The egg laying mammal that isn’t a platypus pleads with the alligators cousin to be heedful of loose locks New sentence: “Thoroughly thought through.” From The Stars' Tennis Balls by Stephen Fry. Don’t use: Thoroughly, thought or through.
Carefully, and cautiously, contemplated. New sentence: "Get busy living, or get busy dying." - Stephen King Don't Use: Get, busy, living, or dying.
Sorry to disrupt the flow of the thread but I have to say; the continuation of alliteration wasn’t required but it was very satisfying.
Do it all while you can, or you're doing nothing. New one: “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It Don't use fool or wise
One who is self aware is aware of oneself's limits. New sentence: “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right,” - Henry Ford Don’t use: Whether, think, can, can’t or right EDIT: It only occurred to me after a night's sleep that quoting the guy might be in bad taste because of his problematic personal views but all I thought at the time was how the line worked for the game. I know literature and its proponents, more than any other medium, requires some separation of art and artist on account of the history of people being a history of prejudice but that’s a heavy issue that doesn’t add anything to word games. If anyone at all feels it’s inappropriate and lets me know here, or in a direct message, I’d be more than happy to produce an alternative line. I don’t know if I’m overthinking it but best to err on the side of consideration, especially in a forum with people from all over the world, with a wide range of backgrounds.
(No problem, Kur. I think we're all grown-up enough to separate Ford's views from this sentence). No matter if you believe you are able or not, you are correct. ================================ Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. (from ... ah, jeez -- do I really need to say it?) Don't use: once, breach, friends, wall, English, dead.
I assumed that completely but then there was a lul and my traitorous brain started calling me ‘Kur, destroyer of threads’. Fortunately I resisted the urge to post: “Hey” “U Awake?” “R U mad?” “Fine, b that way!” “I’m sorry, I love you”
LOL. No worries, forums like this are not the same as facebook and the like. I also posted a sentence for you to destroy rewrite.
Again towards the gap, comrades, again; Or seal the barricade with stiff British resolve New sentence: After I witnessed a dinosaur on roller-skates, nothing really shocked me anymore. Don’t use: After, witnessed, dinosaur, roller, skates, shocked, anymore.
Once I observed a toothsome, grinning pterodactyl (with sunglasses and a helmet! And kneepads!!) on a wheeled two-legged standing-platform, practically everything seemed humdrum. (I hope you like my synonym for roller-skates. Sorry for all the extra silly props - I couldn't resist). ================================== Sentence: TRUE! Nervous; very, very nervous I have been, and am. But why do you suppose I am mad? (Fun task: name the story that these are the first two sentences from!) Don't use: True, nervous, am, why, suppose, mad.
Sorry, don't know the story, but will give the sentence a try. Anxious; very, very anxious I have been, and continue to be. But for what reason do you imagine I am delirious? New sentence: “Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.” —Helen Keller Don't use Life, daring, adventure, or nothing
There is no value in existing if that existence is devoid of thrilling escapades. New Sentence: The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be. — Max De Pree Don't use: Greatest, Moment, Willing, "Give up", Order, Become, "Can be"
No problem. This is the start of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", one of my favourites. It may be that Poe was one of the first (if not THE first) to write horror stories. The most exciting state of being is, at a moment's notice, to unhesitatingly transform the Mighty Must into the Gladdening Gamble. (I refer to the song "Come, Mighty Must!" from Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida, one of their lesser-known -- but nonetheless very beautiful -- operettas. The lyrics are here, and here is one of the better executions. The character singing, Lady Blanche, is a principal at Princess Ida's school. She is much older than Ida, and jealous that -- although she is much more experienced and knowledgeable than Ida -- so far, she's had to play second fiddle. But her daughter has a scheme ... and Blanche is tempted. So she sings this song about her inevitable rise). Anyway. New sentence: I am the very model of a modern major-general, I've information vegetable, animal and mineral. Don't use: model, modern, major-general, information, vegetable, animal, mineral.
