Part 2 - Challenge! Presidents' Day International

[the flexistentialist]

An excellent addition to the contest! I love watching such creativity pour into this thread.

 

the flexistentialist

[Apprenti]

Yeah, it's a great thread. Thanks Kiavonne!

[bokchoy]

As a long time lurker, I love this thread! My cursive is improving already.

 

Here's my attempt. It's a bit silly

 

Affectionately dubbed a flibbertigibbet, Pippin the hobbit was a braggart and bookkeeper whose benign aestheticism triggered the maintenance of well-equipped eyebrows that unanimously provoked giggles from toddlers and starred in his absurd narratives: Galileo, the left brow who was curved like a longbow for maximum manoeuvrability, accidentally slipped a phyllophagous giraffe through a guillotine, which prompted a kerfuffle because the sheriff was commissioned to tinker with telecommunications efforts to showcase subterfuge by the paparazzi, and Don Quixote, Galileo's nervous right twin, who genuinely flabbergasted Afghani women in muumuus and underdressed Egyptian chauffeurs wearing patterned skivvies by anxiously babbling about bugbears from Mississippi indubitably hiding in travellers' purses and baggage.

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/7Pebbcj.png

 

Oops, just noticed that "chauffeurs" is missing. It should say "Egyptian chauffeurs", not "Egyptians".

Edited February 5, 2014 by bokchoy

[kiavonne]

Wonderful submission! Thank you, bokchoy!

 

Nice writing, too.

[DanF]

Here is my first effort:

 

 

It all began innocently enough - our commission: to guarantee that no subterfuge was being perpetrated in the accounting of The Rutabaga Club, a music showcase on Tennessee Avenue in Washington D.C., which featured a kaleidoscopic repertoire including snippets from DonJuan, Don Quixote, and The Hallelujah Chorus; but as our chauffeur - an affectionate Clackmannanshire man possessed of a keen aestheticism - attempted to maneuver the rosewood appointed limousine (borrowed from Rick Derringer) through the assembled flabbergasted paparazzi - there arose such a kerfuffle that, were it not for the benign ministrations of a baguette equipped sheriff from Mississippi who had inadvertently stumbled upon the scene, the success of the entire affair may have been compromised…though luckily, leaving the potential difficulty behind and arriving unruffled at our destination, we happened upon a lugubrious gypsy woman from the maintenance staff with exaggerated fluffy eyebrows, who agreed to escort us through the underbelly of the building to the office of the anxious bookkeeper - our quarry - whose parakeet (a beguiling flibbertigibbet) recited rhetorical gobbledygook to the assorted riffraff assembled there while we gained access to the books; whereupon by unanimous decree, they were acknowledged to be free of tinkering, indubitably genuine, unadulterated and accurately rendered, bringing our difficult assessment to a conclusion.

 

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l279/T-Caster/DSC_1236.jpg

 

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l279/T-Caster/DSC_1239.jpg

 

Dan

Edited February 5, 2014 by DanF

[kiavonne]

Great entry, Dan! It really sings! (ahem, pun intended).

 

 

(I wonder if fionafish realizes how many eclectic, eccentric, and colorful people live around her)

[MINItron]

Love the sentence, and your script Dan!

[Apprenti]

Nice penmanship Dan, very consistent

[attika89]

Mine is not the most challenging, but I hope that's okay....

Sunshine comes through the window while I'm drinking my morning coffee along with my kitten on my lap, trying to remember the beautiful years spent in Clackmannanshire when my father was working as a navvy, the difficulties, the disappointment at the end of every month, saying hallelujah for the warm baguette on the dining table, the kaleidoscope I could never get, the lovely beekeeper in our neighbor, all the wonderful memories and the effort grabs my heart that how successfully we could break through and live a life with paparazzis watching, surrounded by our family and rosewood furniture, the antique desk where I'm writing my diary, sending my acknowledgements to my father, remembering him while I'm putting down some words with some Iroshizuku ink on Tomoe River paper, trying to showcase some kind of penmanship.

 

http://www.kephost.com/images4/2014/2/9/a1_2014_2_9_hg29rqydal.jpg

Edited February 9, 2014 by attika89

[Apprenti]

Great handwriting, I like it!

 

Thanks,

Joe

[kiavonne]

Beautiful entry! Very lovely sentiment! Thank you!

[DanF]

Hello again, thanks for the kind comments about my previous entry. Have ben enjoying reading the others, hope there will be more, perhaps some are holding back until closer to the due date.

 

Here is another one that came to me. Like Bokchoy, I found the "phyllophagous -giraffe - guillotine" triad irresistible.

 

Disengaging from the herd, a subgroup of phyllophagous giraffes gazed anxiously at the guillotine, which had appeared inexplicably in the underbrush between the parakeet infested baobab tree and the squabbling hippopotami (ruffians of the Serengeti), who, having just successfully scattered the belligerent buffalo through a vast expanse of daffodils and poppies, now shuffled off to celebrate by quaffing some liquid refreshment from the babbling brook below, when to their amazement there suddenly appeared a prodigious pod of petulant porpoises - gypsies from the Mediterranean - waylaid by an unyielding ebb tide which propelled them irrepressibly toward the African continent, depositing them in the estuary, through which, swimming against the undercurrent, they ascended riffles and all manner of hazards and obstructions, ineluctably arriving at the oxbow near the baobab, where having only minimal depth in which to maneuver, the vacuum created by tails thrashing in the shallows stirred up detritus of the stream bed, until the previously clear water more resembled coffee - effectively causing the disappointed hippos, keen on avoiding the possibility of amoebic dysentery (and it's accompanying diarrhea) to unanimously abandon plans of quenching thirst, in favor of visiting the gullible giraffes, and terrorizing them with unabridged horror stories of the French Revolution.

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l279/T-Caster/DSC_1251.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l279/T-Caster/DSC_1252.jpg

Dan

Edited February 9, 2014 by DanF

[kiavonne]

Ah, those poor giraffes! Thank you, Dan!

[Apprenti]

Ok, I've got to admit, I'd never even heard of Edison before this contest.

 

However, now that I have, I find myself COMPLETELY besotted with the collier! Even if I don't win, thanks for introducing me to these pens Kiavonne. I think I'll have to save up for one if I don't win

[Apprenti]

Dan, you're handwriting is a pleasure to read! Absolutely beautiful, thank you for sharing

[DanF]

Thanks Joe, but I still have a long way to go for the kind consistency found in the manuals.

 

Dan

[kiavonne]

I don't know about you two, Apprenti and DanF, but I have been writing all the sentences submitted. I'm working on just being able to write legibly again. Sometimes it works, sometimes not, but I'm certainly having fun!

 

Apprenti, did you see the new color of the Collier, Blue Steel?

[Apprenti]

I don't know about you two, Apprenti and DanF, but I have been writing all the sentences submitted. I'm working on just being able to write legibly again. Sometimes it works, sometimes not, but I'm certainly having fun!

 

Apprenti, did you see the new color of the Collier, Blue Steel?

I did, it's very pretty!!! I must say, I like all the finishes and I'm not sure which I'd choose if I won!

 

I did try one or two, but I've been very busy with school work recently. It's my final year of GCSEs and I've got my final exams in a couple of weeks, so I haven't had much time for anything!!! Perhaps I'll print off a couple and try them between lessons or something?

 

Dan, your writing's great! It's based on Spencerian, yes? Could I ask a question? When you write, do you have the side of your hand on the table or do you rest on the nails of the 3rd and 4th fingers? I've been told to do the latter but I just can't make it work!!!

 

Thanks again,

Joe

[DanF]

Joe --- I can't either! I have tried the traditional approach, resting the muscle above the elbow on the table and moving from there, but I find I have no control for normal size writing, though it would work ok for larger script, say an inch high or more. What I do is rest the side of my hand on the desk, then try to move it every letter or two to avoid letter crowding. A lot of the action then comes from the wrist rather than fingers alone.

 

The style is derived from Spencerian, generally called Business Writing, there are several good instruction booklets that can be downloaded from IAMPETH, look in the rare books section. Rare Books

 

I tend to use monoline versions of standard Spencerian upper case letters rather than Business upper case, as I just like the older forms better.

 

Dan

Edited February 11, 2014 by DanF

[DanF]

Kiavonne --- Just in writing out my own for posting I'm finding lots of bugaboos to work on.

 

Dan