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Local Authors => Brandon Sanderson => Topic started by: Red, White, and Joker on December 20, 2009, 10:33:50 AM
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It needed to be started.. So here we go.
I am a fish.
No, really I am. I have fins, a tail, scales. I swim about, doing fishy things. This isn't a metaphor or a joke, but a real and honest fact. I am a fish.
More on this later.
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Mr. J of the A team, I wish you look.
Chris, you had better pray that Bastille doesn't pop back up. Otherwise, you both will very quickly lose this contest of yours. (And, would someone please explain the rules for those of us who don't get it?)
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The Challenge:
HAHAHA. i must officially congratulate you for being the first person i know to take up the Alcatraz conversation challenge :)
Start a thread, I'll kick your butt.
The Rules: TBD as we go. For time being, butt kicking is only allowed by directly quoting the books.
Mr. J of the A team, I wish youlook.
Luck?
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Yes. It's late, and I haven't been typing so well. (my finger is hurt *pout*)
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I sorry for your finger. Let the Alcatraz based madness begin!
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I think it would be better if you were using Alcatraz quotes in an established conversation of some sort, but not with the awkward "Hey look, I'm quoting Alcatraz" part. Make it work in the conversation. Ah, that level of finesse would show one's mastery of the matter, would it not?
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Hangook Mal Malha GiMa Ship Shio.
Expectations. They are amount the most important things in all of existence. (Which is amusing because, being abstract concepts, you could argue that they don't even "exist" at all.)
Everything we do, everything we experience, and everything we say is clouded by our expectations. We go to school or work in the mornings because we expect that it will be rewarding. (Or, at least, we expect that if we don't we'll get in trouble.)
We build friendships based on expectations. We expect our friends to act in a certain way, and then we act as they expect us to. Indeed, the very fact that we get up in the mornings shows that we expect the sun to rise, the world to keep spinning, and our shoes to fit., just like they all did the day before.
People have real trouble when you upset their expectations. For instance, you likely didn't expect me to begin this post writing in Korean. Though after the bunny-bazooka story, one begins to wonder how you can possibly maintain any expectations about me at all.
And that, my friend is the point.
You probably started this thread expecting to win. I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you this, but you will not win. Actually, I'm not sorry, because I am a terrible person.
@Mi'ch - I think I'd give her a good run, but I'm sure she would still win.ha ha.