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Re: Writers Block

Post by LadySaturn » Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:30 am

SamIAm wrote:Writer's Block is a martial arts move where you use your computer or notepad to block a punch....right? Tell me that's what it is, because I've done it. :smash:
No, but I've whipped the notebook across the room in a fit of rage before, swearing and cursing like a sailor while my muses run and hide. Oh, I've had my moments. :hello: :mrgreen:

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Re: Writers Block

Post by bags123 » Sat Aug 27, 2011 1:53 pm

preston wrote:That was before I became irrelevant.

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We should start the "Irrelevant Crumrudgeon Club" . :thumbsup:
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Re: Writers Block

Post by heinzs » Sat Aug 27, 2011 5:14 pm

I think he actually meant irreverent...
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Re: Writers Block

Post by preston » Sat Aug 27, 2011 5:58 pm

I think he actually meant curmudgeon.

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Re: Writers Block

Post by heinzs » Sat Aug 27, 2011 6:46 pm

I liked the new word "crumrudgeon". Now we just need to create a definition for it.
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Re: Writers Block

Post by preston » Sat Aug 27, 2011 6:57 pm

I suggest if we want the rights to the irreverent crumudgeons domain we grab it before someone else does.

:arrow: http://youngcrumudgeon.blogspot.com/

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Re: Writers Block

Post by Eternum 1 » Sat Aug 27, 2011 7:23 pm

I'm a Crumbudgeon from wayyy back.

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Re: Writers Block

Post by bags123 » Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:44 am

So which one of you gentlemen would like to be the first crumrudgeon to start and intelligent topic pertinent to the over 50 demographic? :thewave:
How bout "Impotence"? :shrug:
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Re: Writers Block

Post by LadySaturn » Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:20 pm

bags123 wrote:So which one of you gentlemen would like to be the first crumrudgeon to start and intelligent topic pertinent to the over 50 demographic? :thewave:
How bout "Impotence"? :shrug:
Psst, you do realize they make pills for that.. Just saying.. :book:

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Re: Writers Block

Post by Eternum 1 » Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:56 pm

LadySaturn wrote: Psst, you do realize they make pills for that.. Just saying.. :book:
When those pills first came out, one of my aunts referred to the result as raising a flag pole in front of a condemned building.
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Re: Writers Block

Post by bags123 » Tue Aug 30, 2011 12:01 pm

Eternum 1 wrote:
LadySaturn wrote: Psst, you do realize they make pills for that.. Just saying.. :book:
When those pills first came out, one of my aunts referred to the result as raising a flag pole in front of a condemned building.

Well I don't know about you,...but I'm pretty patriotic. :cheers:
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Re: Writers Block

Post by LadySaturn » Tue Aug 30, 2011 12:26 pm

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Re: Writers Block

Post by Eternum 1 » Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:14 pm

bags123 wrote:Well I don't know about you,...but I'm pretty patriotic. :cheers:
I'll have to visit you and your RCA Victor Victrola with the hot collection of John Philip Sousa tunes someday.
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Re: Writers Block

Post by nekot » Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:29 am

Eternum 1 wrote:"Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head.
Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows." - Quote from : A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
I might have to read Campbell's Companion sometime.

I also thought of Charlie Brown; ie: blockhead.
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