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18-Feb-2011 02:23:33

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I read "How to Make Mountains" and thought it was pretty funny. I'll admit that I was at first put off by the typical "3 Gods" thing. As I read on, However, I quickly realized that it was a little more unique than the others.
Well... thanks for the great read.

Oh. Bookmarked.

21-Feb-2011 06:03:56 - Last edited on 21-Feb-2011 06:04:17 by Eraser418

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.o~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~o.
<~ ~ ~ ~ RALPH THE INSIPID AND THE THREE APRICORNS OF DERRING-DO ~ ~ ~ ~>
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or
The Biggest Waste of Words Since Publication of the Extended Edition (with Full Appendices and Companion Wiki) of “Encyclopedia for the Illiterate”

Many a rousing tale has been told, and the rousingliest of them all starts with a good title. This -- despite sporting two attempts at a title -- is not one of them.
Now I know what you're thinking. What are apricorns? Can I be bothered to look up 'insipid' in the dictionary just to be sure I know what it means? If this tale is neither rousing nor well-titled, why am I even reading? One at a time please. One at a time!
Multiple choice. Apricorns are:
a) Apricots crossed with acorns
b) Unicorns born in late spring
c) A select group of hobgoblins belonging to the peninsular tribe of Shneegratt'akthurr
If you guessed 'a' or 'b' you really should by all accounts be correct, but for the sake of this lack-lustre tale let's go with that third option (even though I was actually quite pleased with the unicorn one). So the stage is kind of set. Sort of like butter in high summer after you left it on the table even though you were reminded not once but twice to put it away when you were done. Somewhat akin to the strawberry jelly (UK)/jello (US) you made for your younger sibling's birthday, but you put more water in than you should have and its been in the fridge a week already and is still more pourable than spoonable. Reminiscent of that concrete you walked right over a couple of years back because you were using your cell phone instead of looking where you were going, even though there were some orange cones around it which incidentally you were lucky not to trip over.

11-May-2011 03:36:31 - Last edited on 11-May-2011 06:26:28 by Dreamweaver

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To set this metaphorical, historical, phantasmagorical, allegorical and rhetorical stage still further, I'd better introduce you to these Shneegratt'akthurrese hobgoblins. Don't worry about the long names, by the way. They're called Urgh, Fnurg and Jim. We'll get back to them forthwith. Fifthwith at the very latest.
Okay, now what was the next question I rudely presumed you were asking? Oh yes. Insipid. You know how teachers would say, “Well I could tell you what it means, but you'd remember it better if you looked it up yourself.” Well you know what? That doesn't work for me. I don't know how many times I've looked up 'celatinate' in my life, but it just doesn't stick. I'll leave you to pull out the dictionary for that one later. Meanwhile, I'll tell you what insipid means (with no apology to those that already know – they're feeling smug enough as it is) and more importantly, why it fits Ralph so well.
Insipid: [in-sip-id] adjective -
“Boring. Tasteless.”
Yep, Ralph is boring. So boring in fact that his parents kept forgetting about him and were still trying for their firstborn son to carry the family name for three more years. So boring that there's absolutely nothing I could possibly tell you about him that would encourage you to continue reading. So boring that using a slightly interesting word such as 'insipid' to describe him is probably one of the worst literary crimes thus far shoe-horned into this sorry excuse for a story.

11-May-2011 03:40:36 - Last edited on 13-May-2011 00:26:07 by Dreamweaver

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I'm not so sure about the tasteless part though. Regrettably he has not been consumed by cannibals or tigers, and the occasional mosquito that may or may not have had a nibble (and may or may not have remembered) refused to be interviewed. So we'll go with tasteless on the basis that there is as yet no counter-argument to refute it.
Now then, I understand that many readers like facts about characters so they have something to wrap their imaginations around. If this group includes you, then I offer you the following list so that you can imagine exactly and precisely what I want you to, with absolutely no deviation from my own image whatsoever. After all, isn't that what imagination is all about? Oh, if you don't want to know this stuff, please click "next >" at the bottom of the page and continue to read from there.
Age: Mid-twenties, give or take the approximately three years his parents were largely unaware of him.
Gender: One must assume male, if only because the midwife didn't think “Ralph” was too strange a name. I doubt anyone's checked since. Maybe the midwife never bothered to look either.
Height: About yay-high. Roughly.
Weight: You know, sort of average. Take everyone, divide them by everyone and you have Ralph.
Eye color: As the author I reserve the right to make something up right out of the blue. Blue. Yeah, that'll do.
Hair: Yes, mostly on top of his head. I don't want to know about hair anywhere else, and not really the stuff on his head either, come to that. What's boring? Medium brown? Lanky? Good enough. How is it that only hair gets to be lanky anyway? Lanky just means “straight and flat” but people don't drive across Kansas saying, “Wow, these roads are lanky.”
Alright, that's more than enough of that.

11-May-2011 03:40:59 - Last edited on 11-May-2011 03:53:46 by Dreamweaver

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