http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:34:27 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-150267 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:16:42 +0000 Jonny Shlep 150267@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cheers Pinx. I didn't like to bother you for a smudge as it's a bit of a liberty to be fair.</p> <p>Just dont be late to the boozer on the 15th matey :) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-150241 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:34:12 +0000 pinxit 150241@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Belated congrats to the Shlepster. The story worked well in its truncated form.</p> <p>Sorry I was too late with a smudge, mate. =] </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-150228 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:36:59 +0000 Jonny Shlep 150228@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hey no problem at all my friend. It's all grist to the editorial mill old chap :)</p> <p>140 words you say? Jesus Christ mate, I'm a mechanic from the East End of London! I use more words than that when the wife burns the jellied eels fer chrissakes! :(</p> <p>Your first message was most helpful and informative. Your second contained waaaaaay too much information! ;) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-150178 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:27:00 +0000 Oxbridge 150178@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And by the way Rikkor definitely has a big chunk. My ass hurts. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-150177 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:25:45 +0000 Oxbridge 150177@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>My doings Jonny, as Nib editor of the week. Nibs are meant to be about 140 words, so we are meant to edit them down if longer, though admittedly that doesn't always happen. In this instance, I thought it best to make it tighter but also work in some gags from related stories that didn't make it because this was did.</p> <p>Brown envelope to usual address please. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-150104 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:58:00 +0000 Sinnick 150104@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I saw the film Trunkator 3 recently. Didn't see many trees in it, though.</p> <p>btw, there's also Pabst Blue Ribbon who drops in from time-to-time. I think he's connected to the US beer of the same name. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-150101 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:20:10 +0000 Jonny Shlep 150101@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A branch manager surely? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-150100 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:09:12 +0000 waylandsmithy 150100@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Isn't that a trunkator? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-150098 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:06:36 +0000 fernandomando 150098@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>An arbiter is a person who cuts down trees </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-150096 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:01:38 +0000 waylandsmithy 150096@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It's a little-known fact that Rikkor is always right. I see him as the arbiter of good taste, even though I'm not 100% sure what an arbiter is. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-150085 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:12:50 +0000 Jonny Shlep 150085@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for the heads up my friend. Appreciate it.</p> <p>So this Rikkor bloke. Big chunk you say? Has he tried cutting down on the pies and the fizzy lager? ;)</p> <p>Actually he seems a very nice fella and has given me some good constructive feedback a time or two. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-150082 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:04:27 +0000 malgor 150082@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Couple of footnotes to the guidelines. (1) It says four or five one-liners are published daily on the looping ticker-bar. This doesn't mean they aren't the same one-liners as were published there the previous day. (2) The US-based 'big chunk' of NB's audience refers to Rikkor. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-150076 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:38:34 +0000 Jonny Shlep 150076@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for your time and trouble chaps. Much appreciated. I was just a bit nonplussed is all. The excitement must have got to me :)</p> <p>Can I just say that the boys and girls on this site have been as good as gold to me right from the get go and I find that so refreshing, given that I'm a motor mechanic by trade and am more accustomed to being spat on in the street, attacked by old ladies with umbrellas and pelted with rotting vegetables in church.</p> <p>Still you dont like to grumble do yers :(((((</p> <p>*lights pipe, tosses death threat in waste bin and wanders off to read News Biscuit guidelines* </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-150064 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:06:13 +0000 malgor 150064@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@ Jonny Schlep - see 'About' (FP, next to ticker bar) and in particular <a href="http://www.newsbiscuit.com/about/guidelines-for-contributors/"><strong>the guidelines</strong></a>. Everything you wanted to know and more besides. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-150053 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:01:59 +0000 Perks 150053@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>My first NIBs were heavily edited, And my first two full FPs had hat tips to Waylandsmithy. The first was pretty much a new and funny paragraph, And the second was a comment he left which gave me the idea for a much better Punchline. </p> <p> I would say the punchline that came out of that collaborative effort is probably one of the best finishes to an FP I have had. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-150052 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:55:25 +0000 dvo4fun 150052@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@ Perks "I think it's nice to have someone else's input on your original idea"</p> <p>You're a noble man Perks. I have a little 'grrr' when any additions are funnier than my stuff. Which is mostly </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-150050 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:50:33 +0000 Perks 150050@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It is quite normal jonny. </p> <p> Personally I would say 300 words is somewhere In between FP and nib. So It will more likely be cut down than extended. You also find some subs are reduced to tighten them and any additions to make them stronger. Even with all those changes you will still be credited. I have lost count of the amount of edited articles I have had posted. I think it's nice to have someone else's input on your original idea </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-150045 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:19:24 +0000 Jonny Shlep 150045@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Bit of a strange one this in actual fact chaps. My original sub was around 300 words or so I guess, but when it appeared as a NIB sometime yesterday, it had been quite heavily edited and had another scribe's work tacked on the end.</p> <p>Now I'm not bitching or being precious about this as it's always good to see your stuff make the FP in any way shape or form but as a relative newbie I was just wondering whether this is a fairly commonplace deal in these here parts.?</p> <p>Cheers</p> <p>Jonny </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-150009 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:02:46 +0000 dvo4fun 150009@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yaaaay! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52084#post-149956 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:35:30 +0000 fernandomando 149956@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Might even persuade me to return to this wonderful place. I have had a very busy year and have neglected newsbiscuit. </p>