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First Sentences

Gina at Just Another Day listed the first sentence of the first post of each month for 2006, so given the approaching end of the year, I thought this would be a good time to follow suit. It serves as an interesting little exercise, maybe a snippet of what is important to each of us. I have only been writing since August, and three of the five sentences are about movies. I'm not going to make too much of that because I write about a million different things that pop into my little head. Here is my list:

(Aug) Here's my first entry to my very first blog.

(Sept) A small tribute to Glenn Ford.

(Oct) When George Bailey was a kid and working for Mr. Gower, he strapped on his apron, scooped up some chocolate ice cream for Mary, and at hearing she didn't like coconut, was piqued.

(Nov) I think Ferris Bueller's Day Off is an American classic.

(Dec) Last night, my family discussed the meaning of "home."

Comments

dive said…
Oops! I just checked mine and the first one's a bit sweary, so I'll sit this one out, Robyn.
Nice idea, though.
It gives me an incentive to re-read people's archives.
8:49 AM
Sassy Sundry said…
Here are mine:

(Aug) So.
(Sept) It’s that time of year again.
(Oct)Fluff went to the What the Fluff? Festival in Union Square, Somerville, this weekend.
(Nov)As a lover of all things kitsch, I thought that I would take a moment to mark the passing of the plastic pink flamingo, made by Union Plastics right here in Massachusetts.
(Dec)I mentioned a while back that I had rejoined the wonderful world of online dating.
9:55 AM
dive said…
That's a bit scary …
10:15 AM
Scout said…
Dive, sweary is OK, don't you think? Think of the context.

Sassy, I think these are great. The flow of the thought from one to the other makes an interesting story in itself. Did we start blogging at the same time?
11:07 AM
Sassy Sundry said…
I think we did. I can't remember the exact date, but I did start in August.

I thought they went together rather well myself.
11:25 AM
Gina said…
It's fun to go back a bit, isn't it?
12:18 PM
Anonymous said…
Hi Robyn!

Yours have a neat little theme going on, and so do Sassy's!

Here are mine. Mine seem to have a rather self-centered theme. I think I'm a bit embarrassed.

:(

Also, as an aside, I've been meaning to tell my readers about Maryann, but kept forgetting.

I finally remembered and posted about it here.

Now I've got to thinking that I really should have asked you first about using the image of the book cover to do that, Robyn.

I should not have assumed it would be OK. I've removed the image from the post unless/until you say that's ok.

Sorry, I was excited and not thinking.
1:21 PM
dive said…
A very frunk NaDruBloDa blogger writes:
Okay, here we go.
It seems you and Sassy and me were all August blog-babies, Robyn.
Here's my five first lines:

August, 2006:
This was going to be a big, sweary, ranty blog, railing against a world headed full tilt down the shitter, with no driver and no brakes.
September, 2006:
We are sitting eating lobster in a Portuguese square.
October, 2006:
I'm really none too keen on all this "time going forward" malarkey.
November, 2006:
Yikes!
December, 2006:
Sassy's comment to yesterday's post ("Nice legs, Dive") got me thinking …
(a) Yes, I do have nice legs and,
(b) Taking quotes out of context is fun.

Read into them what you will …
2:42 PM
dive said…
Did I really just type "frunk"?

Must be frunker than I thought …
2:43 PM
Scout said…
JanieBelle, I have commented on your site.

Dive, Yes, you did type "frunk" which was pretty darn funny. You have coined a new word, I believe. Interesting, isn't it, that we all started at the same time and independently. I don't know why it's interesting--just is.
3:36 PM
Anonymous said…
Hi Robyn! Just saw it. Thanks, it's back up now, on my blog and Kate's too!

Dive, I believe you're frunker than you drink you am!
3:47 PM
Sassy Sundry said…
I think I'm going to say "frunk" for "drunk" from now on.
4:48 PM
Old Knudsen said…
You all talk about me when I'm not paying attention but I started in August too.

destiny, fate or something more sinister?
I'd put my sentences up but i don't have no sentence structure as that is for the weak.
1:37 AM
dive said…
This is getting scary.
What happened back in August?
Was the Earth bathed in alien radioactive blog-rays?
Did the CIA put something into the water … again?
Watch the skies, people, watch the skies …
5:03 AM
Sassy Sundry said…
It totally could have been a CIA plot, but I blame my coworker and friend James. I had sent around this Non Sequitur comic to my friends, featuring Danae complaining that no one was doing anything interesting for her to write about in her blog. I said, "I can relate," meaning that no one was doing anything interesting. James replied, "So, do you have a blog?" That got me thinking.

Obviously, it was grand timing. Robyn, Dive, and Knudsen. And me. What a strange and wonderful crew of late-blooming bloggers.
8:37 AM
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