What would the first line of YOUR opus be? (Vanity)

[Luna]

There have been some dull opuses here at FR. It’s no wonder they’re met with such contempt and ridicule by other Freepers. No one likes boring. We like to be entertained, for crying out loud! Opus people, if you’re going to write an opus, make it worth our while.

[momtothree]

BTT! :)

[HerrBlucher]

“I’m a whiny narcissist drama queen that is threatening to leave but want you all to beg me to stay because I am soooo important to this site.”

[Luna]

Amen. That describes our day perfectly. Gotta love Dickens!

[Responsibility2nd]

Yeah, I think so. I went back and checked the posting history.

It looks like the usual SOS.

[KosmicKitty]

I SWEAR I didn’t do it!!

The feds arrested the wrong person!! I was taking my weekly ballroom dance lesson when the explosion happened. The person who planted that bomb just bore an remarkable likeness too me

Really!!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Who left this time? I must have missed the screen door slamming on their butt!

[ExGeeEye]

"You tattered remnants of a once great forum...

"You, whose casques did affright the air at the Clinton impeachment...

"You, who stomped Rathernot's forgery into oblivion in mere hours...

"Have devolved into a quackery of insipid malediction, flatulent discourse upon recipes and cats, tepid maunderings over podgy antipodal directors reworking British fairy stories...

"You are no more worthy of my eloquence, or may attention, than is a very...pajock.

"Beshrew ye all."

NOT REALLY! JUST KIDDING! NOT A REAL OPUS!

[Wordkraft]

“Grab some pine, Meat. I’m sending in the new guy.”

[discostu]

I’d probably quote the entire John Whorfin/ Mussolini speech from Buckaroo Bonzai.

[null and void]

Unaccustomed to public speaking as I am...

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Until they ban sidewalks you can still grind a nice point on that knife!

You really need a tater cannon too, is PVC pipe still legal?

[Luna]

LOL! The more drama the better!

[martin_fierro]

"Dear Penthouse Forvm -- I never thought this would happen to me, but...."

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[Las Vegas Ron]

Pretty sad, huh? When even your opus gets pulled.

Kind of like failing trying to commit suicide...lol

[wolfcreek]

Shouldn’t the question be, “Why have there been so many opuses?”

[Focault's Pendulum]

Who left this time? I must have missed the screen door slamming on their butt!

guru. You didn't miss anything. It was so lame it got pulled.

[CatherineofAragon]

“And now, in keeping with Channel 40’s policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you’re about to see another first — an attempted suicide.”

[Political Junkie Too]

"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER" and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God."

-The American Crisis, December 23, 1776, Thomas Paine

-PJ

[central_va]

Shouldn’t the question be, “Why have there been so many opuses?”

Wouldn't that be be "so many opi"?

[Lazamataz]

The first line of my opus would be as follows:

"The snow-whipped landscape went on for as far as the eye could see. Morgan shouldered his M-16, knowing that there only was twelve minutes left until the boomer arrived. Soon, the ice began to crackle, then pop, then roar, as the submarine began to surface through the ice pack. Help had arrived at last."