July Writing Comp: Aesop's Fables *Voting Time*

Started by MashPotato, Mon 03/07/2006 18:56:21

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Play_Pretend

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Wow.  Someone's actually getting angry about this?  Online competition.  For fun.  If you've got issues with other people's work, just don't vote for them.  Don't come all poor sportsman and show up to insult your competitors because you define a fable as something strictly intellectual and old-worldy instead of modern and amusing.  And I quote MashPotato's rules:

"...or be wacky and make a fable that teaches lessons in idiocy!  Whichever one you want."

I'm a big fan of Aesop from way back, and can even remember particular ones where the whole moral was that jackals are more funny and clever than alligators, or that if you're a common lumberjack you'll nevertheless be able to defeat magical traps through deus-ex-machinas and win the princess.  They didn't even have proper morals, more just "evil guys always lose", which isn't even remotely true or realistic as a life lesson.

So please, can we keep it polite in here, and just see who the people vote for?

Kweepa

I think he was joking. Perhaps it's a Polish thing.
Anyway, mocking pure reason and intellect IS cool. All the kidz are doing it.
Still waiting for Purity of the Surf II

SmootH

Steve, thanks for the vote! I'll bake you a cake
There is nothing, NOTHING ointment can't cure!

SSH

Quote from: adam100 on Sun 30/07/2006 02:52:18
Apart from SSH's entry all the rest(I am not the one to judge mine own) is well...shallow and uninspired.

Thanks, but I just cut-and-pasted it almost in entirety from the web...
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Nikolas

Alliance: Thanks :D I vould never've thought that I would get any votes!!!!! O_O

My vote goes to: Radiant!

adam100

Ok, my vote goes to Steve's work, I guess(Radiant's work was also interesting but its morale was less thought-provoking and quite honestly, judging by its inept, almost absurd nature I allege it is generated by some neat program, if not then I apologize and Radiant should get a noble prize for the most mysteriously spun inscrutable methaphors).

Play_Pretend

Well, voting time is over and here's the finally tally folks!

We have equal votes of one apiece for Nikolas, Smooth and Radiant, but Steve slid through as this month's winner with two votes! :)

Congratulations, Steve, and great work everyone!  And an "awesome topic choice" to our illustrious MashPotato.  Take it away, Mister McCrea!  ;D

SmootH

This one was too close too call. I demand recount! :P
There is nothing, NOTHING ointment can't cure!

fred

Oh no! I just missed the voting! By 3 hours!

Well, would have voted for Steve anyway, so happy win!

Radiant

The moral of my story is that I like random story generators. It wasn't MadLibs but that does get the general idea :)

Kweepa

Thanks! I've started a new competition so this one can be locked up.
Still waiting for Purity of the Surf II

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