Journal SolemnDragon's Journal: news game 35

Journal by SolemnDragon on Monday November 21, 2005 @04:49PM

this is a variation on trmj's 'wish granted' game. It's inspired by gmhowell's JE heading.

It goes like this:

good news, you just got a promotion to full-time manager.

Bad news: you work in a 'waste management' facility.

Good news: Your ipod was under warantee when it took water damage.

Bad news: it took water damage while being swept out of sight forever by the current.

Get the idea?

It's been that kind of day.

Go for it.

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Uhm..... (Score:1)

by HokieSeas ( 560745 ) * writes:

Good News: You had a really nice brunch with someone new a few days ago.

Bad News: You just received a new restraining order.
- Re:Uhm..... (Score:1)
  
  by HokieSeas ( 560745 ) * writes:
  
  Hmm.....so these were supposed to be made up? Damn. I feel stupid now.
OK... This os for my Irish buddy (Score:2)

by ellem ( 147712 ) * writes:

Good News: You just met your soulmate. Perfect for you in everyway.
Bad News: You're married.
- Re:OK... This os for my Irish buddy (Score:2)
  
  by daniil ( 775990 ) writes:
  
  NO! NO! NO! You're doing it all wrong!
  The game goes as follows: someone posts a bit of good news (the way you did), someone else then posts the bad news as a reply, and a new piece of "good news". For example (and this is in response to your "good news"):
  Bad News: It's your mother.
  Good News: Your kid found a chest full of coins.
  - Re:OK... This os for my Irish buddy (Score:1)
    
    by StalinsNotDead ( 764374 ) writes:
    
    Bad News: They come with angry pirate ghosts.
    
    Good News: You've just been elected (or appointed) chief executive of your favorite country.
    - Re:OK... This os for my Irish buddy (Score:2)
      
      by RailGunner ( 554645 ) * writes:
      
      Bad News: The invaders have the capitol surrounded.
    - Re:OK... This os for my Irish buddy (Score:1)
      
      by gmhowell ( 26755 ) writes:
      
      Bad News: Your favorite country is ethelreadia.
  - wrong (Score:2)
    
    by SolemnDragon ( 593956 ) * writes:
    
    actually, they were right, daniil. i intended you to post both for your own. but posting alternately is closer to trmj's idea, i guess.
    - Re:wrong (Score:2)
      
      by daniil ( 775990 ) writes:
      
      ...and that's exactly the kind of day I'm having.
    - Re:wrong (Score:1)
      
      by StalinsNotDead ( 764374 ) writes:
      
      Sorry about the misinterpretation.
      
      slightly different format and unoriginal.
      
      Bad News: You've got six months to live
      Good News: A disease will be named after you.
      - Re:wrong (Score:1)
        
        by KshGoddess ( 454304 ) writes:
        
        Bad News: No one will ever admit to having your disease because your doctor's bad handwriting has made your disease unpronounceable.
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) * writes:
  
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  - Re:OK... This os for my Irish buddy (Score:2)
    
    by ellem ( 147712 ) * writes:
    
    all your posts smell like blight.
    - Re: (Score:2)
      
      by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) * writes:
      
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Uh, ok.... (Score:1)

by GeckoFood ( 585211 ) * writes:

Good news: It didn't bleed.

Bad news: It still hurts like hell. (ouch)
I'm confused (Score:1)

by StalinsNotDead ( 764374 ) writes:

Do you mean submit a "Good News" entry and others respond with the "Bad News" part? I think that makes the most sense given the context of the wish granting game.

There's no scripting in the examples you give.

Good News: You just won $1,000,000
- Re:I'm confused (Score:2)
  
  by daniil ( 775990 ) writes:
  
  Bad News: The prize will be awarded to you by the president of the bank, Cthulhu.
  Good News: Merry Christmas, War is over!
  - Re:I'm confused (Score:1)
    
    by StalinsNotDead ( 764374 ) writes:
    
    Bad News: You are sued by the ACLU for non-inclusive holiday greetings. And now pestilence, famine and death get their shots at horseman of the year.
    
    Good News: You reach total enlightenment.
    - Re:I'm confused (Score:2)
      
      by daniil ( 775990 ) writes:
      
      Bad News: The Buddha certainly had a cruel sense of humour...
      Good News: They found your wallet.
      - Re:I'm confused (Score:2)
        
        by loucura! ( 247834 ) writes:
        
        Bad News: You left it at the scene of a gristly homicide.
        
        Good News: It's a suppository!
        
        Re:I'm confused (Score:2)
        
        by Allen Zadr ( 767458 ) * writes:
        
        Bad news: How can the good news be worse?
- Re:I'm confused (Score:2)
  
  by TechnoLust ( 528463 ) * writes:
  
  Bad News: You left your wallet containing the winning ticket on some chick from the bar's nightstand.
  Good News: You discovered a cure for cancer.
  - Re:I'm confused (Score:1)
    
    by Brainboy ( 310252 ) writes:
    
    Bad news: The cure is Michael Jackson sucking you off.
    
    Good news: You're the star of the next Spielberg movie.
    - Re:I'm confused (Score:2)
      
      by Degrees ( 220395 ) writes:
      
      Bad news: Speilberg's new company is doing gay porn videos. Can you say E.T. Phone Homo?
      Good news: The weather will be clear and sunny this week.
  - Re:I'm confused (Score:2)
    
    by Oculus Habent ( 562837 ) * writes:
    
    Bad News: It involves eating live kittens six times a day.
    
    Good News: You get to re-decorate your office at work.
  - Re:I'm confused (Score:1)
    
    by gmhowell ( 26755 ) writes:
    
    Bad News: It requires turning the common cold into an 80% fatal disease.
  - Re:I'm confused (Score:1)
    
    by gmhowell ( 26755 ) writes:
    
    Here's another:
    
    Bad News: The key ingredient has a 'strange salty-copper taste'.
isn't it ironic? -- actually NO Alanis, it isn't! (Score:2)

by btlzu2 ( 99039 ) * writes:

Could I submit this horrible incorrect song as my entry? :)

An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
Isn't it ironic ... don't you think

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought ... it figures

Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids good-bye
He waited his whole damn lif
- Re:isn't it ironic? -- actually NO Alanis, it isn' (Score:2)
  
  by loucura! ( 247834 ) writes:
  
  What about the irony of writing a song called Ironic that doesn't contain any irony at all?
Sol... (Score:2)

by ellem ( 147712 ) * writes:

Delete this one and do it again... we all messed it up
Re: (Score:2)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) * writes:

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OK (Score:2)

by Iamthefallen ( 523816 ) * writes:

Good news: Sol posted a fun JE game.
Bad news: No one understood how to play it.
Real life good news/bad news (Score:2)

by ces ( 119879 ) * writes:

Good news: Just had a really good phone interview for what sounds like my ideal job at my ideal company.

Bad news: It's a two hour commute with a ferry ride (slow and mucho big $$) away.

Good news: I'm getting lots of interviews

Bad news: most of them are with recruiters

More Bad news: I've flubbed about half of the phone interviews with clients (I don't do well with picky 'gotcha' style technical interviews, that is what google and the damn documentation is for)
- Re:Real life good news/bad news (Score:2)
  
  by blinder ( 153117 ) * writes:
  
  this is just an aside... i've done many of these "gotcha" technical interviews. i could go into the psychology of those that engage in them (the whole insecurity bit... being shoved into too many lockers in school so they are going to return the favor) but i won't... and i could go into the how these technical interviews are important (even though just through a good focused but casual _conversation_ with a person is actually a better way to judge their technical capabilities) i won't... but i will say that
  - Re:Real life good news/bad news (Score:2)
    
    by ces ( 119879 ) * writes:
    
    I certainly hope you are right. However on at least one of them I got 'test brain' too. You know where your mind goes completely blank and you can't even remember stuff you should know cold? On another I was having problems due to a thick foriegn accent and bad phone connection with the interviewer.
    
    I agree that casual conversations work better for finding out someones technical chops. Typically you want someone who knows the right questions to ask rather than someone who knows the right answers. Otherwise y

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