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Posted November 05, 2014
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Hello my fellow goglodytes! Were you sad that you couldn't participate in my birthday GA due to your hatred of everything EA and steam? Well if so, cheer up, for now you can enter for the chance to win a 5.99 (USD) gog game of your choice!

The rules will follow those for my first GA: you must regale me with a tall tale. To recap:

" you must tell me a tall tale (real or totally made up) about yourself. It can be funny, sad, serious, whatever you want. But i want to be dazzled. When I'm done reading your story I want to feel like I've been thrown in a bag of glitter or attacked with that horrible bedazzle gun. I demand entertainment! :)"

Best tale wins the prize :)

Now for the stupid rulz:

1. must have joined on or before September '14 OR have +25 (I can make exceptions if asked)
2. MUST HAVE a community presence other than just asking/getting games. I will check this and ask around.
3. No entering for others.
5. This gog game is for YOU and no one else: no re-gifting, etc etc etc

GA ends Thursday, November 20th EST
Post edited November 05, 2014 by Crewdroog
Posted November 05, 2014
Not in, but thanks for doing another giveaway! +1
Posted November 05, 2014
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BillyMaysFan59: Not in, but thanks for doing another giveaway! +1
*aims squirt gun at BillyMaysFan* Won't you reconsider? :)
Posted November 05, 2014
I'll see if I can rustle up a tale in time. one not involving beavers, stuffing or mounting.
Posted November 05, 2014
Not in as i have a backlog that is toppling over. But I'll check back to muster up a tale - hopefully. But thank you for the giveaway! :D
Post edited November 05, 2014 by foxworks
Posted November 06, 2014
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BillyMaysFan59: Not in, but thanks for doing another giveaway! +1
THIS! I do after all plan to enter your other one and still need to write my tale.
Posted November 06, 2014
Happy Birthday again! Not in, as I'm in the other giveaway.
I wasn't aware that so many had objected to an EA game :D.
Posted November 06, 2014
Not in but +1 :)
Posted November 06, 2014
I'm in, although to be honest, it's mostly because I'm not seeing a lot of other people entering. I mean, I have a wishlist with some $5.99 games, so I want to enter, I just don't have much faith in my telling a tall tale, but here goes anyway...

Growing up, I was always one of the smallest kids in my class. Usually it was between me & one other boy, to the point our friends would sometimes have us stand back-to-back throughout the years to see which of us might be a 1/4-inch shorter than the other. Even some of the girls were bigger than me throughout those years.

By the time I had graduated from Elementary School (6th Grade), I was really hoping I'd hit a growth spurt in time to start Middle School. Kids at my Elementary School were cool, none of us bullied each other for anything, but now we were going to a new school with kids from other towns. No way in hell I wanted to be "the little kid" in the new school. But alas, I entered the 7th Grade at an even 5 feet tall...and sure enough, I was among the very smallest of the boys.

I remember seeing some of the 8th Graders & thinking how big they looked, having to crane my neck up if I wanted to talk face-to-face with them. Good god, if I was this self-conscious around them now, I could only imagine how I'd feel when I entered High School (9th Grade) and they had time to grow even bigger.

But then it happened...puberty to the rescue!

By the time I graduated 8th Grade less than 2 years later, I had grown...alot.

Just a couple more months after that, I was a Freshman (9th Grade) in High School, and I was quite surprised to see that I was looking so many of those "big" 8th Graders (who were now in 10th Grade) dead in the eye, if not actually looking down at some of them. Yep, I may have come into 7th Grade at an even 5 feet tall, but going into the 9th Grade I was 5-foot-9...and still growing.

I haven't grown much since then. On a good day without any back/hip/knee pain, I can stand up straight at 5-foot-10-1/2.

But that, my fellow Goglodytes, is the TALE of how I became TALL.

(True story, btw!)
Posted November 06, 2014
Happy birthday (again) Crewdroog!
I'm in this time.(as I use GOG-duh!) :-)
I'm not sure whether I can use the same tall tale I posted in your other thread (even though I wasn't in) , so I'll write another one, just for good measure:

One day, as I was walking through the street, the ground open up and swallowed me just like that ! I started falling down this huge hole... I fell and fell and fell-at some point I got bored of all this falling business but then I finally landed on something-a huge pudding! I thought "yuck! Of all the things I could fall on, I ended up with the pudding?". At any rate, as I don't want to take too long, after I finally got down from the pudding I found out that I had actually fallen on the dining table of a giant and the thing I thought was his pudding was actually his birthday cake(apparently, giants use puddings as birthday cakes). The giant saw me and initially tried to kill me, probably thinking I was an insect and also because I had stepped on his pudding, but I shouted to him in my loudest voice I meant him no harm. The giant heard me (I have quite a loud voice) and asked me what I was doing there in the first place. I explained him my predicament, and he invited me to celebrate his 127th birthday with him, as he had no friends to celebrate it with-all his friends, he explained, lived on beanstalks in the sky, but he had to move, as his father became a gold miner and the family had to move underground. At any rate, we celebrated the giant's birthday together, and I even ate a small piece of pudding (it wasn't that bad after all). Afterwards, I said to the giant I had to leave as my family would be searching for me, and he took me to the closest opening of the Earth. He waved me goodbye and left.
Unfortunately for me, this closest opening turned out to be the volcano Etna, which isn't close to where I live (thank goodness it was inactive at that moment too). But how I got back home from Etna is another story...
Morals of the story:
-Watch you step, so that you won't fall in a huge hole
-When you eat your birthday cake, try not to kill any ants/insects-they might be lilliputian people who just fell from a huge hole!
(Sources of inspiration: Many really-I just made up this story on the spot.)

Anyways, thanks a lot for hosting yet another giveaway Crewdroog and +1 !

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Post edited November 06, 2014 by Treasure
Posted November 06, 2014
Not in, but thank you for another awesome giveaway!

I thought only European monarchs had two birthday celebrations? If you're having two celebrations, then that can only mean one thing... all hail Queen Crewdroog, Empress of the 'mericans! :-)

* Kneels and presents Crewdroog with her new fluffy birthday crown *
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Crewdroog: *aims squirt gun at BillyMaysFan* Won't you reconsider? :)
I think you may need a bigger gun to persuade BillyMaysFan to change his mind. How about a trusty air-powered water bomb cannon, that should get him changing his mind, or drown him if you get too carried away :-).
Posted November 06, 2014
Not in, but thanks.
Posted November 06, 2014
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Treasure: Happy birthday (again) Crewdroog!
I'm in this time.(as I use GOG-duh!) :-)
I'm not sure whether I can use the same tall tale I posted in your other thread (even though I wasn't in) , so I'll write another one, just for good measure:

One day, as I was walking through the street, the ground open up and swallowed me just like that ! I started falling down this huge hole... I fell and fell and fell-at some point I got bored of all this falling business but then I finally landed on something-a huge pudding! I thought "yuck! Of all the things I could fall on, I ended up with the pudding?". At any rate, as I don't want to take too long, after I finally got down from the pudding I found out that I had actually fallen on the dining table of a giant and the thing I thought was his pudding was actually his birthday cake(apparently, giants use puddings as birthday cakes). The giant saw me and initially tried to kill me, probably thinking I was an insect and also because I had stepped on his pudding, but I shouted to him in my loudest voice I meant him no harm. The giant heard me (I have quite a loud voice) and asked me what I was doing there in the first place. I explained him my predicament, and he invited me to celebrate his 127th birthday with him, as he had no friends to celebrate it with-all his friends, he explained, lived on beanstalks in the sky, but he had to move, as his father became a gold miner and the family had to move underground. At any rate, we celebrated the giant's birthday together, and I even ate a small piece of pudding (it wasn't that bad after all). Afterwards, I said to the giant I had to leave as my family would be searching for me, and he took me to the closest opening of the Earth. He waved me goodbye and left.
Unfortunately for me, this closest opening turned out to be the volcano Etna, which isn't close to where I live (thank goodness it was inactive at that moment too). But how I got back home from Etna is another story...
Morals of the story:
-Watch you step, so that you won't fall in a huge hole
-When you eat your birthday cake, try not to kill any ants/insects-they might be lilliputian people who just fell from a huge hole!
(Sources of inspiration: Many really-I just made up this story on the spot.)

Anyways, thanks a lot for hosting yet another giveaway Crewdroog and +1 !

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Hahaha, I almost didn't recognize you with your new avatar!!! :) Glad you entered. Aw, now I want to know how you got home. great story, thank you for sharing it with me.
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babark: Happy Birthday again! Not in, as I'm in the other giveaway.
I wasn't aware that so many had objected to an EA game :D.
I just assumed on an anit-DRM site hahaha ;)
Post edited November 06, 2014 by Crewdroog
Posted November 06, 2014
well i coudl throw you ina bag filled with glitter and superglue i suppose

yes super fucking glue
Posted November 06, 2014
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ChaunceyK: I'm in, although to be honest, it's mostly because I'm not seeing a lot of other people entering. I mean, I have a wishlist with some $5.99 games, so I want to enter, I just don't have much faith in my telling a tall tale, but here goes anyway...

Growing up, I was always one of the smallest kids in my class. Usually it was between me & one other boy, to the point our friends would sometimes have us stand back-to-back throughout the years to see which of us might be a 1/4-inch shorter than the other. Even some of the girls were bigger than me throughout those years.

By the time I had graduated from Elementary School (6th Grade), I was really hoping I'd hit a growth spurt in time to start Middle School. Kids at my Elementary School were cool, none of us bullied each other for anything, but now we were going to a new school with kids from other towns. No way in hell I wanted to be "the little kid" in the new school. But alas, I entered the 7th Grade at an even 5 feet tall...and sure enough, I was among the very smallest of the boys.

I remember seeing some of the 8th Graders & thinking how big they looked, having to crane my neck up if I wanted to talk face-to-face with them. Good god, if I was this self-conscious around them now, I could only imagine how I'd feel when I entered High School (9th Grade) and they had time to grow even bigger.

But then it happened...puberty to the rescue!

By the time I graduated 8th Grade less than 2 years later, I had grown...alot.

Just a couple more months after that, I was a Freshman (9th Grade) in High School, and I was quite surprised to see that I was looking so many of those "big" 8th Graders (who were now in 10th Grade) dead in the eye, if not actually looking down at some of them. Yep, I may have come into 7th Grade at an even 5 feet tall, but going into the 9th Grade I was 5-foot-9...and still growing.

I haven't grown much since then. On a good day without any back/hip/knee pain, I can stand up straight at 5-foot-10-1/2.

But that, my fellow Goglodytes, is the TALE of how I became TALL.

(True story, btw!)
HAHAHA, wonderful! well done on a literal interpretation. I too wanted to be tall, at least 5'4", but the gods did not favor my pleas, and kept me at a short 5'3". :) thank you for sharing your tale of tallness.
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snowkatt: well i coudl throw you ina bag filled with glitter and superglue i suppose

yes super fucking glue
Promise? Will i be the prettiest girl at the ball then?
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Sachys: I'll see if I can rustle up a tale in time. one not involving beavers, stuffing or mounting.
I look forward to you beaver free tale. ;) Sausages then?
Post edited November 06, 2014 by Crewdroog
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