BBC neologistic short story thing
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just_writingThe BBC magazone has got a thing here - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3755482.stm, connected with Susie Dent's book Larpers and Shroomers: The Language Report. Your're given a list of 'buzzwords' since 1904 and you have to write a story of no more than 150 words. Here's mine
He’d been an egg-head hippy - a psychadaelic peacenik living on fast food and spliffs, but a dot-commer wizard of the IT buzz. His applets, awesome: whizzo coding. Pissed off with getting naff all, he thought he should be powerdressing for megabucks in the Big Apple by now, not hot-desking for a Mickey-Mouse contract in Birmingham. He’d wanted a cheesebuger but, too busy brainwashing a client on his mobile, walked into Starbucks instead.
She’d looked fabulous in the days when hemlines and the lumpenproletariat were rising; these days it was Botox and a Wonderbra that kept it all up. Her bling bling was more kitch than It-girl. She prefered trainers to kitten heels. She’d sacked the detox for a latte and a cinneman bagel.
Their eyes clicked, then double-clicked. Their hearts hammered like a Beatbox as Love threw them a Molotov cocktail.
He smiled.
She smiled.
“Cool.” He thought. “Tiddly-om-pom-pom!”
I think I managed 40 of them. It's quite good fun. Anyone else?
He’d been an egg-head hippy - a psychadaelic peacenik living on fast food and spliffs, but a dot-commer wizard of the IT buzz. His applets, awesome: whizzo coding. Pissed off with getting naff all, he thought he should be powerdressing for megabucks in the Big Apple by now, not hot-desking for a Mickey-Mouse contract in Birmingham. He’d wanted a cheesebuger but, too busy brainwashing a client on his mobile, walked into Starbucks instead.
She’d looked fabulous in the days when hemlines and the lumpenproletariat were rising; these days it was Botox and a Wonderbra that kept it all up. Her bling bling was more kitch than It-girl. She prefered trainers to kitten heels. She’d sacked the detox for a latte and a cinneman bagel.
Their eyes clicked, then double-clicked. Their hearts hammered like a Beatbox as Love threw them a Molotov cocktail.
He smiled.
She smiled.
“Cool.” He thought. “Tiddly-om-pom-pom!”
I think I managed 40 of them. It's quite good fun. Anyone else?
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Oooh, fun, ta.
Date: 2004-10-19 04:36 pm (UTC)I’m cool, years guarding cruise missiles from hippies, beatniks, peaceniks (all miniskirts, spliffs and love-ins – where’s the risk?) then demobbed to civvy street after a psychedelic acid tailspin, bad buzz. Short on green, ended up flipping cheeseburgers and brewing lattes for Generation X at the drive-in, until 9/11, racism and sudden death wars destroyed my sacred cows. Snafu. What you going to do about it?
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