Storytelling Idol Competition

Hallelujah! G has seen the light! BTW, G, you still haven't answered if Soz and I can come to your new elevated position on 'take your daughters to work' day... :wink:

What light suzette ?

Answered yr question on my thread !!! (how did I miss seeing it ? Must be getting blind in my old age)

Sorry, G !

Last time I checked your thread, the ? had not been answered. No time to waste here...I'm going to see if we can come to work w/you!

I've seen Joe Nation angry before. I've seen the pens come flying out of his pocket protector and the ink strike the paper with a vengeance.
It's a pretty intimidating sight -- Joe's tongue sticking out of the corner of his mouth, teeth grinding, eyeballs bulging... the pen racing across the paper. Poor Johnnyboy. He's toast.

I wonder if we can stop Joe. Stop him before the slaughter. Think of Johnnyboy's family, for God's sake.

Nope.... too late. Joe has started. All we can do now is pray.

Hey, what is this cotest, and how come Joe Nation has ALREADY won??
I he a pseudonym for John Grisham or something?

We're just all waiting for bugger to return, I suppose.

Bugger always asks questions and then leaves.... never to return.

Perhaps that's why they call him bugger.

Well, somebody start a story then already. Bugger bugger.

So when is this contest going to start?

I am for the underdogs Realjohnboy and Cavfancier!
Go...Go...Go...

Let the games begin!!!!

um i'm gone till Friday night

My story is called The Favor


j

Updated: Sorry folks!

We have only 4 contestants so far.
JoeNation
onyxelle
realjohn
Cavfancier

I need 2 more contestants and I also need 2 more judges to help me decide who the best storyteller is.. come on, people! let's get this show on the road!

Hopefully we can start this friday.

JoeNation Vs. Onyxelle
Prepare your stories!

Can I be one of the Judges?

I hope my previous post in this thread about "being for the underdog" does not disqualify me?

yes, RT! you can be a judge but you gotta be fair.. mmmkay?

I'm going to have to re-schedule the tourneys. We need more contestants!!

Hopefully, just hopefully, we can start on monday.

idonknowthatiwannagoagainstjoe

idonknowthatiwannagoagainstonyxelle.

You know what they say about the unknown quality, the veiled one, the one who usually turns out to be a ringer?
The one who is really a staff writer for the NEW YORKER , an editor for the ATLANTIC MONTHLY
or the winner of last year's William Saroyan International Prize for Writing ,
but that's not what's worrying me.

What's worrying me is how can I compete with someone who can put together two words better than I can put together 600?

onyx elle

It's a one word poem.

Does everyone else see how it really looks like one word but can sound like three? Damn.

I'm going to go listen to some Coltrane and pretend that Monday won't ever come.

Joe

Oh, what the hell.

I'm in.

Not that I can hope to compete against the likes of Joe, but if a couple more of us don't volunteer, we're all gonna miss out on reading his latest prizewinner.

Speaking of which... What did you say that Joe, I mean, SOMEBODY'S gonna get for winning this contest?

Come on, folks...we need one more writer & one more judge to go...

I'm not going to enter, Eva, and I'll tell you why. Have you ever heard of Goethe? He had a quote. It's been a long time since I read it, so I'll have to paraphrase...

Everything has been thought of before.
The problem is to think of it again.

Or something like that. So that's my point. There's no way in hell I could come up with any original material.

What's the point in trying?

Oh, they have to be original??! Shoot, I've been copying stuff out of a big book, The Best American Short Stories that No One's Ever Heard Of and Jokes You Can Tell In Front Of Your Mother. Harcourt_Brace 1961.

That's why I keep referring to Jack Paar as the host of the Tonite Show and posted that joke about bread going up to a dime.

Joe

Nah, Gus...you don't have to come up with any original material. Just write down one of your "true life" experiences.

A Day in the Life of Gustavratzenhofer...sounds like a winner to me.