wacky word games
Help editing the first chapter of my novel Chapter inside
Hi, here is the first chapter of my novel. I was wondering if anyone would like to read it and give me feedback, or make corrections? Thanks. Note that the format is wacky because I'm pasting from Word.
CHAPTER 1
The Scrub
I had been spending the past few afternoons before the end of school playing basketball during recess. My dad had wanted me to play. He thought that I should try out for the school team next year – thought it might help me make some friends. My family had moved to Chicago a year earlier, when I was twelve, and making friends hadn't been easy for me; unfortunately, basketball wasn’t changing that.
We were playing three on three, make it take it, and I was playing terrible. To make matters worse, I had been stuck with guarding the playground bully, AJ Turner.
AJ shot the basketball over my outstretched arms. It swooshed through the net.
"Money!" AJ boasted arrogantly. He turned to me and gloated, "Can't stop this, Scrub!" A scrub was just about the worst thing that you could be called on the basketball court at my middle school; AJ had practically made it my nickname.
I hung my head pathetically and muttered, "Man, I stink."
"Then get off the court, Scrub!" AJ snapped at me.
I sighed quietly and mumbled, "I'm going to get a drink." I turned and began shuffling away.
My teammate, Luke, rolled his eyes. "Jonathan, come back. We need three to play.”
I returned to the game and flinched as AJ passed the ball hard at my chest. I softly passed the ball back to him to resume play. He dribbled hard into me, knocking me to the ground. He went on to score a layup.
“That’s how we do!” AJ’s teammate, Arnold, announced triumphantly.
AJ strutted over to where I had fallen and attempted to wring the sweat from his jersey onto me. Nothing came out.
“Nice try,” I laughed.
AJ shook his head and explained, “beating a scrub like you is no sweat.” Even my teammates laughed at that one.
I sighed and got to my feet. When play resumed Luke made a steal and passed to me under the basket. I received the ball and jumped for a layup.
"DON'T MISS!" AJ shouted. I tensed as I released the ball, and it bounced embarrassingly off the underside of the rim.
In the classroom, the students waited anxiously as the clock ticked off the last seconds of the school year. When the bell finally rang students cheered and exchanged high fives.
Outside I unlocked my bike from the rack and hopped on. I peddled past the ravine where I walked when I wanted to be alone. I peddle through my suburban neighborhood and its rows of two story houses. My family's house looked much like the rest with a trimmed front lawn, hedges, and a small garden where my mom grew rhubarb, tomatoes, and asparagus. I propped my bike in the two car garage where her minivan was parked. My dad was probably still at work.
That evening in my room, my mom helped me pack for camp.
"You're going to need this," she said, handing me my sleeping bag. I stuffed the bag into my camp trunk as my dad stepped into the doorway. He was a manager at a local steel fabrication plant. He had also been a camper, when he was younger, at the camp I was packing for, and where I would be spending the next eight weeks of my life: Camp Northern Lights for Boys.
"Hi, Dad."
"Hey Jon Jon. So school is finally over. Awesome!”
“Yeah.” I laid a stack of tee-shirts into my trunk.
“So, I stopped by the store today…”
I looked up at him curiously as he stepped outside the doorway and returned a moment later with a brand new baseball mitt and fishing pole; the same ones I had pointed out to him the last time we were at the store.
"Awesome!" I scrambling to my feet and gave my dad a hug. He smiled and handed me the equipment. I laid my pole against my bed and tried on my new mitt.
"Here." My dad tossed me a baseball. “Remind me to teach you to throw a curve ball after camp,”
“Ok. Cool.” I swatted the ball into my mitt a few times to break in the leather.
A few days later my dad drove my mom, sister and me to a parking lot where a camp bus was waiting. The lot was crowded with families saying their goodbyes.
As I said goodbye my mom got teary eyed, as I had expected. I hugged her and my sister, gave a strong handshake to my dad, and got onto the bus.
A couple dozen boys were already on board. I took a seat and looked out the window. My parents and sister saw me and waved goodbye. I waved back and gulped as the bus started to move. I was excited for camp, but also a little nervous; it was the first time that I had ever really been away from my family.
Thank you for your help. You are right that it is not technically a novel. It is 24,500 words, which is on the short side.
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Children fill out 20 characters
This is just to talk about your kids and take a break from some of those questions so here you go. You can copy and paste if you have more than one child.
Child's first and middle name:
Child's gender:
Child's favorite food:
Child's age:
Child's birthday:
Child's favorite toy:
Where child sleeps:
Child's favorite holiday:
Child's first word:
Child's eye color:
Child's hair color:
Short or long hair:
Child's favorite season:
Child's favorite TV show:
Child's favorite game:
Child's favorite song:
Child's favorite weather:
Child's favorite sport:
Here is mine for all my children:
Child's first and middle name: Freddy March
Child's gender: Male
Child's favorite food: Chicken from KFC
Child's age: Seven years
Child's birthday: December 29th
Child's favorite toy:A dinosaur skeloton he can take apart and put together.
Where child sleeps: In his bed
Child's favorite holiday: Christmas
Child's first word: Momma
Child's eye color: Greenish brown
Child's hair color: Dark brown
Short or long hair:Short
Child's favorite season: Winter
Child's favorite TV show: Sponge Bob
Child's favorite game: Tag
Child's favorite song: Who let the dog's out?
Child's favorite weather: Snowey
Child's favorite sport: Swimming
Child's first and middle name:Perigrin Robin
Child's gender: Male
Child's favorite food:Tomatos
Child's age: Six Years
Child's birthday: May 18th
Child's favorite toy: Teddy bear
Where child sleeps: In his bed
Child's favorite holiday: His Birthday
Child's first word:Freddy
Child's eye color: Dark brown
Child's hair color: Reddish brown, brown mostly
Short or long hair: Short
Child's favorite season: Summer
Child's favorite TV show: Arthur
Child's favorite game: Simon Says
Child's favorite song: Love Story (Just because it is what I listen to I think)
Child's favorite weather: Warm
Child's favorite sport: Soccar
Child's first and middle name: Charlie Kitty
Child's gender: Female
Child's favorite food: Cheese Pizza
Child's age: Four years
Child's birthday:October 26th
Child's favorite toy: Plastic farm toys
Where child sleeps: Mostly in her bed some times in Perigrin's she thinks his room is the only one with out monsters, I have been trying to get her over that.
Child's favorite holiday: Halloween
Child's first word: Yeah!
Child's eye color: Brown
Child's hair color: Red
Short or long hair: Long
Child's favorite season: Fall
Child's favorite TV show: She like the Barbie movies
Child's favorite game:Simon Says
Child's favorite song: Concrete Angel
Child's favorite weather: Warmish coldish, right from her, "I like the warmish kinda coldish warm kind of weather, whata you like?" says Charlie
Child's favorite sport: She doesn't like sports much just coloring
Child's first and middle name: Samantha Lue
Child's gender: Female
Child's favorite food: Chex mix, only the chexes
Child's age: Three
Child's birthday: January 6th
Child's favorite toy: Her younger brother's wacky ball, a green ball that is battery powered and moves on its own
Where child sleeps: In her and Brainard's bedroom on the right side of the kingsize bed
Child's favorite holiday: Her birthday
Child's first word: Wow!
Child's eye color: Brown
Child's hair color: Black
Short or long hair: Down to her shoulders
Child's favorite season: Winter
Child's favorite TV show: Rugrats
Child's favorite game: Candyland
Child's favorite song: Our Song
Child's favorite weather: I can't get it out of her. They are all playing together on the floor with their toys and she says "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs!" lol
Child's favorite sport: She plays with a football.
Child's first and middle name: Brainard Amrey
Child's gender: Male
Child's favorite food: Beef sticks
Child's age: 2
Child's birthday: July 5th
Child's favorite toy: His green ball, him and Samantha fight all the time about it , I am going to get him a blue one so Samantha can have the other
Where child sleeps: By Sammy
Child's favorite holiday: He won't answer he says "I am playin'!"
Child's first word: Who?
Child's eye color: Dark Dark Dark Brown
Child's hair color: Black
Short or long hair: Short curley
Child's favorite season: Fall
Child's favorite TV show: Little Bear
Child's favorite game: Chase older siblings
Child's favorite song: Farmer's Hat
Child's favorite weather: Warm
Child's favorite sport: None yet
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The great NBA conspiracy list
The NBA is rigged. There is no doubt. The referees are favoring Cleveland and Los Angeles and Denver and Orlando so the NBA can get either a LeBron/Kobe Finals, a LeBron/Melo Finals, a Kobe/Dwight Finals, or a Kleiza/Hedo Finals thus meaning more money for David Stern and his corrupt league.
But the madness doesn't stop there.
Here are five other conspiracies that the diabolical NBA doesn't want you to know about.
Free your mind!
1. The King lives!
While there have been numerous Elvis Presley sightings everywhere from Portland to Orlando, thousands of fans have convinced themselves that The King — ahem, hello! — plays small forward for the Cleveland Cavaliers. The idea that the most famous musician ever to have lived could be masquerading as the most famous basketball player in the world today actually makes perfect sense. I mean, who would suspect it?
2. Apollo Moon Landing was a hoax
Look, the Apollo 11 moon landings never took place, and were faked by NASA with possible NBA support. Why? Well, photographs taken on the moon were altered, there are no stars (or superstars) in any of the pics, the flag placed on the surface by the "astronauts" — in reality Joey and Stephen Graham(notes) — swayed despite there being no wind, and blah blah blah ... WHERE IS SAM CASSELL(notes), HUH!?! WHERE?!?! THAT'S HIS HOME AND HE LOVES GETTING HIS PICTURE TAKEN, BUT, OH, HE'S NOT THERE!! HOW CONVENIENT!! FAKE!!!
3. Subliminal advertising
Ever been watching a game and suddenly want a Sprite or vitaminwater? Or sitting on your sofa, again watching the NBA action, and suddenly have the irresistible urge to buy a Kayne West CD? Of course you do — you were just the victim of subliminal NBA advertising, my friend! In the 1980s, concern over subliminal messages even spread to players such as Jeff Hornacek and John Stockton, with the latter being sued in 1989 for dropping hidden messages in press conferences that convinced teens to not wear pants.
4. Kobe Bryant(notes) is Paul McCartney
In 1966, Beatles singer Paul McCartney died in a car accident and was replaced by a look-alike (in fact, a T-101 Kobe Bryant) who still claims Paul's fame to this day. If you play "Revolution 9" backwards you hear the sound of a car crash and the words "turn me on, Bryant." Also, the iconic cover of the "Abbey Road" record album conveniently shows John Lennon dressed like a clergyman, Ringo Starr wearing a black suit, "Paul" walking in basketball shoes and George Harrison's denim outfit resembling that of something Tyra Banks might have worn. Yes, that Tyra.
5. Wingdings contains special messages/playbooks
Following the 1992 launch of Microsoft's Wingdings font, students with too much time on their hands began to play with the typeface, which replaces letters with well-known symbols. Satanic teachings, secret plans for world domination, future terror plots and Mike Brown's fourth quarter Cleveland offense are among the weird and wacky messages contained in the font. In particular the letters TEAM are spelled with a snowflake, a finger, a peace sign and LeBron James'(notes) creepy face. C'mon now. How am I the only one seeing this!?!?
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Spiritually Speaking RampS Regulars Does anyone else remember the Roaming Game
This is pretty much how it went:
1. An R&S Regular would ask a question, in the Religion & Spirituality Section, with the word "roam" in it. This is how everyone knew it was time to play the Roaming Game.
2. Everyone who was interested in playing would answer the question to indicate that they were "in."
3. Then, each answerer would choose a question for the answerer above them to ask in another Yahoo! Answers category (other than Religion & Spirituality).
4. You would then come back to the original "roam" question in R&S and copy and paste the link to the question you asked.
It was a fun game, but I know a lot of accounts received violation notices and deletions because of it, since the other sections don't necessarily understand our brand of wacky humor here. ;-)
Does anyone else remember this game? What ever happened to it?
Phoenix - I ventured to the Politics Section last week, myself. I had the exact same reaction! It's a very, very scary place...
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Where can I find these old PC games
There are three classic PC games I am dieing to see again but cannot find them anywhere.
The first game is called "Super Ships." It is a classic "Asteroid" style space, shoot at stuff game, but you can choose from a variety of different space ships and fight other players.
The second game I cannot remember the name of. It was a tank game, 8bit graphics or lower. You picked the tank you wanted then purchased the kind of ammo you wanted to use, anything from a standard tank shell, a laser beam, or even a nuke. You were placed on a field with other tanks and altered the angle of your turret every turn to the point where you could make the best hit, you had to aim around hills and craters. I remember the nuke destroying the entire field.
The third game I cannot remember the name of either, I believe it had something like "Invention" in the title. It was a classic chain reaction game, were you had to set up all sorts of gadgets in specific ways so that when activated they interacted with each other. For example, you had to have a little man walk over to something, which lit on fire, which lit some rockets, which moved some ball into a goal, or something like that. It was very colorful and the tools were, for lack of a better word, "wacky."
All of these games are classics, as in old, as in from the mid to early 1990s. I played these games on a computer at my school at least 15 years ago.
If no one can provide a place where I could get/play these games again I would love to at least know the games titles. Thanks.
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Love blinds me I was fooled by his game so unbelievably How could he mask himself so well
December 27, 6:00 pm, St. Louis, MO
Me:" Hi, how's the car work going?"
Him: " I'm done with it, where are you now?"
M: "I'm at starbucks across street of worldmarket. are you done with the car already? you told me you wont get it done until 7 pm. at earliest."
H:"yeah."
M:" that's great. thank you so much."
H: " So i will meet you there then."
Me:"okay, I will wanna test drive it."
H:"I will talk to you later, bye."
M: "Bye, I love you."
30 minutes later, he came in the door with normal expression. " what's wrong? why dont you sit down?"
"I'll talk with you outside"
"Why?"
......
"Are you breaking up with me?"
"Yes!"
........
" Whhhhhyyyy?"
"I will explain outside..."
I trudged to the door, as soon as I walked outside, he run into a SUV laughing at me with a huge,bizzard, wacky smile on his face-I shall never forget that smile. His brother and driver were looking at me for a second, laughing too, drove away. I was in shock for five seconds, then checked my car and got ready to drive back to Ohio.
I visited him because I still love him and was dying to see him again. I knew since he left my house and drove away, we've already broken up. But I couldnt let him go, so I still contacted him and wanted to spend Christmas with him. He agreed to see me again, and told me he is not breaking up with me and still loves me. While I was in st.louis with him, I could sense the difference in him, the biggest one is that he could care less if I left, I know back before he would cry if I ever leave. But he actually asked me to leave on Christmas day because of a text from a friend saying he wants to see me again. He believed that I bridged the trust and he doesnt trust me no matter what I had to explain. I indeed havn't betrayed him, I tried to save for the best of our relationship so I begged him to stay with me for the rest of Xmas, he stayed. He acted like he loves me still, and I could sense so many differences in his affection, actions, words. However, I dont know why the hell I believe that he was just needing time to fall in love again when obviously he doesnt feel me the same way. He masked himself so well, same words, affections, how could I possibly know this was game what he set up to hurt me more? God, I can't stop blaming myself for giving the whole heart to him this time, because I really thought he wants to see me again because he still loves me.
What was the whole deal?
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Bridal Shower Games
I'm not really into shower games...... but I think I should do one or two..... Do you think these games would be fun?
Bridal Bingo..... idk what to put on there though....
OR
The Bride's Poem
Start off by writing a sentence about the bride (or bride and groom) as if it were the first line of a poem. Then pass it around the room as the bride opens her presents. Each guest must write down a next line of the poem, following the previous line as logically as possible. Then, she folds the sheet of paper over, so that the next guest only sees the line she has written. The maid of honor or hostess reads the wacky poem at the end of present opening!
OR
like a word scramble..... but thats kinda boring lol
ALSO what kind of prizes should i give? i know some people get small things off the registry and then the winner gives to the bride or some just get something cheap and random......
i should add that i'm the maid of honor lol..... and the brides sister
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girls would you mind
Would you mind if your boyfriend was a pretty cool guy, but used words like pwned and noob and fag, queer, retard, fisted, raped, was completly open about being a god at guitar hero and other video games, and admits to still watching spongebob and other cartoons and doesn't play sports and can be immature and random with kind of a cooky/wacky personality? Im no nerd or anything, most of my freinds play sports and everyone in my class knows me and no one dislikes me (but im no prep...)
lol, but honestly im not cocky or anything...
oh and lol fisted is used like "oh dude i was just completly fisted on that test..."
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