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I hadn't thought of that connection until you mentioned it but it's definitely there. And it's a song that I heard many times when I was around the ag...

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Kudos to all those who made great efforts commenting. I didn't do much this time except selfishly cover my two or three favourites (and "A Special Chr...

Just a few things to say. Firstly, yes, the writing was fairly effortless because I had a "seed line", the first line that acts for me (when it works)...

Really? You're good. :cool: And thank you!

Really appreciate the positive feedback on this one. My exegesis is here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/869945 . Guide me...

Stories reopened minus polls for comments.

Voting is now closed.

(I'm not inviting debate btw. I'm not going to say another word on this until after this activity is finished.)

Ok, I might run it without scores for my turn mid-year.

The writing is very good here throughout. Definitely in the top two or three I've read. I aso think the tone, rhythm, and pace are top class. As for t...

Others have done much much more, but thanks. It's just that my timezone doesn't work great with closing the threads according to the original schedule...

Oh, close. Education and Linguistics. (Academic lit critique is likely to be several levels more obscure, Benk).

My interpretation is that Simon is the boy’s future self whose creative imagination symbolized by his hand (the artist / writer’s tool) has been amput...

Compliment detected. Thank you :pray:

Might have been being a bit nitpicky there. I still think there was more that could be done with this but as I said I'm right behind the point.

Shaddap. Y’see, Jack Doe is basically Hanover’s sad real life autobiography. Well, let me tell you all about Hanover, yessir. The dude comes on here b...

if I had the steely self-restraint of a @"Michael" or @"ssu" I might frequent the pol threads more often. It's not from lack of interest but I usually...

Definitely Hanover. :up:

:up: I'll run with that too.

Going from memory on the titles and entrants here but anyhow: The Story of THING - Hypericin Rip out the grass - Javi A Socialist Christmas - Alexandr...

I don't think this is getting enough credit for the fact that the writing is so good and so consistently good. On craftsmanship alone, this would be t...

I love this. Especially when he says "please don't take this into account. I simply encountered her and asked for it". It's seems an alien way to expr...

I'm right behind the political point here but this is not a story, it's just a list of events in a stereotypical boring life. That doesn't amount to a...

The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure. :smile:

The focus here seems to be a sociopolitical critique, specifically of contemporary consumerism. Not a particularly original theme but it’s approached ...

Well done on getting this sorted, @"Noble Dust", @"hypericin" et al. :cool:

Well observed. :eyes:

I had to finish at exactly midnight New Year here (for the meta)! Else I would've turned into a pum'kin.

Thank you, Sir! :pray:

'Aving finished ze wine and thrown ze glass celebratorily into ze canal where it bonked on ze defeated monitor's nose in a humiliating post-coup coup ...

I had been puffing on a cigarette, which I had resigned to be my last, for hardly a few moments when the monitor made ready to resume its attack. I sa...

Well, faith and begorrah, I hadn't supped at me pot of coffee for more than two minutes and sure wasn't I down to one Joe (who for the sake of simplic...

Anyhow to continue my story, me and Joe have been tramping across the campus and one thing I didn't tell you about this place is it was built on a swa...

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It's an hour and a half to New Year here. The area around campus is apocalyptic-level quiet, students having flown their dorms to nest in family homes...

Some people release tears. I release an octopus.

Nice. Although I was thinking more of an "Alien" analogy where I'm John Hurt. Like that cathartic energy.

I'm the jar.

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A far superior explication of sandwichgate than Hamover's. :up:

I wish! We bogmen aren't even allowed be part of this "society" thing at all. We are mocked, pilloried and ostracized simply for habits like taking mu...

2 am and work tomorrow... Thank y'all for keeping me entertained on what otherwise would have been a less entertaining day. :pray:

I appreciate you joining the conversation in order to make me look relatively more informed and sensitive. I think it's working. :up:

Oh, good. :smile:

Where is your evidence for this? And was the mechanism by which the language mixing occurred? The case for the Arabic influence on Spanish is set out ...

There's a similar issue in Australian slang apparently. I should have made the connection because I have heard the pejorative use but the sandwich mea...

I don't think the etymology is the same btw. "Sambo is a term that originated in Ireland and is used to refer to a sandwich made with white bread, but...

"It’s common in Ireland to see a sign saying ‘soup and sambo offer’ or ‘tea and sambo’. In Ireland this doesn’t raise an eyebrow but for people from o...