262:3 VALID
Bryan Donlan
>
> Once upon a time, I was walking through the woods, keeping a running
> list of all things I saw (note that running is indeed a metaphor)
> (also note that I'll be mentioning at least one thing I saw on this
> walk through the rest of my correspondences (correspondence in this
> case is a metaphor for valid rule)) when my dear mother announced that
> we were out of our minds and she didn't know what to do. It had been
> a hard three years, since my father was lost in the war against the
> Agorans. Oh. "hard" time is another metaphor, while "lost in the war"
> is an idiom, I think.
>
> On that walk I saw at least three kinds of factories, one that made
> cheese, another ____ and a third beer.
> You can plainly see how well these three go together, and so I stopped
> in each and proceeded to bring something home from each factory to my
> dear mother (note the plainly here, which is plainly (another use of
> plainly in a metaphorical sense) a metaphor). I HAVE to begin telling
> you the recipe next time we speak, or indeed it will not be a valid
> correspondence (once again a metaphor as mentioned above), I'm not
> sure if you'll ___ it, but my mother and I certainly did.
>
> P.S. I'm not sure if I've told you this before, but I have a slight
> fetish for embeded parentheses, and no corespondence(another
> metaphorical use) from me would be complete without at least one.
262:3 VALID
---Completed version of 262:2---
Hello. My name is Jack. I am known now as the giant-slayer, and tour
the kingdom giving motivational speeches at elementary schools, but
that was not always so. I am
contractually obligated, at this point, to state that veering from the
first person narrative voice is highly discouragaed to the point that
even pretending to attempt to take on another point of view may lead
to an invalid rule. For that matter any incidences of metaphor should
be noted, such as the word "veering" that I just said, as part of the
new royal plain speech initiative regulations concerning motivational
speakers.
Once upon a time, I was walking through the woods, keeping a running
list of all things I saw (note that running is indeed a metaphor)
(also note that I'll be mentioning at least one thing I saw on this
walk through the rest of my correspondences (correspondence in this
case is a metaphor for valid rule)) when my dear mother announced that
we were out of our minds and she didn't know what to do. It had been
a hard three years, since my father was lost in the war against the
Agorans. Oh. "hard" time is another metaphor, while "lost in the war"
is an idiom, I think.
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262:2 style points:
+1 connects with prior round
+1 strains diplomatic relations
-0.25 Constantly pointing out (and 'pointing' here is, indeed, a
metaphor) metaphors is likely to get annoying
TOTAL: +1.75
Eligibility and style summary:
Quazie eligible until July 7, 2008, at 20:58 UTC; style +1.25
David Nicol until Jun 25, 2008, at 06:53 UTC; style +1.75
Other players no longer eligible.
David Nicol
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Quazie <quazi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Once upon a time, I was walking through the woods, keeping a running
> > list of all things I saw (note that running is indeed a metaphor)
> > (also note that I'll be mentioning at least one thing I saw on this
> > walk through the rest of my correspondences (correspondence in this
> > case is a metaphor for valid rule)) when my dear mother announced that
> > we were out of our minds and she didn't know what to do. It had been
> > a hard three years, since my father was lost in the war against the
> > Agorans. Oh. "hard" time is another metaphor, while "lost in the war"
> > is an idiom, I think.
> >
> > On that walk I saw at least three kinds of factories, one that made
>
> > cheese, another ____ and a third beer.
>
> > You can plainly see how well these three go together, and so I stopped
> > in each and proceeded to bring something home from each factory to my
> > dear mother (note the plainly here, which is plainly (another use of
> > plainly in a metaphorical sense) a metaphor). I HAVE to begin telling
> > you the recipe next time we speak, or indeed it will not be a valid
> > correspondence (once again a metaphor as mentioned above), I'm not
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