 AM Rating: Good
Kavekk the Ludicrous wrote:

Biggles wrote:
I'd wager, though, that you're just a @#%^ing idiot. Read what the cow wrote: "If you take five paragraphs to say what really can be said in a few sentences, then you're not communicating." That's not complicated, and it's familiar to anyone who has ever taken a writing class. Effective writers don't waste their words, they economize them.


Haha, 'writing class'.


Never attended? It shows, little dude. You lack refinement.

#955 Aug 16 2010 at 8:38 AM Rating: Decent
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Tarub wrote:
page 20 get ?


Yes you did friend, and they should be glad you didn't wait another page and make an "IT'S OVER one THOUSAND!!!" joke.



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As long as I'm not fat, I can live with myself.
#956 Aug 16 2010 at 8:40 AM Rating: Good
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Like the Blago trial this thread is verdictulous.






Edited, Aug 16th 2010 4:40pm by Elinda
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#957 Aug 16 2010 at 8:41 AM Rating: Good
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Tarub wrote:
Tarub wrote:
page 20 get ?


Yes you did friend, and they should be glad you didn't wait another page and make an "IT'S OVER one THOUSAND!!!" joke.



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No one likes a Tarub showoff.


As long as I'm not fat, I can live with myself.
Most people never bother to find out how they look from behind.
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#958 Aug 16 2010 at 8:43 AM Rating: Excellent
Elinda wrote:
Tarub wrote:
Tarub wrote:
page 20 get ?


Yes you did friend, and they should be glad you didn't wait another page and make an "IT'S OVER one THOUSAND!!!" joke.



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No one likes a Tarub showoff.


As long as I'm not fat, I can live with myself.
Most people never bother to find out how they look from behind.


Yeah, but he's a gay. He squats over a mirror before he goes out at night to ensure he's applied his glitter and rhinestones properly.
#959 Aug 16 2010 at 8:58 AM Rating: Decent
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Kavekk the Ludicrous wrote:

Biggles wrote:
I'd wager, though, that you're just a @#%^ing idiot. Read what the cow wrote: "If you take five paragraphs to say what really can be said in a few sentences, then you're not communicating." That's not complicated, and it's familiar to anyone who has ever taken a writing class. Effective writers don't waste their words, they economize them.


Haha, 'writing class'.


Never attended? It shows, little dude. You lack refinement.


Heh, of course I do.

I expect you do those exercises of theirs as well, yeah? A drabble about sexual assault from the perspective of the rapist's poodle. Face it, Biggles, you're just another failure who's always wanted to write a novel but who's so scared of doing it they hide in the periphery. And when you do find the courage to try and write something properly you just sit there, a picture of impotence, fidgeting away the hours until you've wasted enough time to satisfy your pretense. Then you clock out and give up, as you always knew you would.

Incidentally, you're not actually very good with words.
#960 Aug 16 2010 at 9:16 AM Rating: Good
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Kavekk the Ludicrous wrote:
Barkingturtle wrote:
Kavekk the Ludicrous wrote:

Biggles wrote:
I'd wager, though, that you're just a @#%^ing idiot. Read what the cow wrote: "If you take five paragraphs to say what really can be said in a few sentences, then you're not communicating." That's not complicated, and it's familiar to anyone who has ever taken a writing class. Effective writers don't waste their words, they economize them.


Haha, 'writing class'.


Never attended? It shows, little dude. You lack refinement.


Heh, of course I do.

I expect you do those exercises of theirs as well, yeah? A drabble about sexual assault from the perspective of the rapist's poodle. Face it, Biggles, you're just another failure who's always wanted to write a novel but who's so scared of doing it they hide in the periphery. And when you do find the courage to try and write something properly you just sit there, a picture of impotence, fidgeting away the hours until you've wasted enough time to satisfy your pretense. Then you clock out and give up, as you always knew you would.

Incidentally, you're not actually very good with words.

I dunno, he has us bottomfags nailed to a T, minus the part where you dab on skin bleach with a Q-tip so it stays pink back there.
#961 Aug 16 2010 at 9:23 AM Rating: Decent
Tarub wrote:
Kavekk the Ludicrous wrote:
Barkingturtle wrote:
Kavekk the Ludicrous wrote:

Biggles wrote:
I'd wager, though, that you're just a @#%^ing idiot. Read what the cow wrote: "If you take five paragraphs to say what really can be said in a few sentences, then you're not communicating." That's not complicated, and it's familiar to anyone who has ever taken a writing class. Effective writers don't waste their words, they economize them.


Haha, 'writing class'.


Never attended? It shows, little dude. You lack refinement.


Heh, of course I do.

I expect you do those exercises of theirs as well, yeah? A drabble about sexual assault from the perspective of the rapist's poodle. Face it, Biggles, you're just another failure who's always wanted to write a novel but who's so scared of doing it they hide in the periphery. And when you do find the courage to try and write something properly you just sit there, a picture of impotence, fidgeting away the hours until you've wasted enough time to satisfy your pretense. Then you clock out and give up, as you always knew you would.

Incidentally, you're not actually very good with words.

I dunno, he has us bottomfags nailed to a T, minus the part where you dab on skin bleach with a Q-tip so it stays pink back there.


I'm not sure what Biggles' penchant for amateur crucifixion has to do with anything.
#962 Aug 16 2010 at 9:32 AM Rating: Excellent
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#963 Aug 16 2010 at 9:34 AM Rating: Good
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Kavekk the Ludicrous wrote:

I'm not sure what Biggles' penchant for amateur crucifixion has to do with anything.


Because it gives me a point to relate to him on.

I mean now, we're both hung like this



#964 Aug 16 2010 at 10:03 AM Rating: Good
Actually, I only took a few writing classes in college. One creative, one technical, one on essay composition. The one I took in high school doesn't count, as it was filler.

You learn to write well by reading. Reading everything and anything you can get your mitts on. I start out my day by devouring several hundred blog posts on my Google Reader (most of them science or writing industry blogs.) You learn to write by reading books. You do not learn to write by reading forum posts, as even the good writers make typos, minor grammatical issues, and small errors in logic. It's unpolished writing; we don't bother to edit it beyond fixing any glaring spelling or word usage errors that the browser missed.

If you want to learn to write better, then you read read read read read.
#965 Aug 16 2010 at 10:31 AM Rating: Decent
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What, like you've never given an animal a silly name?
#966 Aug 16 2010 at 1:14 PM Rating: Good
My work here is done. This thread is now about my *****. It can be locked.
#967 Aug 16 2010 at 1:28 PM Rating: Excellent
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If you want to learn to write better, then you read read read read read.


Naww, you just drink a lot of absinthe, scribble your fevered delusions and send it to a proofreader.
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#968 Aug 16 2010 at 1:44 PM Rating: Good
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If you want to learn to write better, then you read read read read read.


Naww, you just drink a lot of absinthe, scribble your fevered delusions and send it to a proofreader.


Don't blame her, it is a pretty common mantra for sale. Same with "Writers Write" and the whole alcoholism thing. They're truisms, rightfully taken for granted.



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Kavekk the Ludicrous wrote:
Face it, Biggles, you're just another failure who's always wanted to write a novel but who's so scared of doing it they hide in the periphery. And when you do find the courage to try and write something properly you just sit there, a picture of impotence, fidgeting away the hours until you've wasted enough time to satisfy your pretense. Then you clock out and give up, as you always knew you would.


I missed this, and as a devout narcissist I couldn't pass the opportunity to brag that I've got 19,202 words written in the past ten days. Here's what ought to be a familiar-feeling snippet from this morning, to indulge myself further:


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The men left town and made a camp. Penrose slumped glossy-eyed against a log while Junior heated water for the broth. During the day the boil beneath the Lawman's ******* felt to have ruptured, and worse than pain it just itched and felt stuck to the inside of his trousers. There was shame in his mind at even acknowledging the sensation, and he held fast in his resolve not to scratch at it. Toward sundown he'd begun to experience tingling tendrils from about the perimeter of his ****, and he feared some fresh protrusion malingered, it too aching for fingering. Once supper was cooked, Sterling took his portion and left the fireside. Junior sat sipping his broth and gnawing on bread and talking to the darkness:
#969 Aug 16 2010 at 4:37 PM Rating: Default
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Kavekk the Ludicrous wrote:


Biggles wrote:
I'd wager, though, that you're just a @#%^ing idiot. Read what the cow wrote: "If you take five paragraphs to say what really can be said in a few sentences, then you're not communicating." That's not complicated, and it's familiar to anyone who has ever taken a writing class. Effective writers don't waste their words, they economize them.


Haha, 'writing class'.

It's the way you tell 'em, man.

Edited, Aug 16th 2010 2:33pm by Kavekk


Yes, maybe I should take a writing class as well. Maybe I'll learn about the 5 paragraph essay!!

Edited, Aug 17th 2010 12:40am by Almalieque
#970 Aug 16 2010 at 4:56 PM Rating: Good
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Almalieque wrote:
Kavekk the Ludicrous wrote:


Biggles wrote:
I'd wager, though, that you're just a @#%^ing idiot. Read what the cow wrote: "If you take five paragraphs to say what really can be said in a few sentences, then you're not communicating." That's not complicated, and it's familiar to anyone who has ever taken a writing class. Effective writers don't waste their words, they economize them.


Haha, 'writing class'.

It's the way you tell 'em, man.

Edited, Aug 16th 2010 2:33pm by Kavekk


Yes, maybe I should take a writing class as well. Maybe I'll learn about the 5 paragraph essay!!

Edited, Aug 17th 2010 12:40am by Almalieque
I think you might want some ESL classes
#971Almalieque, Posted: Aug 16 2010 at 5:22 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Clever you!! How long did it take for you to think of that? Get yourself a cookie. /clap
#972 Aug 16 2010 at 5:32 PM Rating: Good
Someone needs to force Alma into a gay incestuous marriage with his toaster.
#973 Aug 16 2010 at 6:07 PM Rating: Default
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Someone needs to force Alma into a gay incestuous marriage with his toaster.


That's not EQUAL rights to my smart phone!!
#974 Aug 16 2010 at 7:32 PM Rating: Good
The 9th circuit court of appeals has granted a stay, pending the appeal.

Legalese is here.

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Appellants’ motion for a stay of the district court’s order of August 4, 2010 pending appeal is GRANTED. The court sua sponte orders that this appeal be expedited pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 2. The provisions of Ninth Circuit Rule 31-2.2(a) (pertaining to grants of time extensions) shall not apply to this appeal. This appeal shall be calendared during the week of December 6, 2010, at The James R. Browning Courthouse in San Francisco, California.

The previously established briefing schedule is vacated. The opening brief is now due September 17, 2010. The answering brief is due October 18, 2010. The reply brief is due November 1, 2010. In addition to any issues appellants wish to raise on appeal, appellants are directed to include in their opening brief a discussion of why this appeal should not be dismissed for lack of Article III standing. See Arizonans For Official English v. Arizona, 520 U.S. 43, 66 (1997).


They are doing this on a VERY accelerated schedule. The prop 8 YES side has exactly one month (sep 17th) to submit a formal appeal. The prop 8 NOWTF side has one month after that (oct 18th) to file their counter against the appeal. The 9th circuit court will determine the merits of the case by November 1st, and proceed to appeals trial from that point.

However, if the Prop 8 YES side cannot prove the merits of the case and their legal standing to file the appeal in this first round, then the appeals court will uphold Judge Walker's decision and the court will decline to review the case at all. The anti-gay-marriage crowd needs to hire some better lawyers for this round. (Unfortunately, the best in the business were already hired by the pro-gay-marriage crowd, and they're not available as they're itching to go for round 2.)
#975 Aug 16 2010 at 8:08 PM Rating: Good
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Honestly, given the lawyers representing No on 8 and the strength of Walker's decision, I'd almost rather this case went all the way to the supreme court than another one.
#976 Aug 16 2010 at 8:17 PM Rating: Excellent
I'm actually inclined to agree. The conservative Supremes would have to twist themselves into absolute legal pretzels and destroy any remaining credibility they have to seriously try to uphold such a discriminatory law. They'll still do it, of course, but the swing vote (Kennedy) is likely to accept Walker's ruling.

The fact that the 9th circuit is basically dropping everything to tackle this by November indicates they want the SCOTUS to handle it while it's hot as well.
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