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  • Lounge, The Re: Blair quits: 'I did what I thought was right'

    I actually met Tony Blair once, a long time ago.[/random claim to fame] In my view, what he lacked was decent home policies: He gambled a lot on a bold ...

    Jun 3, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: Islamic Sexism in Afghanistan

    The difficulty is that the muslims are not just oppressing the women because they can - some of the women actively want to wear the veil. I've heard articulate women ...

    Mar 29, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: Porn Used to help get Panda jiggy

    Griffinkeeper and Misterwaffles XD But all of the concerns should be subservient to one thing - were all the pandas involved over 18? Actually, pandas are possibly the worst species ...

    Mar 29, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: Night Club Fire in Central Moscow

    Yeah. I heard in the past month something like 245 people have died in accidents. But then, Russia has had problems for as long as anyone can remember, and the ...

    Mar 29, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: Ultra-short Fiction

    The breath rasps in my lungs as I pound along the tarmac; no time to stop and duck into an alley for a few puffs on the inhaler in my ...

    Mar 29, 2007
  • Randomosity Re: YWS Quote Script

    Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde Quite ironic given this topic.

    Mar 29, 2007
  • Randomosity Re: YWS Quote Script

    Ok. This (almost) fits. I want to be with you for the rest of my life, and if you need me to I'll jump out of a plane for you ...

    Mar 28, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: name association

    The village drunk in a fantasy faux-historical novel, his wits addled by war - an old man with white hair who dispenses wisdom and foolishness in equal measures to anyone ...

    Mar 28, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: Title Feedback

    Hmm...a thoroughly modern novel, told perhaps through the differing mediums of txts and newspaper articles and journals, about an incredibly gifted yet socially inept musician who can only express him

    Mar 28, 2007
  • Randomosity Archive Re: Corrupt a Wish

    Granted, you get your easy life...but at a terrible cost. With everything achieveable, you achieve everything within a few years, and spend the rest of your life dying of boredom. ...

    Mar 28, 2007
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: Some bars...

    OK sureal, I think I've fixed the paragraphing, and he now has a name... Sadly, the name is Jones. Because of the alliteration. Thanks for all the comments!

    Mar 28, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: 1,2

    Right. First off, this isn't original. Sorry. Also, you don't count to 100, you count to 100 several times, your rhymes are lame, and... just.... WHY????

    Mar 25, 2007
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: Some bars...

    (If anyone's read my other stuff, I apologize. I just seem to have a bar-fixation these days. This is lighter satire of the fantasy genre as a whole) Some Bars… ...

    Mar 25, 2007
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: An Inevitable Conclusion

    w00t for streams of consciousness... I agree with chairman, except: Your logic is almost too abstract. Alright, it's in other fiction , so you can't be talking from your own ...

    Mar 25, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: I Found My God In A Mirror

    hmmm, shadowtwit... he is supposed to be omnipresent, so arguably he is within us. And if all answers lie in him, and he is within us, then all answers are ...

    Mar 25, 2007


Don't aim at success--the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.
— Viktor E. Frankl