# I am world famous thanks to Derleth and the Dope. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 3, 2007, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-world-famous-thanks-to-derleth-and-the-dope/414344 "2007-08-03T21:58:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-world-famous-thanks-to-derleth-and-the-dope/414344/101 "2007-08-10T00:09:13Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] There also used to be an annual Faux Faulkner contest. I can’t find any current info, but [this](http://www.watervalley.net/Yoknapatawphapress/contest.htm) might be a step in the right direction (don’t know if it’s current). Best of luck! [/QUOTE] I learned today that the Hemingway contest is defunct. I think I’ll just start a thread inviting folk to join in. I’ve never read any Faulkner, which makes me slightly less confident of my ability to parody it. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-world-famous-thanks-to-derleth-and-the-dope/414344/102 "2007-08-10T01:10:24Z")
Just wanted to say I heard Boyo Jim on “Whad’ Ya Know?\* with Michael Feldman”! I was on a road trip and had the show on, and heard them mention Jim who works at a hospital (The host got the right one by process of elimination). I thought to myself “hey, I kinda know that guy” Note that I did NOT know that he would be on beforehand - and I actually only usually listen to show when I am in the car. Brian \*not much, you? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-world-famous-thanks-to-derleth-and-the-dope/414344/103 "2007-08-10T03:48:20Z")
And when I was surfing news on my phone today while waiting for a take-out order, there was the story on [CNN.com](http://CNN.com)! Way to go, Jim! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-world-famous-thanks-to-derleth-and-the-dope/414344/104 "2007-08-10T20:27:12Z")
I talked to my boss today, and I’m gonna work half-time for the next couple of months to write the ‘self-help for slackers’ book. I can’t afford to be paid half-time, but I will use up my accumulated earned leave to keep the full paycheck coming. I was really disgusted to learn the ‘Bad Hemingway’ competition is no more. I am going to start a thread here and invite Bad Hemingways to post. I’m almost ready – once I figure a simile or metaphor or whatever you call it between starched bed linens and the open sea – I will start that thread. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-world-famous-thanks-to-derleth-and-the-dope/414344/105 "2007-08-11T06:01:41Z")
Internal discussion: Nice Me: You’ve actually met him. Play nice and congratulate him. Evil Me: But that contest has perverted Bulwer-Lytton’s legacy into a one-extremely-short-paragraph, O Henry story! To truly do Bulwer-Lytton you must go on for at least one page and simutaneously bore and confuse your reader. Nice Me: Fuck off. It was good. He’s a friend. He deserves your congratulations. Evil Me: YOU fuck off. He knows that this is my way of congratulating him. It’s a guy thing. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-world-famous-thanks-to-derleth-and-the-dope/414344/106 "2007-08-11T06:41:41Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] I’m almost ready – once I figure a simile or metaphor or whatever you call it between starched bed linens and the open sea – I will start that thread. [/QUOTE] I read that and I knew I could not tell her because I knew she already knew. Damned bad. She had been with Jack. Damned bad. I wrote. I knew writing and I knew whiskey and I knew bad breaks from good men and I wrote. The old man had told me many things breaking his knuckles on the pine and I knew that making sense was for Paris in the old days. Semicolons kill. Commas only wound. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-world-famous-thanks-to-derleth-and-the-dope/414344/107 "2007-08-11T11:43:47Z")
I have posted my Bad Hemingway parody in a [new thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8871451#post8871451) I hope you will join me in expanding the world’s choices in bad writing. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-world-famous-thanks-to-derleth-and-the-dope/414344/108 "2007-08-11T12:41:52Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth] … Semicolons kill. Commas only wound. [/QUOTE] Word. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-world-famous-thanks-to-derleth-and-the-dope/414344/109 "2007-08-16T17:35:58Z")
I had another interview on Milwaukee Public Radio when I had the opportunity to mention the SDMB by name, and they left that part in the edited interview. It’s about 7 minutes, and you can listen to it [here.](http://www.wuwm.com/view_le.php?articleid=259) Click on “Horrible Fiction” at the bottom. This was recorded Thursday of last week and broadcast today. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-world-famous-thanks-to-derleth-and-the-dope/414344.md?page=5)