Comments on: The Winner of the “Why I Deserve an ‘Android’s Dream’ ARC” Contest http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/ I FORGET WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:12:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Chang http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87940 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:14:22 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87940 Man, the guy had a kid! So it’;s like the had two prizes. it’s hard to feel grudgeful when the baby is that cute. grumble grumble – awwwwwww!

]]> By: Chang http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87941 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:14:22 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87941 Man, the guy had a kid! So it’;s like the had two prizes. it’s hard to feel grudgeful when the baby is that cute. grumble grumble – awwwwwww!

]]> By: That Neil Guy http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87939 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:38:08 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87939 Well, I almost hesitate to add this out of fear for my growing family (after reading some of the stuff above) but here is a link to a photo of my two newest children…

http://profilesincuteness.blogspot.com/2006/09/we-won.html

]]> By: Nathan http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87938 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:31:26 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87938 Actually, I meant dough….for the pie. But I mispelled it.

Now THAT’S irony. (or is that Flintstones vitamins?)

]]> By: Gwen http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87937 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 02:59:21 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87937 Wouldn’t that be “D’oh”? :P
I’m all a-tremble thinking about the possible mispellings* in my previous post and this, as the Irony** Gods eagerly await Internet grammar-and-spelling corrections, for obvious reasons.

*It was at exactly this point in the sentence that I realized that I misspelled the word “misspelled” in the previous post and was mid-word in misspelling the word “misspelling” in this post. The Irony** Gods have outdone themselves this time. (I am leaving the asterisked misspelling in for a sacrifice to them. Much less painless than self-defenestration.)

**Yeah, I know, there are all those pedantic people who insist that I’m misusing the word “irony.” I don’t care. Everyone else “misuses” the word this way, and even the pedants contradict each other (one site declared that dramatic irony wasn’t, while the site that linked to it said that it was…), so, phooey to them.

]]> By: Nathan http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87935 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:29:47 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87935 out……Doh!!!

]]> By: Nathan http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87936 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:29:47 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87936 out……Doh!!!

]]> By: Nathan http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87934 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:29:01 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87934 -Blushing with embarassment-

As atonement, I’ll demonstrate self-defenestration.

But I’m only gonna do it from the basement window. Its half above and half below grade. I may get some road-rash from the gravel there, but I shouldn’t break anything.

I’m hoping that this singular act will cause someone to coin a new word meaning “one who tosses himself out of a lower floor window while thinking of schadefreude pie as an act of atonement for misspelling on blogs”. You never know when such a word might be required again.

And Gwen, I was apologizing for misspelling congratulations. Thanks for pointing our my other deficiencies. LOL

]]> By: Gwen http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87933 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:53:27 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87933 Congratulations!
–she said, almost strangling on the word–but it was necessary, because it was possible that for the next ARC contest the Bacon-Taping God of Unhealthy Pie would search the archives to see who was a poor sport losing last time. Still, she would remember That Neil Guy if ever their paths crossed in the meatworld.

On a lighter note, there’s something funny about mispelling “cheer” and “Niel” but not “schadenfreude” or “defenestration.” Perhaps you really wanted to type “take” instead of “cheer” (as in “take him on in a fight to the death”) and “Nathan” instead of “Neil”?
Whom or what would you defenestrate? The pie, That Neil Guy, yourself? And how far up would the window be?

]]> By: Nathan http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87931 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:07:51 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/the-winner-of-the-why-i-deserve-an-androids-dream-arc-contest/#comment-87931 Oops…sloppy spelling!

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