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Random topics No. 1
Have no fear, the random topics are here! But before we begin, I would like to take a serious moment. You know, every year, many car accidents occur, as people use their phones while driving. Clearly, they are in need of a robot driver, but as that has not been invented yet (or the robot just doesn't feel like driving), they should practice some self restraint. I urge participants in this challenge to avoid writing while on the road. Any participant that is caught writing while driving a vehicle of any kind will be disqualified without any chance of appeal. Be warned! As usual, do with some or all the topics as you see fit. Tag me please, and be safe. The topics are: 1) green flavored giraffes. 2) we serve broxy stew on thursdays. 3) crayons in Copenhagen. 4) un-omletting for begginers. 5) the wheels on the bus go tesseract tesseract tesseract. 6) Shai-Hulud. (Only if you read the books!!!) 7) the contents of Igor Stravinsky pockets. 8) x marks the spot. 9) veloceraptors in love. 10) don't call me Shirley. 11) suggest ideas for a new bersion of walt Disneys Fantasia. Good luck.
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X Marks Murder

Frank tilted break in his chair as he stared at the blank white wall of his apartment. He had his day off, and now he did not know what he should do with it. "I'm soo bored," he mumbled, drawing it out.

His roommate still in bed, it was 11:20 am in the morning after all, still pretty early to get up on a weekend, shushed him. "Go find something to do, out of here. I am trying to sleep," he said as pulled his covers over his head. Frank had pulled the curtains back from the window only moments before.

"Fine," muttered Frank has left the room, closing the door behind him. Pulling his phone out of his pocket, he started looking through the app store. He already played a few app games and did didn't really like them much. The ads were almost non-stop; he never paid for any of the app games, but the ads were annoying the living hell out of him. Not finding anything, he got a bowl of cereal and ate that as he delated the games he had downloaded that morning. After deleting all four of the games, he started listening to music. After four songs, he had eaten 3 bowls of cereal, finishing off one box and starting another, he had washed the bowl and was bored again. He opened the app store back up again hoping to find something of interest. There was a new risk game, but he was bored of that already, one of the games he had delated that morning was another risk game. There was another fantasy RPG game, based on the Dune movie, but after watching the trailor Frank decided that it looked boring as well. Finally, he found an app of interest. It was an augmented reality murder scene game, X Marks Murder, that connected to his GPS signal. The player acts as a detective that finds murders, and other less exciting crime scenes, and tries to resolve them. He downloaded it

The loading took awhile so Frank got ready for a walk outside, he had been meaning to exercise more. He grabbed some green mint chocolate cookies, shaped like giraffes, and stuffed them into his pockets. Finally, the phone finished installing the game and he opened it up and turned on the map, the crime scene map as the app. The nearest one scene was only a distracted driver car crash, not as a great as a murder, but it was the nearest one. It was only a block away. He left the apartment, tossing a pamphlet that was stuck on the door into his pocket as he left. Keeping his eye on the phone as he munched on some cookies. He checked out the pamphlet too, a soup kitchen was looking to for volunteers to help serve stew every thursday 11;00 am - 1:00 pm. "Can't go, I have class at that time," Frank muttered. Spanish class.

Finally, he got to the spot, a sidewallk next to a slow intersection, but there was no accident. "What, stupid app!" Frank growled as he pushed some buttons. Suddenly, the phone started counting down from 4. Frank, waiting for something to happen, was then hit by a car when it hit zero. Frank was killed on impact.

Dazed, the driver got out. Her name was Shirley, she had just downloaded a GPS based game that morning and was a headed out to a "crime scene" in the game, she had been distacted while driving because she was looking for the scene. She thought she had missed her turn. As she screamed, both her and Frank's phones beeped with a new message.

"A crime scene as been found. Start investigating."

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