Voices:
| 1 | How Langdon Stole DPC | ||
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| 3 | 1 | Every Shirt down in Shirt-ville loved challenges lots… | AlanFreed |
| 4 | but Langdon, who lived South of Shirt-ville, did NOT! | AlanFreed | |
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| 6 | 2 | Langdon hated voting and audience pleasing! | Judi |
| 7 | Please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason. | Judi | |
| 8 | It could be that his lens wasn’t screwed on quite right. | Bear_music | |
| 9 | It could be, perhaps, that his strap was too tight. | Bear_music | |
| 10 | But I think that the most likely reason of all | colorcarnival | |
| 11 | may have been that his f stopped at two stops too small. | colorcarnival | |
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| 13 | 3 | But, whatever the reason, whatever the curse, | bohemka |
| 14 | he stood there on Christmas Eve, hating the Shirts, | bohemka | |
| 15 | staring down from his couch with a sour Langdon frown | beatabg | |
| 16 | at the number of visits, the hit count gone down. | beatabg | |
| 17 | For he knew every Shirt down in Shirt-ville beneath | blindjustice | |
| 18 | was busy now, shooting a new masterpiece. | blindjustice | |
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| 20 | 4 | And they’re shooting their puppies! he snarled with a sneer. | grahamgator |
| 21 | Tomorrow is Christmas! It’s practically here! | grahamgator | |
| 22 | Then he growled, with shutter finger nervously drumming, | Brent_S | |
| 23 | I MUST find a way to stop Challenges coming! | Brent_S | |
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| 25 | 5 | For tomorrow, he knew... at the stroke of midnight | BeckyT |
| 26 | All the Shirt girls and boys would rush to his site! | BeckyT | |
| 27 | And then! Oh, the rants! Oh, the rants! Rants! Rants! Rants! | Alexkc | |
| 28 | That’s one thing he hated! The RANTS! RANTS! RANTS! RANTS! | Alexkc | |
| 29 | Then the Shirts, young and old, would sit down to vote. | Alexkc | |
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| 31 | 6 | And they’d vote! And they’d vote! And they’d VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! | Judi |
| 32 | They would score Cannon Beaches, and creeks under boats, | Judi | |
| 33 | Which to Langdon looked more like a dog-doo-doo float. | Judi | |
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| 35 | 7 | And THEN they’d do something he liked least of all! | blindjustice |
| 36 | Every Shirt down in Shirt-ville, the tall and the small, | blindjustice | |
| 37 | would vote at the same time, with Christmas bells tolling, | Beetle | |
| 38 | and give out the ONE votes, so proud of their trolling! | Beetle | |
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| 40 | 8 | They’d troll! And they’d troll! AND they’d TROLL! TROLL! TROLL! TROLL! | bohemka |
| 41 | And the more Langdon thought of the whiners and trolls, | bohemka | |
| 42 | the more Langdon thought, "I will steal their souls! | colorcarnival | |
| 43 | Why for over ten years I’ve put with it now! | colorcarnival | |
| 44 | I MUST stop the Challenges coming! ... But HOW?" | BeckyT | |
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| 46 | 9 | Then he got an idea! An awful idea! | AlanFreed |
| 47 | LANGDON GOT A WONDERFUL, AWFUL IDEA! | AlanFreed | |
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| 49 | 10 | I know just what to do! Langdon laughed really hard. | MaryO |
| 50 | And he dressed in a cute Santa Claus avatar. | MaryO | |
| 51 | And he chuckled, "I’ll show all those art school rejects! | Dseale | |
| 52 | As owner and founder, not one will suspect!" | Dseale | |
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| 54 | 11 | All I need is a ‘Shopper... Langdon looked around. | Kelli |
| 55 | But with volunteers scarce, there was none to be found. | Kelli | |
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| 57 | 12 | Did that stop the Langdon...? No! Langdon wasn’t kidding, | GilesUK |
| 58 | I’ll blackmail Art Roflmao to do all my bidding! | GilesUK | |
| 59 | So he intercepted one of Art’s secret shipments | Beetle | |
| 60 | of lifesize woodies with extra "equipment"... | Beetle | |
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| 62 | 13 | THEN he peeked at a challenge while smugly gloating, | EL-ROI |
| 63 | a Christmas Speed Challenge, that was still in voting. | EL-ROI | |
| 64 | Then Langdon said, "Art, go start up your Mac! | MaryO | |
| 65 | We’ve got some high-scoring photos to whack! | MaryO | |
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| 67 | 14 | So they cut off the tails of Wendy’s squirrels | Devinder |
| 68 | and they painted pink bathrobes on Paul’s naked girls. | Devinder | |
| 69 | The oldsters of jagar walked yellow brick roads, | PennyStreet | |
| 70 | Lydia’s frogs were converted to toads, | PennyStreet | |
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| 72 | 15 | Gyaban’s head was put back on his body, | gyaban |
| 73 | Irene’s water dropped on the seat of the potty. | gyaban | |
| 74 | Sam T and Sjhuls lost all their blonde hair | Kelli | |
| 75 | because it was covering JMinso’s derriere. | Kelli | |
| 76 | The waterscapes Cuttooth and Bear Music shot | FourPointX | |
| 77 | were now muddy fields with weeds in a knot. | FourPointX | |
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| 79 | 16 | For cutout, they cutout some angels with flutes, | MaryO |
| 80 | while Coley’s self portrait grew strangely hirsute. | MaryO | |
| 81 | Tanguera’s grand dames with extravagant hats | GilesUK | |
| 82 | abandoned their dogs and French-kissed their cats! | GilesUK | |
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| 84 | 17 | Then a trembling Art, under awful duress, | Beetle |
| 85 | slowly peeled off sempermarine’s ballroom dress. | Beetle | |
| 86 | Then he took some sandpaper to John Ritz’s brown, | gyaban | |
| 87 | while Juliet’s most recent Queen lost his crown. | gyaban | |
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| 89 | 18 | Melethia’s pigeons had gone 'alouette', | EL-ROI |
| 90 | and Judi could no longer fill out her sweater. | EL-ROI | |
| 91 | The Spurgeon girls' curls became mile-high ‘fros, | Kelli | |
| 92 | and bvy’s graffiti turned elegant prose | Kelli | |
| 93 | as poor YoSpiff fell on the bar of his bike! | PennyStreet | |
| 94 | At last, there was nothing for voters to like. | PennyStreet | |
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| 96 | 19 | Art hung his head, while Langdon just grinned, | timfythetoo |
| 97 | but then a new ticket arrived, for "admin." | timfythetoo | |
| 98 | A small voice in ALL CAPS appeared on the screen. | vawendy | |
| 99 | It was Shez from down under, "O WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? | vawendy | |
| 100 | SOMETHING’S NOT RIGHT. WHAT IS THE CAUSE?" | RayEthier | |
| 101 | Her sweetness gave cold-hearted Langdon some pause. | RayEthier | |
| 102 | She wanted to thank him for starting the site | SaraR | |
| 103 | and making even her dreary days seem bright. | SaraR | |
| 104 | The friendship, the fun, she could not abandon, | Pug-H | |
| 105 | although she could no longer handle her Canon. | Pug-H | |
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| 107 | 20 | But, you know Old Langdon was so smart and so slick, | Samantha_T |
| 108 | He thought up a lie, and he thought it up quick! | Samantha_T | |
| 109 | You’ve noticed strange pictures, you’re very astute, | RyanWareham | |
| 110 | but please rest assured they’re just from new recruits. | RyanWareham | |
| 111 | I have plans to expand and double the site. | vawendy | |
| 112 | New members, new challenges most every night. | vawendy | |
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| 114 | 21 | And Sherpet believed, because that was her way, | RayEthier |
| 115 | and happily waited for Turnover Day, | RayEthier | |
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| 117 | 22 | but not even turnover time could be trusted, | SaraR |
| 118 | the dates were all switched, the ruleset was busted! | SaraR | |
| 119 | Each title read, "Go ahead, give me a one!" | timfythetoo | |
| 120 | While all of the "10" votes were pushed to tnun. | timfythetoo | |
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| 122 | 23 | Finally sated, he sat back and waited | Samantha_T |
| 123 | to eavesdrop on all the bad blood he created. | Samantha_T | |
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| 125 | 24 | They’re just waking up! I know what they’ll do! | RyanWareham |
| 126 | Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, | RyanWareham | |
| 127 | then all the Shirts down in Shirt-ville will all cry BOO HOO! | vawendy | |
| 128 | That’s a noise, grinned Langdon, "that I simply must hear." | Pug-H | |
| 129 | So he paused. And Langdon put a hand to his ear. | Pug-H | |
| 130 | And he heard a virtual sound in the digital snow. | Kita | |
| 131 | It started in low. Then it started to grow... | Kita | |
| 132 | but the sound wasn’t sad! Why, this sound sounded merry! | timfythetoo | |
| 133 | It couldn’t be so! But it WAS merry! VERY! | timfythetoo | |
| 134 | He stared down at Shirt-ville. Langdon popped his eyes. | colorcarnival | |
| 135 | Then he shook! What he saw was a shocking surprise. | colorcarnival | |
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| 137 | 25 | Every Shirt down in Shirt-ville, the blue and the gray, | Art Roflmao |
| 138 | was lauding the winners for seizing the day. | Art Roflmao | |
| 139 | Auxiliary ribbons supported the strange, | Kita | |
| 140 | the entries that fell out of Gaussian range, | Kita | |
| 141 | and forum posts bustled with outtakes and jokes, | RayEthier | |
| 142 | and comment requests and a new Slippy hoax. | RayEthier | |
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| 144 | 26 | Maybe, thought Langdon, "some props are owed... | PamB |
| 145 | Maybe a Website is more than just code... | PamB | |
| 146 | Those people all chattering to each other down there | RyanWareham | |
| 147 | have one thing in common. They all seem to... care." | RyanWareham | |
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| 149 | 27 | And what happened then? Well... in Shirt-ville they say | Samantha_T |
| 150 | Langdon’s f-stop opened 3 stops that day, | Samantha_T | |
| 151 | and the minute his aperture let in more light | PamB | |
| 152 | he saw that he needed to do what was right. | PamB | |
| 153 | He fixed all the rulesets, they were clear as a bell, | Brent_S | |
| 154 | And he... LANGDON HIMSELF... formed a new DPL! | Brent_S | |