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[Misunderstanding]

Misunderstanding

This fortnight, entrants should write a story (or poem!) with the theme of one big misunderstanding. Your entries can be any genre, but a clever twist at the end would go down with me a treat. That's it. So have fun with your favourite and penultimate comp before Christmas! (I think).

DATES:
Entries until: Friday 27th November (11:59 GMT)
Votes until: Monday 30th November (11:59 GMT)
Winner announced: Tuesday 1st December

Feast your eyes on this trophy up for grabs:

(updated to fit signatures)

Good luck everybody!

If I had to choose, I'd have gone for Shiver too. Apart from being the only other contestant () I thought his was much better than mine by a long stretch.

Thanks everybody who voted, I'll make the new competition thread now.

Blood Filled Lung is a good name for a rock band if you change your mind about acid folk.

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Great, in my opinion I like the first one the best, but I think that a blend of the remastered version would be good. In the remastered version (just before halfway) I like the part where the pitch slides up and down like you're pressing down on an old gramophone record... there's probably a special musical word for it but hopefully you understand what I mean. I think that should be used in the original version too. The first one does remind me of that theme tune in Napoleon Dynamite with the sharp notes. And that's good because I like that film!

PS: Hoorah for my 200th post.

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Ah yes, I can hear it now in the original one too.

I fifth Leaf House.

It reminds me of a story that I read when I was little about a King who owned a huge kingdom. He'd been captivated by the moon, and always dreamt that one day he could walk across the surface. So he ordered his private forest to be cut down to make wooden boxes, which he ordered the servants to stack into a tower. As the King got higher and higher up the tower, he became more and more certain that eventually he'd reach the moon. After his hunting forest had been completely cut down, he ordered another two forests to be cleared and made into boxes. As the tower rose taller and taller, the King ordered all the trees in his kingdom to be sawn down. Eventually, the moon was within a hair's breadth of the King's fingers. But the King had been driven so mad with his desire to touch the moon that all the trees had been cut down, and there were no more boxes left. The King jumped, the tower toppled beneath him, and the soon to be ex-King fell to Earth.

Maybe the story is prophetic?

Looks like no election for me then...

The idea that one day in my lifetime I could be walking on the moon is so exciting, and because I'm quite a bit younger than most people on these forums I've got the biggest chance!

Not satisfied with colonizing Earth, humans settle on the moon. Not satisfied with colonizing two planetary bodies, humans use the moon as a springboard to Mars. I have no doubt both these things will happen in the future, but needless to say not in the near future.

We could use the moon as a second chance at civilisation. When we first settled the Earth (however it happened), we knew nothing. Now we know about politics, art, science, and (literally) an encyclopedia of other things, there's a chance we can resolve things like disease and poverty before they occur.

For President of the Moon vote AtelierGames!

Thanks, I love those two! I'd back anybody who makes a W&G game in AGS, seeing as I can't do it myself.

It works on an , too.

No need to apologise for the quality. Will it be free to download? Sign me up as a beta tester! Please.

Great, the top and bottom one sound like they should be on a silent movie. I certainly got the feeling of a haunted mansion (which judging by your signature is what you're going for?). It reminds me of the Frankenstein game I had on the GB Colour, except that was with Beethoven's 5th(?) and not a midi...

I get a feeling of an entrance hall with the first one. The second is a bit too repetitive at the start, then it changed briefly, but then you're back again with the same booo wwaaa! So, after a while, the first part would get into your head. Putting another kind of melody either before, after, or at the very end would make it less repetitive, and also a bit longer.

They just need to be longer in my opinion.

[Misj]

Idea: Misj
Atmosphere: Bulbapuck
Composition: Bulbapuck
Functionality: Misj

By a twist of fate my breakdown is exactly the same... but it helps make up numbers. Good luck!

[Poltergeist]

One of those abstract poems. It's marmite I guess. Hopefully those limits are as wide as Cetus to Virgo for this to fit into the rules... Happy Halloween everybody!

Poltergeist

I was having a cup of tea,
   you see.
No-one in the house,
   but me.
It was a strange old cuppa,
   too bland.
So I went to the pantry,
   To get some sugar.
Well that was when it started,
   All these strange happenings.
I reached for the Candarel,
   But it wasn't there.
Funny I thought, because,
   I always have Candarel.
Then the lights flickered ON and OFF,
   Gosh what a shock.
Faulty fuse, I thought at first,
   But then I changed my mind.
For sitting upon the breakfast bar,
   Was a ghost.
A hideous spectre it was,
   Perlescent.
      Grimacing.
         Dropping no shadow.
"Away away away!"
   I begged.
Then what a fuss,
   It kicked up.
Lights ON and OFF,
   China dropped.
Curtains ripped,
   Moggy kicked.
Windows smashed,
   Kitchen trashed!
Well I did the only thing,
   I could think of.
I turned on the treadmill,
   In the garage.
Well, they don't call it an,
   Exorcise machine,
      For nothing.
It did the trick, I said:
   Farewell ghosty!
Has this happened to you?
   Today?
I'm sure it will, for
   SCREAM!
      IT'S HALLOWEEN!

Maybe you could try searching on YouTube for Dior ads? It's useful like that. Here's a start.

[Monkey!]

I didn't get any ideas for an entry so I'll make up for it by voting. I always try to follow the rules as close as I can which doesn't help me at all.

Right my vote goes to: Monkey! The writing really flows just like somebody's reading it. (Unlike Wind in the Willows. You cannot read that book out aloud, guaranteed. Especially the ham-and-pickle-and-jam sandwiches bit. But I'm straying again).

Ok well good luck to everybody else!

Interesting. What you've picked up here is an encrypted alien transmission that found its way through the ionosphere. Your best bet is to contact someone within Area 51 and they'll be able to decode it for you.

Seriously, there's a program for the iPhone that you hold up to the music and it searches a huge database, and matches the pitch and rhythm etc to find the music. Particularly useful for things like your alien transmission, but then again I doubt it'll be able to recognise it.

It's called Shazam if you'd like to give it a try, it's a free app from here (the app at the bottom). Other than that I'm stumped. It's a pretty strange track.

[an]

I have two small questions on grammar, and what better place to ask them than here? First off, when writing an abbreviation for an object, does the rule for using AN if the noun starts with a vowel and A if it begins with a consanant still apply? Is it:

I recently received an ASBO for listening to Classic FM. (When the abbr. begins with a vowel?)
A NASA official has been suspended indefinitely for claiming the moon is made of Roquefort. (When the abbr. begins with a consanant?)

I think these two examples are correct, but is this one?

Chris Tucker, an NYPD policeman, has been running riot through Chinatown with Jackie.

My last question is about which/that, and which one should be used when. Are they interchangeable, or are there actually any rules to discern whether one is wrong and the other is right?

Whenever I go shopping I feel like an F1 driver, weaving through the trolley chicanes, which/that people leave sticking out halfway into the aisle.

PS: I had fun writing these examples.

Nice theme, I'll edit this spot with my entry when inspiration strikes.

Yes, as soon as I saw the aliens and the rotating rock temple ship or whatever it was, it lost me. Then again Shia Laboeuf is in Holes so it hasn't lost me entirely! I just hope they don't make his leather jacket and comb combo some kind of trademark though.

The best bit in Crystal Skull, to me, was the part where they remenised about Marcus Brody and then ran into his statue not long after.

My favourite part was when the screen went black and all those names appeared.