Recent Posts Tagged With 'competition'

• Competition time: A Dark and Stormy Night

  Posted on Friday July 10th, 2009 at 16:06 in books, history, language, grammar, competition, snoopy, schultz, hemingway, pratchett, bulwer lytton

  When Snoopy in his guise as ‘World Famous Author’ opened his manuscripts with the words “It was a dark and stormy night”, Charles Schultz was nodding towards the purplest of purple prose: that of the Victorian politician a...

• Unexciting announcement. And Ernest Hemingway.

  Posted on Friday July 3rd, 2009 at 18:12 in books, cats, competition, wildlife, word verification, polydactyl, hemingway, hemingway cats

  Call me an effete, pusillanimous, pathetic fence-sitter if you will — and many have, so you’d be in good company — but I am having the most wretched time deciding on a winner of the Word Verification Competition. The entries are al...

• W V C T – Word Verification Competition Time

  Posted on Thursday July 2nd, 2009 at 13:29 in language, competition, word verification, gothucki

  Exciting, no? Not there’s any sort of prize or anything, to be honest. Simply make up a definition for these word verification ‘captchas’. As few or as many as you like. Or none. And tell your friends! Otherwise I’ll have a pi...