Six word memoir

"Champ" <neal.DeleteThis@champ.org.uk> wrote in message
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> Heard this on R4 yesterday.
>
> Ernest Hemmingway apparently bet someone he could write a story using
> only six words, he subsequently submitted the following example:
>
<snip>
> All good stuff. So after the briefest consideration, here's mine:
>
> - Mostly in wrong order. Better perhaps?

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Champ wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:18:19 +0000, Higgins
> <the.best.names.are.gone.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Pip wrote:
>>> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:02:40 +0000, Higgins
>>> <the.best.names.are.gone.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Are we still on six words?
>>>>
>>>> You have Kwaks, they're evaporating fast.
>>>
>>> You can treat Kwaks with antibiotics.
>>>
>> I suspect Laura would not approve.
>
> Reminds me, Happy Birthday to her

It has been. I've just retrieved her and a bunch of her friends from The
Venue.
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Andy Bonwick wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:57:45 GMT, "platypus"
> <monotreme DeleteThis @blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Pip wrote:
>>> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:11:49 GMT, "Beav"
>>> <beavis.original DeleteThis @ntlwoxorld.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Got up, cashed gyro, got wasted.
>>>
>>> This is a Mad Max2 reference, right?
>>>
>>> In fact, this could almost be you:
>>> http://www.madmaxmovies.com/cars/madmax2/Gyrocopter/WreckedGyroAndBruce.JPG
>>
>> Looks like Bonwick at the Elefant.
>
> You cheeky bastard. I wasn't the one who did cartwheels down the hill
> pissing myself as I went.

Nor was I. I was the one who had to drag him down the hill.
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In the referenced article, "platypus" <monotreme.TakeThisOut@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
>Pip wrote:
>> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:11:49 GMT, "Beav"
>> <beavis.original.TakeThisOut@ntlwoxorld.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Got up, cashed gyro, got wasted.
>>
>> This is a Mad Max2 reference, right?
>>
>> In fact, this could almost be you:
>> http://www.madmaxmovies.com/cars/madmax2/Gyrocopter/WreckedGyroAndBruce.JPG
>
>Looks like Bonwick at the Elefant.

Whatever it was, it wasn't me.
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Champ wrote:
> Heard this on R4 yesterday.
>
> Ernest Hemmingway apparently bet someone he could write a story using
> only six words, he subsequently submitted the following example:
>
> - For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
>
> Based on this, a publisher has produced a book full of six word
> memoirs, called "Not quite what I was planning". Details here
> http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/
>
> Amusing examples include:
>
> - Met true love. Married someone else.
> - Wasn't born a redhead. Fixed that.
> - After Harvard, had baby with crackhead.
>
> All good stuff. So after the briefest consideration, here's mine:
>
> - Mostly in wrong order. Better perhaps?

Can it be done in French?

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On Feb 6, 4:22 pm, Champ <n... DeleteThis @champ.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 07:25:01 -0800 (PST), darsy <dar... DeleteThis @gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Champ wrote:
> >> Heard this on R4 yesterday.
>
> >> Ernest Hemmingway apparently bet someone he could write a story using
> >> only six words, he subsequently submitted the following example
>
> >not only is this a ginge (from 2006), but you were involved in the
> >original thread, YFC.
>
> Hmm. That thread was just about six word stories, not memoirs, which
> this thread specifically references, in conjunction with a new book.

same bloody six word story that was used the last time, though.

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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Ofnuts
<o.f.n.u.t.s.TakeThisOut@la.poste.net> typed
>Champ wrote:
>> Heard this on R4 yesterday.
>> Ernest Hemmingway apparently bet someone he could write a story
>>using
>> only six words, he subsequently submitted the following example:
>> - For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
>> Based on this, a publisher has produced a book full of six word
>> memoirs, called "Not quite what I was planning". Details here
>> http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/
>> Amusing examples include:
>> - Met true love. Married someone else.
>> - Wasn't born a redhead. Fixed that.
>> - After Harvard, had baby with crackhead.
>> All good stuff. So after the briefest consideration, here's mine:
>> - Mostly in wrong order. Better perhaps?
>
>Can it be done in French?

Non. Ce n'est pas possible. Désolé.

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My position was (and, to be honest, largely remains) one of complete ambiguity.
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:25:57 GMT, Cab <Rosbif RemoveThis @gmail.com> allegedly wrote:

> On Feb 6, 4:08 pm, Switters <m... RemoveThis @privacy.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:50:52 GMT, "Nige"
>>
>> <nigel.inceGETA... RemoveThis @btinternet.com> allegedly wrote:
>> > Life, a meeting, made hard
>>
>> Northern monkey in can't count shocker.
>
> Shandy drinking poofter makes mistake too.

Please enlighten me, my good man.
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:50:04 GMT, mark <mark RemoveThis @martem.demon.co.uk> allegedly
wrote:

>>>>- Mostly in wrong order. Better perhaps?
>>>
>>> School disco. Bunny Girl. Unending amusement.
>>>
>>> Hard thighs. Soft %^^œ$^"^. No carrier.
>>
>>Another premature ejaculation. What a bastard.
>>
>>
> Hang on! I haven't finished yet!

I put on my wizard's cloak.
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Champ <neal.DeleteThis@champ.org.uk> saying
something like:

>All good stuff. So after the briefest consideration, here's mine:
>
>- Mostly in wrong order. Better perhaps?

(I'm more intrigued by the original short story idea.)

Disaffected youths board Tube, wearing bombs.

Brazilian electrician flees, double-tap, thrice.

Both of those examples rely on the reader knowing about what they refer
to. It would be much more difficult to tell a complete story from
scratch in six words without outside references.
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"Pip" <gingerblokeNOSPAM.TakeThisOut@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:02:40 +0000, Higgins
> <the.best.names.are.gone.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Are we still on six words?
>>
>>You have Kwaks, they're evaporating fast.
>
> You can treat Kwaks with antibiotics.

Bought Kwak, gave it antibiotics. Dead.


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On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:20:33 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon
<grimly4REMOVE.RemoveThis@REMOVEgmail.com> wrote:

>We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
>drugs began to take hold. I remember Champ <neal.RemoveThis@champ.org.uk> saying
>something like:
>
>>All good stuff. So after the briefest consideration, here's mine:
>>
>>- Mostly in wrong order. Better perhaps?
>
>(I'm more intrigued by the original short story idea.)
>
>Disaffected youths board Tube, wearing bombs.
>
>Brazilian electrician flees, double-tap, thrice.
>
>Both of those examples rely on the reader knowing about what they refer
>to. It would be much more difficult to tell a complete story from
>scratch in six words without outside references.

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