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HavePenWillScribble · 05-01-2006 10:54:04

I throw out the suggestion that we have a contest where we compose a parody of someone's work on the site. The restriction being, that you sign in here and agree to participate and that you promise not to get angry at whatever nonsense results from the exercise. No writing about any one's work who is not participating. Well, also that you don't write something intentially mean, just have a little fun.

No limit to the entries either. Do a couple if you are moved to do so.

Weigh in with your thoughts.

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jennifer · 05-01-2006 11:00:32

I'm in, most definitely!

IveyBanks · 05-01-2006 11:36:47

ROFLMAO Scribbler, some would argue that my work is ALREADY a parody.

But I'll be happy to play.

dee · 05-01-2006 13:59:41

Yes, great. I'm in.

Ivan E. Moore II · 05-01-2006 15:04:14

I'm not sure I have the skillz to write parody, but I am more then willing to allow others to make fun of my work! :>

HavePenWillScribble · 05-01-2006 17:06:04

Yes, we must remember not to be mean. Har! And don't take it personal, especially you Barry, I think Ivey is working on 'The One Clod's Coming'. Just a rumor. Har! I'm kidding. I made it up. Might be fun. Might get someone to read you, in order to lambaste you. And it's something to do that requires writing.

Slysir · 05-01-2006 17:54:35

Hardly a fair challenge Pen. How does one write a parody of a parody? I came on this site to win an Oscar(TM), and I can't see how having someone construct written spoofery of my carefully crafted writing could possibly be helpful in my quest for said ellusive Oscar(TM) But that brings us back to the original question. Why are Chinese fortune cookies written in English? I'll have to consider the challenge at some length before deciding I suppose. There are mitigating factors after all. Like: what do we win if we win? A signed copy of your book would be nice, that would save me from having to buy it, and don't try and charge us $24.95 for shipping and handling for god's sake. May I take a day or two to ponder?

HavePenWillScribble · 05-01-2006 18:14:13

Yes, let us ponder, and I hardly think, offering either of my 'books' is adequate incentive to produce more than a modest square-foot of intestinal gas. let alone a short story. Of course I am glad to throw them into the mix. They weigh less than a pound, and with the Amazon shipping allotment, you could sell it for a penny and still realize upwards of a buck-and-a-quarter. If you routed a dumpster for a box, thus saving packaging costs. If at some future point we decide to embark on this ill advised journey, we need to agree on technical stuff, like 'is mueslix food'?

k.jergens · 05-04-2006 09:08:07

Ohh, Scribs, you know that I'm in ;-) This is too good for me not to. And my novel is just ripe for picking fun at! Birds?? Come on! LMAO!!!

Count me in ;-) Tell me when and where - I'll be there.

Selah Cooper-Holl · 05-04-2006 09:14:52

I'd be delighted to see Guppy - The Fish What Eats Only Vegetables

Guinnaed_Bloodstone · 05-07-2006 20:24:21

"Oh Goodie, I'll play," she said bravely, but her lips were trembling.

lisa · 05-07-2006 21:45:27

I'm game too! Count me in. Do we have a deadline?

rhiannon · 05-09-2006 17:48:21

Well, you can count me in, too, although I'm with Ivey in that my works could be considered parodic in nature anyway. But a parody of a parody could work. It would be like the time I sat in the orthodontist's office, between two mirrors, seeing endless repetitions of myself on into infinity. I imagined them to be parallel universes... I think we should put in the title thought "parody," so people will know what's going on.

HavePenWillScribble · 05-09-2006 20:50:15

I know nothing, have been working twelve hour days building a wine cellar for a multimillion dollar Nashville home. Still doesn't compare to the whine I have seen in the old Member Forum, but comes close. Har!
(Could not resist the line) Anyway, I will attempt to construct some loose guidelines. I hate rules, immediately begin looking for ways around them.
1. Name should contain the word parody
2. Announce in this thread
3. Only choose stories or novels by someone who has agreed to participate or allow the public mockery of their work.
4. Don't be like Georgy Porgy Bush glaring at Colbert who ground him up into pork sausage.
5. Have fun!
6. More than one submission allowed?
7. Add your suggestions here...

We get anything settled, we can set a date to start.

jennifer · 05-09-2006 20:54:59

Do we get to team up? Two of us writing a parody of one?

HavePenWillScribble · 05-09-2006 21:00:41

jennifer wrote:
Do we get to team up? Two of us writing a parody of one?

Only against me as I am the largest and fiercest. Har! PPFFHHTT!!!

jennifer · 05-09-2006 21:05:50

Who else would be as much fun to pick on?

Phhffft! right back atcha.

HavePenWillScribble · 05-09-2006 21:30:47

jennifer wrote:
Who else would be as much fun to pick on?

Phhffft! right back atcha.

Don't make me do 'FEELS LIKE GNOME' (Where the women are cold, and the men gave up on them) or 'STUMBLIN' IN THE DARK' with Beaslin and Rake, or 'BREATHE MINTS'!

jennifer · 05-09-2006 21:37:51

Ok. That's just so wrong. Funny, but wrong. OHHHH, if you do, that means I get to write a steamy love scene for Devlin, right?

HavePenWillScribble · 05-09-2006 21:40:59

jennifer wrote:
Ok. That's just so wrong. Funny, but wrong. OHHHH, if you do, that means I get to write a steamy love scene for Devlin, right?

Just make sure he keeps his cigar clenched between his teeth and one hand on a bottle of rum. Har!

jennifer · 05-09-2006 21:43:18

HavePenWillScribble · 05-09-2006 21:52:53

AAAIIIIEEE!!!! It's Teefer Southerland! Run, before he sells you a used car!

jennifer · 05-09-2006 21:56:45

Too late. What can I say, Teefer frightened me.

barry n davidson · 05-09-2006 22:06:17

Once upon a time, Pukin the belimic flayer was eating a whole turkey. Little did he know that the SPCA was looking for him. DeVillin Smartmouth was the attorney searching high and low for Pukin.

jennifer · 05-09-2006 22:08:54

I'm starting to think I'm in over my head. I really don't think I can write a parody.

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