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BS: Challenge-longest sentence

31 Aug 06 - 06:23 PM (#1823988)
Subject: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: GUEST,Challenger

my challenge is to create together a longest sentence possible, of course that has a meaning. I will put the first word and you keep building on it. Remember only one sentence.

Yesterday


31 Aug 06 - 06:31 PM (#1823993)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: skipy

The longest sentance is life & it should mean life!
Skipy


31 Aug 06 - 06:40 PM (#1823998)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Don Firth

Oh, heck! Ducksoup. I don't have time right now, but I may just give it a shot.

I had an English prof at the University of Washington who as a novelist, and in one of his novels, he had a three-page chapter that was all one sentence. Marcel Proust used to do that sort of thing, too.

Don Firth


31 Aug 06 - 08:10 PM (#1824081)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Ebbie

Since everything begins and ends with 'I':

Yesterday, I


31 Aug 06 - 08:12 PM (#1824084)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: GUEST

Yesterday, I was


31 Aug 06 - 08:20 PM (#1824089)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: bobad

today, I am not.


31 Aug 06 - 08:27 PM (#1824092)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Yesterday, I was taken


31 Aug 06 - 08:30 PM (#1824094)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Ebbie

(Sorry, bobad, I read that as a new sentence.)

Yesterday, I was taken on


31 Aug 06 - 08:36 PM (#1824099)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: bobad

That was just some fatalist commentary Ebbie, I'm feeling better now.


31 Aug 06 - 08:42 PM (#1824102)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: GUEST

Yesterday, I was taken on a


31 Aug 06 - 08:46 PM (#1824106)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Yesterday, I was taken on a thoroughly


31 Aug 06 - 08:50 PM (#1824111)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Little Hawk

Yesterday, I was taken on a thoroughly unexpected


31 Aug 06 - 09:23 PM (#1824131)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: GUEST

Yesterday, I was taken on a thoroughly unexpected trip to


31 Aug 06 - 09:58 PM (#1824152)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Bill D

I think we have ONE troll who is starting silly threads under different names....ya'll play if ya want.


31 Aug 06 - 10:00 PM (#1824154)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Bee-dubya-ell

That's two words. GUEST! Now you have to skip a turn!

Yesterday, I was taken on a thoroughly unexpected trip to the


31 Aug 06 - 10:23 PM (#1824163)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Paul from Hull

Bill D, I think youre right...fairly harmless so fa, but you never know if he is wetting his pants laughing at us falling for it, then they start to get gradually nastier.


31 Aug 06 - 10:31 PM (#1824167)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Little Hawk

Yesterday, I was taken on a thoroughly unexpected trip to the last


31 Aug 06 - 10:42 PM (#1824174)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Ebbie

place


01 Sep 06 - 12:48 AM (#1824242)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: GUEST,Beejeeber

Yesterday, I was taken on a thoroughly unexpected trip to the last station.


01 Sep 06 - 01:03 AM (#1824244)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Amergin

Skipy, actually a death sentence is a hell of a lot longer than a life sentence....


01 Sep 06 - 05:19 AM (#1824329)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Bunnahabhain

Why?

It may not be the longest sentence, but the answers normally are.


01 Sep 06 - 08:48 AM (#1824481)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Becca72

I was always told that the longest sentence is "I do"...


01 Sep 06 - 12:14 PM (#1824672)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Ebbie

Yesterday, I was taken on a thoroughly unexpected trip to the last station on


01 Sep 06 - 01:51 PM (#1824760)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: JennyO

Yesterday, I was taken on a thoroughly unexpected trip to the last station on Mars


01 Sep 06 - 04:45 PM (#1824923)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: GUEST,Karlita

Yesterday, I was taken on a thoroughly unexpected trip to the last station on Mars, even though


01 Sep 06 - 05:09 PM (#1824943)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Kaleea

his


01 Sep 06 - 05:10 PM (#1824945)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: GUEST

Yesterday, I was taken on a thoroughly unexpected trip to the last station on Mars, even though his mother


01 Sep 06 - 05:38 PM (#1824961)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Don Firth

wouldn't


01 Sep 06 - 05:42 PM (#1824967)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: fat B****rd

like it


01 Sep 06 - 05:55 PM (#1824973)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Amos

although


01 Sep 06 - 07:45 PM (#1825044)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: GUEST

ARE THE POSTERS IN THIS THREAD WHO CAN NOT UNDERSTAND the "ONE WORD" REQUIREMENT THE SORT OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T LISTEN IN REAL LIFE TOO?????????


sorry for shouting but jesus the concept isn't that hard is it???????????


01 Sep 06 - 08:15 PM (#1825060)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: GUEST

the shouting guest hasn't even posten one word.I'll help him.

Yesterday, I was taken on a thoroughly unexpected trip to the last station on Mars, even though his mother didn't


02 Sep 06 - 03:34 AM (#1825212)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: fat B****rd

like


02 Sep 06 - 03:35 AM (#1825213)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: fat B****rd

it


02 Sep 06 - 12:44 PM (#1825441)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Little Hawk

Guest, the problem is this: There are too many different people here. Too many idle minds. Too many cooks spoiling the soup. It's like trying to arrange a game with a few thousand passersby on a very busy streetcorner in New York City, and expecting them all to "get" the rules and play the game properly as they are briefly going by.

You also assume that they all have enough goodwill to cooperate and do what you want. Many of them don't.

Then there are those f*ckers whose only joy is to deliberately do exactly what others don't want. There are always a few of those too.

In other words, forget it. It's hopeless.


02 Sep 06 - 01:28 PM (#1825469)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Ebbie

Yesterday, I was taken on a thoroughly unexpected trip to the last station on Mars, even though his mother didn't like it and


02 Sep 06 - 01:40 PM (#1825474)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: GUEST,Robot From Space

Who's mother? You can't just suddenly introduce HIS into a sentence when you started with"I" unless you introduce and specify the second person first. If you don't use correct english this is pointless/


02 Sep 06 - 01:43 PM (#1825476)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Ebbie

Well, Robert, the Alien, all will come right eventually.


02 Sep 06 - 01:49 PM (#1825479)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: JennyO

this is pointless

Yep, sure is! Anyone notice how Mudcat's been overrun with control freaks lately? Probably all the same GUEST.

Give up, mate - unless of course you ENJOY herding cats!


02 Sep 06 - 03:42 PM (#1825529)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: gnu

Herding cats is easier than herding 'Cats.


02 Sep 06 - 11:01 PM (#1825715)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: GUEST


03 Sep 06 - 09:46 AM (#1825904)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: JennyO

Too true Gnu!


04 Sep 06 - 03:49 AM (#1826375)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Ebbie

Yesterday, I was taken on a thoroughly unexpected trip to the last station on Mars, even though his mother didn't like it and she


04 Sep 06 - 07:03 AM (#1826464)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: JennyO

Er, I think GUEST Challenger/Muser/Teacher/Rabbi has left the building/Mudcat and moved on to greener pastures/fora. I think Mudcat was too much of a force for chaos for him Mudcat as a force for chaos & social bre(akdown)

So we can carry on now as before with our wicked ways, without having to wonder whether we are on the wrong path or can put a sentence together correctly or whether time can go backwards or whether dark entities are after our souls. Think I might go and bite the heads off a few chickens.....


04 Sep 06 - 05:54 PM (#1826947)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Ebbie

Yesterday, I was taken on a thoroughly unexpected trip to the last station on Mars, even though his mother didn't like it and she cried


04 Sep 06 - 05:59 PM (#1826951)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: GUEST,Suzi

Yesterday, I was taken on a thoroughly unexpected trip to the last station on Mars, even though his mother didn't like it and she cried loudly


04 Sep 06 - 06:03 PM (#1826953)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: GUEST

Ahem: Note the correction:

Yesterday, I was taken on a thoroughly unexpected trip to the last station on Mars, even though my mother didn't like it and she cried loudly that


04 Sep 06 - 06:51 PM (#1826990)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Amos

, although


04 Sep 06 - 11:09 PM (#1827119)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Ebbie

I


05 Sep 06 - 11:55 AM (#1827519)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Amos

(despite


05 Sep 06 - 02:15 PM (#1827629)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Ebbie

vociferous


05 Sep 06 - 02:28 PM (#1827642)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Little Hawk

wanking


05 Sep 06 - 03:23 PM (#1827682)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: GUEST

and


05 Sep 06 - 03:25 PM (#1827684)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: fat B****rd

strumming


05 Sep 06 - 04:10 PM (#1827723)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Amos

(indifferently

I hope someone is counting the number of partenthetical sub-expressions in series here!


A


06 Sep 06 - 03:32 PM (#1828642)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: fat B****rd

yet


07 Sep 06 - 11:13 AM (#1829250)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Amos

enthusiastically


07 Sep 06 - 01:16 PM (#1829341)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Ebbie

)


07 Sep 06 - 02:21 PM (#1829399)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Little Hawk

which


07 Sep 06 - 04:13 PM (#1829480)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Amos

(inadvertently


07 Sep 06 - 05:48 PM (#1829550)
Subject: RE: BS: Challenge-longest sentence
From: Ebbie

)






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