yuletide is the biggest(?) winter gift-fanfic exchange. The deadline's on the 20th, at 8pm US Eastern time - less than ten days from now.
ETA: I'm not available to mod. As Beth knows, but ftr. The entirety of that weekend has a large RL-in-gargoyle-form sitting on it and getting ready to eat me. ;-)
It's from a very long, somewhat political joke... let me see if I can find it, it was originally an e-mail forward. I'll PM it to you if I can hunt it up.
ETA: Pfft, I can't find it. I must have deleted it. It was supposed to be all these different historico-political figures' reactions to the "Why did the chicken cross the road?" joke. It was really funny, too. :P
It gets tweaked at irregular intervals, of course, by people with varying degrees of actual wit. You can usually get the equivalent of a datestamp based on the year Bill Gates gives for his announcement of eChicken (I've seen it ranging from 1998 to 2011). The Martin Luther King quote has proved to have much better 'legs' than the others -- not surprisingly.
I have a friend who may be coming into town, and may be staying over Friday or Saturday night. Then again, he may not. I am still trying to get confirmation. But Sunday is open, and I'll let you know about the rest of the weekend as soon as I find out.
OK, I still don't know about Friday or Saturday night, but I can now say for sure that I am available to mod from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. on Saturday the 15th, and/or from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday the 16th (all times are Pacific).
Thank you for the offer, and we'll be glad to have you participate in the round this weekend! Serving as a moderator is better done after you've been involved for a few rounds. What fandoms do you write for?
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I, er, will be happy to help. Yes.
*looks dignified*
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:lol:
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ETA: I'm not available to mod. As Beth knows, but ftr. The entirety of that weekend has a large RL-in-gargoyle-form sitting on it and getting ready to eat me. ;-)
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*employs UNIT to fire rocket thingumies at Gargoyle a la The Daemons*
(Not that it ever works for them, but, hey "Chap with the wings, five rounds rapid!")
:-)
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ETA: Pfft, I can't find it. I must have deleted it. It was supposed to be all these different historico-political figures' reactions to the "Why did the chicken cross the road?" joke. It was really funny, too. :P
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http://www.artsforge.com/humor/chickenroad.html
http://bertc.com/subfour/truth/whydid.htm
It gets tweaked at irregular intervals, of course, by people with varying degrees of actual wit. You can usually get the equivalent of a datestamp based on the year Bill Gates gives for his announcement of eChicken (I've seen it ranging from 1998 to 2011). The Martin Luther King quote has proved to have much better 'legs' than the others -- not surprisingly.
This one is mostly rehash, but then it adds a lovely set of extra scientists to the end:
http://stat.fsu.edu/~chicken/webfiles/q.html
AUGUST MOBIUS: To get to the same side.
ISAAC NEWTON: Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. Chickens in motion tend to cross the road.
WERNER HEISENBERG: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.
JANOS von NEUMANN: The chicken is distributed probabilistically on all sides of the road until you observe it on your side.
C PROGRAMMER: cross_road() was called from get_other_side()
C++ PROGRAMMER: chicken->CrossRoad() was called from chicken->GetOtherSide()
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And I guess I can do some modding, too, if you need me.
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hello and welcome!