Writing contest # 14 - Entries

[Patti (baconater)]

When the bribe is large enough.

[Emma]

Chocolate cake? That's about all I can offer. I make a mean coffee chocolate cake though...

[Patti (baconater)]

Ummmmmmmmmm

Yeah okay. ;)

[Jim]

Please miss, I'm willing to be bribed with chocolate cake as well, especially if there's coffee cream filling or icing

[Patti (baconater)]

What do you mean OR?

Both

[David]

Are you indicating that you have access to the results, Jim?

[Jim]

David wrote: "Are you indicating that you have access to the results, Jim?"

good lord no, I'm merely indicating I'm pathetically easy to corrupt.
I'm not trying to say that corrupting me will actually achieve anything :-(

[Emma]

I do a coffee chocolate cake with coffee chocolate icing and coffee cream. I even put walnuts on it as long and nobody I'm serving it to is allergic. I'll have to do a fresh one. All I've got at the moment is Sunday's little square vanilla sponge cakes with pink buttercream icing and centre and gold fondant icing. They are almost too sweet but I've had 2 today! Nobody else is eating them!

[Jim]

Patti (Ogre for Hire) wrote: "What do you mean OR?

Both"

As I said, I'm too easy to corrupt.

Indeed I'd even welcome chocolate cake with black current jam as the filling and chocolate icing

[Emma]

Perhaps cake to celebrate the end of the poll. Might not be very good by the time it gets to you all though. You might have to bake your own. Everyone bake a single slice of cake...

[David]

Can you buy slice shaped tins?

[Emma]

I'm sure you can. You can buy tins in almost every other shape.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

David wrote: "Can you buy slice shaped tins?"

What, just ONE slice??

[Patti (baconater)]

One slice?

Sheesh.

Better off making the mug cake.

What's a mug cake, you ask?

Buy the book, get the recipe.

[Jonathan]

Just read through them and off to vote now. Great bunch of entries and nice to see a poem in the mix too.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Results are in!! Who wrote the winner, come on fess up! I was second again :) and voted for A Matter of Pride - got to love a pun

[Emma]

Yay, 3 votes. I'm 4th! Who won? Or do we have to go back to bribery and corruption to find out...

[Pat ()]

Emma wrote: "Yay, 3 votes. I'm 4th! Who won? Or do we have to go back to bribery and corruption to find out..."

you are joint third #;-D

[Emma]

Ooh, even better. I'm improving.

[Kath]

I'll post them up now - bear with me.

[Marc]

yay the one I voted for won! Thanks to Ignite for running the comp so seamlessly in Jud's absence.

[Kath]

Winner - A Joke Too Far - David Staniforth
Second - Turn of the Worm - Rosemary
Joint third - 200 words - CC Hogan
Joint third - Carly - Emma
5th A matter of Pride - BJ
Joint 6th - Rebel Song - Mago
Joint 6th - Revolution in 200 words - Jim Webster
Unplaced (don't worry - I've been there a couple of times!) Brawn - Holly and SYSTEM - Lilee


(If I've got any wrong, please tell me! It's early in the day!)

[H.M]

Joint last! That's too funny! Lol!

Well done David, a worthy winner.

[Mago]

I got a vote :-)
Well done David, a worthy winner.
I voted for Rosemary.

[David]

Oh! Just looked on, thanks for the votes. I thought verse was a risk, apparently not.

I voted for Rosemary's, and I know from Patti's comments that it was a close call.

[Kath]

Congratulations all of you. I know how hard they are to write.

[Patti (baconater)]

Well done to everyone!

[TonyQ]

Bum holes - I missed the vote!!

[David]

Think of mine as beginer's luck. Holly and Lilee, I hope you join in the next one. I thought they were all great :~)

Do I have to pick the next topic?

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Yes David. Please try and stay away from the poop theme...

[David]

But that's my specialist subject!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

David wrote: "But that's my specialist subject!"

So it would give your entry an unfair advantage.

[Kath]

You have a week to think of something. If Jud's back by next Wednesday, send her the PM of what you want us to write. If she's still gadding about, send it to me and one of us can set up a new thread.

[David]

OK :~? Decisions... Decisions. That's not the topic, by the way!

[C.C.]

Oh, The last two paragraphs of my entry have been left off!!!

It should finish:

I do not want to write only two hundred words! It pens me in, ties me with ink stained knots, treads on my adjectival toes and brings the sky down on my chicken headed aspirations.

The masters and their word police rip out our thoughts and make examples of them in vast piazzas, crushing the tiny rebellions with mass chants: “Too long, too long, too long.”

You know the power of my words, you know they can raise the blood or sooth the soul, escape the penary exercises of our toil, and it scares you. No, not for you the full, unbridled lament of the love sickened wife, the song of pain and joy from the chain gang, the chorus of hope and suffrage echoing from the mouths of a united people. These are the banners of discontent, the barricades of freedom and they insult and batter your uniformity, your organisation, your dictate.

Two hundred words: Enough to express pain and sorrow but too few to inspire and caress and control. A careful two hundred; a bare scrabble-bag full scattered across the floor.

I rebel against your two hundred and with my bloodied pen will write as many as I...

[Kath]

Oh, that's what you get when you send a boy to do a man's job! It'll get better when Jud's back!

I do apologise, CC. Don't you hate it when someone misses off the punchline?

Sorry, everyone, and especially sorry to CC.

:(

[Jonathan]

Congrats to the winner! I voted for that one as well, but I really enjoyed them all. Hope to be able to contribute something next time.