Has anyone heard about this? An American online magazine is asking for people to send in six-word memoirs:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/misc/sixwordlife_20080205.shtml
Yours?
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Write your life story in six words
73 votes
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by joeymahone
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Really should try harder at this
...
Cactus Jacks and the new Rambo
.
What is love that people mention?
Tap tap tap tap tap. Hello?
if you wanna be my lover
Do you see?
Wagged school often to play RPGs.
Sadly Find Nothing Has Happened Yet
Born a Total Cunt
Buh bye!
"Sixteen, clumsy and shy"
I know it's only 4, but it had to be done
I did mine the other day, its;
What the fuck am I doing?
^^
this applies to me to.
:
Not of much interest to anyone.
infant: short,
adolescent: short, adult: short.
things to do list getting longer
I always really really really exaggerate
one big fat horrible underacheivement, awooga
Aged five, in forest, killed horse
I've never won a Kendo Tournament
i never learn
from my mistakes
.
Love built from happiness and tradgey
Bonged-Out Generation-Gap Man-Child
Fucking brilliant yeah? Yeah? No? Oh.
Lost in Morrisons two hours, 1989
if 1989 is one word. which it isn't. Balls.
Aimed for stars,
fell in gutter
Quite short
and went on forever
Asthmatic smoker avoids teenage pregnancy scare
definately not a child molester...jim
Is your life story a Star Trek sub plot?
indeed it is
Bryan Ferry bathmat dangerous
say scientists
I'm sure it will get better
young love big fun baby cakes
Behold, the second coming of Jesus.
You all know it's true. :)
not quite sure what i'm doing
ejaculation - birth - growth - education - career - dead
Highlights: had threesome, saw Low live
..
Totally fucked up but beautifully brilliant.
Sound In Mind In Electronic Age
I dont know, it's just not as,...yeah
(8 words I know, but its a great quote, from a great song)
My Life Story in 6 words?
String laden Brit Pop no hopers!
I just bought their b-sides album
(b-sides is one word, clearly)
...
I want to remove my mask
bouncing elephantiasis woman destroys central portsmouth
balanced five apples in a stack
I know what a certain African mans would be
Sudan man 'forced' to marry goat.
...
i have an ugly hairy back
Shaggy Charles And Eddie
pato banton
...
Twelve reasons why this is wrong
bolox
someone considerably more witty than me already got to this one.
i'm lazy and support grimsby town
'i'm' is one word ok.
a goat in amongst these strange humans
.
*without "in"
.
unbelievably amazing super incredible woah yeah
.
heming
Wanted: career to give life purpose
Good start,
however tailed off badly.
A Lot Fatter Then I Was
Far Too Cynical To Love Again
Did a shit in a hammock.
Well...I didn't really, but that's what my tombstone will read.
sex sex *wipe clean* sex sex
oh how i miss that.
Worse things
have happened at sea.
I was a teenage fudge packer
Few explosions but lots of impact.
I was never quite there, see
pretence
Was born
and then will die
born.
died. did stuff in between.
not that much has really happened
..
Born
Bereaved
Drunk
Happy
Engaged
Fat
I had sex with your mum.
You: fat bum. Me: sexy boy
i preferred their first album, totes
Fell Down Well
Still In It
No, no, no! Ok then. Oh.
Jesus christ
I hate this city
I never got much taller. Sigh.
I wish I was a baller
???
"Very Good At Describing Myself In..."
Oh, rollocks.
Oh god, what the fuck!? shit...
Punctuation ain't words, foo'.
each day better than the next
Promising start, stumbled, never really recovered
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemo
Dust Gets Big Ideas, But Settles
one day i met jimmy saville
.
not as good as i'd hoped
i'm going to be a lawyer
Skins gave my life false realisations
.
Not as exciting as once was.
Would probably sum it up perfectly right now.
^lol
Lieing in gutter looking up skirts