Quotations Challenge
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Issued on: December 31, 2006
Ended on: March 9, 2007
Challengers: Symphonyflute and tarotgal
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The responses are: 19 entries from 8 fandoms by 7 participants.
Sneezefic is fanfiction which involves characters sneezing. It is written and posted on a number of groups and sites. This challenge on the sneezefic mailing list was made to give members of the list a fun time trying something different and hopefully allow more writers to easily participate and contribute.
There are 25 Plot Bunnies to choose from for this challenge!
CHALLENGE PLOT BUNNIES:
Theme: Quotations
Main Rule: All fics must incorporate one of the quote bunnies into the story, either in narration or in dialogue.
(Thank you to me211152004 for the suggestion!)
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- "Love, and a cough, cannot be hid." (George Herbert)
- "Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be." (Abraham Lincoln)
- "The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true." (Oscar Wilde)
- "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." (Oscar Wilde)
- "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." (George Burns)
- "I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill." (Samuel Butler)
- "If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going." (Professor Irwin Corey)
- "Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry." (Henry Ward Beecher)
- "Don't live in a town where there are no doctors." (Jewish Proverb)
- "Worries go down better with soup than without." (Jewish Proverb)
- "Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function." (Unknown)
- "Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word." (William Shakespeare)
- "Health is not valued till sickness comes." (Dr. Thomas Fuller)
- "Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some." (Jose Marti)
- "No one is a failure if they have friends." (Clarence, "It's a Wonderful Life")
- "A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way." (John Tudor)
- "Not going home is already like death." (E. Catherine Tobler, "Vanishing Act")
- "No matter what you do there will be critics." (Unknown)
- "In the world of mules, there are no rules." (Ogden Nash)
- "A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water." (Carl Reiner)
- "A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer." (Joseph Addison)
- "My home is not a place, it is people." (Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar")
- "Sooner or later we all quote our mothers." (Bern Williams)
- "Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?" (Edgar Bergen)
- "Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored." (George Saunders)
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