thefoolish
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So, I am issuing a challenge to all of those that I can reach. You don't have to be a pipe-smoker to take part in this challenge, or even have any knowledge of pipes at all, though the prize for winning might not be that exciting to you if you don't smoke a pipe.
Here is the challenge: Write a coherent story using as many pipe shape names as possible (a list of a few of these name will be include below). This story should not only include the needed vocabulary, but should also be entertaining. Stories will be judged on literary value, number of vocabulary words included, and if the words used flow naturally within the story.
Here is an example that I wrote a while ago: "A Canadian prince and a lumberjack from Liverpool are playing a game of billiards in Dublin, and another man joins them and says “I've got a bulldog and I know you'll just lovat." The prince spits the seeds of the pear he is eating into a pot, hits the eight ball, and says, "A bulldog? My friend, that's a Rhodesian Ridgeback!" The lumberjack drinks a horn of apple brandy while he picks up a poker and jostles the logs in the fireplace, sending embers up into the chimney like a volcano. "Whatever you call it," the lumberjack says, "his eyes are as red as a tomato and he's ugly as a blowfish!"
Rules: The story cannot exceed 500 words, must be fully your work, and must be posted on my blog (pipeschool.blogspot.com) as a reply to the topic "A Pipe Contest" by December 1st, 2011, at 11:59 PM. The needed vocabulary should be used in a way that makes sense and not just thrown it. Variants of a pipe name (bent apple, straight apple, etc.) will not be counted twice.
Prize: The author of the story with the most votes – or that the judges deem the best, should there not be enough votes cast – will receive 2 ounces of John Cotton No. 1 from a 40-year old tin, 50 grams of the original Balkan Sobranie, and his choice of 2oz of Full Virginia Flake or 2oz Penzance
Please feel free to vote on which story you feel is the best.
Good luck to all and have fun!
Some pipe-shape names:
Acorn
Apple
Author
Ball
Billiard
Blowfish
Brandy
Bulldog
Calabash
Canadian
Cavalier
Cherrywood
Chimney
Churchwarden
Clam
Cutty
Diplomat
Dublin
Egg
Freehand
Hawkbill
Horn
Liverpool
Lovat
Lumberman
Oom Paul
Panel
Pear
Poker
Pot
Prince
Rhodesian
Skater
Strawberry
Tankard
Tomahawk
Tomato
Volcano
Whale
Zulu
Here is the challenge: Write a coherent story using as many pipe shape names as possible (a list of a few of these name will be include below). This story should not only include the needed vocabulary, but should also be entertaining. Stories will be judged on literary value, number of vocabulary words included, and if the words used flow naturally within the story.
Here is an example that I wrote a while ago: "A Canadian prince and a lumberjack from Liverpool are playing a game of billiards in Dublin, and another man joins them and says “I've got a bulldog and I know you'll just lovat." The prince spits the seeds of the pear he is eating into a pot, hits the eight ball, and says, "A bulldog? My friend, that's a Rhodesian Ridgeback!" The lumberjack drinks a horn of apple brandy while he picks up a poker and jostles the logs in the fireplace, sending embers up into the chimney like a volcano. "Whatever you call it," the lumberjack says, "his eyes are as red as a tomato and he's ugly as a blowfish!"
Rules: The story cannot exceed 500 words, must be fully your work, and must be posted on my blog (pipeschool.blogspot.com) as a reply to the topic "A Pipe Contest" by December 1st, 2011, at 11:59 PM. The needed vocabulary should be used in a way that makes sense and not just thrown it. Variants of a pipe name (bent apple, straight apple, etc.) will not be counted twice.
Prize: The author of the story with the most votes – or that the judges deem the best, should there not be enough votes cast – will receive 2 ounces of John Cotton No. 1 from a 40-year old tin, 50 grams of the original Balkan Sobranie, and his choice of 2oz of Full Virginia Flake or 2oz Penzance
Please feel free to vote on which story you feel is the best.
Good luck to all and have fun!
Some pipe-shape names:
Acorn
Apple
Author
Ball
Billiard
Blowfish
Brandy
Bulldog
Calabash
Canadian
Cavalier
Cherrywood
Chimney
Churchwarden
Clam
Cutty
Diplomat
Dublin
Egg
Freehand
Hawkbill
Horn
Liverpool
Lovat
Lumberman
Oom Paul
Panel
Pear
Poker
Pot
Prince
Rhodesian
Skater
Strawberry
Tankard
Tomahawk
Tomato
Volcano
Whale
Zulu