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   fernandomando
   

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   Might even persuade me to return to this wonderful place. I have had a very busy year and have neglected newsbiscuit.

   Posted 5 months ago #
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   dvo4fun
   

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   Yaaaay!

   Posted 5 months ago #
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   Jonny Shlep
   

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   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.

   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.?

   Cheers

   Jonny

   Posted 5 months ago #
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   Perks
   

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   It is quite normal jonny.

   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

   Posted 5 months ago #
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   dvo4fun
   

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   @ Perks "I think it's nice to have someone else's input on your original idea"

   You're a noble man Perks. I have a little 'grrr' when any additions are funnier than my stuff. Which is mostly

   Posted 5 months ago #
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   Perks
   

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   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.

   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.

   Posted 5 months ago #
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   malgor
   

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   @ Jonny Schlep - see 'About' (FP, next to ticker bar) and in particular the guidelines. Everything you wanted to know and more besides.

   Posted 5 months ago #
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   Jonny Shlep
   

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   Thanks for your time and trouble chaps. Much appreciated. I was just a bit nonplussed is all. The excitement must have got to me :)

   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.

   Still you dont like to grumble do yers :(((((

   *lights pipe, tosses death threat in waste bin and wanders off to read News Biscuit guidelines*

   Posted 5 months ago #
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   malgor
   

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   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.

   Posted 5 months ago #
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    Jonny Shlep
    

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    Thanks for the heads up my friend. Appreciate it.

    So this Rikkor bloke. Big chunk you say? Has he tried cutting down on the pies and the fizzy lager? ;)

    Actually he seems a very nice fella and has given me some good constructive feedback a time or two.

    Posted 5 months ago #
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    waylandsmithy
    

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    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.

    Posted 5 months ago #
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    fernandomando
    

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    An arbiter is a person who cuts down trees

    Posted 5 months ago #
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    waylandsmithy
    

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    Isn't that a trunkator?

    Posted 5 months ago #
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    Jonny Shlep
    

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    A branch manager surely?

    Posted 5 months ago #
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    Sinnick
    

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    I saw the film Trunkator 3 recently. Didn't see many trees in it, though.

    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.

    Posted 5 months ago #
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    Oxbridge
    

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    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.

    Brown envelope to usual address please.

    Posted 5 months ago #
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    Oxbridge
    

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    And by the way Rikkor definitely has a big chunk. My ass hurts.

    Posted 5 months ago #
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    Jonny Shlep
    

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    Hey no problem at all my friend. It's all grist to the editorial mill old chap :)

    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! :(

    Your first message was most helpful and informative. Your second contained waaaaaay too much information! ;)

    Posted 5 months ago #
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    pinxit
    

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    Belated congrats to the Shlepster. The story worked well in its truncated form.

    Sorry I was too late with a smudge, mate. =]

    Posted 5 months ago #
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    Jonny Shlep
    

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    Cheers Pinx. I didn't like to bother you for a smudge as it's a bit of a liberty to be fair.

    Just dont be late to the boozer on the 15th matey :)

    Posted 5 months ago #

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