Forum Writer of 2012 Competition

[stripy_tie]

I feel humbled and (((sob))) grateful! ((sob))) ... :crying-yellow:

I'd like to thank my parents for giving birth to me ((sniff!)), the general public who voted for me ((sob!)), and to pooh - without whom this would not have been possible ... ((Wail!, sob!, Sniff!... )) :crying-green: :crying-blue: :crying-yellow:

Very well done Batty, I have to admit Modern Romance was probably my favourite.

And to the author of pip's baby - as I have voted for it in every round! - Very VERY good poem!! :clap: :clap:

Very good indeed, another of my favourites. The high quality and sheer number of this year's entries bodes well for next year (you are doing one eh Pooh?). If it's not too early to ask, seeing as we haven't even had the final yet.

Who knows, they might even let us dirty writers into The Broken Drum next year if we ask nicely and brush our hair. Does anyone actually know why we were kicked out in the first place?

 

[Batty]

Who knows, they might even let us dirty writers into The Broken Drum next year if we ask nicely and brush our hair. Does anyone actually know why we were kicked out in the first place?

Sore point, stripy! Perhaps next time (if there is one) ... We can but hope! :handgestures-fingerscrossed:

 

[poohcarrot]

PIP'S BABY IN SHOCK RE-INSTATEMENT SHOCK

Sheesh!

Just what the hell is wrong with wimmin? As mad as a bucket of spanners - the whole lot of 'em.

"I want to win on merit." - Batty.

So to please Miss Stubborn-pants, Pip's Baby is re-instated and there will be a third place play-off.

Pip's Baby was written by ME!. It's pants! The rhyming is pants. It was the pants-iest of all my entries. It took 5 minutes to write. Not only did I not vote for it in the qualifying round, I also didn't vote for it in a 1-on-1 match.

I don't want it to be third! I will vote for Modern Romance. :dance:

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

I'd like to put on record that I never liked and I never voted for Pip's Baby (well I might have once by mistake or because I liked the other ones even less) even though I was practically convinced it was written by Batty.... :shifty:

Smartypants - I realised yesterday where I went 50% wrong, but only because I thought you really weren't that good at rhyming :angelic-red:

 

[deldaisy]

PIP'S BABY IN SHOCK RE-INSTATEMENT SHOCK

Sheesh!

Just what the hell is wrong with wimmin? As mad as a bucket of spanners - the whole lot of 'em.

"I want to win on merit." - Batty.

So to please Miss Stubborn-pants, Pip's Baby is re-instated and there will be a third place play-off.

Pip's Baby was written by ME!. It's pants! The rhyming is pants. It was the pants-iest of all my entries. It took 5 minutes to write. Not only did I not vote for it in the qualifying round, I also didn't vote for it in a 1-on-1 match.

I don't want it to be third! I will vote for Modern Romance. :dance:

But I thought you had written it when you put it up in the Pips Having A Baby thread ages ago.......

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4418

Its still good.

 

[poohcarrot]

Well done Del! I'm glad at leat one person is paying attention. :clap: :clap:
Pip's Baby was solely written for the "Pips having a baby" thread.
(Jan's just silly! )

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

Well done Del! I'm glad at leat one person is paying attention. :clap: :clap:
Pip's Baby was solely written for the "Pips having a baby" thread.
(Jan's just silly! )

And there was me thinking you were plagiarising... I thought that was yet another promo for the drabble thread to direct traffic out of BD you PR wizzard you! :angry-tappingfoot:

 

[Quatermass]

Can I reveal which ones I wrote?

 

[poohcarrot]

Course you can Q. :dance:

 

[Quatermass]

Okey-dokey.

I wrote the following: Bernard, The Hollow Man 2.0, Nuclear Checkmate, Zygomaticus Major Muscles Only, Peter R Newman: A Tribute, Don't Read This Page, and Erdos.

 

[poohcarrot]

Not bad for somebody who initially refused to enter.

Anyhoos, I liked "Zygomaticus Major Muscles Only" and "Don't Read This Page" and voted for them. :dance:

 

[poohcarrot]

SHOCK VOTING SHOCK

In unprecedented scenes at this year's Writer of 2012 competition, not one, not two, not three, but FOUR people are either voting for the opposing story or abstaining from voting for their own story.

(It actually balances out perfectly, so no story has an advantage. )

 

[Del]

Oh come on!

You reckon politicians vote for the other guy?

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Then again thats secret so......

 

[poohcarrot]

Ooh! I've just noticed!

There have now been over

5,000 views of this thread.
:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

 

[Willem]

For full disclosure, mine were
2 Internet dating
4 Reminisc(r)ing
8 The Deer
35 no title for this one
41 Who?

And you're all philestines for not getting me into the top 4

 

[DaveC]

For full disclosure, mine were
2 Internet dating
4 Reminisc(r)ing
8 The Deer
35 no title for this one
41 Who?

And you're all philestines for not getting me into the top 4

I loved Who? !

 

[Batty]

I only entered two, which played against each other in the quarter finals! Grrr!

Untitled II and Modern Romance. Any other poems that were entered were not written by me - but were darn good entries! ... And I STILL like Pip's Baby!

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

Well as people are owning up and only one of mine made it past qualifying anyhoo I shall still retain a modicum of mystery* and just say that mine were either about teenage dolls, rip off anthems on Discworld heroes or valentines to bears of very little brain :angelic-innocent:

* because I've already forgotten the titles...

 

[Batty]

People already know I wrote Modern Romance, and Untitled II is no longer in the running, so I don't think it matters that people know I penned it!

You may not remember the titles, Jan, but I found it really easy to remember the title of Untitled II ...

 

[MongoGutman]

OK, if we're taking credit mine were the Star Trek TNG/Voyager crossover You Can't keep a Good Man Down, the Colin Smythe thing, both of which fell at the first hurdle and A Trick which crashed out of the first knock-out round