Cpt. Smurf

Umm... [spoiler]Was the parrot she bought not the same parrot that the pet=shop owner pointed out?[/spoiler]

Umm, this is difficult, so I'll just give a wild guess... [spoiler]The woman was dumb, so, as she never spoke anything, the parrot had nothing to repeat?[/spoiler] I think I've ...

Very close - I've read all the HPs, all thre LOTR, The Hobbit, but only managed the very beginning of The Silmarillion. It's just so very Bible-like, and I found ...

[spoiler]She's too short to reach the 14th button?[/spoiler]

Don't even introduce the character's past memories as a flashback. Finish up your scene/chapter and then begin with the flashback. No intro, no swimmy screen. It's just there. And then ...

Oh, you can make another. I like trying to solve these things, but I really can't make them up.

Umm, shall I put it in spoilers? Well, I'm going to. I think I've got it right *crosses fingers* [spoiler]Your Aunt Hannah is blind, and the book was in braille.[/spoiler]

I'd emotionally blackmail them all into giving me half of their money, without telling the others, so that I ended up the richest of them all. What would you do ...

I think the third option is the best, although of course the sentence would be better when you haven't dashed it off as an example. I find it's the easiest ...

A balcony. It's been a romance cliche for about 400 years now.

*gasp* *hides under anti-spy blanket*

I decided to re-visit this, and saw instantly that it needed editing. I've carried out more of your suggestions: Firstly, Ofour wondered why the name of Parvolus was mentioned. On ...

Why...? Just... why?

The Gay Pride thread has been taken over by this topic recently, so I thought it best to start a thread of its own. A hundred or so years ago, ...

Pat Buchanan L9 sounds intriguing...