Wyatt's World
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Apr. 28, 2009
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My first speech at Toastmaster's
Have you ever read a book by Terry Pratchett before? I like Terry Pratchett’s books, because he is a very funny writer who writes incredibly amazing plots filled with incredibly lifelike characters. Most of his stories, (all the best ones any way! )take place in the same place, the disk world.
This “world” is a relatively flat disk shape. It floats through space on the backs for elephants who, in turn, stand on one massive turtle. Because of the way their world is shaped, they don’t have north south west and east, instead, they have rimwards as in towards the rim, and hubwards.
Some of my favourite books by him are,
Making Money ,
Hog Father
and The Final Hero.
Going Postal is the story of a con man, who is about to pull the biggest crime in his life when he is caught. However, the patrician, instead of hanging him, offers him two doors and a new name- his birth name.
One door leads to normalness, he can become a law-abiding citizen and they would say no more about it. All records, would be purged of his existence.
Or, he can walk through the other door. and take up an important government job- the post office. Making Money comes after this. In it, his success with the post office is so great that vetinari, the patrician offers him another job, the royal master of the mint and bank.
Hog Father begins with a mysterious entity offering the assassins guild a contract. Ten million dollars of gold if they inhume the Hog Father, aka saint Nicholas. When they succeed, its up to Death to replace the hog father temporarily, so the thin, skeletally thin in fact, Death, drops the black robe and scythe and picks up the red cloak and a pillow. Then of course he gets hooked on people leaving out cookies and actually TRYING to see him, not fleeing in terror.
The final Hero is about a Conan the barbarian look-alike, Cohen, who steals a huge keg of dynamite, and heads off to blow up the largest mountain in the world- the Cori Celeste, and the band of unlikely heroes who try to stop him: Rincewind , the most inept wizard in the world, Captain Carrot ,the perfect watchman, and Marvelo Da Vinci the worlds greatest genius.
This author is really inventive and I’ve never read any thing like his books. He also has many other books , the opera, feet of clay, thud, and soul music are just a few examples. Many of his books are just single book pieces but he has a few recurring characters. For example, Rincewind the cowardly inept wizard, is in around six books! moist von lipwig the con man is only in two. He also has many books about captain vimes, commander of the watch.
The watch is like the police in his books. Death is in every single book by him, and is one of my favourite characters. You can’t help liking him if you think of him as a individual rather then the final curtain. Another constantly recurring character is Vetinari, the patrician. He is an very interesting individual. Technically, he is the tyrant ruler of the largest city in terry Pratchett’s world -ankh-morpork. Really, up close he’s very mysterious. No one in any book seems to know much about him. The only insight into his true character is that he used to own a small wheezy dog named Wuffles. Even now that Wuffles is dead, vetinari visits his grave every day and leaves a doggy biscuit.
He also has a lot of inventive villains like, the opera ghost, evil Harry, the whole of the race of elves, and Mr. teatime. They’re all rather funny and excellent villains. Evil Harry is a 4 foot high senior barbarian who wears a 2 feet high hat decked with skulls and wings, the opera ghost is the roof jumping alter ego, of the crazy Mr. Williams, and Mr. teatime, is a assassins’ guild foundling who is, frankly, mad. Any way, those are my favourite characters from my favourite books. Another interesting feature that keep his books different is that he has in his books multiple races. He has vampires, werewolves, dwarves, humans, elves some times, and trolls. I hope this speech has shown you why I really enjoy reading terry Pratchett’s books. They’re inventive, funny, well written books, with plenty of lifelike characters.
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Apr. 28, 2009
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The Modern Times - newspaper article
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The modern times
In breaking news, the swine flew has in South Carolina, a startling
reached a fever pitch resulting in number of earthquakes has
now, 81 deaths and counting. Disease, been rocking the continent.
Specialist, Mafalda Hopkirk speaking on earthquake specialist, Oliver
The behalf of the Mexican government, said Wood promises to explain.
the best thing people can do to avoid the disease, page A3
is, cont. page A4
Other breaking news-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
None other than our number one editorial writer, Wyatt Fehler, recently hit Stephanie Fehler for a report. When asked the probability of cookies today Stephanie replied, well there’s a good chance of that in the after noon. In the morning, there’s a trip to the Pine Valley lodge and just before that cookie storm, it looks like a talent show is going on. When asked about it, she proudly divulged that two of her youngest sons where entering. Silas and Luther Fehler. Our intrepid reporter then traveled the house, to ask them how they felt about this unexpected development. “I feel scared.” Said Silas Fehler, with out lifting his eyes. “I think people are going to laugh.”; Luther like wise said, “I feew, nevwous. I fink its just to much to wemembar.” Our reporter then asked a bystander for her opinion on the contestants. She was indecisive. “I'm not sure how good they’re going to do.” She said, weighing her pencil. “Probably some where between good and bad.”
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Feb. 24, 2009
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ahh.....
yes returning to the very essence of awsome-music-thingy-ness we get THIS!
ahh..... you just HAVE to love this song!
Lyrics
Verse 1
Rolling around at the speed of sound,
Got places to go, gotta follow my rainbow.
Can't stick around, have to keep moving on,
Guess what lies ahead? Only one way to find out!
Must keep on moving ahead,
No time for guessing, follow my plan instead.
Trusting in what you can't see,
Take my lead, I'll set you free.
Chorus
Follow me, set me free,
Trust me and we will escape from the city.
I'll make it through, follow me.
Follow me, set me free,
Trust me and we will escape from the city.
I'll make it through, prove it to you.
Follow me!
Oh yeah!
Verse 2
Danger is lurking around every turn,
Trust your feelings, got to live and learn.
I know with some luck that I'll make it through,
Got no other options, only one thing to do!
I don't care what lies ahead,
No time for guessing, follow my plan instead.
Find that next stage, no matter what that may be.
Take my lead, I'll set you free.
Repeat Chorus
Follow me!
Follow me!
I'll make it through, oh yeah!
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Feb. 20, 2009
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an excerpt from my novel in progress...
This is from my workbook - it's demonstrations of scenes that show me how my characters are supposed to work.
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Argnax sat, slumped in his throne in human form, looking disheveled. "Brutaka. Is that you?" he croaked feebly. Brutaka strode into the light. The throne chamber was more quiet than he had ever heard it before. Just the two of them were there, in the ancient hall. It's walls were studded with hollow gems for fire. It's ceiling was held up by hundreds of pillars. Sunlight streaked in rectangles from massive holes in the ceiling. When they hit the floor, they formed a majestic tile representation of DragonSpine's coat of arms, a circle enclosing three mountains, two of which were smaller, and the third towering in the middle, with the sun rising behind it. It was built in such a way that only at sunset the golden light came streaking into it.
Brutaka stood there, in the gray passage. The shadows cast all his visage but his mouth into shadows. His mouth was open, showing his teeth. He was panting heavily, as if he'd just run a race. Then he threw the bronze sword in his hand, piercing Argnax through the heart. "Forgive me, Argnax" he managed, then fled the empty chamber with the corpse bubbling black liquid upon the floor. |
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Feb. 18, 2009
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some cool music
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Jan. 27, 2009
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Jan. 23, 2009
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re: your brains
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Jan. 22, 2009
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aswomeness!
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Jan. 21, 2009
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some songs.
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Apr. 23, 2008
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hooray!
two days ago i got a new game for the wii called super smash bros. brawl! its really awsome theres ton of characters to chose from and then play as, like link and lucario! my faverite is lucario because he cool and strong. plus as a bonus he gets stronger when he takes on damage! its realy neat. and since we have game cube remotes 4 people can play! haven realy likes princess peach and luther likes kirby, silas loves mr. game and watch. mom and dad play to some times. mom likes fox a ninga airplane pilet thats a big fox. dad likes captin falcon who is realy big and punches stuff. i almost always win but sometimes some body hits me with a bomb and i lose... but its realy fun!

wyatt~ |
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Feb. 11, 2008
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story 3
The sword Excalibur
At the coronation feats of king Arthur the gift giving has begun. He gives the nobles fiefs but they refuse! They draw their swords and attempt to kill Arthur! But him and his knights resist! Arthur breaks his sword but defeats many enemies. Then Merlin takes Arthur to a magic lake where the lady of the lake gives him a sword called Excalibur. then they ride off to face the nobles. First they parley and Arthur tactlessly demands they surrender, and pay him homage. They refuse and chastise him harshly. They yell at each other clothed in samite. Then the battle begins. They all fight well but Arthur wins and reigns over all.
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Feb. 11, 2008
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story 2
Balmung and greyfell
One day a small boy was born. His name was Sigfried. Sigfryed was born to a very rich father. He wore clothes bespangled with gems. They were so decked
With them that they jangled as he walked! One day his father said, “Son, you have to learn a trade. So I’m sending you to a smithy, to learn how to smith.” Sigfrd agreed so of he went. He had to leave his fancy clothes and money behind and that made him unhappy. But when he first entered the smithy he was amazed to see the smith deftly forging a sword with his eyes closed! Then he lived and worked there for many years he eventually began to think of it as a second home. Then he thought, I must get a sword and right the wrongs of the world, so he began smithing a great blade. He made a beautiful hilt of gold and silver, and then a blade of steel. But when he tempered it smashed before his might! Surely, he thought, I need better metal. Then one day he went home to see his parents again and told his mother of his trouble. She said follow me and led him down to the basement where a large lump of silvery blue metal lay. “This,” she said “is a star that fell from the sky. It’s the most valuable metal we own. Take a lump and with, forge a great blade!” and took a large piece and smith a blade. Then he was going to leave the smith but just before he left a statue he saw stopped him it was Odin. He looked at it a second and while he was looking at it the smith caught up and said “go to the west there you find a giant. Talk with the giant and he will give you the greatest horse ever known! So go. I bid you good bye.” He nodded and rode of into the west. After a while he finally, he arrived there. Then he talked with the giant who was supposed to give him the horse. The giant after a while said you may go choose a horse because I know that’s what you came for. He nodded happily and went into the field. AFTER A WHILE HE FOUND THE PERFECT HORSE. “I WILL NAME YOU GREYFELL! AND YOU SHALL BE MY STEED!’ HE CRYED THEN HE RODE OF INT THE DISTANCE.
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Feb. 11, 2008
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story 1
A Roland for a Oliver
One day Charlemagne was giving out fiefs to his generals and a duke wanted one. He didn’t want to pay homage. But he didn’t get it. This made the duke very angry instead of obliged So he set up for a siege and declared war on Charlemagne’s kingdom. So they were at war with him for many months until they both decided to send out a champion and the winner would win the war. So Charlemagne sent out Roland and the duke who was Oliver’s father sent out Oliver. Roland and Oliver fought, not recognizing each other, until during the break Oliver took off his helm. Then when Roland saw it, he gave up and took off his helm. Then Oliver realized it was him and also declined the battle. The antagonists looked startled. Roland took off his hauberk and put his robes back on. Then they looked each other in the eyes. They were reunited.
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Jan. 24, 2008
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elves!!
elves amonge us...
today we caught a elf sweeping my room! im not sure who was more surprised! i snapped a picture while it was still in shock. almost as soon as i snapped it it dissapeared in a cloud of freash green scented stuff. i hope it comes back to finish the sweeping! |
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Nov. 19, 2007
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for chirstmas
hi! yah its me again... any way a friend of mine has insisted ( ) on yours truly writing down a wish list.... so um, here i go.
nintendo ds* pokemon diamond/pearl
wi-fi cable
books
wii games
any additional ds* games.
ok thats it... not a lot but its all expensive! any way i should post some news so umm... one sec.... oh yah! today we went on a field trip to the bakery. it was kinda cool... they showed us all the machines and stuff that they use. any way we got free cupcakes at the end so ya... any way thats about it....
yours truly wyatt
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Oct. 18, 2007
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runescape 1
hi!
this is wyatt again.... im not realy doing this for fun but i have to ........ !!! just thought of something!!! i play runescape, no usernames! (im not stupid.) and so i shall report my progress here. i can currently weild addamant wepons and wear ad****t armour. my strength is 34 and im a miner/smith. i can make about 1000 in a play and can forge full iron and some steeel.. yah so thats abut it... oh! i also fish and cook but those are just hobbeis.
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Sep. 6, 2007
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today.
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Aug. 31, 2007
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world domination
***You Are Destined to Rule the World***
You have the makings of a very evil dictator...
Which is both kind of cool and kind of scary!
Will you rule the world? Maybe. Maybe not.
But at least you know that you could.
Are You Destined For World Domination?
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