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Wired did an article where they had scifi authors and whoever else write 6 word stories.

http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html

The best slashdot comment was:

This one is good too:

Here's mine:
Fuck it. Here we go again.

Wired was good. Back in 1998.

Don't be gay - learn to play.

Things are bad, then are good.

This reminds me of a story I read in an old Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine from the 60s or 70s. It went something like:

"And now" the Professor said to his daughter, all I must do is pull this lever and the time machine will transport us backwards us tranport will machine time the and lever this pull is do must I all, daugher his to said Professor the "now and."

The real version was a lot more entertaining than that but that was the basic idea.

And they lived happily ever after.

But officer, those ARE my pants!

I don't think this will fit.

The good guys triumph over evil.

Clenching only makes it hurt more.

and THEN I got angry

1990 called, they want diku back.

The river can't flow back uphill.

The tip of her tongue touched


Wait... only six?  Damn.   I ran out of space.   :|

QFT.

Newsstand magazine failed horribly at relevance.

The sarcasm flows like wine.

If there's a better magazine about gadgets/tech out there than Wired!, please fess up. And I don't mean category specific mags (ie: I don't want to get 10 magazines just to read about smartphones, gps systems, etc).


Here's mine:


Only our humanity saved us.

Ah, the old black guy in a movie line fits:

I never done nothin' to nobody!

Joss Whedon's is pretty funny:

Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.
- Joss Whedon

Popular Mechanics was always a good read.  I haven't had a magazine sub in years, though so I make no comment on its current state.



My contribution:

Watch out for that ...

Hurry up and Catass to victory!

The voices drive me to action.

I came, I saw, I pwned.

Realizing later, I'd forgotten to dress.

Go placidly, amid noise and strife.

My mind converted this to reducing existing stories to six words.


The Bible:
God is strict, but loves you.

Catch 22
Fly enough missions, go home crazy.

Of Mice and Men
Lenny kills bunny, then Curley's honey.


The Blair Witch Project
Witches are here! No, just psychopaths.


The Star Wars Double Trilogy:
Father like son. Skywalkers are crybabies.


Beowulf:
Danes are broody, but excellent warriors.




My God, I need a drink.

Bush: A biography

Stay the course, my pet goat.

Is that a Desiderata rip off or just a coincidence?

The insurgency's in it's last throes.

Need new organs?  Buy a clone!

What we need are more Raids.

So hungry... kill the fat one.

My favorite Yojimbo quote fits alright: "Cooper, two coffins... No. Maybe three."

The status quo is, then isn't.

Quitting?  Can I have your stuff?

Ding Gratz OMG WTF Pwn'd ROFL

The former.

I like the retelling in 6 words thing.

Game development:
Cats can be herded, but badly.

Maybe you shouldn't market to cats.

Market to cat, sell to ass.

Blizzard's Business Case for WoW.

EQ done right.  Wear money hats.

The sun expanded, everyone died sweating.

Sunspots. It's cold. Fuck, we're dead.

Ragnarok Online or nails in genetalia?

He reached in. Oops, hidden beef.

 :-o


 :|

guards bank vendor buy recsu recdu

Come find your old MMOG friends!

Until fairly recently I had subscriptions to both Wired and Popular Science.  Wired is entertaining and occasionally has that one really great article, but it's mostly fluff compared to Pop Sci.  It's like Pop Sci for the Reader's Digest set.

Hey look, I found a yak.

"Babies," he realized, "are like footballs."

Urg.

The more of these short stories I read, the more I realise that six words can be used for great evil.

Or, of course, great good :


Don't you think she looks tired?

"That's what she said," muttered Michael.

God's really not such a micromanager.

You really are an old woman.

Lima beans, chainti, your liver. PTF-PTF-PTF-PTF-PTF-PTF

He was tired, she wanted more.



They said they came in peace.



Sometimes love isn't what you want.

It ended happily, for more people.

Civil War. Jedi. Revolution. Dead. Sarah. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=acjvjSw430U)

IA! IA! CTHULHU FTAGHN! IA! IA!

In the beginning we are doomed.

Unfortunately, no-one is getting out alive.

Fortunately I remembered the mayonnaise.

I've seemed to misplace them.

Edit: We should do 6 word reviews of games, or game stories.

Hey, look! There's something behind you!

Sorry, no tactical flashlights allowed.

Destroy the world over and over.

28 days later the zombies ruled.

He was a very happy boy

"They're on to us!" laments Satan.

"And for entertainment: assholes!" said God.

From the depths he arouse: Cthulu!

Same day everyday. Wake up!

Seperate your five and make six.

You're not the boss of me!

Oh, I think you are mistaken.

` ` ` ` ` DING!

Karaoke with infinite drinks is good.

In time, you will find out that it is you who are mistaken.  About a great many things.

You broke the thread, Zod Face.   :x

Jumping from the bed, "Football practice!"

I've gotta bad feeling about this...

What could possibly go wrong?

They had Knives! Monkies with Knives!!

Sky started talking about his TV.

Old home that he forsook; happiness.

"The message translates:  'We are here'".

Dusematic. Known to love the cock.

Stumped. Some call it "writer's block."

She was ready, he was eager.

Hold on loosely, don't let go.

Sky cheats by omitting words.  Dumbass.

Guilty as charged (add sandbags here).

L Ron was right. Fuck me.

That wins for scariest very short story ever.

Learn to write, you noobish hack.

The vorpal blade went snicker snack.

Don't make me beat you, Furiously.

He couldn't catch me, I'm faster.

You forget- bullets trump running speed.

Only if there is a spoon.

I've seen how your family shoots.

There is no spoon.

Please people, follow the rules, OK?

I know where your family lives.

They left the country last week.

Stopped at the border, "Papers, please."

Modernised a classic. Made millions guiltily.

Save the cheerleader; save the world.

You are all sick, twisted bastards.

The monkey in the trunk smoked.

This thread got really fucking stupid.

Six words. What do you expect?

Could be worse, could be haiku.

Maybe cannibalism wasn't the best choice.

Yup, you are what you eat.

Lots of palindromes (http://palindromes.hobby-site.org/) are six words.

That's what I was gonna say!

Six words. It's the new haiku!

We came, we saw, we left.

Let's do it with five words.

We can work our way down.

Soon we'll S T F U.

I was ahead of my time.

Dems: OMG zerg rush, gg GOP

Once upon a time, time stopped.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.




Hey, if Lum can steal, so can I!

drinking too much, my head hurt.

Wife Swapping party:  Don't reccomend it.

More like a problem swapping party

Help! Drunken idiots rewired my basement.

Eliminating 3 splitters sped him up.

Now I get the neighbor's HBO.

The body fit into the crawlspace.

Now I get the neighbor's BO.

Unfortunately he didn't have a HDTV.

Circuits fried. George died. Sky cried.

Sky has a ridiculous UPS box ;)

You can not stop the signal.

Tom Cruise revealed: megalomaniacal land octopus!

Reported.