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Moyer Hall
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Wanker, bum, git... love all those terms!
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Al Cook
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Don't forget Kiltalicious...
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Donald Miller
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I'm for a Moyer Hall story...
All is well it seems...
Joakim, I just blew a half hour trying to get that goodreads app to work on facebook...just look for me as donopolis. I'll be the guy with Captain Marvel as my avatar looks like this:
Jodi, I want to visit Europe...a cross country tour by train...Italy, Germany, France, the whole caboodle...
Al, make sure your wife knows she's wrong about that picture...I love the candid shot personally they always seem to be the ones that capture the tru personality....And she looks like a definite keeper.
Here's a candid of Sarah...I took this just as she was releasing an insect friend of hers back into the wild.
Cheers,
Don
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Brian Talley
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| Posted: 08 October 2008 at 8:21am | IP Logged | 4
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I also like "Kiltacular"!
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Moyer Hall
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| Posted: 08 October 2008 at 8:28am | IP Logged | 5
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Sarah is adorable Don! That's a great shot of her... the hands are so expressive.
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Joakim Jahlmar
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Joined: 10 October 2005
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| Posted: 08 October 2008 at 8:32am | IP Logged | 6
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Hey - Victor is no longer blue!!! That kind of threw me off balance.
Al wrote:
"Now that's a cool idea; I'm up for writing a 'Moyer Hall' story..."
This could really become something great...
Al-so wrote:
"(And I was only joking about the 'confessed' thing, Joakim!)"
Is that your way of saying that you're a closet Saga fan, Al? ;)
Geoff wrote:
"But how would a Moyer Hall story begin?"
Any way the person writing it would see fit... e.g.:
The autumn wind was blowing hard and relentlessly across the countryside, rattling the leaves on the trees, shaking the shutters of the houses and making it generally unpleasant for man or beast to venture outside. On top of a hill slightly west of a little village named Oaksley stood a mighty manor house commonly called Moyer Hall and nowhere did the wind blow crueller or more cold on this particular evening. ...
And for the record, that's not necessarily the opening Iwill go with... just something off the top of my head.
More Geoff:
"My favorite opening to any novel I've read was the opening lines of Ulysses: "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan appeared at the masthead . . . ."
There are a few but three that leap to mind are G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday (basically the whole first paragraph), Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (also first paragraph) and Stephen King's The Gunslinger (the first sentence: "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."?).
Oh, and the opening of William Gibson's Neuromancer certainly doesn't hurt. "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
And I just thought of another potential opening for a Moyer Hall story:
Moyer Hall was generally speaking a rather gay person, so it was something out of character that he awoke in a foul mood on the day of the catastrophe. ...
Jodi wrote:
"Today I am going to make Al and Talley uncomfortable by calling them 'Kiltalicious' ;0)"
And at first glance my eyes didn't read that as K I L T alicious, at all. Though my reading seems a wee bit more interesting to be frank.
As for under used words... how about "sheep shagger"?
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Moyer Hall
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Moyer Hall was generally speaking a rather gay person, so it was
something out of character that he awoke in a foul mood on the day of the
catastrophe. ...
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Hey waking up in a foul mood is a daily occurrence!
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Geoff Gibson
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As for under used words... how about "sheep shagger"?
We call that a Donegal man.*
*Total inside joke -- my great grandfather was from Donegal, my cousin, his great grandnephew, is from Donegal and one of my dearest friends. We often joke about sheep shagging going on on the farms where he grew up.
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Al Cook
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| Posted: 08 October 2008 at 8:40am | IP Logged | 9
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Don, that picture of your Sarah is priceless. My cold heart melted just a little
there, it did.
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Joakim Jahlmar
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| Posted: 08 October 2008 at 8:43am | IP Logged | 10
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Don wrote:
"Joakim, I just blew a half hour trying to get that goodreads app to work on facebook...just look for me as donopolis. I'll be the guy with Captain Marvel as my avatar looks like this"
Well, I had you waiting for me, both when I opened the FB app and the regular GoodReads page. :)
And more Don:
"Jodi, I want to visit Europe...a cross country tour by train...Italy, Germany, France, the whole caboodle..."
And Sweden, don't forget Sweden, Don! :)
Moyer wrote:
"Hey waking up in a foul mood is a daily occurrence!"
Be that as it may... fictional Moyer obviously doesn't. It says so in the opening line. ;)
Geoff wrote:
"We call that a Donegal man.*"
And here I would have opted for Australian... or that New Zeelander, I always forget. *quickly ducks and covers*
Seriously though, I just love the alliteration, the sheep shagging sheep shagger shagged some shaggy sheep.
And Al, for goodness sake, get that heart of yours on ice, a.s.a.p.
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Victor Manuel Fernandez Patiño
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| Posted: 08 October 2008 at 9:25am | IP Logged | 11
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I'm not blue... I'm not blue!
Jodi called us cute guys!
Mmmmmm... what I want to do before I grow -much- older -than I am right now?-?
I want to be happy -the rest can come or go... as long as I can keep smiling-
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Tom French
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As long as the economy is in the tank, I think it's our patriotic duty to pay a small tax on smiles -- if you smile over 250,000 times a day. Normal smilers will not have to worry.
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