Family Circle

1) 10 copycats get in a car 1 got out how many copycats are in the car?

2) If 8=B O=0 and 1=I what does hi equal?

3) A man takes a butcher knife along with a victim into an ally. He slaughters the victim. The police know him and what he does but never arrest him. Who is the man and why don’t the police make an arrest?

4) A man is found dead face down in the snow far away from home. A few people witnissed the death, but no one murdered him.
How did the man die?

5) A man climbs a ladder, pulls a rope, climbs a hill, and gets stuck in a box all in less than a half an hour. People see him stuggling and offer money. Some don’t. But the man counts on the strangers to help.
Who is the man?

6) A couple get into a car. The car accelarates through darkness, flips, twists, and turns for about three minutes. The couple is shaken but not even scrached.
Where were they and why weren’t they hurt?

7) James and Ursla are in an intese conversation while James is trying to focus on the turning road ahead of him. Without notice a truck rams their 2 seater sports car. The car is totaled with equal damage on each side and James has a broken pelvis and sprained wrist, Ursla is fine and immeditly calls 911 but she cant tell them where the crash was.
Why isn’t Ursla hurt?

8) Hughs bank has just been robbed! 3 miles away John races down the highway with the police following him. Although he has not commited a crime the police follow his every move. He does not pull over even though the police are yelling “Pull Over!”
Why doesn’t John pull over?

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I will be writing an Epic story called “Thermopylae” Its a story of the 300 Spartans and their Greek Allies around 480 b.c. It is told in the eyes of the Spartan Officer Dienekes and shows their march to the hot gates and the battle itself.

Rated ages 12+ for some language.

Riddle:

A cowboy rides into a small town on a horse on Friday. He stays for three days and leaves on Friday. How’d he do it?

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Tongue Twister:

My friend told me this awesome tongue twister: Toy Boat. It’s really simple but try it. You’ll struggle.

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Alright I want all of you to read this book; you can buy it at the bookstore or just read it online here’s the site:

www.funbrain.com, then click on Diary of a Wimpy Kid under web books and comics

READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!

Vivachihuahua,

Please check the “Book Rating” comment page. Look for the comment from Poogue Jim.

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Poogue Master,

Please don’t give me a new password. I figured my old one out already.

Thanks,
Poogue Jim

Poogue Jim, make sure you read the urgent comment by Poogue Master on this post. You may click here. Thank you!

Can you guys give Dawn of the Lizard Warrior a rating from 1 to 10 on how you like it. 10=great 1=bad. This is just so I can see how you guys like it and determine if I want to keep writing. Just leave the ratings in the comments and I’ll check up on them. The sooner I get the ratings the sooner I’ll start back on the book.

Also, with the rating please tell me why you choose that rating

Thanks!

Our friends Gracie and Nicholas had just arrived at our doorstep. “Time for cherry picking,” I shouted. My sister and I slapped on our shoes and hopped on their car.

We played a couple games on the long trip to the cherry farms. But when we finally got there, we were exhausted. Gracie, Nicholas, their parents, Emily, my Grandparents, my Parents, and I trudged toward the giant grove of trees.

Our group grabbed buckets and started picking cherries. They were big, red, and overall delicious, and we ate tons upon tons upon tons of the berry-licious fruit. When we were chock-full of cherries, we picked a little more to take home, or if you call a little 6 pounds.

We went to a nectarine farm, but I’m sorry to say that it was terrible. Most weren’t ripe, and ones that were had bugs. So we got ice cream instead. I chomped down a Neapolitan Ice Cream Sandwich, and the others had popsicles. It was a very fun way to end our trip.

Ughhh, I thought. When are we going to find parking in a completely crowded lot?! There is no parking! We are going to be the very last when the line comes!
There I was, exasperated already, sitting in a car with my dad and sister, following my mom’s car, looping in a filled lot, on the day of my mom’s commencement. Honestly, I almost thought we would be going on and on and on forever…
…until finally mom found a space, and parked. She hurriedly got out, and my Grandparents wandered around while we also found an empty space. Of course, she had to get out fast, for nobody would want to be late for their own commencement! So, with her hexagonal professor cap and her marvelous flowing robe, she walked away.
We parked, met up with the Grandparents, grabbed our jackets, and hurried to the Greek Theatre.
We came upon a crowded flower stand with a ring of people around it. We popped in and gazed upon the plethora of roses, petunias, sunflowers, vetch, and other wonderful plants. There were also many assortments of Hawaiian leis, in multiple colors. So we fished out our wallets and produced money enough for a bouquet of roses and a pink and yellow lei.
It was then when we finally realized how long the line entering the Greek had gotten. It stretched down multiple flights of stairs, and then curled around the side of the building. We ran to the end, sighing a breath of relief as we found the line to be going quite quickly.
The Greek looked just like a miniature version of the Colosseum, and, of course, a Greek Theatre. But I had never seen a Greek Theater full. A giant horde of people were crowded in, and we finally found a spot much in the back.

The Stage of the Greek Theatre

Slowly, the Bachelor Degrees marched in, with large neon yellow signs stating their department, such as “CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING” or “BIOENGINEERING”.
After the BS’s were the Masters as they approached in the same manner. Their caps were square, not like my mom’s hexagonal cap. When they were done (they took much longer than the Bachelors) the PhDs began walking on to the stage.
We cheered loudly as I frantically searched for my mom with no avail. Dad looked too, but we found nothing until I found her with the video camera zoomed in. Suddenly, a speaker came up to the podium and announced the singing of the national anthem.
More speakers came, and when they finished the Hooding of the new PhDs began.
Basically, Hooding is when the chair member of your department calls your name, and you get presented with a ‘hood’ from your adviser, an embellishment to the robe. I noticed furthermore that advisers had octagonal caps, and understood that the higher your level, the more sides to your cap. Hmmm… I wondered if anyone had a decagonal cap. Maybe, maybe not.
When mom came up, we jumped on to our feet, and cheered loudly, the people next to us, the parents of another PhD grad, cheered with us as well. In return, we cheered for them.
Then, it got boring. The professor kept calling our names, the grads kept coming up, and then the masters proceeded in the same way. But really, when all you’re listening to is a monotonous voice calling out names of people you don’t know, it gets tedious.
Suddenly, mom appeared behind us and I happily left the Greek towards the reception at another lab, where everybody from then on called her Dr. Mai.

Dr. Mai

“A marvelous speaker is coming today,” Mrs. Schultz, my 6th grade teacher said. “She is Melanie Bryant, a wonderful new author of one book, ‘The Prophecy Keepers’. She is in the library right now, waiting for us. So let’s go!”

As the class marched over to the library, I was thinking. How was this Melanie Bryant? What was her book like? Questions formed in my mind, ready to be asked. Just then we reached the entrance to the library.

Our class and other classes filed quietly into the library, and I saw the author. My first impression was a quiet, nice lady in her late 20’s, and though some say first impressions are incorrect, this was perfectly right.

Welcomed us, and immediately started talking about the book. “This book is the Prophecy Keepers,” she said, “It is the first of a series of five. Only this one is published, though.” She went on to say that she had written almost all of the other four books, and when they will be published.

What I was really interested in was the process of publishing. She said that is was terribly depressing, and very time-consuming. She would send out a letter, talking about the book, to about ten publishers at a time. Almost every time, a ten letters would come back, politely refusing the book, and listing why it wasn’t accepted. When she received this, she would revise, edit, write a new note, and send it to another set of ten publishers.

Occasionally, she would receive a reply saying that yes, they wanted to read the manuscript after reading the letter. But after sending the manuscript, most of those replied no. But finally, after a couple months, she sent her forty-fifth letter, and got her book accepted.

“It was a very small publishing company,” she explained, “but it spent a lot of time and money getting the word out that ‘The Prophecy Keepers’ was getting published.” And after another many months of revising, it was in Barnes & Nobles everywhere.

I was amazed and impressed at the ability to talk. Once she started, she never hesitated or stopped, just kept going. She answered questions clearly, and was very persuasive at wanting us to read her book. When she was finally done talking, a wave of students came to her, holding money in their hands, wanting to buy the book. Another wave came, holding out their hands or post-its or whatnot, asking for her to sign them. Obviously, she had gained a lot of respect and popularity among the group.

The class went back excited, and very talkative. Everyone was talking about how great Melanie was and how they must read her book. It was a great thing for me, my class, my teacher, my school, and Melanie for her to inspire us at our school.

The Prophecy Keepers, Front Cover

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I’m making a movie/slide show about Dawn of the Lizard Warrior. This link will bring you to the preview only because I haven’t gotten the chance to make the movie yet but I am doing so now.

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