So, the veterans lie on the applications too!
Everybody lies. But you have to submit a resume, too, so if the resume doesn't substantiate your answers to the questions, you shouldn't score as well. Me, I'm worried that my last-minute edits to my resume (because there was only room for 3000 characters in the box) screwed me up.
the freeways are particularly accurate. How they don't have LA's 405 is beyond me.
They needed to have an area for "telephone on hold with Comcast"
They don't have 285 either. The map is notably lacking a place where people are packing and moving.
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (A contest for bad fiction.)
The winner:
Cheryl’s mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts into bloody pieces that fell onto a growing pile of forgotten memories.
Also, "At 26 words, Prof. Fondrie’s submission is the shortest grand prize winner in Contest history, proving that bad writing need not be prolix, or even very wordy."
Runner up:
As I stood among the ransacked ruin that had been my home, surveying the aftermath of the senseless horrors and atrocities that had been perpetrated on my family and everything I hold dear, I swore to myself that no matter where I had to go, no matter what I had to do or endure, I would find the man who did this . . . and when I did, when I did, oh, there would be words.
Many more awards and runners up for different categories.
This reminds me of Douglas Adams:
The grisly scene before him was like nothing Detective Smith had ever seen before, but there were millions and millions of things he had never seen before, and he couldn't help but wonder which of them it was.
Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid greeting fans in Shabbona, IL. Friend of a friend heard that Dennis Quaid joined a country club in Shabbona possibly this one.
How they don't have LA's 405 is beyond me.
Well they have the 101. Really, not sure which is the most truly hellish of LA's freeways. I tend to hate both the 5 and the 405 with equal hate, although the 405 is far more useful to me.
Donner's Pass recreated with goldfish in NZ
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