Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for January 24, 2013

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    i_am_the_jam  about 11 years ago

    Feh, too obvious. My trick was to never use contractions. :D :D :D

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    Linux0s  about 11 years ago

    So it’s a 20 noun essay?

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    baileydean  about 11 years ago

    You counted them Teach’? Yikes. Was that the best way to spend Martin Luther King Day?

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    margueritem  about 11 years ago

    Did he use excess punctuation?

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    el8  about 11 years ago

    Ah, the art of the run-on sentence.

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    naturally_easy  about 11 years ago

    I wrote a story once about a really big, huge, gigantic, enormous, humoungously large pipsqueak.

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    orinoco womble  about 11 years ago

    I once had a teacher who was obsessed with “one thought, one sentence.” We showed her pages of Dickens, Thackeray, etc in which one sentence could cover a whole page. Her response: “Well when you get published you can write any way you want.”

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    Darryl Heine  about 11 years ago

    Like they said in an old Schoolhouse Rock song: “Simply unpack your adjectives.”

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    ossiningaling  about 11 years ago

    That’s very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very clever.

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