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badger
11-Feb-08, 17:30
This was on the radio last week and I'm sure orgers can do better. Ernest Hemingway was challenged to put a life story into 6 words and came up with
for sale baby shoes never worn

Here's the original http://www.smithmag.net/
not quite what I was planning

Here's mine for starters
second thoughts always better than first

Angela
11-Feb-08, 19:16
Mine would be
a game of snakes and ladders :eek:

Thanks for that link, badger. :)

golach
11-Feb-08, 20:14
Wish I had thought about that
or
Wish I had not said that

helenwyler
11-Feb-08, 22:11
Your 'child' fathers your 'adult' mind.....a poor paraphrasing in six words of Blake's "The child is father of the man"....seven words!

Torvaig
11-Feb-08, 23:55
I must do better next time....:~(

helenwyler
12-Feb-08, 00:03
I must do better next time....:~(

Torvaig, 'You are better than school reports'!

I keep trying to make a haiku:eek:!

Anne x
12-Feb-08, 00:41
Torvaig, 'You are better than school reports'!

I keep trying to make a haiku:eek:!

me to Helen but I fail miserably


You must stop Talking !!! mmm wonder how that was on my reports !!!

Sporran
12-Feb-08, 18:52
Here's mine:

Left Caithness, mostly overseas since then.

the second coming
13-Feb-08, 22:37
Dont waste breath on bad words.

lynne duncan
13-Feb-08, 23:31
watching carefully to see what's next

wifie
14-Feb-08, 01:23
me and my great big gob

Cedric Farthsbottom III
15-Feb-08, 23:44
My Dad didn't give a damn

Not as strong but still true.

scotsboy
16-Feb-08, 14:58
Observed, listened, participated but remained cynical.

karia
16-Feb-08, 22:03
Humour and warmth surrounded me always.

Riffman
16-Feb-08, 22:41
I came, I saw, I shot.

[lol]

Saveman
21-Feb-08, 17:46
Getting better all the time, hopefully.

honey
21-Feb-08, 17:56
prepared for worst, hoping for best....

sionss
21-Feb-08, 21:33
ace game can i please play?

Anne x
26-Feb-08, 01:47
you are young the future is yours
in your hands it does stay !!!

Kenn
26-Feb-08, 12:35
I baint as green as I'm cabbage looking!

Sporran
26-Feb-08, 17:33
you are young the future is yours
in your hands it does stay !!!


I baint as green as I'm cabbage looking!

Some people can't count six words! :Razz

Kenn
26-Feb-08, 17:43
Aye Sporran but a mile where I originate from is ten furlongs not eight, so just a little licence taken.

badger
02-Mar-08, 19:43
Come on guys - no cheating now. Try again !

danc1ngwitch
02-Mar-08, 19:46
was born, did survive, i Thrive.;)

Sapphire2803
03-Mar-08, 22:57
Ok, I'm just changing Hemingway's a bit (is that cheating?)

For sale: Cheap parachute, never opened


How about...
I came, I saw, I conga'd

Or mine....
Learned to speak, never quiet since.

Anne x
04-Mar-08, 00:51
The future is your's Young Still !!

Kenn
04-Mar-08, 22:07
I trod lightly on the earth

Bobinovich
04-Mar-08, 23:26
How about...

Live a full life until dead

or

Work rest and play 'til done

Anne x
05-Mar-08, 01:05
drink and be merry life short !!

helenwyler
05-Mar-08, 08:48
Heredity, opportunity and a little serendipity.;)

wifie
07-Mar-08, 15:56
Be Careful What You Wish For

sionss
07-Mar-08, 18:25
I'm doing it for you

Anne x
15-Mar-08, 02:07
Tonight to Sleep
Tomorrow to Dream

golach
15-Mar-08, 10:49
Tomorrow has arrived
Another day dawns

Cedric Farthsbottom III
16-Mar-08, 22:07
I came and kicked its ass:lol:

2little2late
16-Mar-08, 22:46
and suddenly got my foot stuck,

Julia
16-Mar-08, 23:55
'I told you I was ill' (the late great Spike Milligan's eptiaph)

Anne x
17-Mar-08, 00:42
Gosh I have a sore back

dellwak
20-Mar-08, 20:06
Oh well! Here we go again.

the charlatans
20-Mar-08, 20:47
I really hated flat pack furniture.[evil]

karia
20-Mar-08, 22:50
Oh god not that song again!

Anne x
21-Mar-08, 01:02
Surely not another Beatle song played

trix
21-Mar-08, 15:53
ye needna bother comin at crap (wi me) [lol][lol]

henry20
22-Mar-08, 09:57
I can choose my friends, thankfully

Sporran
22-Mar-08, 19:18
I love to write in rhyme! :D

karia
22-Mar-08, 19:48
I love to write in rhyme! :D

We are lucky that you do!;)

Kxx

Don't you dare plan to stop.

dellwak
22-Mar-08, 20:52
Been there, seen that, done it.

karia
22-Mar-08, 21:11
Been there, seen that, done it.

Not so, you ain't dead yet!;)

Anne x
22-Mar-08, 21:34
Another lovely Day on the Org

karia
22-Mar-08, 21:40
Exactly Anne, but we miss Rob!;)

Anne x
22-Mar-08, 22:41
Rain does pour
but Sunshine comes

karia
22-Mar-08, 23:02
What if the sunshine burns us?

Sporran
24-Mar-08, 06:01
I love to write in rhyme! :D




We are lucky that you do!;)

Kxx

Don't you dare plan to stop.

Thanks Karia, I don't plan to! :-))