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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34362 is a reply to message #34285 ] Tue, 21 September 2010 21:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The Love Child of Daphne and Janis Explores the 24th Century: A Memoir of Living in Two (or More) Worlds

"Fairy tales are more than true, not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." - G.K. Chesterton
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34380 is a reply to message #34285 ] Thu, 23 September 2010 00:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Really bad title possibilities:


1) Can This Woman Be Saved? (Alien Fashion Victim Having Bad Hair Day Complete With Flying Cars and Marauding Stagmen!)

2) The Stagman Cometh.
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34381 is a reply to message #34285 ] Thu, 23 September 2010 01:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The Pastel Dreams Journey; with Flight Maps and Creature Landmarks

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"Me Up Beam Scotty" When Transporter wires get crossed with Translators and Holodeck's Holographs
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34383 is a reply to message #34318 ] Thu, 23 September 2010 10:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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kstevensxyz wrote on Mon, 20 September 2010 11:11

Revenge of the Entwives


I vote for THIS one!
JM

PS - I'd enter this contest myself, but I haven't been able to think of ANYTHING scintillating enough for that cover! Kudos to everyone who has better inspirational creativity this week than I do!
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34384 is a reply to message #34318 ] Thu, 23 September 2010 11:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34385 is a reply to message #34285 ] Thu, 23 September 2010 11:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Fire to the Garden: In a Struggle Between the Future and the Past the Witches Return
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34387 is a reply to message #34285 ] Thu, 23 September 2010 12:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Did you look at the bottom of the Blue Girl side? Clearly, this book MUST be titled:
"The Adventures of Lobster Girl and the Flying Car." Can't wait to read it in translation!

Deb3
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34388 is a reply to message #34285 ] Thu, 23 September 2010 15:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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My, what a clever bunch. I think this is my favorite contest so far, itty bitty or not.

My entry-
"Candid Memoirs of the Story Council: This Explains so Much"
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34389 is a reply to message #34285 ] Thu, 23 September 2010 17:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Title: Lamb's Lettuce! Multidimensional Warrior!

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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34390 is a reply to message #34285 ] Thu, 23 September 2010 19:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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A Junior Course in Individual Human Dimorphism: Five Inter Phylum Case Studies.
The author, J. R. C. McKinley, makes the case that while human-animal and human-plant cybrids were once seen as being as fantastic as little green men and flying cars recent advances in propagating human genes in rabbit cells and hydrofoil cars have moved both possibilities closer to reality. Little green men and human-plant crosses remain unlikely, she notes.

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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34391 is a reply to message #34390 ] Thu, 23 September 2010 19:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Aaron wrote on Thu, 23 September 2010 19:27

A Junior Course in Individual Human Dimorphism: Five Inter Phylum Case Studies.
The author, J. R. C. McKinley, makes the case that while human-animal and human-plant cybrids were once seen as being as fantastic as little green men and flying cars recent advances in propagating human genes in rabbit cells and hydrofoil cars have moved both possibilities closer to reality. Little green men and human-plant crosses remain unlikely, she notes.

::dies laughing::

"Purity of heart is to will one thing." Kirkegaard
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34393 is a reply to message #34391 ] Thu, 23 September 2010 20:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Remember that THIS IS NOT A JUDGED CONTEST. You have to post a title to GET YOUR NAME IN THE HAT. I wouldn't dream of CHOOSING a best title!!!! The winner will be a RANDOM draw!

PS: That's J C R McKinley, sonny. Smile
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34396 is a reply to message #34285 ] Thu, 23 September 2010 20:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ok, fine. If we're doing fake academic titles:

"Burning Leaves and Couture Dresses: How the Fantasy of Praxis Functions as the Conceptual Frame for the Eroticization of the Gendered Body."

Abstract: When the conceptual framework of a gendered person is threatened by the positional abnormalities of the surrounding environment, the cogent bimorphics problematize previously lucid understandings of eroticized bodies.

(Umm... so I kind of cheated on the title a bit, and tweaked a sentence from the academic sentence generator. The abstract, however, is completely my nonsense.)

"Purity of heart is to will one thing." Kirkegaard
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34397 is a reply to message #34396 ] Thu, 23 September 2010 20:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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::Hysterics::

That's TWICE you've made me laugh out loud with your title entry. You're making my life DIFFICULT, you know, because you're only allowed ONE entry but entries that make me laugh out loud get put in twice. . . .
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34399 is a reply to message #34388 ] Thu, 23 September 2010 20:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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SShadow wrote on Thu, 23 September 2010 15:16

My, what a clever bunch. I think this is my favorite contest so far, itty bitty or not.

My entry-
"Candid Memoirs of the Story Council: This Explains so Much"


I like this one too.

Member of Carpe Libris: http://carpelibris.wordpress.com/
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34403 is a reply to message #34397 ] Thu, 23 September 2010 20:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Muahahaha. Very Happy

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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34407 is a reply to message #34285 ] Thu, 23 September 2010 21:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The Curse of the Braid that Had a Mind of Its Own
Part 1: The Serpent Braid Versus the Man-Deer
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34416 is a reply to message #34285 ] Fri, 24 September 2010 08:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Adventures in Anachronism: When bad fantasy cover art meets random sci fi background doodle.
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34423 is a reply to message #34399 ] Fri, 24 September 2010 08:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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. . . Although we could have another, second VOTING contest, like the recipes . . .
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34427 is a reply to message #34423 ] Fri, 24 September 2010 10:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Robin wrote on Fri, 24 September 2010 13:42

. . . Although we could have another, second VOTING contest, like the recipes . . .



I think somebody is developing a bit of an addiction to running competitions Wink
(not that this is a bad thing, I might add...)

Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34428 is a reply to message #34393 ] Fri, 24 September 2010 14:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Robin wrote on Thu, 23 September 2010 17:04

That's J C R McKinley, sonny. Smile

Evidently not in Italy:

From www.fantascienza.com/catalogo/A0565.htm

[Jennifer] Robin [Carolyn] McKINLEY (16 nov. 1952*) Rif./1st Pub. Premi/Awards
[Moglie di Peter DICKINSON]
=== 2001 ===
Streghe (A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories, 1994)

. . . or are you going to tell me that I can't trust everything I read on the web?
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34432 is a reply to message #34285 ] Fri, 24 September 2010 18:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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STREGHE, or, the Tragic Tale of the Witch, the Stagman and the Knight's Helmet

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Beyond space!
An inter-dimensional star-crossed love story!

Life always, always finds a way.
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34434 is a reply to message #34396 ] Fri, 24 September 2010 20:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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blondviolinist wrote on Thu, 23 September 2010 17:06

(Umm... so I kind of cheated on the title a bit, and tweaked a sentence from the academic sentence generator. The abstract, however, is completely my nonsense.)


That is an extremely amusing little webpage! (And a very amusing title/abstract from blondviolinist.) And if you click through to their Sentence of the Week page, you'll see that they have someone quite humorous writing their grammar lessons.

But I must enter a title of my own; this contest is the best! I know: that cover looks like what might happen if the time-space continuum were warped by the presence of Robin McKinley, Diana Wynne Jones and Neil Gaiman in the same space at the same time. So I submit:

Charmed Beauty of Neverwhere

It was the only lullaby she would ever sing, and it was sung in Hell. --Laini Taylor
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34435 is a reply to message #34428 ] Fri, 24 September 2010 21:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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That actually pisses me off pretty badly.

My professional name is Robin McKinley. That's as much as anyone needs to know or put on a ******* list. If they're going to f*** around with the rest of it they could bestir their tiny bureaucratic asses to get it right. The name on my birth certificate is Jennifer Carolyn Robin McKinley.
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34436 is a reply to message #34285 ] Fri, 24 September 2010 21:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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When Cars Fly
exploring the science and myth behind rainbow rocks, tree-root hair,
little green aliens from outer space, and other impossibilities

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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34444 is a reply to message #34434 ] Sat, 25 September 2010 00:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Kim A wrote on Fri, 24 September 2010 20:21



That is an extremely amusing little webpage! (And a very amusing title/abstract from blondviolinist.) And if you click through to their Sentence of the Week page, you'll see that they have someone quite humorous writing their grammar lessons.




I actually found out about that website from Robin. It's one of my favorite places to go when I'm feeling fed up with academic seriousness Smile

"Purity of heart is to will one thing." Kirkegaard
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34447 is a reply to message #34285 ] Sat, 25 September 2010 01:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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How about... Metamorphoses: Dryads crossbreed with Medusa and engage velocicar transport device
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34452 is a reply to message #34444 ] Sat, 25 September 2010 12:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Yep. I can't remember where I got it but I LOVE it. Smile
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34460 is a reply to message #34285 ] Sat, 25 September 2010 16:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Cross-Wired: A Pungent Story about the Late Effects of Early Change Ringing.

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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34461 is a reply to message #34285 ] Sat, 25 September 2010 18:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34465 is a reply to message #34285 ] Sat, 25 September 2010 18:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Torvilla, Heiress of Darkness

Being an account of the misdeeds of sorceress and dreamwalker Torvilla the Terrible as she reawakens in a modern age. Not for the faint-of-heart, vivid dreamer or late-night reader!

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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34468 is a reply to message #34465 ] Sat, 25 September 2010 18:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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. . . Ten minutes left. Tick. Tick. Tick.
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Re: Itty Bitty Contest [message #34470 is a reply to message #34468 ] Sat, 25 September 2010 19:12 Go to previous message
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Twelve past midnight. TICK. TOCK.

Thanks to everyone who posted a silly title! Smile
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