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The NSG Bulwer-Lytton Competition II: The Winner!

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Choose your favourite NSG Bulwer-Lytton Competition entry:

Poll ended at Sun Apr 12, 2020 7:12 am

Dumb Ideologies 1
3
9%
Dumb Ideologies 2
6
18%
Piraccas
1
3%
Cannot think of a name
10
29%
Hurdergaryp
5
15%
Bombadil
2
6%
Forsher
3
9%
Czechostan
1
3%
An Alan Smithee Nation
1
3%
Pax Nerdvana
2
6%
 
Total votes : 34

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Rojava Free State
Post Marshal
 
Posts: 19428
Founded: Feb 06, 2018
Ex-Nation

Postby Rojava Free State » Fri Apr 03, 2020 2:50 pm

Indeed, a personal malformation of Adam's second son causes me to become an animated creature.

https://youtu.be/-ENAA89lxjc
Last edited by Rojava Free State on Fri Apr 03, 2020 2:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.

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Cannot think of a name
Post Czar
 
Posts: 45100
Founded: Antiquity
Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Cannot think of a name » Fri Apr 03, 2020 2:55 pm

Gravel, it turned out, was a terrible substitute for toilet paper.
"...I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." -MLK Jr.

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Pax Nerdvana
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Posts: 15726
Founded: May 22, 2017
Left-Leaning College State

Postby Pax Nerdvana » Fri Apr 03, 2020 3:20 pm

The little boat was as long as a six foot three tree is tall; it floated as well as a bowling ball; needless to say, it didn't.
The Internet killed gun control.
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"The universe did never make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
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Ammunition supply-chain (6.5x55 Swede and .303 British, although available, isn't exactly everywhere)
If it's ugly, uncomfortable, and can't shoot straight, but it accomplishes the above, then it's either a Mosin or a Hi-Point."
-Hurtful Thoughts on stuff you want in a gun

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Voxija
Ambassador
 
Posts: 1449
Founded: Jan 17, 2019
Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby Voxija » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:10 pm

The non-ironic perverted juggalo cried out, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I'm memes and eat you".
The Republic of Voxija (pronounced: Voshiya)
I'm a woman. Some weird Jew. Trying to learn French and failing. An American who wishes the US would switch to the metric system. Part of a giant conspiracy. Secret pyromaniac? I will never make an OOC factbook!

my politics are confused and muddled
Most of my grammar errors are on purpose. Sppeling errors, tho...
I'd rather be fishing. | Author of Issues 1324 and 1346.
Generic MT liberal democracy Meh. | I think that by now I've created more lore for my nation than most real-world nations have.
Disclaimer: the views of my characters do not necessarily represent the views of the author.

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Hurdergaryp
Post Czar
 
Posts: 49239
Founded: Jul 10, 2016
Democratic Socialists

Postby Hurdergaryp » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:25 pm

Soon I would lament the loss of that blessed moment, shortly after waking up on the floor of the public toilet, when I was not yet aware of the very nature of the dried fluids covering most of my aching body.


“Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.”
Mao Zedong

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Cannot think of a name
Post Czar
 
Posts: 45100
Founded: Antiquity
Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Cannot think of a name » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:35 pm

Hurdergaryp wrote:Soon I would lament the loss of that blessed moment, shortly after waking up on the floor of the public toilet, when I was not yet aware of the very nature of the dried fluids covering most of my aching body.

Unfortunately for the nature of this competition, I would 100% read the rest of this story.
"...I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." -MLK Jr.

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Hurdergaryp
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Posts: 49239
Founded: Jul 10, 2016
Democratic Socialists

Postby Hurdergaryp » Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:05 pm

With the aftertaste of lima beans and cheap gin still lingering in the back of her mouth, she screamed at the top of her longs "No Longer Shall We Be Forced To Remain In The House Of The Lord, FOREVER!" in a surprisingly deep baritone voice, while struggling to undo the straps of her season-appropriate lederhosen.


“Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.”
Mao Zedong

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Ethel mermania
Post Overlord
 
Posts: 129513
Founded: Aug 20, 2010
Father Knows Best State

Postby Ethel mermania » Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:12 pm

Hurdergaryp wrote:With the aftertaste of lima beans and cheap gin still lingering in the back of her mouth, she screamed at the top of her longs "No Longer Shall We Be Forced To Remain In The House Of The Lord, FOREVER!" in a surprisingly deep baritone voice, while struggling to undo the straps of her season-appropriate lederhosen.

Where can I buy this book?
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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Grenartia
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Posts: 44623
Founded: Feb 14, 2010
Left-wing Utopia

Postby Grenartia » Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:19 pm

"Well hey there, cutie" the person in the Minions bikini said with a smile that betrayed their years of meth abuse, and voice that sounded like Pee Wee Herman gargling boiling tar, as they stepped out of the pizza kitchen, which smelt suspiciously like rotten egg farts.
Lib-left. Antifascist, antitankie, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist (including the imperialism of non-western countries). Christian (Unitarian Universalist). Background in physics.
Mostly a girl. She or they pronouns, please. Unrepentant transbian.
Reject tradition, embrace modernity.
People who call themselves based NEVER are.
The truth about kids transitioning.

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Hurdergaryp
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Posts: 49239
Founded: Jul 10, 2016
Democratic Socialists

Postby Hurdergaryp » Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:28 pm

Cannot think of a name wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:Soon I would lament the loss of that blessed moment, shortly after waking up on the floor of the public toilet, when I was not yet aware of the very nature of the dried fluids covering most of my aching body.

Unfortunately for the nature of this competition, I would 100% read the rest of this story.

Ethel mermania wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:With the aftertaste of lima beans and cheap gin still lingering in the back of her mouth, she screamed at the top of her longs "No Longer Shall We Be Forced To Remain In The House Of The Lord, FOREVER!" in a surprisingly deep baritone voice, while struggling to undo the straps of her season-appropriate lederhosen.

Where can I buy this book?

I'm doing this terribly wrong, am I not?


“Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.”
Mao Zedong

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Nanatsu no Tsuki
Post-Apocalypse Survivor
 
Posts: 203851
Founded: Feb 10, 2008
Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:26 pm

Hurdergaryp wrote:With the aftertaste of lima beans and cheap gin still lingering in the back of her mouth, she screamed at the top of her longs "No Longer Shall We Be Forced To Remain In The House Of The Lord, FOREVER!" in a surprisingly deep baritone voice, while struggling to undo the straps of her season-appropriate lederhosen.


I’m hooked to this one. The lederhosen did it.
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Ethel mermania
Post Overlord
 
Posts: 129513
Founded: Aug 20, 2010
Father Knows Best State

Postby Ethel mermania » Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:33 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:With the aftertaste of lima beans and cheap gin still lingering in the back of her mouth, she screamed at the top of her longs "No Longer Shall We Be Forced To Remain In The House Of The Lord, FOREVER!" in a surprisingly deep baritone voice, while struggling to undo the straps of her season-appropriate lederhosen.


I’m hooked to this one. The lederhosen did it.


I did nOt know lederhosen came in seasonally appropriate styles. There is just so much here
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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Rojava Free State
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Posts: 19428
Founded: Feb 06, 2018
Ex-Nation

Postby Rojava Free State » Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:46 pm

As a hand caressed her body and moved lower, she turned around expecting to see her boyfriend, but to her horror she made contact with two sunken eyes staring from a deep orange face, and a voice like that of a deranged 13 year old rasped "I'm gonna grab you by your pussy."
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.

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Forsher
Postmaster of the Fleet
 
Posts: 22039
Founded: Jan 30, 2012
New York Times Democracy

Postby Forsher » Fri Apr 03, 2020 7:54 pm

In the political era of the times, the period in which the zeitgeist captured the essence of political sentiment and entertainment norms, it became popular to take pot shots in thinly veiled satires of the climate, in which habit we find our hero, Joe, currently engaged.
That it Could be What it Is, Is What it Is

Stop making shit up, though. Links, or it's a God-damn lie and you know it.

The normie life is heteronormie

We won't know until 2053 when it'll be really obvious what he should've done. [...] We have no option but to guess.

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Bombadil
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Posts: 18711
Founded: Oct 13, 2011
Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Bombadil » Fri Apr 03, 2020 8:46 pm

"This is bullshit", muttered Bombadil as he opened yet another pack of worthless cards.
Eldest, that's what I am...Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn...he knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless — before the Dark Lord came from Outside..

十年

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Farnhamia
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Posts: 112541
Founded: Jun 20, 2006
Left-Leaning College State

Postby Farnhamia » Fri Apr 03, 2020 8:49 pm

Bombadil wrote:"This is bullshit", muttered Bombadil as he opened yet another pack of worthless cards.

I must take that ... computer, or whatever it is, away from him, thought Goldberry. Perhaps the Age of Man is not a good thing, but that ship sailed into the West a long time ago.
Make Earth Great Again: Stop Continental Drift!
And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water ...
"Make yourself at home, Frank. Hit somebody." RIP Don Rickles
My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right. ~ Carl Schurz
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Now the foot is on the other hand ~ Kannap
RIP Dyakovo ... Ashmoria (Freedom ... or cake)
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G0ldberry
Civilian
 
Posts: 1
Founded: Apr 06, 2018
Ex-Nation

Postby G0ldberry » Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:04 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
Bombadil wrote:"This is bullshit", muttered Bombadil as he opened yet another pack of worthless cards.

I must take that ... computer, or whatever it is, away from him, thought Goldberry. Perhaps the Age of Man is not a good thing, but that ship sailed into the West a long time ago.


He's driving me up the wall and he won't wear any pants.

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The Archregimancy
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Posts: 30584
Founded: Aug 01, 2005
Democratic Socialists

Postby The Archregimancy » Sat Apr 04, 2020 2:00 am

Just a quick note that there are four more days to get those sentences in. Impress me, NSG - I have faith in you. There are some very good efforts in here so far.


For further inspiration, here's last year's winner of the real Bulwer-Lytton contest:

Space Fleet Commander Brad Brad sat in silence, surrounded by a slowly dissipating cloud of smoke, maintaining the same forlorn frown that had been fixed upon his face since he’d accidentally destroyed the phenomenon known as time, thirteen inches ago.

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Cannot think of a name
Post Czar
 
Posts: 45100
Founded: Antiquity
Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Cannot think of a name » Sat Apr 04, 2020 3:01 am

The Archregimancy wrote:Just a quick note that there are four more days to get those sentences in. Impress me, NSG - I have faith in you. There are some very good efforts in here so far.


For further inspiration, here's last year's winner of the real Bulwer-Lytton contest:

Space Fleet Commander Brad Brad sat in silence, surrounded by a slowly dissipating cloud of smoke, maintaining the same forlorn frown that had been fixed upon his face since he’d accidentally destroyed the phenomenon known as time, thirteen inches ago.

I want to move in with that sentence and mix our record collection.
"...I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." -MLK Jr.

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Hurdergaryp
Post Czar
 
Posts: 49239
Founded: Jul 10, 2016
Democratic Socialists

Postby Hurdergaryp » Sat Apr 04, 2020 6:20 am

Surrounded by a strategic stockpile of adult diapers, Domenico Eastfield, famed greatswords collector and quite the authority in the anarcho-capitalist domains of Twitter, was about to unleash a live podcast upon the online world that would dramatically change everything woke people believed about feminism, Japanese pop culture, full mechanical keyboards, and Franz Schubert's last three piano sonatas.


“Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.”
Mao Zedong

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Voxija
Ambassador
 
Posts: 1449
Founded: Jan 17, 2019
Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby Voxija » Sat Apr 04, 2020 6:50 am

Ashleigh Burley Valentina Tsippi Star Evangeline Enobie Lyanna von Glockenspiel-Dawnston-Takawaya-Guttieres-Romanova, a lucious fourteen-year-old girl child with hair that was blonde, then, purple, then pink, then back again, and glowing chrysanthemum orbs, and shaved arms, and also the most perfect, shapely bouncy breasts, did not know she was beautiful; the perfect girl stood in front of the great halls of 4chan, the secret to all life and the famed center of philosophy.
The Republic of Voxija (pronounced: Voshiya)
I'm a woman. Some weird Jew. Trying to learn French and failing. An American who wishes the US would switch to the metric system. Part of a giant conspiracy. Secret pyromaniac? I will never make an OOC factbook!

my politics are confused and muddled
Most of my grammar errors are on purpose. Sppeling errors, tho...
I'd rather be fishing. | Author of Issues 1324 and 1346.
Generic MT liberal democracy Meh. | I think that by now I've created more lore for my nation than most real-world nations have.
Disclaimer: the views of my characters do not necessarily represent the views of the author.

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An Alan Smithee Nation
Powerbroker
 
Posts: 7623
Founded: Apr 18, 2018
Ex-Nation

Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Sat Apr 04, 2020 6:52 am

The side of the van read "Possum Petes Loose Meat: where road kill meets street food"; well you only live once thought Fenella taking a bite.
Everything is intertwinkled

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Samudera Darussalam
Senator
 
Posts: 4598
Founded: Aug 05, 2016
Ex-Nation

Postby Samudera Darussalam » Sat Apr 04, 2020 8:28 am

Hands trembling, the boy reads the document, word by word, looking into every important bits of information, his eyes scan the various characters down to the bottom to ensure that nothing is left, and when he finished with the greatest of sigh, he wondered, what makes his parents to hate him so much to make them name him Bornbabydoom McDoomy Face.

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Ethel mermania
Post Overlord
 
Posts: 129513
Founded: Aug 20, 2010
Father Knows Best State

Postby Ethel mermania » Sat Apr 04, 2020 8:35 am

The Archregimancy wrote:Just a quick note that there are four more days to get those sentences in. Impress me, NSG - I have faith in you. There are some very good efforts in here so far.


For further inspiration, here's last year's winner of the real Bulwer-Lytton contest:

Space Fleet Commander Brad Brad sat in silence, surrounded by a slowly dissipating cloud of smoke, maintaining the same forlorn frown that had been fixed upon his face since he’d accidentally destroyed the phenomenon known as time, thirteen inches ago.

I for one think dostoevsky and bombidil are wonderful entrants into the competion dr Jones, he said as he stormed out the door and tripped over a series of large hairy ferns.
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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Diarcesia
Negotiator
 
Posts: 6783
Founded: Aug 21, 2016
Scandinavian Liberal Paradise

Postby Diarcesia » Sat Apr 04, 2020 8:47 am

"Record scratch. Freeze frame. You're probably wondering why this writer is in this predicament," you say aloud, as you realize that you are scribbling the prologue of an opus that would make even Bulwer-Lytton palm his face.

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