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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by ChocolateLady[/i] [br][url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061735/"][size=3]... to Dinner[/size=3][/url] Lets Haiku this wonderful movie, in honor of Katharine Hepburn's birthday that was yesterday. She would have been 103! [b]The Rules[/b] [font=Comic Sans MS][brown][size=1]The first line of a haiku poem has five syllables. The second line of a haiku poem has seven syllables. The third, and final, line of a haiku poem has five syllables.[/size=1][/brown][/font=Comic Sans MS] The Movie Haiku Contest (MHC) is open to every member of the FWFR site. To enter, all you have to do is think of a Haiku for the current movie, then post into the current thread. Simple as that. Also, haikus may be risque, but nothing explicit please. Only one entry per person as per The Blevins Rule. However, you are allowed to edit your existing entry [b]until[/b] 9pm Tuesday FWFR time. [size=4][red]*[/red][/size=4] [b]Voting.[/b] If you have entered the MHC, then you have to vote. If you do not vote, you'll lose 3 points from your total. This could mean the difference between the adoration and envy of your fellow Fwiffers or being the [url="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=feckless"]feckless[/url] butt of our jokes! You do not have to enter an MHC to vote. Vote away. It'll be like a lurker vote! --------------------------------- For each round, you get to vote for your three favourite MHC. The voting is as follows: 3 pts Stalean 2 pts Conan 1 pt Benj [size=1][i](Gotta get a jab in here at Benj on account he confessed that haikus aren't his thing. Stay tuned for "movie limericks.")[/i][/size=1] not 1) AC 2) GHcool 3) thefoxboy As I will not know if AC gets 1 vote or AC is your favourite for 3 votes. -------------------------------- You cannot vote for yourself. You can vote for the previous winner You vote by sending the currently designated Haiku Meister your votes in a [url="http://www.fwfr.com/message.asp?id=8700"]PM (Private Message) here[/url]. You may vote only once. When the voting deadline ends (9pm Wednesday FWFR time), the votes are tallied and the top three places are announced. [size=4][red]*[/red][/size=4][i]After winners are announced, the floor is open for posting of alternate Movie Haikus under that topic heading.[/i] The winner then gets to make an acceptance speech, and choose the movie for the next MHC contest. The winner will post the new movie as a new topic under [url="http://www.fwfr.com/fourum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=24"]Movie Haikus[/url] in this format: [b]Movie Haiku Contest: Movie Title[/b] [i][size=1](Acknowledgement: FWTO after which these rules are modeled.)[/size=1][/i][hr] [i]Note for academic purists: I acknowedge that what we're doing here is not [url="http://www.helical-library.net/written/haiku_essay.asp"]Haiku in its purest form[/url].[/i] [url="http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_GB.aspx"]Check FWFR time[/url] (assuming the server is in England?). [font=Comic Sans MS][i]Thanks to Benj for giving Movie Haiku Contest its own folder under Games! [:X][/i][/font=Comic Sans MS] [/quote]    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature.