I think my first step in dealing with this problem shall be: 1) Go get beer.
Step number 2 can wait until tomorrow.
Xander: I do have Spaghetti-os. Set 'em on top of the dryer and you're a fluff cycle away from lukewarm goodness. Riley: I, uh, had dryer-food for lunch.
'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
shrift - Dec 06, 2005 3:09:43 pm PST #9813 of 10006
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Laura - Dec 06, 2005 3:19:42 pm PST #9814 of 10006
Our wings are not tired.
Woo! A good first step.
Connie Neil - Dec 06, 2005 3:25:12 pm PST #9815 of 10006
brillig
I'm thinking it probably wasn't only shrift's excellent prose that won the kid the award, so making the kid give up everything seems overly harsh. If it happened to me, I'd tell said kid, "Sounds like you need to tell the prize committee you forgot to cite a quote in that piece of writing you did, see what they make of it."
He was probably thinking, "I wish I could have made that point as well as shrift did, odds are this won't go anywhere--oh, hell."
He could have just let it slide, after all.
Laura - Dec 06, 2005 3:28:04 pm PST #9816 of 10006
Our wings are not tired.
Charlie Brown just doesn't get old for me.
DXMachina - Dec 06, 2005 3:53:25 pm PST #9817 of 10006
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
DXM, looks like the Dodgers went with Grady Little.
Yeah, I'm all aquiver with excitement...
Although I did think he got a bit of a raw deal up in Boston. At least it wasn't Fregosi...
Topic!Cindy - Dec 06, 2005 3:54:17 pm PST #9818 of 10006
What is even happening?
If it happened to me, I'd tell said kid, "Sounds like you need to tell the prize committee you forgot to cite a quote in that piece of writing you did, see what they make of it."shrift, assuming that you're either cool with it now because of the confession, or at least not angry about it, I think the above is the way to handle it. Tell her it's not fair to the other people who entered the contest. Then I'd forget about it, and let her be honorable or not, on her own.
Sue - Dec 06, 2005 3:54:42 pm PST #9819 of 10006
hip deep in pie
Me either Laura.
OK I love the face recognition software now. It just told me I look like Audrey Tautou, Billie Holliday, Shakira and Jennifer Connelly. All of whom are at least 12 times better-looking than me.
Have you met you?
brenda m - Dec 06, 2005 4:00:42 pm PST #9820 of 10006
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
The Billboard Awards have a category for ringtones? Okaaay.
Consuela - Dec 06, 2005 4:02:58 pm PST #9821 of 10006
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I've just been informed that someone "borrowed" a paragraph of my (original) writing for a short story, and subsequently has won a large cash prize and trip to a writing workshop.
Well, at least you got some outside validation on your writing.
And what some of the other folks upthread said about telling her/him to fess up to the prize committee.
So it wasn't fic they swiped? How'd they find some of your original fiction? Are you holding out on us?
I'm so tired of work. Can I go on sabbatical now? Like, to Thailand?
msbelle - Dec 06, 2005 4:39:34 pm PST #9822 of 10006
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Got the cats to and from the vet ok. Oz has lost .4 of a pound since last year, so he is no longer the fat fatty of the bunch. Sylvester beats him out by .2 now. Sylvester definately has some sort of urinary tract issue, but it wasn't serious enough to show anything yet to the vet, so he is back on the good food and I am watching him. poor thing.