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This is the thread to put your comments, praise and pokes to the Volleyball 2006 story posts. We will use this thread to keep score.


For historical archival purposes, here are links to all previous volleyball threads thus far, in reverse chronological order:

Volleyball 2005 (3 pages)
Volleyball 2005 – Commentary (17 pages)
Volleyball 2004 (5 pgs)
Volleyball 2004 - commentary (27 pgs)
Volleyball 2003 (5 pgs)
Volleyball 2003 - commentary (10 pgs)

What better way to start the new Volleyball than with a dark and stormy night?

my turn ...

Oh #@$% ... I put down for my turn in the commentary thread (wrong thread), and didn't notice kvetch had posted ahead of me (in the other thread).

Oh well ... wasted post.

It's already written, so here it is ...

Kvetch wrote:What better way to start the new Volleyball than with a dark and stormy night?

GENRE: Autobiography

It was a dark and stormy night, back in 1992 - or rather, it was a night for drinking “dark and stormiesâ€

So I don't have to do some _serious_ digging, can someone give a summary of what volleyball is? I'm sure it'll benefit others.

Not to be snarky, but anyone who insists on being lazy, and insists on being spoonfed (in lieu of reading the conveniently linked rules and the past matches above) will be advised to sit quietly on the sidelines ... until they know what to do, and have something worth contributing.

I wanted to say the same, but as moderator . . .

Xyrael wrote:So I don't have to do some _serious_ digging, can someone give a summary of what volleyball is? I'm sure it'll benefit others.

Here is a post for the 2003 Volleyball that summarizes the idea.

Brad wrote:Anyone ever watch "Who's line is it anyway ?"

It's an improv show.

One of the schticks they do is having a few people act out an evolving scene ... and every few minutes, the genre gets changed on them, and they have to continue to run with it, using the new genre style.

It's a lot of fun.

Anyway, I thought it might be interesting to try a turn-based written version of that, where each person takes turns grabbing the story and running with it for a few paragraphs, using a different genre style.

It will probably get off to a slow start, but hey - it could be fun, or it could fall by the wayside and get ignored.


Ok, anyone want to play ?

If so, claim your turn, and start typing.

Ghost: perhaps I can get partial credit, even though I screwed up and posted in the wrong thread ?

Brad wrote:Ghost: perhaps I can get partial credit, even though I screwed up and posted in the wrong thread ?

I was thinking negative points

If you still had a dinger, I'd kick it - ya disembodied bastich.

I must say, I prefer yours...

Brad wrote:If you still had a dinger, I'd kick it - ya disembodied bastich.

Hey - I got a humdinger.


Kvetch, a great start

. . . unnamed and generic big city . . . the image of hippies in scanty flares . . . the cheap counterfeit tsantsa churned out by the infernal pits of Minnesota . . . the range of their vocabulary . . . comely rotundity of face and person.


Current: Kvetch +1 (obvious), Originality +1 (Bulwer-Lytton (cf Paul Clifford)), Entertaining +1 ("Hast tha got it, Bob?"), Continuity +1 (like a good ole cliché), Rule Breaker + 0 (no rules broken), Bonus + 1 (WOTD: parlous) TOTAL: 5

Brad, very good!

. . . it was a night for drinking “dark and stormiesâ€

I don't "take off" for spelling - I "pound on".

[Faux whine]

Awwww c'mon - I already scored Parlous earlier today, at 10:48 EST, in the WOTD Thread ... well before Kvetch belatedly got around to it.

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3 points is fine, Mr. Boo. I'm just giving ya a hard time, for giggles.

OK, I can't spell, but quartier is in the original text of Paul Clifford (as is 'comely rotundity of face and person', so I'm afraid I can't take credit for that)

blueworld, very good

. . . on my lips for nearly a lifetime . . . produced his purchase from his prodigious pocket . . . has not had the least intercourse with the grave . . . his expression is uncommonly grave

Current: blueworld +1 (obvious), Originality +1 (Dumas), Entertaining +1 (I am delighted by your dizzy repartee), Continuity +1 (smooth), Rule Breaker + 0 (no rules broken), Bonus + 1 (WOTD: disparate) TOTAL: 5

Current Volleyball 2004 Overall Standing:
blueworld P: 1 O: 1 E: 1 C: 1 RB: 0 Bonus: 1 TOTAL: 5
Kvetch P: 1 O: 1 E: 1 C: 1 RB: 0 Bonus: 1 TOTAL: 5
Brad P: 1 O: 1 E: 1 C: 1 RB: -1 Bonus: 0 TOTAL: 3

Genres used: (2)
Impressions (Famous Authors): Dumas
Parody: Bulwer-Lytton (cf Paul Clifford)
Other: Autobiography

Spelling Errors:
percieved . . . perceived

We don’t take off for spelling . . . but the mistress will pound on!!!

:smash

Ghost wrote: Spelling Errors:
percieved . . . perceived

and I can be such a spelling nazi myself. Next time I'll use a spellchecker. Those ie/ei are my spelling demons.

I have no idea how I came up with the grave bit. I usually don't think I'm any good at dialogue, much less actual jokes.

Invisible College Special Forces now have a contract out on you for that pun.

*applause*

Hmm, I think I'm going to make an attempt at this. I have a feeling it will be less than successful, but I'll try.

clong:

I do however hate you for mentioning the EVIL calculus!

wolfspirit

Clong: :we-are-not-worthy:

Xyrael wrote:Hmm, I think I'm going to make an attempt at this. I have a feeling it will be less than successful, but I'll try.

Don't worry about it. You should see my first attempt - it is almost gibberish (my latest one too, actually - I thought I could get away with Genre: No Genre once this year, and I wanted to get the pun on clear in.)

The idea is to have fun, not take it seriously - go for it!

Ghost: Added linkage direct to volleyball 2006 in your post. And removed the 5th in your volleyballl.

And, what, no Volleyball awards this year?

Kvetch, now I am stuck with the idea of Superman with an ipod, having to stop to listen to the latest Britney Spears recording every time he has need of his xray vision.

Kvetch wrote:Ghost: Added linkage direct to volleyball 2006 in your post.

Thanks!

Kvetch wrote:Ghost: And, what, no Volleyball awards this year?

I'm thinking about it.


clong fantastic!!!

. . . to make your sordid lives more amoral . . . of ilk Mephistophelean
. . . something ugly and amphibian . . . curses made infamous by old Aeschylus
The world, you know, will soon be run by nothing but the Satanists. . . joys of ev’ry psychopath . . . more of tactics than a tempter in a nunnery . . .


Kvetch

. . . BSAXV - Bad Song Activated X-ray Vision . . . a pair of unobtrusive horns . . . inchoate blob of writhing flesh . . . spontaneously generate a new set of demonic super-powers . . .


clong +1 (obvious), Originality +1 (Gilbert and Sullivan), Entertaining +1 (always be prepared to desecrate), Continuity +1 (smooth), Rule Breaker + 0 (no rules broken), Bonus +0 (NA) TOTAL: 4

Kvetch +1 (obvious), Originality +0 (not really), Entertaining +1 (as always he wished he hadn't), Continuity +1 (smooth), Rule Breaker +0 (no rules broken), Bonus +1 (WOTD: visage) TOTAL: 4


Current Volleyball 2004 Overall Standing:
Kvetch – P: 1 O: 1 E: 2 C: 2 RB: 0 Bonus: 2 TOTAL: 9
Blueworld – P: 1 O: 1 E: 1 C: 1 RB: 0 Bonus: 1 TOTAL: 5
clong – P: 1 O: 1 E: 1 C: 1 RB: 0 Bonus: 0 TOTAL: 4
Brad – P: 1 O: 1 E: 1 C: 1 RB: -1 Bonus: 0 TOTAL: 3

Genres used: (4)
Musical: Gilbert and Sullivan
Impressions (Famous Authors): Dumas, Bulwer-Lytton (cf Paul Clifford)
Other: Autobiography

Xyrael: Very good corporate blah. Now I just need to work out what it means in order to continue it.