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Neil Fein

03:09

@MattЭллен - That's much better. It made me laugh and I knew the punchline already!

It'll go up tonight.

One question: Why is it called "419"?

Ah, got it.

Neil Fein

03:33

Added a picture too.

2 hours later…

Neil Fein

05:13

Here's Matt's flash fiction: 419

8 hours later…

Matt Эллен

12:59

@NeilFein I like it! Thanks for your help.

Neil Fein

You're very welcome, and thanks for the story.

KitFox

in English Language & Usage, 17 secs ago, by KitFox

Hey, we should add Reg to the house band. He plays keys.

4 hours later…

Glenn1234

16:34

am I interrupting something?

KitFox

looks around

Nope.

Matt Эллен

we were having a 5 hour sponsored silence, but I guess we'll have to give the money back, now.

Aerovistae

LOLOLOL

but the site informed me that i was missing the weekly writing exercise!

Glenn1234

guess not. I had to imagine that everyone was deep in thought on their writing pieces. LOL

KitFox

@Aerovistae It's not for another hour.

Glenn1234

16:36

I guess by the "Weekly Writing Exercise" thing.

okay...good I found people around anyway.

KitFox

Oh. Or maybe twenty minutes.

Aerovistae

ah ha

KitFox

And I haven't prepared anything, so @Matt is going to do it today.

Aerovistae

yay!

Matt Эллен

I'mwhat?

I'm going in 25 minutes

KitFox

16:38

Yeah, you're hosting today.

Because you published today.

Well, you'll have to phone it in from the road.

Matt Эллен

yeah, but, so, don't I get a day to bask?

KitFox

Hosting is basking.

It's the glory you get to revel in.

Duh.

Matt Эллен

hmmm

Glenn1234

heh heh. My problem is more topic, and will to do it, but I think I can get it done today.

Matt Эллен

@Glenn1234 you want to do a 10 minute writing exercise? I can give you a topic

KitFox

16:40

Topic? Oh, are you doing the exercise from last week?

Matt Эллен

The way I come up with a topic is to close my eyes and pick the first thing I see, regardless of my ability to write about it.

Glenn1234

no thanks...like I said I think I got something if I can finish it out. Can't stay around too long anyway.

KitFox

OK. I'm around, but finishing a task, so ping me of you have any questions.

Glenn1234

well anyway hope your writing exercise goes well. :)

KitFox

Thanks.

Matt Эллен

16:44

OK. well I guess I'll have to propose an exercise

KitFox

For next week?

Glenn1234

bye all...

KitFox

Come again!

Matt Эллен

I thought maybe suggesting a topic for a 10 minute write

then eveything else can happen later

KitFox

Oh. OK.

I have to get this data out, so I am really unhelpful right now. Sorry.

Matt Эллен

16:47

I mean real exercise is hard to come up with because it's got to be something people can learn from, or something

To warm you all up on my cold cycle home, spend ten minutes writing about: "Is this a standard roll out?"

KitFox

17:02

Hullo chatters!

Matt has given us a writing topic today. I will be gone for about fifteen minutes, and then I'll do the exercise. You should all feel free to join in whenever you like.

bbs.

Aerovistae

what the heck does that mean?

a standard roll out

KitFox

Well, I guess you can just guess. Or maybe that's what you can write. A dialogue where someone doesn't know and the other guy is trying to explain it.

KitFox

17:21

Here is my exercise.

So writers! What are we writing about recently?

Johan Larsson

17:37

I'm no writer, hardly a reader anymore (lurking tourist)

MετάEd

17:59

Too many teenagers to write anything. One, to be specific.

KitFox

OK then. I'm back again.

I've been writing in my head. I'm not sure if that counts.

MετάEd

@KitFox That there's intriguing. One wants to know what the thing is. Oh, I know! It's a Macguffin!

KitFox

It's totally a Macguffin!

MετάEd

I had no idea Macguffins came in red neoprene.

KitFox

Red neoprene.

MετάEd

18:05

jinx

KitFox

I almost stopped to look up neoprene.

Then I decided to just run with it. It's a nice sounding word.

MετάEd

I'd suggest naugahyde, but I always feel sorry for the poor naugas.

KitFox

I didn't think you'd guess it.

Nougathyde.

Mmm.

MετάEd

I'd guess what?

KitFox

That is was a Macguffin.

I strive to make all my Macguffins transparent to my ~~users~~ readers.

MετάEd

18:09

Ah ... red transparent neoprene. That is what I missed.

KitFox

18:44

So @Matt, did you do your own exercise?

Matt Эллен

@KitFox I'm gonna eat fist :D

KitFox

Some kind of fracas going on over there?

Matt Эллен

it's quiet as ever. just the sound of a microwave and a pot of boiling veg

KitFox

Then whose fist are you eating?

Matt Эллен

lol.

I didn't even see that.

I'll be eating the fist of the spinach cannelloni that insulted my mother. and then the rest of it.

KitFox

18:54

Wow.

Matt Эллен

/eating

Matt Эллен

19:43

exercise. Not my best work.

@KitFox nice! makes me want to read on!

KitFox

@MattЭллен Hahahahahaha.

So we should have an exercise for next week.

I've been slacking.

What do you want to do?

Matt Эллен

20:01

Matt Эллен

20:14

write something

still thinking...

how about we should write a short story, aim for 500 words. The story doesn't have to be funny, but it should have a punchline or twist ending.

KitFox

OK.

For the Jan 29, 2013 chat, we'll write a 500 (roughly) word short story with an unexpected ending.

2 hours later…

Neil Fein

22:10

Q: Trademarked words in business cards

I want to say on my business card that I'm an ASP.NET and MSSQL developer. For those of you who don't know, those are Microsoft technologies. Am I allowed to use those and other such terms on my business cards?

So what do folks think of this question? Questions about individual terms are off-topic, pretty much, but legal questions are on-topic.

(Before anyone suggests sending this to English, I asked them and a mod said "no", that this is a legal question - and, presumably, therefore not a question about language.)

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