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Apr-8-2009 10:27

Ok, remember when you were in school, and you had write an essay, "What I Did Last Summer"?

Well, tell me what YOU did last summer. I mean you, the detective. It should be in character but it doesn't have to be about sleuth, since even detectives have holidays sometimes, right?

RULES

-Spelling and grammar count! I will put you on a blacklist and haunt you forever if u rite lyk dis.

-There is a 2000 character limit. That's one box.

-Contest closes Thursday, April 30 11:59:59pm. No exceptions.

-Currently I am the only judge, and bribes are welcome.

PRIZES

1st prize $100,000 sleuth dollars or a 2-month sub
2nd prize $50,000 sleuth dollars or a 1-month sub

So, what did you do last summer?

Apr-9-2009 12:28

(( boy, I really know how to follow directions!! ONly 2000 word limit! i got carried away LOL*sigh* instant loss...man I am good! LOL)))

Apr-9-2009 13:12

Way to immediately get yourself tossed out of the competetion Mak. Of course I know why you did it. After reading my entry you realized that you can't possibly win but you wanted to put something up and used that as an excuse for losing to me! ;-)

I challenge everyone out there to try and beat me, but this time try to stay within the rules! ;-)

Apr-9-2009 13:41

you found me out ctown! *shakes head* good luck to everyone - dont do as i do though!

tk, do we get prizes for knowing how to immediately get ourselves thrown out of a contest? I think that deserves a free sub , like one year or something. I dont know...just sayin....*shrugs* :P

Apr-9-2009 19:02

Oh! I just thought you'd entered multiple times ;)

Apr-9-2009 20:32

Umm, just a friendly reminder, there is a 2000 character limit, that's one box.

Also as this is an essay about what you did last summer, it should be in the 1st person, not the 3rd person perspective. (I admit I didn't make that clear in the rules, sorry).

And thirdly, remember when I say "bribe" I mean cold hard cash, not just nice PMs.

Looking forward to seeing more entries!
;)

Apr-9-2009 21:41

Mak doesn't follow rules well does she? Always needs to be the center of attention. Now when anyone comes to this thread they will see Mak, Mak, Mak, Mak and Mak. Way to fill up the first page their girlie :P

Apr-9-2009 22:18

LOL! i was always a person that thought rules were meant to be broken, and i just proved it, accidentally :( :) i really know how to double disqualify myself - over 2000 limit, AND talked in 3rd person,which is how I RP *sigh* *chugs a bottle of whiskey* heheee

good luck to everyone! :o)

Apr-9-2009 23:46

Um... is this a real contest? Or just a fun topic?

If it is a real contest, do we post here or make a new topic with our entry?

Thank you!

Apr-10-2009 00:18

It's a real contest Magdalene. Sorry if we got off topic :-) And yes post your entry here (of course it will probably go to Page 2 because of Mak's domination of Page 1 ;))

Apr-11-2009 20:15

This past summer I had a hankering for home. Since there’s no family or work waiting for me in the wilds of Montana, I settled for an odd second best. A friend of a friend etc. called me up and told me the Central Park Zoo was looking for someone to be a fill-in keeper for the moose pen for a couple of months. The bull moose hadn’t gotten along with the previous guy and he’d turned on him, leaving him with cracked ribs and a fractured skull. Would I be gullible, er, green, er, desperate enough to take the job.

I had worked as a guide for some tenderfoot hunters, so being around moose didn’t scare me off, per se. I showed up for work at the pen: a bull in one enclosure and a cow and calf in the other. The problem child behaved himself for the first week. I had expected to have to exit the pen by vaulting over the fence; instead he ignored me as I cleaned the pen, set out new hay and food and checked his salt lick. The second week though, the horns, or in his case rack of antlers, came out. Seems he favored the ambush approach. He waited until I was in the middle of hosing down the manger area of his pen; if I hadn’t kept an eye out for trouble, I would have been pitched over the fence by his antlers or turned into mousse. As it was, he got a face full of water and I finished up my day rather quickly.

I asked my boss how they’d handled the bull in the past; he told me they hadn’t, they had just passed him on to a new handler each time. So until the last guy lost his mind again, Rudolf was all mine. Give that my brawn was no match for 2000 pounds and 6 feet of antlers, it was time to use brains and find his Achilles heel, or in his case hoof. As I found out, Rudolf had a sweet tooth. I made a small addition to his diet of hay, veggies and pine boughs. He got a bucket of maple syrup and I got an unskewered carcass as I cleaned his pen. By the third day he was hooked, his snout buried in pure ambrosia.