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Nov 29, 2010 - 11 45

LISTEN UP YOU PAMPERED SUBURBANITE WANNABE WRITERS!!

ARE YOU GOING TO LET SOME CANADIAN COWPUNCHERS WHO DON'T KNOW BACON COMES IN STRIPS OR THAT FOOTBALL IS PLAYED ON A GRIDIRON BY MEN IN HELMETS, NOT SIMPLY WITH YOUR FEET, OR THAT WE OWE OUR ALLEGIENCE TO GEORGE WASHINGTON AND NOT SOME SHORT LADY WHO WEARS GINORMOUS HATS AND CALLS HERSELF QUEEN BEAT NAPERVILLE IN A WORD WAR??!!

ARE YA?!

WELL, NOT ME. SEE, I FIGURE IF EACH OF US PUT OUR SHOULDER TO THE WHEEL AND CRANK OUT 1000 MORE WORDS WE CAN KEEP THOSE CANADIANS FROM EVER BELIVEING THEY'RE SUPERIOR TO NAPERVILLE AND THE GOOD OLE U. S. of A. (in that order).

SO WHO'S WITH ME? LET'S STORM THE BEACHHEAD AND KNOCK CALGERY ON THEIR CANUK KESTERS!

Respectfully,

Tomster

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Nov 29, 2010 - 20 46

cooldoctor1 wrote:
For the first time, our venerable Katherine is sounding downright...mortal.

You and tomster make my day, and my month!
Cheers.
Katherine (who is sitting out a 17 minute word war on the jabberchat on Monday evening to write this, but who has written 1000 more words than she thought she would today.)

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Nov 29, 2010 - 19 59

For the first time, our venerable Katherine is sounding downright...mortal.

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Nov 29, 2010 - 18 44

dang blast it, Tom. I was done.

Back when I was trying to wrap it up, I imagined that if I had time, I would write long descriptions of my characters, or describe a scene using all the senses. Guess what? That really slows me down. And it's hard to look at the existing document and not want to start cutting, shortening, etc. But I won't. Not until after November is over. So I'd posted on Facebook that I was done, started resuming normal life, and...

Sigh. I can do another 1000.

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Nov 29, 2010 - 16 31

I am dying so hard. It makes me laugh, all of this.

Here are some little known Calgary facts...

* Their stadium is shaped like a giant saddle. The Saddledome!
* They host a yearly festival that is their trademark, the Calgary Stampede. Is it all the people trying to flee the city? Sadly not, it's when they rope cows and have cowboys riding around.
* Calgary is the largest city in Canada's Texas. (Think guns, oil, cows, farms, 50 gallon cowboy hats, grass...) Just add more snow!
* Winter lasts 49 weeks of the season. Summer are three weeks of bad ice-fishing and slush! >;)
* Their football team: The Stampeders
* Their hockey team: The Flames
* I think we can come up with some jokes about people running around on fire. ;)

tomster wrote:
... FOOTBALL IS PLAYED ON A GRIDIRON BY MEN IN HELMETS, NOT SIMPLY WITH YOUR FEET...

The CFL (Canadian Football League) plays American football with a few rules differences. I don't think Calgarians know what soccer is. That would require them to go outside and try to tell the soccer ball apart from the snow and oil puddles. >;)

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...NOT SOME SHORT LADY WHO WEARS GINORMOUS HATS AND CALLS HERSELF QUEEN...

Hillary Clinton!? O.o

Quote:
WE CAN KEEP THOSE CANADIANS FROM EVER BELIVEING THEY'RE SUPERIOR TO NAPERVILLE AND THE GOOD OLE U. S. of A. (in that order).

Does that make me a traitor? Am I a *gasp* turncoat for being a Canadian serving the Naperville cause? HELL YEAH!

Cowtown is going down!

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NaNoWriMo region: Ferndale, MI | Naperville, IL
Genres: Urban contemporary; fantasy, sci-fi; speculative; historical

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Nov 29, 2010 - 11 52

Oh my aching head! Tom, you're terrific. Terrifying but terrific.

Yes, coach. Will write 1000 words. Amen. God bless. No loud noises until his chill pill kicks in.

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Sincerely, Cooldoc.

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