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Each Move Must Consist Of Precisely Eight Words
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Just as it says on the tin. What happens in the game may be debated in the game: perhaps it'll be a conversation, perhaps a word-limited reprise of various games we play, or whatever.
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Looks like everyone has given up since Saturday.
All games go very quiet at the weekend. Never call me controversial.
Perhaps it is the heat making everyone lethargic
More likely they have better things to do.
Now that my holiday is over, I don't.
Been away for a while. How is everyone?
This game would scare the arse off Rincewind.
I can scarcely imagine someone without an arse.
Some people can make an arse of themselves.
I have a strange feeling that somehow it
Well? Please do not leave us in suspense.
Perhaps Inkspot has fainted in the extreme heat.
Or been struck by lightning. Anyone else storming?
No, but a VERY loud aeroplane passed earlier.
We had thunder and lightnng but no rain.
We had rain showers but still no snow.
Be grateful for small mercies, I always say.
Mark my words, we'll pay for all this.
By the word, you mean? Words are cheap.
Some, ten a penny. Two big ones for a pound.
Words don't come easy (to me, that is).
You just have to say what you feel.
There are times when this is highly inadvisable.
Certain feelings, if vocalised, could promote considerable consternation.
[Last post - 63 letters - is this a record?]
Substantial endeavour necessary for outmanoeuvring carefully deliberated submissions. [Chalky] the gauntlet is down :)
Ah, but my sentence was natural and uncontrived.
[Software] AND your italicised comment breaks the rules
Is this as short as it can be?
No. I am to go to a do.
Is it a bird? Is it a 'plane?
Perhaps using two sentences is a bit cheaty?
I am a she and you a he.
Is that as short as it can be?
No no no no no no no no!
[Chalky] That reads like a brief, succinct poem.
I don't see why; plenty have gone unchallenged.
Two sentences are acceptable. Only word count matters.
I go as I am, or do I?
I am who I am who I am.
There's a bright golden haze on the meadow.
That sounds as if they are burning stubble.
A smoking internet cafe - what a good idea.
F U N E X? S V F X
(There are nine letters, but only eight words)
[With acknowledgments to the Two Ronnies, of course]
It's actually much older than the Two Ronnies.
Most of their material was older than them.
Anyway, did we all have a good weekend?
It was blasted curtains for me this weekend
[pen] How's that, did a bomb go off?
Looked like it, bit messy at my gaff
Another late one here, got in at 7.
Seven in the Morning or in the evening?
Shall we wait until nights decides to reply?
The moving finger writes, and having writ departs.
Oh, seven the following morning. I WAS tired.
This sentence just about stretches to eight words.
This, though has only five. Will that do?
Certainly not. You must find another three more.
I'll lend you a three word sentence, Rosie.
I can manage eight. Three is more tricky.
Comedians suggest the longest sentence is 'I do'.
Poets reckon the happiest poem is 'Pay Day'
In that case, the unhappiest must be "mayday."
Anyone know how I will finish my dissertation?
Keep working at it until it is done?
The sage does nothing, yet leaves nothing undone.
The sage writes nothing, yet leaves nothing unwritten.
He teaches nothing, yet students seek him out.
Perhaps I should write "The Tao of Bullshit".
The moving finger writes and, having writ, continues.
Thank you, Kim. I shall use it wisely.
If only I hadn't wasted my three-worder.
Just out of interest, why was eight chosen?
I like eight. (That is my three-worder.)
Kim has some spare three-word sentences, penelope.
Eight seems to be a good length, no?
Isn't eight the lucky number of the Chinese?
One over the eight could well indicate drunkenness.
'Pissed as 'owt'. Drunkeness expressed in three words.
Sobriety, on the other hand, needs lengthier expression.
Or a shorter one: "Not drunk" would suffice.
Friends, Romans, countrymen; lend me your aural orifices.
You're all probably right about my dissertation, though.
This evening the setting moon looked very red.
That only happens once in a blue moon.
A great song, especially The Marcel's sixties version.
Not to mention the seventies version by Showaddywaddy.
Wasn't Showaddywaddy's song "Under The Moon Of Love"?
True, but Showaddywaddy also sung Elvis's 'Blue Moon'.
They never once had a number one hit.
I saw them play live at Pebble Mill
My mum once dated a Pebble Mill presenter.
Good old Google! His name was Bob Langley
One two three four etc etc etc... eight.
They're coming to take me away, ha ha!
One, two, miss a few, ninety-nine, one hundred.
Can someone adjudicate on Phil's hundred minus one?
Speaking personally, I think that he is correct.
This line self-identifies as being eight words long.
Not if it is blind to the hyphen.
This sentence says that it has eight words.
Darren, I thought my hyphenation might provoke discussion.
This defines largest number expressible in eight words.
Ninety billion billion billion is a large number.
Ninety nine billion billion billion billion is bigger
In eight words can you really reach infinity?
One more than the number that CdM defined.
I knew someone (probably Raak!) would say that.
Isn't it just a lovely day, though? Marvellous.
The tangent of pi over two is infinity.
Who knew algebra could be so much fun?
n to the power of zero is one
I often ended up with x equals x
Which is almost certainly true but ultimately unhelpful.
Apologies for double posting... apologies for triple posting.
[Knobbly] Stop right there! Don't worry about it.
I'd worry about it if I were you
Goodness gracious me, the days are just packed.
Why pack days? All countries now have days.
I always take an English Sunday with me
English Sundays? Yuk! Everyone seems to go shopping.
Yes, this demonstrates a great paucity of imagination.
There's a city called Pau in southwestern France.
There's a city called Nizhny Novgorod in Russia.
Is the River Po nominally an open sewer?
Nominally yes, same way as with the Neva.
There is a house in New Orleans, apparently.
It's not called The Rising Sun, is it?
The sun does not rise, the horizon falls.
There's a dull and boring sky over Swindon.
Swindon is dull and boring with any sky
Ohhh, dull and boring Swindon's dull and boring,
Think I'll cut my throat, no reason why.
Right to left, or left to right, Raak?
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