Survivor: New Howard Tribal Thread (Tribal Council Due 10 PM Sunday)

[ntndeacon]

Hidden in plain sight
Transformed lycanthropes tear flesh
Post counts do not rise

[path12]

A couple more haikus for consideration:

Question: what better
Pumpy pics or Daivd's game
A limerick might help (alternate third line: Let debate commence)

Werewolf -- where one tries
to fool f'n elitists
attempting survival

You can see I'm stuck on some themes.....

[path12]

Post counts rise higher
With just one emoticon
Except for werewolf

[path12]

Never believe Blade
Ardent, Lathum or Alan
or you will be killed

[ntndeacon]

I like the alternate line of Let debate comence to that poem path

[path12]

Originally Posted by ntndeacon

I like the alternate line of Let debate comence to that poem path

Yeah, I think I do too.

[ntndeacon]

of course I like my haiku better

[path12]

I'm not sure how much I like this one, but we seem to be short on choices for the 8-20 line poem:

We may debate movies or politics
We may complain about weather
We may clamor for Pumpy pics
But games are what bring us together

FM, FBCB, BBCF, Second and ten
Acronyms abound on our board
FOF, OOTP, Puresim and Madden
And boxscores to tell us who scored

I think it probably needs another couple stanzas but I'm drawing a blank right now........maybe someone can add to it or salvage part of it for something else.

[path12]

Another Acrostic stab:

W here we waste time
H urling opinions around like
A hanging curveball
T he top posters rule the roost
B ut generously allow
E veryone to have a say
T hough you can expect
T hem to have the final word
E vidently so their post counts
R ise to heights unseen
A fter all
I t is their destiny

[Marathoner]

Another WW based poem for your consideration:

Werewolves abound, hunting and killing
Like sheep the villagers are aimlessly milling
From sinew to sinew torn asunder
A trove of flesh the werewolves will plunder
Who know who is who
Leading old friends to eschew
Is there a silver bullet to be found?
If not, the commoners will be shredded sans sound
Do we villagers have any hopes?
None, as barkeep is as cold as Jeff Probst

[path12]

Originally Posted by Marathoner

Another WW based poem for your consideration:

Werewolves abound, hunting and killing
Like sheep the villagers are aimlessly milling
From sinew to sinew torn asunder
A trove of flesh the werewolves will plunder
Who know who is who
Leading old friends to eschew
Is there a silver bullet to be found?
If not, the commoners will be shredded sans sound
Do we villagers have any hopes?
None, as barkeep is as cold as Jeff Probst

I like that, though there seems to be a couple places where it sounds a little awkward. "shredded sans sound" for one. Maybe 'shredded without sound'?

[LoneStarGirl]

Werewolf -- where one tries
to fool f'n elitists
attempting survival

I like this one alot, i dont know why, but its my favorite so far

[LoneStarGirl]

Marathoner, you are pretty good at this stuff... you must have a lot of time on your hands

[ntndeacon]

or shreaded all around

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Originally Posted by ntndeacon

or shreaded all around

That's good. I think we also need to do something with the 'eschew' line.

[ntndeacon]

no I like the eschew line.

[path12]

Originally Posted by LoneStarGirl

the only thing is that the poem has to be about the word you are using. so it has to be about howard, or barkeep or whatever

By the way, I was looking on wiki and did not get the impression that it strictly had to be about the word. It does appear that the word needs to somewhat correlate with the subject however.

[path12]

Originally Posted by ntndeacon

no I like the eschew line.

'Leading old friends to eschew' It's probably just me but I don't get it.

[ntndeacon]

so we give one of each as a tribe in a pm? I wont be here near the deadline as I have trivia tonight. should we start to decide which of our choices we want to turn in?

[Jonathan Ezarik]

I'm back. Some good stuff out there for us to choose from.

[LoneStarGirl]

I am here while im doing a major math project.... I thought we had to put them in the main thread. I think we should wait till right at deadline to post, but we need somebody who will definitly be here... i dont know if i will.

[Jonathan Ezarik]

I'll be around, so I can do it.

[Jonathan Ezarik]

Originally Posted by LoneStarGirl

Werewolf -- where one tries
to fool f'n elitists
attempting survival

I like this one alot, i dont know why, but its my favorite so far

I like this, too, but I'm not sure it ties completely into the theme of FOFC. The same with the other poems that deal with WW.

I guess we have to decide which way we want to go. Either FOFC or WW.

[path12]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Ezarik

I like this, too, but I'm not sure it ties completely into the theme of FOFC. The same with the other poems that deal with WW.

I guess we have to decide which way we want to go. Either FOFC or WW.

I've gotta think that at least one other tribe will do a ww theme. I'm wondering, since apparently some of the judges might come from FOFC rather than the WW community that we might have better luck that way.

That said, I think we could probably get away with some overlap since we are part of the FOFC community (the unfortunate brother who's locked in the attic, granted, but a part nonetheless!)

[Jonathan Ezarik]

Originally Posted by path12

I'm not sure how much I like this one, but we seem to be short on choices for the 8-20 line poem:

We may debate movies or politics
We may complain about weather
We may clamor for Pumpy pics
But games are what bring us together

FM, FBCB, BBCF, Second and ten
Acronyms abound on our board
FOF, OOTP, Puresim and Madden
And boxscores to tell us who scored

I think it probably needs another couple stanzas but I'm drawing a blank right now........maybe someone can add to it or salvage part of it for something else.

I really dig this, so I added another stanza to make it an English sonnet.

We may debate movies or politics
We may complain about weather
We may clamor for Pumpy pics
But games are what bring us together

FM, FBCB, BBCF, Second and ten
Acronyms abound on our board
FOF, OOTP, Puresim and Madden
And boxscores to tell us who scored

A game was promised like nothing before
A thread was born that was pure gold
Daivd Winters gave us beer tents and more
But only a few copies of MF were sold

The months roll on and the seasons pass
While Schmidty continues to have a bug up his ass

[Jonathan Ezarik]

Originally Posted by path12

That said, I think we could probably get away with some overlap since we are part of the FOFC community (the unfortunate brother who's locked in the attic, granted, but a part nonetheless!)

You could be right, but after what happened last night, I'm taking the challenge rules literally and I worry that WW wouldn't be seen as an FOFC inclusive theme.

[path12]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Ezarik

I really dig this, so I added another stanza to make it an English sonnet.

We may debate movies or politics
We may complain about weather
We may clamor for Pumpy pics
But games are what bring us together

FM, FBCB, BBCF, Second and ten
Acronyms abound on our board
FOF, OOTP, Puresim and Madden
And boxscores to tell us who scored

A game was promised like nothing before
A thread was born that was pure gold
Daivd Winters gave us beer tents and more
But only a few copies of MF were sold

The months roll on and the seasons pass
While Schmidty continues to have a bug up his ass

HA! Love it. Should we change 'boxscores' to 'statistics'? Just seems redundant with 'scored' in the same line.

[LoneStarGirl]

could we message barkeep and ask?

[Marathoner]

Originally Posted by LoneStarGirl

Marathoner, you are pretty good at this stuff... you must have a lot of time on your hands

Yes, the snowstorm in Indy really has cut down on traffic.

[LoneStarGirl]

and have any of y'all voted yet? I hate asking, but i bet after we are one down, we get either Imthecrew or Tyrth on our team

[path12]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Ezarik

You could be right, but after what happened last night, I'm taking the challenge rules literally and I worry that WW wouldn't be seen as an FOFC inclusive theme.

When you put it that way I totally agree.

[path12]

Originally Posted by LoneStarGirl

and have any of y'all voted yet? I hate asking, but i bet after we are one down, we get either Imthecrew or Tyrth on our team

I haven't. I was toying with the idea of not voting in protest, but we might get some kind of punishment for something like that and I don't want to penalize the team.

[Jonathan Ezarik]

Originally Posted by path12

HA! Love it. Should we change 'boxscores' to 'statistics'? Just seems redundant with 'scored' in the same line.

Maybe. I think "boxscores" could be changed, but I don't think "statistics" is a better option. What else could we use there? I'm drawing a total blank.

[path12]

So I think JE's version of the sonnet should be in for sure. For the limericks that specify FOFC we have the MF one, Marathoner's Dean Houston one and the general one I did (which I think is kind of covered elsewhere). I think the Dean Houston is probably my choice there.

[path12]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Ezarik

Maybe. I think "boxscores" could be changed, but I don't think "statistics" is a better option. What else could we use there? I'm drawing a total blank.

Stats? Data? It's a tough one.

[Jonathan Ezarik]

I haven't voted yet, either. I was waiting to see how today went and since we have until 10 PM to decide, I'm probably going to wait until the last minute. I really hate to have to choose because I think everyone has been pulling their weight so far. I just hope that we don't lose this challenge as well and have to vote someone off again.

[Jonathan Ezarik]

I like the Dean Houston limerick as well.

[path12]

With data that tells us who scored ?

[path12]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Ezarik

I really hate to have to choose because I think everyone has been pulling their weight so far. I just hope that we don't lose this challenge as well and have to vote someone off again.

Ditto.

[Jonathan Ezarik]

Originally Posted by path12

Stats? Data? It's a tough one.

Perhaps 'text' to tie it into text sims?

And lines of text to tell us who scored

[Marathoner]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Ezarik

I haven't voted yet, either. I was waiting to see how today went and since we have until 10 PM to decide, I'm probably going to wait until the last minute. I really hate to have to choose because I think everyone has been pulling their weight so far. I just hope that we don't lose this challenge as well and have to vote someone off again.

I think it is due at 7pm

[LoneStarGirl]

I really wish I could help more, but you men just seem to have such a handle on it... and I am busy

[LoneStarGirl]

poems at 7, votes at 10

[Marathoner]

er, it says the poem is due by 7pm. I am not sure about the rest.

[path12]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Ezarik

Perhaps 'text' to tie it into text sims?

And lines of text to tell us who scored

I think that's probably the best so far. "to" or "that"?

[path12]

For FOFC purposes, we have two choices in both the acrostic and the haiku:

Haiku: Pumpy or Question: what better
Acrostic: Barkeep or What better ai

[Jonathan Ezarik]

Originally Posted by path12

I think that's probably the best so far. "to" or "that"?

I think "that".

[LoneStarGirl]

i dont understand what better ai path

[Jonathan Ezarik]

Originally Posted by path12

For FOFC purposes, we have two choices in both the acrostic and the haiku:

Haiku: Pumpy or Question: what better
Acrostic: Barkeep or What better ai

While I like my Pumpy haiku, it doesn't follow the 5/7/5 rule. I also really like the Question haiku as well, with the last line of Let debate commence.

If we use that haiku, we should either use the Barkeep acrostic or come up with something new. We don't want to use the 'what better' bit twice.

[LoneStarGirl]

i like barkeep acrostic, especially if he isn't judging them

and i really liked the question pumpy haiku.

We need to focus on the other two now and mark those as 'done'