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posted by [identity profile] gorengal.livejournal.com at 05:11pm on 28/07/2009
Re epithets...I blame grade school curriculum. When my daughter brought home handouts/assignments on story writing, I think my brain exploded. They teach kids that repetition is bad, so they should use epithets and vary dialogue attribution (she exclaimed! he said sadly! she cried! ugh). I told my daughter to do her assignments the way the teacher said, but it was wrong...and I taught her the right way. :D

PS - I saw this and thought of you. Hee. :) http://news.aol.com/health/article/blue-mandms-help-reduce-spine-injury/591604
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 06:26pm on 28/07/2009
It certainly took me a long time to unlearn the habit of never using the same dialogue attribution twice. Though I suppose it's essentially the same thing as epithets; used sparingly they're alright, but teaching kids that they should never use "said" or "he" or "she" is not the way to go about it.

See? See? The blue M&Ms are just better. I knew it. :D Thanks for showing me that! I wonder if they'll approve that for use on people even if it makes them turn blue!
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posted by [identity profile] gorengal.livejournal.com at 09:14pm on 28/07/2009
I wonder if they'll approve that for use on people even if it makes them turn blue!

Well, you could always cosplay (*snicker*) as this character: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Raffalo .
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 02:26pm on 29/07/2009
It'd be a lot less sticky than body paint, that's for sure.

I love the comment where someone suggests that being blue would become a status symbol among the extreme sports crowd, because it meant they'd survived an injury that should have kept them out of the game. I think that'd be kind of interesting.
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