This is the place where all the FUN is...the mini-rules on this are listed below!
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Trash-talkin’
• Each team will have a clearly labeled “trash talk” thread. The Lushguins trash talk thread will be in the Austin Lounge. Trash talk is to be posted ONLY to the trash talk thread and should remain in good fun and within the bounds of good sportspersonship.
Our God-like powers
• Challenge Coordinators decide what “good sportspersonship” means.
• We reserve the right to remove folks from the competition for any violation of the rules and guidelines listed above.
• We are the final authority in any dispute or question about the rules.
Remember It’s All in Fun
• In the heat of competition, we sometimes forget it’s just a game. If you have a concern or question about anything regarding the competition, please contact your challenge coordinator before you post.
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2008: Winner!
Night Fire, complete at 91,367 words
Resistance, incomplete at 53,760 words
2009 Goal: 150k words, two complete novels
77,896 / 50,000
nov. 4, 2009 - 19 13
Good on you, Jesina!
Now to come up with some appropriate trash talk...
Ah, forget it. I love y'all too much to talk trash.
Except Fini. She's going down. ;)
(Edited to fix a name. Where I got the wrong one, I do not know...)
----------GO LUSHGUINS!
50,000 words is easy.
50,000 words that make sense? Much harder.
62,955 / 50,000
nov. 3, 2009 - 03 56
Nyaaah! Nyaaah! Booooooo, Texas! Pffffftttt! :-P
----------VERBA NON ACTA
52,120 / 50,000
nov. 3, 2009 - 06 36
Blue crabs, blue crabs are the best!
We'll stop those lushguins in their nest!
Ok, so I'm writing a novel, not poetry!
Go Maryland Go!
Lushguins - feel free to take a vacation. I know your poor beaks are tired after all the hunting and pecking at the keyboards ;-)
Lee (who was so tired she practically was typing with nose to keyboard last night)
----------Winner!: 2004 - String Fling, 2005 - Dark Matters, 2006 - Heaven's Homeless, 2007 - Against Nature, 2008 - Crack Bot
MLing for MD since 2004
67,335 / 50,000
nov. 4, 2009 - 08 08
Crabs ROCK, hon!!
(But good luck to y'all in Texas!)
The game is ON!
:)Joya
78,787 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 06 52
Well, I sure did slack off yesterday. I got stuck in a two-hour traffic jam on the way home from work and just could not get any writing done in the evening.
I saw on the news that the backup was a caused by an overturned truck on the highway. The driver said he had to swerve to avoid a flock of penguins that was crossing the road in front of him. One of the penguins was holding a "Lushguins Rock" sign. Coincidence? I think not.
I'm working from home today, so the commuting time will all go toward writing. But your feeble attempt at sabotage will not go unpunished. Better watch your feathery backs. The crabs are coming!
77,896 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 07 00
That made me giggle.
----------GO LUSHGUINS!
50,000 words is easy.
50,000 words that make sense? Much harder.
50,060 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 07 12
Excuse me? Who ordered the industrial barrel of melted butter?
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Lushguins Rock! \m/ (>.<) \m/
Nano2008: Here Under Stars
Nano2009: An Agent of Change (a biography in chaos)
78,787 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 07 36
I think you meant to post this comment to the Maine writers group. Butter is for lobsters, not Maryland crabs. We're partial to Old Bay seasoning here in the Old Line state.
But I do like to inject plenty of melted butter into the roasted penguin I fix for Thanksgiving. Without the butter, penguin just tastes like chicken.
50,540 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 09 52
I wouldn't even take the time to cook the little suckers - pet sharks (er, ones I can find in the SF Marina, lol) are a much easier way to dispose of the lil' buggers.
Plus, it's bloody and would leave a much more wonderful taste in my mouth <3
----------~::||Overconfidence||::~
Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you.
Yuu_tan.InsaneJournal.com
55,767 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 10 26
Mmmmmm.... crab cakes.... crab salad... crab-filled wontons.... crab legs.... pass the tartar sauce, please!
Good lunch... I mean, good LUCK, Maryland. You've got a long way to go to beat us Texans. Everything's bigger in Texas- especially our wordcounts!!!
----------50,060 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 11 16
Roses are red
Crabs are stinky
Compared to us your word count will be dinky!
(clearly I need to work on my trash talking)
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Lushguins Rock! \m/ (>.<) \m/
Nano2008: Here Under Stars
Nano2009: An Agent of Change (a biography in chaos)
52,120 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 11 22
I'm laughing, but now I'm stopping to go write more...
That's right, my trash-talk words are going in my novel instead - HAH!
Lee
----------Winner!: 2004 - String Fling, 2005 - Dark Matters, 2006 - Heaven's Homeless, 2007 - Against Nature, 2008 - Crack Bot
MLing for MD since 2004
52,120 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 11 22
Crabs of Maryland Unite! Write! Tonight!
Get your word count posted!
Lee
----------Winner!: 2004 - String Fling, 2005 - Dark Matters, 2006 - Heaven's Homeless, 2007 - Against Nature, 2008 - Crack Bot
MLing for MD since 2004
43,566 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 11 24
Crabs are stinky
Compared to us your word count will be dinky!
(clearly I need to work on my trash talking)
Ahahaha! No, no! I like it!
There was a group of Crabs from Maryland
They tried to write novels against the better end
Their claws were to snappy
To make any of them happy
So they conceeded to the Lushguins at the end
eh? eh? Lyrical genius right here!
----------Defeating Maryland, one crab leg at a time
2009: Blame it on the Weatherman
Trebuchet Club Member 2009
50,540 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 13 08
Seriously guys.
There are at least twenty different Crab/Crustacean gods throughout the world. How many penguin gods are there?
So, obviously, crabs are not only tastier, they're VENERATED TOO! <3
*should probably be doing homework instead but, oh well*
----------~::||Overconfidence||::~
Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you.
Yuu_tan.InsaneJournal.com
75,664 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 14 06
Hey watch iit with the venerated crabs, I am pushing thirty here, lol. Day five and a fifth of the way done, you darn penguins. I dream of fried penguin wings. With some nice ranch sauce. Yeah.
----------"We must read in order to know, or we do not know by reading." Charlotte Mason
One box of Stash Chai Tea - 3.50
One Carton of Camel Lights - 65.00
Hitting 35k on day 10 - Priceless
Some months never see a written word. For Nov, there's NaNoWriMo
881,823 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 14 26
I sneer with a mighty sneer at pathetic Crab wordcounts. "Teardrops For Sale" just got "The End" plopped on it, 1 down 9 to go.
And when it takes 5 (5!) crabs to equal a single Lushguin, that is not a good sign, little crustaceans.
I just ordered the extra large vat of Old Bay and am laying in a goodly supply of driftwood. We be having crab tonight!
Arrr!
Caeraerie
----------Wielder of the Vorpal Blade of Great Wordliness
55,767 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 14 56
*points at Caeraerie's wordcount*
She's on MY team.
----------71,323 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 15 25
I think we can all agree that you don't count, Caeraerie. This challenge is for people, not sentient AIs who can simply think the novel onto the screen. *G*
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52,120 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 15 28
Um, Rodwen?
Caeraerie, who was with us all previous years, is a GUY!
I'm thinking lushguins are a bit hard of seeing, or hard of identifying gender...
Either way will work out for us Crabs!
Lee (who was told by our challenge coordinator that as of this am we were AHEAD!!!)
----------Winner!: 2004 - String Fling, 2005 - Dark Matters, 2006 - Heaven's Homeless, 2007 - Against Nature, 2008 - Crack Bot
MLing for MD since 2004
54,502 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 15 33
Time for dinner!
http://www.paperboy.nl/?PID1=M%3DEV0GYF9%5C4%2E%23BK%3CNG%40%5F%5DY%5ETY...
----------Go 'Guins!
51,089 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 15 41
Something menacing!
Arrghh!
----------Having been called in here very many times over the past few months to answer for this or that misdemeanor, Oliver was well acquainted with the room's nuances and eccentricities – most of them fungal.
71,167 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 18 44
Let's have a moment of silence for Caererie now that he has become just a Lushquin. It is so sad that they had to recruit him just to try to compete against us.
----------StartWrite
"The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it." - Edward Albee
44,012 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 19 00
And then they killed him and uploaded his brain onto the Austin server. Sigh.
----------*moment of silence*
Okay, moment's over.
"The man who has no imagination has no wings."
-Muhammad Ali
44,012 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 19 10
You poor, poor flickguy. You talking crap again? You oughta know by now, it ain't gonna work. We will win, and you will be Thanksgiving dinner. :D
----------"The man who has no imagination has no wings."
-Muhammad Ali
38,681 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 21 53
You know what happens when you boil crabs alive? I work at a Cajun restaurant, I hear it all the time.
They go "Eeeeeeeee.... pop!" It's extraordinarily amusing, and also kind of sad. Because, you know, they're being boiled alive.
So, all you Maryland-ers, I say to you...
"Eeeeeeeeeeeee..... pop!"
:D
----------41,051 / 50,000
nov. 5, 2009 - 23 48
The Texan girl walks in with an air of confidence in the land of crabs. Even though its her zodiac sign, she looks upon the high numbers of the other team and simply sneers. Displaying her lower word count broadly she suanters away.
"Just making sure you know how horrible a defeat it'll be for you once I finish."
With that she leaves, giving the Crabs all the head start they will ever need, which will do them no good.~
XD
----------78,787 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 05 41
She's on MY team.
What! I was taken by surprise last year when he moved to Texas. Now you're trying to tell me Caeraerie had a sex change?! I am SO far behind on my NaNo news.
Also behind on my word count. I came down with some icky germ yesterday afternoon. Today I'm home sick but feeling well enough to pump up my word count. 20K or bust today!
75,664 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 08 13
Good lunch... I mean, good LUCK, Maryland. You've got a long way to go to beat us Texans. Everything's bigger in Texas- especially our wordcounts!!!
You forgot steamed crabs man, what's wrong with you penguins?
Ah, I know. Having feathers, which are much softer than a crab's hard shell, the words just leak right out of your pores before they ever get to the screen.
"We must read in order to know, or we do not know by reading." Charlotte Mason
Nano 2007 Wellspring-WINNER
----------Nano 2008 The Eternal Fight-WINNER
Nano 2009 The Library at Wessington/Triskabin
"We must read in order to know, or we do not know by reading." Charlotte Mason
One box of Stash Chai Tea - 3.50
One Carton of Camel Lights - 65.00
Hitting 35k on day 10 - Priceless
Some months never see a written word. For Nov, there's NaNoWriMo
55,767 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 11 30
Ah, but you don't see my evil plan! By confusing all of you with my mistakenly adding a S to He, I've caused all of you to spend countless minutes and words writing the discussion about it! MUAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!
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