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A62458482 - Cats VS Dogs VS Pandas VS Dinosaurs (Completely Irrevalant Name)
ftw2g2 Started conversation Jan 27, 2010
Entry: Cats VS Dogs VS Pandas VS Dinosaurs (Completely Irrevalant Name) - A62458482
Author: ftw2g2 - U14304288
A story about Marvin the Robot's ghost with no revelance to any animals other than humans.
As well as some bad puns involvign grammar schools.
A62458482 - Cats VS Dogs VS Pandas VS Dinosaurs (Completely Irrevalant Name)
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jan 27, 2010
This is almost funny. It could become really funny with a little work. I would recommend giving it just a bit more plot, a tiny bit of polish, and removing all the references to already-published works and pop culture.
This may be more work than you'd like to do, but then the story would be really funny.
I enjoyed the idea that you were arguing with the reader. That was so much fun I felt like arguing back. So I did. Here is the result, intended to amuse and help, no mwahahaing and no offence intended :
DEAR WRITER OF NON-EXISTENT STORYLINE:
irrevelant - are you meaning to be comical by using this made-up word? Otherwise, it's 'irrelevant'.
non-existant - that word is non-existent, as well.
each. other. - two. words.
despressed - I am tempted to make up a meaning for this word, but I think you mean 'depressed'.
satifaction - ditto. satisfaction, as in 'we don't get no' when we read this story.
immediatly - immediately (there's this thing on your Word program called a Spell Checker - Marvin probably knows where it is, though the whole subject will des-press him terribly)
I hope the proofread helps. Maybe another reader has some more tips on how to make this story funnier.
A62458482 - Cats VS Dogs VS Pandas VS Dinosaurs (Completely Irrevalant Name)
ftw2g2 Posted Jan 28, 2010
Done. Bad pun made out the word despressed included.
A62458482 - Cats VS Dogs VS Pandas VS Dinosaurs (Completely Irrevalant Name)
ftw2g2 Posted Jan 28, 2010
Btw I use Works Word Processor instead of Microsoft Word!
Which also has a spell checker... so... in your face!
A62458482 - Cats VS Dogs VS Pandas VS Dinosaurs (Completely Irrevalant Name)
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jan 28, 2010
I think this is better. Funnier. And it moves in a very breezy way.
You still have 'irrevelant' in your title.
I noticed another one - 'blonde' is female. 'blond' is male. (Blame the French, but this is even true if you are British.)
A62458482 - Cats VS Dogs VS Pandas VS Dinosaurs (Completely Irrevalant Name)
ftw2g2 Posted Jan 28, 2010
I swear I changed the title... Ah well.
A62458482 - Cats VS Dogs VS Pandas VS Dinosaurs (Completely Irrevalant Name)
minorvogonpoet Posted Jan 28, 2010
This is quite funny . (Or it's a commentary on the difficulty of writing anything in a post-modernist world where nothing is what it seems.)
Personally, I'm on Marvin's side and would like to see him reduce Darth Vader to tears. (How does he cry in that helmet thing?)
Why do grammar schools have the ghosts of robots? In my part of the world, grammar schools are old fashioned and are more likely to have the ghosts of pupils who have taken so long failing to work out quadratic equations that they have died in the process.
A62458482 - Cats VS Dogs VS Pandas VS Dinosaurs (Completely Irrevalant Name)
ftw2g2 Posted Jan 28, 2010
I go to a grammar school. So there. I certainly didn't make it up for a cheap joke.
A62458482 - Cats VS Dogs VS Pandas VS Dinosaurs (Completely Irrevalant Name)
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jan 28, 2010
You have my sympathies.
MVP, if Marvin kept talking to Darth Vader, Vader would probably start to hyperventilate...
Can you imagine what this would sound like?
You two, do y'all follow the adventures of Chad Vader, the evil manager of the local supermarket?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX3aheU0qis
A62458482 - Cats VS Dogs VS Pandas VS Dinosaurs (Completely Irrevalant Name)
ftw2g2 Posted Jan 28, 2010
Used to. Got round to the bit where he was attacking the mall or something (while on the night shift, I think), but then got hooked on Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series instead.
Maybe I will include Chad Vader in a sequel... in America!
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A62458482 - Cats VS Dogs VS Pandas VS Dinosaurs (Completely Irrevalant Name)
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- 3: ftw2g2 (Jan 28, 2010)
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