It's not that I'm recycling ideas, it's that so many people enjoyed this one, so I'm doing it again. But this time, we have all weekend to play. And this time, I'm going to play, too. Of course I can't win.
Here's the challenge: Write a sentence made of words that increase by two letters. (Each word has to be two letters longer than the word before it.)
Example: We have twelve exercise assistants.
Word length: 2, 4 ,6, 8, 10
Example: I had seven pickles yesterday.
Word length: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9
How long can you make yours...and still make sense?
(Coherent sentences only, please. Excellent sentences encouraged.)
Please leave your sentence in the comment area - don't forget to leave your email address!
DEADLINE: Sunday February 8th 2009, 11PM EST
PRIZE: A signed copy of The Dust of 100 Dogs the minute I get it and a VOG**
Good Luck and Thanks For Playing!
(**VOG = very odd gift)
Friday, February 6, 2009
Totally Random 2+2=4 Contest Redux
It's not that I'm recycling ideas, it's that so many people enjoyed this one, so I'm doing it again. But this time, we have all weekend to play. And this time, I'm going to play, too. Of course I can't win.
Here's the challenge: Write a sentence made of words that increase by two letters. (Each word has to be two letters longer than the word before it.)
Example: We have twelve exercise assistants.
Word length: 2, 4 ,6, 8, 10
Example: I had seven pickles yesterday.
Word length: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9
How long can you make yours...and still make sense?
(Coherent sentences only, please. Excellent sentences encouraged.)
Please leave your sentence in the comment area - don't forget to leave your email address!
DEADLINE: Sunday February 8th 2009, 11PM EST
PRIZE: A signed copy of The Dust of 100 Dogs the minute I get it and a VOG**
Good Luck and Thanks For Playing!
(**VOG = very odd gift)
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We went yellow.
That's all I have at 11:35pm.
I can count bandits aimlessly apologizing, encouragingly extracurricular characterizations postimpressionistic pseudosophistications.
Is it sad that I spent like 30 min working on this and I'm still not sure if it works??? I THINK it works and I asked the people here if they thought it works... Oh well, it was lots of fun writing it!
oh god i hate this game, i'm so bad at it. but i love to read this book, so...
"I got exams results, extremely overreacted."
Thanks Amy ; )
This is so hard. Lol, kay let's see...
"I may faint, kissing eternally."
We will always remember.
wow, that was kinda lame lol let me try again :)
he who shall, devours eternally
...okay, I give up...
I saw crazy artists attacking innumerable thunderstruck paleontologists.
pepsivanilla14(at)hotmail(dot)com
Love these!
Here's my mid-day try:
A big zebra pounced playfully.
Oh, crap - Stella restarts challenges, accelerating mirthfulnesses programmatically, transformationally deinstitutionalizing counterrevolutionaries' overintellectualizations!
I eat awful magenta fruitcake.
This is so hard!
We love artful, ethereal dirigibles.
or
I can paint elegant, exquisite, Francophone delicatessens.
oops, thought I posted, maybe didn't work.
A big blimp floated aimlessly, eradicating gravitational claustrophobias.
Ye vile demons, diabolic messengers, broadcasting theosophically "Governmentalized Transubstantiation!" - existentialistically disestablishmentarians.
I was inspired while watching the NFL Probowl with my Dad today. We love Jason Whitten - the Dallas Cowboys Tightend so this is an ode to him...even a bad ode is still a declaration of love right?
We Love Cowboy Tightend Probowlers, Competitions Extraordinaire!
Amy - this was HARD!
The pirate swashbuckles.
(That's hard! I only got three words, but I really wanted to do a pirate one)
I am only thinking lightheartedness.
I did two... I hope that's okay. One funny, one more poetic.
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My muse, shadow revenant, resurrects inspirations.
*and*
An eve's unwise drinking... inevitable, desensitized defenestration.
paradoxrevealed (at) aim (dot) com
This was super-hard!
"Try green bananas," whispered Monkey-Bones, "mind-blowingly bittersweetness."
cecilia // cecpham(at)gmail.com
I think I'm too late but I already made by sentence so I will post it anyway :)
"My eyes looked skywards, appraising solar-systems."
lookatthatbook@live.com.au
Oooops. I just realized that I was supposed to add two letters, not double the letters each time. I blame the flu I have!
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