Because of the angle of the picture, I was staring at the horses trying to count them. Once I figured out there were four, this just kind of popped into my head.
Mal: You know, you ain't quite right. River: It's the popular theory.
'Objects In Space'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Wolfram - Jun 05, 2008 12:51:05 pm PDT #215 of 6681
Visilurking
Laga - Jun 05, 2008 12:55:37 pm PDT #216 of 6681
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
those are mules {/pedant}
Wolfram - Jun 05, 2008 1:21:46 pm PDT #217 of 6681
Visilurking
Damn. That just makes the next scene even funnier.
Connie Neil - Jun 05, 2008 2:10:34 pm PDT #218 of 6681
brillig
"We're the Four Horsemen. HORSE men! Whoever heard of the Four Mulemen?!"
"Be a great name for a band, though."
"Yeah, it would."
Wolfram - Jun 05, 2008 3:21:32 pm PDT #219 of 6681
Visilurking
Snerk, connie. Got a good kick out of that one.
Ginger - Jun 05, 2008 3:29:44 pm PDT #220 of 6681
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It's the five asses of the apocalypse.
Susan W. - Jun 07, 2008 11:51:28 am PDT #221 of 6681
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
So, if a person were to enter a writing contest that says it will notify finalists in "early June," at what point should that person give up hope? Today, because only the first week of a month is really early? June 15, because anything in the first half is early? Only after the finalists are listed on the website and her name isn't there?
(I'm entered in the Pacific NW Writers Association literary contest, science fiction & fantasy category, and I'm ridiculously nervous, because it's the first time this WIP will be read by total strangers. And, they notify finalists by mail, so I can already guarantee I won't find out today. By MAIL. Sheesh. I don't get it. Not only is there this new-fangled thing called the internet, there's this downright old-fangled thing called the telephone.)
SailAweigh - Jun 07, 2008 11:56:26 am PDT #222 of 6681
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I'd give it 3-4 days after June 15th. As you said, "early June" can mean anything as late as the 15th. Since mail can take a few days, allow for that.
Typo Boy - Jun 07, 2008 11:56:46 am PDT #223 of 6681
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
June 15th is Sunday. So I would keep up my hopes through at lest Saturday, June 14th.
[Update} And as sail says perhaps a few days past that as well.
Amy - Jun 07, 2008 11:57:25 am PDT #224 of 6681
Because books.
Susan, I think statements like those are rough guidelines. Much the way I used to say I would try to respond to submissions within eight weeks. (It was more like six months, if they were lucky or had an agent who would call and yell at me.)