Emma C
from Los Angeles is reading Black Spire by Delilah DawsonOctober 31, 2012 - 2:51am
Late to the party, but, YAY Stacy!
And oh, how I love L7.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.October 31, 2012 - 5:22am
Flash Me! is supporting all things WAR this month, with a fictional quotes competition.
Give us a "get to the choppa" or a "I love the smell of napalm." Killer trash talk is what we're looking for. Imagine you're the last soldier left from your platoon, all yopur buddies are dead, and the enemy is facing you down. What do you say as you spit in their eye?
Or maybe you're a general, a Churchill. What rising, historic speech do you put out over the airwaves to inspire your armies? Make it uplifting, make it heart-wrenching.
WAR quotes. Just a bit of fun. The best ones will be reposted here. Scroll down this page until you hit the WAR picture to find the start of this month's posting.
All the best.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.October 31, 2012 - 3:56am
P.S. - ALL war participants are expected to write at least one fictional quote. If you don't, well then I will come get ya.
And we'll all be very disappointed in you ;-)
Moderator
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOctober 31, 2012 - 5:14am
@Dino: Yes sir, all worked out. Prompts this Friday (not bumped for the weather). One week to write. Posted next Friday. Two weeks to read and vote.
@David Shephard: No worries, man. When we drop the prompts they will arrive in your PM box with the rules list and contact info, etc., just like last time.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.October 31, 2012 - 6:42am
War music - meditation time.
Renfield
from Hell is reading 20th Century GhostsOctober 31, 2012 - 8:05am
War music - Queit Time (silence while I strip prose.)
This song is way incredibly long.
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnOctober 31, 2012 - 9:07am
WAR quote #1:
"Anybody dies with a clean sword, I'll rape his fucking corpse!"
--Hound, from Game of Thrones
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnOctober 31, 2012 - 9:19am
WAR quote #2 & #3 (from Patton)
"We're going to rip out his living guts, and use them to grease the treads of our tanks!"
"When you stick your hand into a pile of goo, that a moment before was your best friend's face, you'll know what to do."
SConley
from Texas is reading Coin Locker BabiesOctober 31, 2012 - 9:33am
"I'm gonna put a bullet hole in your fuckin' forehead, and I'm gonna fuck the brain hole!"
Dan Akroyd, Grosse Point Blank
Species84
from Fluidic space is reading UNIX a standard operating system (1985) by Austen & Thomassen October 31, 2012 - 9:50am
Meditation? Now? In principle not a bad idea, but personally i need some 'other stuff' right now.
Dogs of war - Exploited
NikKorpon
from Baltimore is reading Book and books and books andOctober 31, 2012 - 10:14am
Damn all you power-havin' motherfuckers! I can see my breath in my bedroom. At least I charged up my laptop before the power shit the bed.
Too, how has no one posted Rafi's WarBoner clip from The League?
@Drea- Is this Drea Cohane?
Species84
from Fluidic space is reading UNIX a standard operating system (1985) by Austen & Thomassen October 31, 2012 - 10:17am
It will be a silent spring...
Desolator, Yuri's revenge
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerOctober 31, 2012 - 10:25am
My WAR quote.
How the the hell did they lose! I thought it was fake, it is not.
"Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally."
Soviet infantry manual"
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerOctober 31, 2012 - 10:31am
And number 2
“War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comforable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Michael Thomas
from South Jersey is reading booksOctober 31, 2012 - 10:38am
I live in South Jersey and our area got rocked. I'm hearing we won't have power until mid-week next week at the earliest. I will try my best to get my story in once the prompts are given out or at least check back to let someone know I have to forfeit.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerOctober 31, 2012 - 10:47am
@Nik- I remember how fucking slow BGE was. I feel for ya. Maryland sucks like that. I spent 5 days without it after Irene.
@Michael- I can't speak for anyone else, but I wouldn't begrudge waiting for you to get it together before we begin. There are far more important things in your life right now. I was VERY impressed with your Governor yesterday, "My state is underwater, I don't give a damn about presidential politics right now"
Why not do the staggered two week start? Prompts drop on time, but you have two weeks to get it together and each pairing posts when they're finished as long as it's within the two week timeframe. This would also help with reading.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersOctober 31, 2012 - 10:48am
I thought you were supposed to write your own quote. I do not understand this. And I hate not understanding.
SConley
from Texas is reading Coin Locker BabiesOctober 31, 2012 - 10:50am
I thought your own quote goes in the flash thread, like one you made up.
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnOctober 31, 2012 - 10:50am
He said "fictional" quote, so I took that mean something existing in literature/film/etc. Maybe that's wrong???
SConley
from Texas is reading Coin Locker BabiesOctober 31, 2012 - 10:52am
I thought "fictional" meant made of fiction, not from fiction? I don't think we're helping the confusion...
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnOctober 31, 2012 - 10:58am
Me thinks perhaps a clarification from Mr. wickedvoodoo is in order...?
Like I said, I thought "fictional" meant existing, but I think it would also be fun to make them up as well.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerOctober 31, 2012 - 11:00am
I just posted whatever I felt like.
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland October 31, 2012 - 11:14am
Do whatever you want in here but what voodoo said, is too go post your own made up quote for this months flash me thread
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersOctober 31, 2012 - 11:18am
"Do whatever you want in here..."
Actually, not whatever you want. I mean, you can do some stuff. A lot of stuff. But not whatever. I realize that as a moderator I usually spend most of my time editing your posts for my own amusement, but really...don't make me ban hammer anyone. I'm looking at you, JR. Knock it off with all the porn.
Dino Parenti
from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands OnOctober 31, 2012 - 11:21am
Ah, I see I haven't been thorough. I guess I didn't read the first half of wickedvoodoo's posting. My bad.
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland October 31, 2012 - 11:33am
Oh snap. That scratches the plan I had for the top ten list thread. O.k. no direct links. ;)
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.October 31, 2012 - 12:00pm
You guys have to come up with the quotes. I want to see your rage for war, your cunning militant genius.
This is for the flash thread.
You could still post awesome existing quotes here if you like. All part of the banter.
Liana
from Romania and Texas is reading Naked LunchOctober 31, 2012 - 3:40pm
What's with the quotes now? We're having a quote contest? Hey I can't keep up, somebody should just personally update me on the goings on.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.October 31, 2012 - 3:45pm
Just a bit o fun Liana, I thought it would be cool if Flash Me! played alongside war this month, something easy so it isn't trying to take attention from the battlefield action.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestOctober 31, 2012 - 3:51pm
"War is not a thing or an action. It's a state of mind."
- R.Moon
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreOctober 31, 2012 - 3:54pm
"Never enter a battle of wits half-armed."
Species84
from Fluidic space is reading UNIX a standard operating system (1985) by Austen & Thomassen October 31, 2012 - 4:05pm
What is going on there in America? Waterproblems?
Today i heared on the news that a lot of waterproblems wouldn't have occured if the right stuff was bought/ installed. And why weren't those things installed? Very simple. People in the states (in general!) think to much about themselves and there own luck. Public things and solidarity issues are of secondary interest. It is a shame that a wealthy country like the United States cannot keep there cities dry. Not much was learned after Katrina, i geuss.
So remember where to vote for! If you would vote republican and they would win, the consequence would be less money to public things and services, less state, more ego, more yourself. Maybe good for some, but water doesn't care about that and will still be flooding your cities!
You americans will have to face this problem 'together'...yep. :) The 'socialist way', all for one and one for all. Hahaha
Take a look at this video and weep. "WAR IS ON!" :)
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestOctober 31, 2012 - 4:04pm
So remember where to vote for! If you would vote republican and they would win, the consequence would be less money to public things and services, less state, more ego, more yourself.
- Ehh... Republican or Democrat, we're fucked anyway.
Sound
from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael WehuntOctober 31, 2012 - 4:09pm
Ehh... Republican or Democrat, we're fucked anyway.
Agreed. It's more about how fucked do you want to be.
* or how you want to be fucked - amirite??? - AD
Sound
from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael WehuntOctober 31, 2012 - 4:26pm
Thank you for not manipulating my post. And yes, that's correct.
Covewriter
from Nashville, Tennessee is reading & SonsOctober 31, 2012 - 8:11pm
I wrote mine just now intheother post .Isthat ok?
JEFFREY GRANT BARR
from Central OR is reading Nothing but fucking Shakespeare, for the rest of my lifeOctober 31, 2012 - 9:10pm
Species, I don't know what is more distressing: your cynical, condescending grasp on American politics and culture, or your reading of an obsolete academic text about a real, living, growing ecosystem. The man pages have everything you need, bro!
A couple things: Your use of the phrases 'You americans' and 'Very simple. You people in the states [...]' denotes a smirking superiority that can only be European, and I don't know if you've been watching your own news lately, but Europe has plenty of its own problems. What is going on there in Eurooe? Europroblems? How is Iceland? Greece? How goes the immigrant problems in the Netherlands?
Now, I'm no American, and I don't ever plan to be one. But your snide allusions to Socialism are off-base, and flat-out ridiculos. Europe has Socialism; America has community.
So you can save your smug suppositions, wrap them carefully, turn them sideways, and shove them up your ass.
Sound
from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael WehuntOctober 31, 2012 - 9:35pm
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland October 31, 2012 - 10:58pm
Like Wicked Voodoo and his FLASH ME! this month, (Which you should all do.Very Cool. Just say what you would say before you die or before you kill, in war. FUN!)
I too want to keep you all focused on war. The PLIGHT is keeping it short and simple as well. So check this out and submit to this month's PLIGHT of the POET:
Start each line with each letter of WAR. Write many! And have fun!
Class Facilitator
Emma C
from Los Angeles is reading Black Spire by Delilah DawsonOctober 31, 2012 - 11:38pm
Rabbit, rabbit.
JEFFREY GRANT BARR
from Central OR is reading Nothing but fucking Shakespeare, for the rest of my lifeNovember 1, 2012 - 12:08am
La Emme Nikita, you forgot a rabbit. Now you are doomed.
Class Facilitator
Emma C
from Los Angeles is reading Black Spire by Delilah DawsonNovember 1, 2012 - 12:36am
2 is as acceptable as 3. Why do you want to ruin November for me, JGB? (｀_´)ゞ
JEFFREY GRANT BARR
from Central OR is reading Nothing but fucking Shakespeare, for the rest of my lifeNovember 1, 2012 - 12:46am
Yes, being wrong is just as good as being right! Let's throw caution into the giant snarling maw of Azathoth, not like it matters! *nervous cackle* No, that's fine, just fine, no one is doomed at all! *Laughter of the broken mind*
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazNovember 1, 2012 - 2:47am
wargasm™
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazNovember 1, 2012 - 2:48am
Oh...sorry, that is deadicated to Red.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazNovember 1, 2012 - 3:07am
“Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.”
So very C.S. Lewis...a propos of:
“Let's pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.”
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerNovember 1, 2012 - 4:42am
Europroblems? How is Iceland? Greece? How goes the immigrant problems in the Netherlands?"
LOL- I think you forgot 25% unemployment in Spain and Italy. And the Greeks trying to jump ship. Also, didn't Amsterdam flood not too long ago? Water can be cleaned up, a society rotting under tax-evasion and decades of mismanagement cannot.
That kind of condescension is adorable though. You want to talk about pulling together and helping each other, then do everyone a favor and help by not gloating over someone else's misfortune. If you want to help, shut the hell up. Those are human beings, not images on your magic screen.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazNovember 1, 2012 - 3:49am
Word. Plus those humans are my family.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.November 1, 2012 - 6:49am
People in the states (in general!) think to much about themselves and there own luck.
For shame. Capitalize States, use commas (not parentheses), no exclamation point, and they are spelled too and their.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerNovember 1, 2012 - 6:57am
For shame. Capitalize States, use commas (not parentheses), no exclamation point, and they are spelled too and their."
Late to the party, but, YAY Stacy!
And oh, how I love L7.
Flash Me! is supporting all things WAR this month, with a fictional quotes competition.
Give us a "get to the choppa" or a "I love the smell of napalm." Killer trash talk is what we're looking for. Imagine you're the last soldier left from your platoon, all yopur buddies are dead, and the enemy is facing you down. What do you say as you spit in their eye?
Or maybe you're a general, a Churchill. What rising, historic speech do you put out over the airwaves to inspire your armies? Make it uplifting, make it heart-wrenching.
WAR quotes. Just a bit of fun. The best ones will be reposted here. Scroll down this page until you hit the WAR picture to find the start of this month's posting.
All the best.
P.S. - ALL war participants are expected to write at least one fictional quote. If you don't, well then I will come get ya.
And we'll all be very disappointed in you ;-)
@Dino: Yes sir, all worked out. Prompts this Friday (not bumped for the weather). One week to write. Posted next Friday. Two weeks to read and vote.
@David Shephard: No worries, man. When we drop the prompts they will arrive in your PM box with the rules list and contact info, etc., just like last time.
War music - meditation time.
War music - Queit Time (silence while I strip prose.)
This song is way incredibly long.
WAR quote #1:
"Anybody dies with a clean sword, I'll rape his fucking corpse!"
--Hound, from Game of Thrones
WAR quote #2 & #3 (from Patton)
"We're going to rip out his living guts, and use them to grease the treads of our tanks!"
"When you stick your hand into a pile of goo, that a moment before was your best friend's face, you'll know what to do."
"I'm gonna put a bullet hole in your fuckin' forehead, and I'm gonna fuck the brain hole!"
Dan Akroyd, Grosse Point Blank
Meditation? Now? In principle not a bad idea, but personally i need some 'other stuff' right now.
Dogs of war - Exploited
Damn all you power-havin' motherfuckers! I can see my breath in my bedroom. At least I charged up my laptop before the power shit the bed.
Too, how has no one posted Rafi's WarBoner clip from The League?
@Drea- Is this Drea Cohane?
It will be a silent spring...
Desolator, Yuri's revenge
My WAR quote.
How the the hell did they lose! I thought it was fake, it is not.
And number 2
I live in South Jersey and our area got rocked. I'm hearing we won't have power until mid-week next week at the earliest. I will try my best to get my story in once the prompts are given out or at least check back to let someone know I have to forfeit.
@Nik- I remember how fucking slow BGE was. I feel for ya. Maryland sucks like that. I spent 5 days without it after Irene.
@Michael- I can't speak for anyone else, but I wouldn't begrudge waiting for you to get it together before we begin. There are far more important things in your life right now. I was VERY impressed with your Governor yesterday, "My state is underwater, I don't give a damn about presidential politics right now"
Why not do the staggered two week start? Prompts drop on time, but you have two weeks to get it together and each pairing posts when they're finished as long as it's within the two week timeframe. This would also help with reading.
I thought you were supposed to write your own quote. I do not understand this. And I hate not understanding.
I thought your own quote goes in the flash thread, like one you made up.
He said "fictional" quote, so I took that mean something existing in literature/film/etc. Maybe that's wrong???
I thought "fictional" meant made of fiction, not from fiction? I don't think we're helping the confusion...
Me thinks perhaps a clarification from Mr. wickedvoodoo is in order...?
Like I said, I thought "fictional" meant existing, but I think it would also be fun to make them up as well.
I just posted whatever I felt like.
Do whatever you want in here but what voodoo said, is too go post your own made up quote for this months flash me thread
"Do whatever you want in here..."
Actually, not whatever you want. I mean, you can do some stuff. A lot of stuff. But not whatever. I realize that as a moderator I usually spend most of my time editing your posts for my own amusement, but really...don't make me ban hammer anyone. I'm looking at you, JR. Knock it off with all the porn.
Ah, I see I haven't been thorough. I guess I didn't read the first half of wickedvoodoo's posting. My bad.
Oh snap. That scratches the plan I had for the top ten list thread. O.k. no direct links. ;)
You guys have to come up with the quotes. I want to see your rage for war, your cunning militant genius.
This is for the flash thread.
You could still post awesome existing quotes here if you like. All part of the banter.
What's with the quotes now? We're having a quote contest? Hey I can't keep up, somebody should just personally update me on the goings on.
Just a bit o fun Liana, I thought it would be cool if Flash Me! played alongside war this month, something easy so it isn't trying to take attention from the battlefield action.
"War is not a thing or an action. It's a state of mind."
- R.Moon
"Never enter a battle of wits half-armed."
What is going on there in America? Waterproblems?
Today i heared on the news that a lot of waterproblems wouldn't have occured if the right stuff was bought/ installed. And why weren't those things installed? Very simple. People in the states (in general!) think to much about themselves and there own luck. Public things and solidarity issues are of secondary interest. It is a shame that a wealthy country like the United States cannot keep there cities dry. Not much was learned after Katrina, i geuss.
So remember where to vote for! If you would vote republican and they would win, the consequence would be less money to public things and services, less state, more ego, more yourself. Maybe good for some, but water doesn't care about that and will still be flooding your cities!
You americans will have to face this problem 'together'...yep. :) The 'socialist way', all for one and one for all. Hahaha
Take a look at this video and weep. "WAR IS ON!" :)
Agreed. It's more about how fucked do you want to be.
* or how you want to be fucked - amirite??? - AD
Thank you for not manipulating my post. And yes, that's correct.
I wrote mine just now intheother post .Isthat ok?
Species, I don't know what is more distressing: your cynical, condescending grasp on American politics and culture, or your reading of an obsolete academic text about a real, living, growing ecosystem. The man pages have everything you need, bro!
A couple things: Your use of the phrases 'You americans' and 'Very simple. You people in the states [...]' denotes a smirking superiority that can only be European, and I don't know if you've been watching your own news lately, but Europe has plenty of its own problems. What is going on there in Eurooe? Europroblems? How is Iceland? Greece? How goes the immigrant problems in the Netherlands?
Now, I'm no American, and I don't ever plan to be one. But your snide allusions to Socialism are off-base, and flat-out ridiculos. Europe has Socialism; America has community.
So you can save your smug suppositions, wrap them carefully, turn them sideways, and shove them up your ass.
Like Wicked Voodoo and his FLASH ME! this month, (Which you should all do.Very Cool. Just say what you would say before you die or before you kill, in war. FUN!)
I too want to keep you all focused on war. The PLIGHT is keeping it short and simple as well. So check this out and submit to this month's PLIGHT of the POET:
In the spirit of WAR this month’s prompt will be the acronym W.A.R.
Go. here http://litreactor.com/discuss/plight-of-the-poet-prompt-competition?page=1 to check it out. Write a three line poem.
Start each line with each letter of WAR. Write many! And have fun!
Rabbit, rabbit.
La Emme Nikita, you forgot a rabbit. Now you are doomed.
2 is as acceptable as 3. Why do you want to ruin November for me, JGB? (｀_´)ゞ
Yes, being wrong is just as good as being right! Let's throw caution into the giant snarling maw of Azathoth, not like it matters! *nervous cackle* No, that's fine, just fine, no one is doomed at all! *Laughter of the broken mind*
wargasm™
Oh...sorry, that is deadicated to Red.
So very C.S. Lewis...a propos of:
LOL- I think you forgot 25% unemployment in Spain and Italy. And the Greeks trying to jump ship. Also, didn't Amsterdam flood not too long ago? Water can be cleaned up, a society rotting under tax-evasion and decades of mismanagement cannot.
That kind of condescension is adorable though. You want to talk about pulling together and helping each other, then do everyone a favor and help by not gloating over someone else's misfortune. If you want to help, shut the hell up. Those are human beings, not images on your magic screen.
Word. Plus those humans are my family.
For shame. Capitalize States, use commas (not parentheses), no exclamation point, and they are spelled too and their.
That too!
Dammit.