Round 38, Hour 20

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Camels suck. Seriously. If you have a camel in your story, throw it out before the story progresses any further. Camels bark at you! And are very unpleasant and intimidating, especially when you're 12 years old. And then you lot who are used to 'beware moose!' and 'beware deer!' kind of road signs, do you have any idea how ridiculous 'beware camel!' roadsigns are???

Also, the Kiswahili word for lion is Simba. I have no idea what the word for camel is. So lion >>>>>> camel.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

I got words written! No camels were involved. Plot was sort of started.

[lothithil.livejournal.com]

I resemble that remark!

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Llamas are as bad. And they are arrogant too!

[gloria-scott.livejournal.com]

I have no opinion on camels - I'll leave that to the experts. I do, however, have a header and a working title written. Perhaps by the end of the day I'll have a plot.

[agirlnamedtruth.livejournal.com]

I just had the worst dinner of my life. The sauce I used was literally like soap. To the point the washing up liquid smelt less like soap than the sauce did. I want to send my insides an apology card or something.

On the plus, if the soap-sauce doesn't make me hurl, I'm about to start writing!

[agirlnamedtruth.livejournal.com]

*No camels were used in the making of my sauce. That I know of. I don't know if other countries have heard but the UK are having some major trust issues with the labels on our meat products right now.

[sid]

Oh, geez, another hour wasted. I went hunting for some bookmarks I was sure were lurking somewhere (apparently I was wrong about that) and ended up finding an old link to a "How many countries can you name in 5 minutes?" webpage.

austria australia benin belize boliva botswana chile cuba chad central african republic russia uzbekistan china japan antarctica thailand vietnam north korea south korea united states canada mexico united kingdom ireland france germany slovenia slovakia armenia turkey greece italy serbia bosnia finland sweden norway switzerland poland belgium netherlands falkland islands wake island mauritius hong kong solomon islands guatemala guyana papua new guinea equatorial guinea chile peru argentina brazil uruguay paraguay colombia maldives moldova trinidad bahamas virgin islands antarctica ...stare blankly at screen as clock ticks down... united arab emirates saudi arabia israel lebanon iraq iran time's up!

*breathes*

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, now I'm curious too. *not looking at your list*

United States Canada Mexico Suriname Colombia Venezuela Brazil Ecuador Paraguay Uruagay Chile Argentina United Kingdom Ireland France Germany Spain Portugal Austria Luxembourg Liechtenstein Italy Switzerland Sweden Norway Finland Denmark Estonia Latvia Lithuiania Moldova Ukraine Russia Afghanistan Azerbaijan Uzbekistan China Japan Thailand Laos Cambodia South Korea North Korea Vietnam Australia South Africa New Zealand Mozambique Madagascar D.R. of Congo Algiers Tangiers Uganda Morocco Egypt Greece Israel Syria Iraq Iran India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Romania Eritrea United Arab Emirates Saudia Arabia Yemen Oman Nigeria Niger Ghana Togo Benin Gambia... Honduras Tonga Papua New Guinea Brunei... time's up!

(Ooh, I forgot all about Belize, Bolivia, Chad, and everything in the triangle between Macedonia, Belarus, and Poland inclusive. And couldn't remember most of the Pacific islands.)

[sid]

The website gives you a list when you're done of everything you failed to come up with, and there's always something really shockingly obvious. How could I forget Poland/Cuba/Spain/etc?