I noticed that too but thought it more discreet to enjoy the story for what is was.
Written a bit too overprosaically. And “Carol” wasn’t really to know that you were in desperate need of reparation right then and there. After all, she’s stuck in some office someplace.
However, I can see why you’d be a bit agitated.
First, what does “overprosaically” mean? I think the style is fairly modern, peppered through with a few references that don’t take up much space either textually or conceptually. It isn’t Tolkien, but it isn’t Faulkner, either.
As for the reasoned responses to his lamentations: If we can’t be carried into transports in the BBQ Pit, where can we be moved to semi-rational prosody?
Excellent rant!
LMAO! By this time next week I will have used that line so many times I’ll have long forgotten it isn’t mine.
Sampy, this post should be erected on billboards across the country, awash in a beautiful neon glow, and printed on newsletters for all the planet to see. Tolkien would be bowing to your writ if he wasn’t currently being hid away by the witness protection agency. Y’ever consider becoming a novellist?
I meant that it is written in a very verbose manner, like they are trying to entertain, instead of trying to tell the story. Some people like that, of course, but I’m a fan of much simpler styling.
Sampiro, I know that was a trying day, but the rest of us are entertained thereby, so it was worth it.
Bravo!
Eh…
I always write the cents over 100, like so :
55
100
Saves lots of hassle. ;j
Very entertaining BTW.
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That was astonishingly well-written. That post should head straight for the Hall of Fame.
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I can identify, having once had a tank of gas cost me $2000 instead of $20. No real harm done but it gave me a heart attack.
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Sweet use of language. Truly sweet.
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They have virgins in Quebec?
Bravo!
Esprix
Nitpick: What the hell do trees have to do with the ozone layer?
Can’t expect much from someone who calls himself “Shit-Boy”.
Beautiful, man. Fan-fucking-tastic rant.
What the fuck was the point in posting that? Why didn’t you like it? What could have improved it? Which one of the nearly 5000 turds you’ve dropped on this board are even 10% as entertaining?
Haj
Maybe she’s just jealous.
That said, BEST-RANT-EVER! Or at least it comes close as I don’t think it could beat the prehensile rectum one. Heh
Sampiro, I just dropped in to unnecessarily say:
SEE?! Your writing is brilliant! Get thee to a publisher, and they’ll fall all over their own genitalia to get you a deal. At the very least, any magazine in the country would be positively idiotic not to give to a column under your own byline. IMO, you simply can not miss. I’ve read enough of your work over the years that has reduced me to helpless laughter and semi-jealous despair. You simply are an unbelievably good writer. One of the best and most entertaining I’ve ever read, in fact, published or not.
Oh, and what an amusing fellow you are. I’ve never heard that one before.