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No 19: Still be able to go into Sainsburys (or other quality supermarkets)  without being recognised. |
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No 20: Without those cameras hanging about following your every move, there is more time to spend writing.
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No 21: Not being shortlisted means less of a grooming burden: no one will notice if you don't shave your legs or get your eyebrows waxed.
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If i had shaved my eybrows and waxed my legs would i have stood a better chance!
'All we see and seem is but a dream within a dream' Poe
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Depends what you wore afterwards playfull. Can we see you in a little floaty number by Stella McCartney?
I only arsked . . .
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No 22 - Shortlist? What shortlist? |
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23. And this is the biggie! You're spared the embarrassment of having your family appear on TV.  |
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Oh Gosh!
You're all great!
Many thanks for your kind thoughts.
I shouldn't burden you with my problems.
I function from day to day, mostly thanks to the wonderful work done by the pharmaceutical industry.
Okay, I'm a gibbering wreck, but I think I would be worse without my prescription drugs.
And Swann, I do down a high strength cod liver oil capsule with my morning orange juice; I usually start to do this when the days shorten.
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quote: I do down a high strength cod liver oil capsule with my morning orange juice; I usually start to do this when the days shorten.
Bleugh! Have you ever wondered if its THAT that's making you feel bad??? 24. All the great artists and thinkers through history were rejected in their own time. Our plays will be hailed as masterpieces years after we have died in despair and poverty. There now - that's cheered you all up hasn't it.
"I love deadlines - I love the woooshing noise they make as they go past."
(Douglas Adams)
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25. You didn't have to meet any of the other writers you've met on this Forum and maybe have all your illusions shattered!
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Sorry - just realised that's a reprise of Aurora's No 17!
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No. 26: Celebrity magazines won't publish unflattering pictures of you when you're drunk in Soho.
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quote: Originally posted by Lewes:
Oh Gosh!
You're all great!
Many thanks for your kind thoughts.
I shouldn't burden you with my problems.
I function from day to day, mostly thanks to the wonderful work done by the pharmaceutical industry.
Okay, I'm a gibbering wreck, but I think I would be worse without my prescription drugs.
And Swann, I do down a high strength cod liver oil capsule with my morning orange juice; I usually start to do this when the days shorten.
Yes, you should burden other people with your problems. Other people find them more interesting than your successes. And what's more, human beings are designed to need other people to get them through their problems. And people like to help. Sorry, Lewes, but the British need to loosen up their stiff upper lip just a little. Look, you can still be uptight, just don't completely deprive everyone you know of the possibility of showing compassion or empathy. |
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 Thank you, Swann. I shall endeavour to be less uptight... and less stiff in future. |
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No. 28: We don't have to worry about what happened to No. 27.
'All we see and seem is but a dream within a dream' Poe
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No 27 - We don't have to worry about 'chronological accuracy and a suitably credible creative timeline'.
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No 27 - We don't have to worry about saving pages and then avoiding 'unneccessary duplication of message'.
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No 30 - No groupies who are willing to perform all kinds of 'wrong' sexual acts just to be near you... Oh right we're on reasons to be cheerful about rejection...
Right – No 30 – No scanky groupies with their flighty favour and their equally flighty STDs…
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No 31 - We don't have to worry about saving pages and then avoiding 'unneccessary duplication of message'.
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No 32 - There is no chance of any of your old school friends/ work colleagues recognising you and reporting your misrepresentation of age/marital/sexual status to a forum of agog reality TV viewers.
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No 33 - You may keep your righteous indignation concerning the nations obsession with reality TV, without feeling the teensiest bit hypocritical.
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No 34 - Not having to sit there while Jonathan Woss interviews himself.
I only arsked . . .
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No.29...
well er...
it's a Prime Number and we've left it out!
All Prime Numbers are special, especially 1 and 7!
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No 35 - If your entry had been accepted onto TPTT you couldn't enter it into the Royal Exchange competition - for an actual, valid, monetary & production, non-national-TV-humiliation prize!
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No 36 - Not getting chalkdust all over your new suit!
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