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#601 2006-06-01 09:46:00

Jendaiya
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

Tad:

Congratulations on five years of the best place on the Net. I can't imagine what it would be like without Smarch. It's been wonderful and fun and there's no place like home.

Thanks for building such a great world. :)

Dude.


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#602 2006-06-01 09:51:00

rimses
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

Firsfron of Ronchester wrote:

Something that required a little effort would be good... A contest, for sure. I'm useless.

thereīs a boot-throwing contest somewhere in Finnland. maybe we could apply a virtual version of such a contest?

how it could be done - i donīt know.

 

#603 2006-06-01 09:53:00

Wolfshade
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

Sahi wrote:

But not everybody can draw...

Not everyone can write well, either.


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#604 2006-06-01 10:03:00

Em
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

Sahi wrote:

But not everybody can draw...

*draws her six-shooter*

Smile when you say that pardner.


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#605 2006-06-01 10:43:00

Sahi
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

*sticks her hands in the air* Eek, I'm unarmed!

Maybe we should have a free format art contest, where the most original entry wins. ;)

yalahii.


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#606 2006-06-01 12:27:00

Tad
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

Jendaiya: Hey, you're a big part of this board, and so I hope you're congratulating yourself as well.

Five years?  Wow.  Time flies when you're flying time.

We should have a fifth anniversary party, too, shouldn't we?


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#607 2006-06-01 12:36:00

Tad
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

A squint at the Oxford English Dictionary informs me that the amusingly appropriate term for a five-year anniversary is a...

....pentad

So, we can officially celebrate our pentad over the next month.  Excellent.  So what should we do, besides our (still unresolved) contest?


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#608 2006-06-01 13:23:00

strangeshe
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

Well, since you're going to need a new Dogblog topic soon, I think it should the Pentad. (Cool word. I'm going to have to find other uses...)

As for the contest, I haven't come up with anything yet. Well, to be truthful, I have a few ideas but only for things only I can win, and I'd rather have the 'plays well with others' badge. ;)

The riddle contest sounds like an idea. You must have at least a couple that would keep us busy.

Or a quiz. Quizzes are good.

 

#609 2006-06-01 13:46:00

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

Sahi wrote:

*sticks her hands in the air* Eek, I'm unarmed!

Maybe we should have a free format art contest, where the most original entry wins. ;)

yalahii.

Uhm...*points at earlier post*

Hehehe...we could give it a twist and pick a scene from one of the stories in RITE....
Might even make posters out of the finished products as to get the word round on RITE...and yes even words look good on a poster...

*just a suggestion*

Uhm...or we could just skip the scene all together and go for the poster design???


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#610 2006-06-01 14:05:00

Sahi
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

Uhm, yeah, like she said earlier. Kinda missed that. *grins sheepishly*

yalahii.


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#611 2006-06-01 14:37:00

Marian
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

Well, what about a microfic contest, and secret voting by the community, with one vote each? Not that I'd have any idea how to manage that, but I'm sure someone here does.

100 words or less?

 

#612 2006-06-01 14:40:00

Marian
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

15000 posts! What a pretty number that is.

Or was, now that I'm ruining it by posting again.

I'm sure 15001 is a very pretty number, too.

(Also, it would be a terrible shame for you all to get confetti all over Tad's pretty math and manners cave. Really.)

 

#613 2006-06-01 15:09:00

Gigi
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

Can we have wine and cheese?  I like wine.  And cheese.  And some chocolate, too. 

Thanks again, Tad, for providing a home for our silliness.  We love our Dog muchly.


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#614 2006-06-01 16:24:00

lian
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

Here ya go~hooo:

CONFETTI!!!!!!!


(cue evil laughter)

Man, how I despise these pointless posts ^_~

I think we should have an anonymous Unrequited Smarch Love Thread. C'mon, don't tell me you never had a secret smarch crush!

ETA: To clarify: I might not be altogether serious. Plus, I loathe cheese and might be altogether in the minority there. How chilling.

[ June 01, 2006: Message edited by: repeatedly lian ]


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#615 2006-06-01 17:04:00

fangler
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

repeatedly lian wrote:

I think we should have an anonymous Unrequited Smarch Love Thread. C'mon, don't tell me you never had a secret smarch crush!

lian-twin that is the best idea ever. i'm sure everyone has had one of those. the only problem I foresee is anyone admitting who they were crushing on. me? i loved Frank. ;)

[ June 01, 2006: Message edited by: fangler ]

 

#616 2006-06-01 17:11:00

Wolfshade
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

repeatedly lian wrote:

I think we should have an anonymous Unrequited Smarch Love Thread. C'mon, don't tell me you never had a secret smarch crush!

Dude, you'll ruin everything!

*gases Lian*

A-hahahahahaha

.
.
.

I love ...

*dies*


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#617 2006-06-01 19:32:00

Genisis X
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

Dead bodies everywhere.

-X


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#618 2006-06-01 20:48:00

ArcticSwan360
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

I have an idea for a contest. Tad, I know you have an interest in video games. You told me at a bookstore once that you and companions tried to design a few before, but it never ended up happening. A while back, before it hit indefinite server trouble, there was a site I visited daily called www.gamediscovery.com

You would submit game Video Game ideas - plot, gameplay and other things, or even gaming hardware ideas. For each submission you would get gold and experience points, that was supposed to level your member/character up. You could use the gold for buying items, real and fake. But it never went through totally either.

So, with that experience, I came up with this idea. The contest should have to do with someone coming up with a video game idea that has to do with one of your books or stories. They would have to write about the main plot, gameplay mechanics, ect.

What do you think of that?


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#619 2006-06-02 03:05:00

Ruby
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

That sounds interesting. And very difficult *_*...

Wine, Cheese and Chocolat? There are some Cookies missing...


*brings cookies*


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#620 2006-06-02 07:51:00

Genisis X
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

I think the problem here is that no-one can come up with an idea that is fair across the board. Some people here are good writers, some aren't, some are good artists, some arent, et cetera.

Which is why I vote for sahi's free form contest idea.

*nods*

-X


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#621 2006-06-02 16:36:00

lian
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Re: DOGBLOG: The Math and Manners Cave

fangler wrote:


the only problem I foresee is anyone admitting who they were crushing on.
[ June 01, 2006: Message edited by: fangler ]

Hey! I never said it should be the revealing type, right? (and there goes the yellow paper value.) 
Wolfshade, don't be so fatalistic! *grins*


Besides...I just realized bandit's drunken love confessions thing of a year past pretty much covers it, no?


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