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my abject apologies to EC for costing her [strikethrough].500[/strikethrough] 1.000 vote in my pique of low dudgeon; and also my profuse plea for longanimity from the actual author, Barbara Gregorich, who couldn't possibly care less that I illegally cast .500 vote for her most excellent opening pitch, which (by default) I illegally changed to 1.000 vote, notwithstanding.
edit: BTW, thanks for that, Faldage.
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you know, WO'N, when I just glance at your avatar, it looks like a Star Wars stormtrooper...
Well, eta, askually that's Walt Whitman with his young nieces and nephews.
Is it the peyote or psilocybin?  
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E) Sliding spike-high into first after a pick-off attempt wasn't really a routine play, but those lovely bare legs were such tempting targets, and bled so easily. BRUTE --Milo
Oh, come on, Milo, I was just imagining how Ty Cobb would've welcomed a young lady to the customs of life in the Big leagues. 'Course, uh, I guess 'Bama Boys played the game a lot more mannerly than the Georgia Peach, huh? 
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> Is it the peyote or psilocybin? hard cider!!
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Gotta say, if I were browsing potential reading, I'd have a tough time with that opener. Tschja, ja.
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> I'd have a tough time with that opener.
I know! Tim Curry? is she serious?
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Congrats to Connie as well as to Elizabeth, who ran a close second. 
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Yee-hoo! I got two votes. I got two votes. Yay! Very excited!!
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Well done Connie and indeed all others whatever your vote hauls. I was surprised and delighted to see my own concoction had not only snared two American male afficionados of the game, but had deluded Milo as to the gender of the authorial voice - LLOL! So, thanks again Faldo - a really fun game - it only remains to ask if the rest of the book is as dire as that opening line?!
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Long before women were burning their bras, and marching for equal rights, a small group of women were striking a blow for equality, one home run at a time.
Somebody oughta write a book that starts with this sentence. Many people buy books based on the first sentence of the first chapter, second only to those who buy a book based on its title.
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Overheard in the locker room after the opening game of the season... "Say Bro, did you catch the news that the themilum picked five out of six of the sexual proclivities of the Fibliotheque players and even picked the correct opening liner?" "Right on, Brother, like they say, Bo and Faldage may know baseball; but the themilum knows opening liners and women." "I heard that!"
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> five out of six who does your counting, Diebold?
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G) The train conductor entered the bar car calling out "Next stop, Chicago".
Sparteye ( who studied brevity, like Hemingway, "Up in Michigan")
Hey, Milo, you got that mostly right. Remember, I, too, am a Michigan female and I grew up not far from the locale of "Up In Michigan". 
Thanks for the votes, folks. I will always treasure being the very first winner of Fiblioteque. [taking a bow-e]
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> five out of six
who does your counting, Diebold?
Now, now, etaoin, I don't mean to impinge your sophistication but perhaps you should stick to voting TV people off islands.
Fibliotheque, you see, is not American Idol, etaoin, Fibliotheque is a Republic. You know, like the United States elections?
No matter the recount, "quality" is what counts, and Connie will forevermore be known as the winner of the very first Fibliotheque and I will always be remembered as her running mate.
And all your wailing and gnashing of teeth won't cancel a single line of it.
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Tsuwm, no apologies necessary. I'm tickled to have fooled you at all, even briefly. This was a fun game - including watching milo smugly get me completely wrong. When's the next round?
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Long before women were burning their bras, and marching for equal rights, a small group of women were striking a blow for equality, one home run at a time.
Somebody oughta write a book that starts with this sentence. Many people buy books based on the first sentence of the first chapter, second only to those who buy a book based on its title.
Father Steve, you've absolutely made my day. Thank you.
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When's the next round?
Yeah! Who's on second? I had a ball being Fibliotechnician; I want my chance to submit a first line.
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I can do it. Give me a chance to flip through some books tonight. I have an idea of which one I want. I think it'll make for a good game. One question...do I have to use all those highfalutin words like score, sennight and fortnight, or can I just say, "gimme your opening sentences in eight days or the jig’s up" ?
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One question...do I have to use all those highfalutin words like score, sennight and fortnight, or can I just say, "gimme your opening sentences in eight days or the jig?s up" ?
Diversity is the jam on the bread of this board.
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> Diversity is the jam on the bread of this board.
and we'll stick to that in the trenches...
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>> Diversity is the jam on the bread of this board. (italics mine)
So, what you're saying is that, um, we're fruity?
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