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So I came across this video at Slate.com. The headline: Better than haiku? We here at NA know that haiku is the supreme form of verse, but this is pretty cool too. (Hemingway's --"For sale: baby shoes; never worn." makes me nauseous, by the way.) I've started one thread in my tenure here. This is the second. Pretty momentous, huh?
Anyway, I got the ball rolling with the thread title. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it is this:
Next: Michael has two queens on Casino Night.
There's an actual contest that I think happens annually where you submit six-word stories. Last year or the year before they were supposed to be autobiographical. I heard a blurb on the radio and never could find it again. I love this challenge!
Six-word story:
Stud Poker: Ace in two holes
Challenge: Drinks at the bar
A men's magazine I'm not going to link had a blurb in the latest issue about a new book called Not Quite What I was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Famous and Obscure Writers. Here were some examples they gave:
"Well, I thought it was funny." - Stephen Colbert
"Explained Hitler, Shakespeare. Couldn't explain self." - Ron Rosenbaum
"Revenge is living well, without you." - Joyce Carol Oates
"Came, saw, conquered, had second thoughts." - Harold Ramis
My brain isn't working well enough to answer the challenge so it still stands.
Brown dress, his smile, not enough.
Challenge: The interview with David Wallace.
One lid, two thoughts, good bye.
(Cheated.)
Challenge: Future Dwight.
Like waving a flag at bulls.
KarenM, I love everything about the way you choose to be.
Challenge: Red sweater.
C'mon mtt, this one has your name written all over it.
Pam wears red, Northern Attack freaks.
Continue the Red Sweater challenge, or Jim & Dwight go on a sales call.
Jim & Dwight
"We know service." "Hello, Kelly speaking!"
Red Sweater
"Pam's new look: who needs cleavage?"
(How's that, St,D?
Challenges stand.
"Pam's new look: who needs cleavage?"
Very, very well done. Oh, and they're real, by the way ;-)
Very, very well done. Oh, and they're real, by the way ;-)
I never doubted them for a second! And thanks! :-)
Good Lord, is it midnight already? Time for bed.
'night, all! Can't wait to see what clever headlines are on this thread by tomorrow.
Here's a dirty one to start the morning, with the red sweater.
Christmas came early. So did we.
Challenge stands, or Andy and Angela's new relationship.
Andy and Angela's New Relationship: My Prediction
Angela will not "take a chance".
Oh, and very nice, gb. Nothing like a little dirtiness to start the day.
Same prompt.
Red sweater
Red like her lips, we succumb.
Let's keep it going or how about Michael and Ryan.
Red Sweater: Urban Myth, Needs Investigation.
"Red Sweater" said thrice yields appearance.
Pam's sweater makes jaw hit floor.
Next: Red Sweater or Are Jim & Toby friends?
Two men, one woman, no contest.
Challenge still stands, because that was kind of lame.
Are Jim & Toby friends?
Please. Toby has no friends.
Or (more from Michael's perspective)
No friends. No family. Just Toby.
Challenge: Ryan's tenure at corporate, so far.
Beard's no match for Jan's boobs.
Challenge stands.
No way man. Nobody can follow that.