tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post5678143977550428..comments2024-03-07T11:39:09.758+11:00Comments on Will Type For Food: The process of natural rejectionTimThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-46870859666408562632008-08-25T09:21:00.000+10:002008-08-25T09:21:00.000+10:00If I've got demons in my mouth, I think I'd better...If I've got demons in my mouth, I think I'd better call the exorcist instead of the dentist.TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-34918475731633919522008-08-25T08:44:00.000+10:002008-08-25T08:44:00.000+10:00Boycott the dentist! It always ends in grief. I ...Boycott the dentist! It always ends in grief. I started with an occasional tooth ache and now, three fillings and umpteen needles later, I feel like I've been transformed into Donny Osmond every time I shut my mouth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-19576152359378820512008-08-24T20:34:00.000+10:002008-08-24T20:34:00.000+10:00Everyone? If you're a thousand kms away and I'd n...Everyone? If you're a thousand kms away and I'd noticed then, yes, you would seriously be in need of a dentist.<BR/>The Monkey episode might help you to understand the problem - there nasty demons in your mouth and they're...never mind...Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03417138778733226637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-52619597115810135592008-08-24T19:29:00.000+10:002008-08-24T19:29:00.000+10:00All of a sudden everyone seems to be talking about...All of a sudden everyone seems to be talking about dentists. Dentists dentists dentists! I wonder if they're trying to tell me something?TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-35639172338800779072008-08-24T18:54:00.000+10:002008-08-24T18:54:00.000+10:00Curiously, a talking kitchen-sink would be in keep...Curiously, a talking kitchen-sink would be in keeping with the Monkey universe [if they'd had kitchen-sinks in pseudo ancient China]. Reminds me of the Monkey-as-dentist episode for reasons that I cannot begin to explain.Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03417138778733226637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-57427706580260086472008-08-24T16:47:00.000+10:002008-08-24T16:47:00.000+10:00I can assure you, Tim, that you are imaginative in...I can assure you, Tim, that you are imaginative in a particularly charming and original way and that I, for one, would much prefer to hear the kitchen sink speak than to hear it spoken about. Kitchen sinks rise up indeed!<BR/><BR/>And I learn all sorts of interesting things here. I was going to put the hyphen in "kitchen-sink scene" and then I didn't because it didn't seem nice from a typographical point of view, but I see that it looks very nice in "kitchen-sink realism". I have also discovered that I was right to decline M's request to watch "Forbidden Kingdom", since, aside from all the other aspects it has which I am unlikely to enjoy, it makes explicit reference to "Monkey", a program I can't stand (in keeping with my lack of hipness).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-37439139053831996342008-08-24T15:44:00.000+10:002008-08-24T15:44:00.000+10:00I am thoroughly antipathetic to that sort of kitch...I am thoroughly antipathetic to that sort of kitchen-sink realism. It just goes entirely against my character. <BR/><BR/>When you said kitchen sink there, in fact, my mind immediately formulated an idea for a Kitchen Sink drama. Complete with talking kitchen sink. Let no-one say I am not imaginative (even if I am not.)TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-41564972300200023542008-08-24T13:41:00.000+10:002008-08-24T13:41:00.000+10:00Perhaps they wanted more realism in the kitchen si...Perhaps they wanted more realism in the kitchen sink scene.<BR/><BR/>(I had never even heard of "Sleepers", which confirms what I've suspected for a long time- that I am not even remotely fashionable and that I do not have my finger on the pulse).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-52882950562114749982008-08-24T13:10:00.000+10:002008-08-24T13:10:00.000+10:00You might find your submission for rejection has b...You might find your submission for rejection has been rejected, and that you have failed at failing to submit a piece to Sleepers. You might, in a word, be accepted and published. <BR/><BR/>I'm sorry to have to tell you this unpleasant truth, but I think you should perhaps begin steeling yourself for it now. <BR/><BR/>It's one of those cold hard facts of life.TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-8060878815272245132008-08-24T12:02:00.000+10:002008-08-24T12:02:00.000+10:00That would be a grand rejection email. I am checki...That would be a grand rejection email. I am checking my inbox daily, just in case.DShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15287933905370786159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-18189650055750756832008-08-24T08:57:00.000+10:002008-08-24T08:57:00.000+10:00Also, this: failing to succeed is just succeeding ...Also, this: failing to succeed is just succeeding at failure.TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-10377140668776059712008-08-24T08:15:00.000+10:002008-08-24T08:15:00.000+10:00That probably means they're still considering it. ...That probably means they're still considering it. Still, I like the idea of a double rejection: <BR/><BR/>Dear Dale Slamma, <BR/><BR/>We are sorry to have to tell you that you have been rejected for receiving a rejection email for your submission to the Sleepers Almanac. Don't feel bad about this, we receive so many great stories to reject every year, and can only send out rejection emails for some of them. We encourage you to keep on writing stories for rejection, and submit your story to another magazine for a rejection as well. If you don't succeed at failing at first, then try, try again! <BR/><BR/>Sincerely, Sleepers AlmanacTimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-47561903798103180192008-08-23T23:28:00.000+10:002008-08-23T23:28:00.000+10:00You were rejected by Sleepers? Oh no. That must me...You were rejected by Sleepers? Oh no. That must mean I have been double rejected, they have not even bothered to send me a rejection notice. That is disheartening.<BR/><BR/>I like rejection notices, it is evidence that I have done something other than sit and ponder listlessly with a biscuit in my left hand.DShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15287933905370786159noreply@blogger.com