Aphelion

Posted: **February 11, 2011, 08:11:43 AM**

ente per ente wrote:"Do you know what's the best kept secret? It's a secret..."... eh,eh

"There are two rules for success:

1. Never tell everything you know."

Posted: **February 12, 2011, 11:38:41 AM**

Vila wrote:"In the back of everyone's mind, a monster lurks, chained and hobbled, a prisoner of necessity and a testament to our commitment to civilization as a polite social contract. Only the truly wise know when it's time to fetch a set of bolt-cutters and let that sucker loose!" -- The Book of Armaments, Chapter 17, Verse 23

Vila, I might have written that line myself . . . well, not quite that elegantly . . .

. . . and Amazon doesn't list it . . .

Posted: **February 13, 2011, 02:02:34 AM**

My personal motto:

Work like nobody's watching
Dance like you've never been hurt
Love like you don't need the money.

Posted: **February 17, 2011, 05:26:53 PM**

Mark Edgemon wrote:Gold diggers are women who use their vaginas as credit cards!

Actually, if you look closely at the shape of the thing, you'd realise that Gold Diggers are women who use their vaginas as credit card *readers*.

*please insert card with the magnetic stripe facing left*

grin,duck,run...

Posted: **March 05, 2011, 11:50:13 AM**

Never underestimate an idiot!!!!

Posted: **March 10, 2011, 10:06:02 AM**

I go to church every Sunday. Some day I might believe in God.

Posted: **March 10, 2011, 11:42:58 AM**

"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." - Kenneth Tynan

Posted: **March 12, 2011, 01:02:46 AM**

When you can look through your rifle's scope with both eyes at the same time.

Posted: **April 14, 2011, 11:43:59 PM**

Best kid I ever had!

Posted: **April 16, 2011, 10:22:11 AM**

They are either off or on!!

Posted: **April 17, 2011, 12:37:41 PM**

Just forget about it!!

Posted: **May 04, 2011, 11:17:22 AM**

I have been evaluating for the first time why am I now so interested in writing, especially fiction. I've been looking at my strengths and weaknesses and have some conclusions, but no answers.

My strength is creative concepts and the love of nuances, seeing them and replaying them on movie DVD's. Writing posts, e-mails, essays and poetry is easy and free flowing.

But when I write fiction, I freeze up...I choke...every...damn...time! I do not know why it is so painful and what the barrier is. I do not know why I have to fight with it!

Character diaolgue should reflect and reveal the character's personality and thought processes. All my character dialogue is interchangable! I've introduced more showing, but not enough.

However, this obstruction is making me mad! I bought 10 books from best selling authors to study. I want to be able to create tension in the storyline instead of being predictable. I want to do slow reveals of the characters intent and internal struggles instead of saying "Hey everyone, I'm a bad guy and I'm about to do bad things, come and watch, yipee!"

I'm tired of sending a flash submission and ten minutes later saying to myself, "Why did I send that?"

If the last challenge was voted by breakdown, I would not have won! I consider it a fluke! If I ever score well in the future, I want to earn it!

I don't know why I wrote all of that, maybe it was in my subconscious.

I feel for you, Mark.

I often look at what my characters are doing and feel that I'm trying to tell myself something, something important that's in my subconscious that has to come out . . . but I can't seem to figure out what the message is!

Writing is seldom as much fun as, say, watching "America's Funniest Home Videos" -- but it's certainly more interesting. And to quote from a "Firefly" episode:

"Define 'interesting' . . ."
"Oh god, oh god, we're all gonna die . . . "

Posted: **May 05, 2011, 11:07:07 AM**

http://wulffmorgenthaler.com/strip/2009/07/24/

Posted: **May 06, 2011, 10:29:00 AM**

Mark Edgemon wrote: The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!

I love that one!

Posted: **May 18, 2011, 01:01:36 AM**

"Familiarity breeds."

Posted: **May 22, 2011, 07:15:16 PM**

Lady Angelique wrote:To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal ideas from many is research.

(I found this somewhere in cyber-land while doing RESEARCH)

And who deserves the credit, and who deserves the blame...?

And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name...hey!

Posted: **May 22, 2011, 09:32:32 PM**

Stealing ideas: Sometime it takes a lot of thought and research in order to steal a good idea!

Posted: **May 26, 2011, 09:57:11 AM**

Stealing: I stole my wife's heart thirty-years ago. Boy, has that been a long sentence!!

Posted: **July 22, 2011, 06:34:53 AM**

I believe in going to church every Sunday, as I told a priest one time. Yes, sir--I'm adamant about going to church, like an old-steam engine chugging along for year!
In fact, I told the priest, I don't even believe in God!! Now that should show you how really, really, I'm dedicated to going to church!!

Posted: **July 24, 2011, 12:27:21 AM**

Mark Edgemon wrote:Gun control means hitting your target!

(Lester should like this one)

You're right; I do. (Like it, that is -- I don't always hit my target.)

Posted: **July 25, 2011, 10:02:02 AM**

I also like your take on gun control. Without guns, and the willingness to use them for freedom, we would not be able to write here at Aphelion today! Censorship and suppression have their true beginning with Gun Control!!

Posted: **August 03, 2011, 10:22:18 AM**

Another sneaky spammer . . . "witty," this time -- or so he (she) thinks.

Posted: **August 03, 2011, 10:59:36 AM**

Lester Curtis wrote:Another sneaky spammer . . . "witty," this time -- or so he (she) thinks.

The question is, if the spammer goes to the trouble to make an on-topic post, do we CARE if there are links in the message? All one has to do is NOT click on the link or links...

Posted: **August 03, 2011, 01:17:39 PM**

Mark Edgemon wrote:
Robert_Moriyama wrote:The question is, if the spammer goes to the trouble to make an on-topic post, do we CARE if there are links in the message? All one has to do is NOT click on the link or links...
It looks like you were right! Spammers WILL take the time and trouble to show their ass!

I for one do care, especially when they are taking shots at Aphelionites. It's okay if we do it, we just apply the all purpose, universal double standard equipped with immunity.

"All-purpose, universal" seems unnecessarily redundant to me...

'sides, it isn't much of a shot to say that Bottomdweller has / had four WIVES.

Posted: **August 03, 2011, 08:48:00 PM**

Robert_Moriyama wrote:The question is, if the spammer goes to the trouble to make an on-topic post, do we CARE if there are links in the message? All one has to do is NOT click on the link or links...

Since someone reported this thread as having spam, I think the answer is YES. I did the message in.

Posted: **November 10, 2011, 05:00:24 PM**

Mark Edgemon wrote:1,000 cigarette smokers kick the habit of smoking everyday...by dying!

Hell, I quit smoking every night when I go to bed.

I used to think that was universal, but then I met a guy who said his wife had to get up in the middle of the night for a cigarette.

Posted: **November 14, 2011, 11:13:34 AM**

It was so easy for me to quit smoking!!! I never started!!!...eh..eh

But I must admit I chewed snuff for Forty-Five years and quit that nasty habit in '08.

I can't believe how everything tastes so mush different now!!!! Even Beer!!!

Posted: **November 29, 2011, 11:59:15 AM**

Mark Edgemon wrote:How can I consider the consequences of my actions, when I don't know what they are until they happen?

I think that may be the best one yet!

Posted: **January 06, 2012, 12:33:05 PM**

Mark Edgemon wrote:A woman will fight with all her might to get inside a man's head. Once there, she will fight with all her might to get out!

No she won't -- she'll hire a decorator!

Posted: **January 29, 2012, 12:53:26 AM**

Mark Edgemon wrote:If you expect to fail and do, then did you not succeed?

No -- you just lived up to your own expectations!

Aphelion

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Re: Gold Diggers

Idiots

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Narrow-mindedness

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Memory

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Going to Church

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