Introducing the “Proving Grounds”

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It can be a cold and heartless world out there. Filled with degenerates stealing your bicycles and looting your coffers as you scrape and scrounge for that last morself of non-fat yoghurt in the midst of wide eyed and frantic hooligans. Here at Our Thursday we understand your plight and we want to help. . . . → Read More: Introducing the “Proving Grounds”

Burner vs. Glenn: OMG This Cannot Be Forgotten

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Prompt

You are in a high speed train leaving Paris for Amsterdam. You just had the most intense night of your life and feel lucky to be sitting where you are. You pull out a single piece of paper and a golf pencil, and decide to make a quick note of what happened last . . . → Read More: Burner vs. Glenn: OMG This Cannot Be Forgotten

Sophie vs. Jay: Relevant Capitalism

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On Christmas Eve, two eccentric minds met for the first time and among many other things, this Challenge Blog was birthed. This Challenge Blog also rings in the new year with the first one of it’s kind that does not involve any of the OurThursday authors. So any readers that feel the need to challenge me, their mother, their three legged cat, or neighbor… please send your requests to ollett@gmail.com and I will let you know how this goes down.

The Prompt

In 300 words or less, explain why the  traditional concept of capitalism is no longer relevant or indeed, is relevant.

The Challengers

Sophie – Cantankerous genius who has lived several more lives than the rest of us.

Jay – Intense philosopher of life, finance, and spatial worm holes who is not afraid to shoot someone with a crossbow.

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The Other Side of “The Most Scared I Have Ever Been”

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A year ago I posted a story about The Most Scared I Have Ever Been which recounts a night when I was the victim of an incredible practical joke that could only be compared to a Food and Drug Administration raid on an organic chicken house not giving their constituents enough sunlight and/or over starched chicken feed. Well my story was very one sided, but fortunately one of the “raiders” has been kind enough to send us his version of the story. Thank you so much Joe. (Joe is also infamously known in the first haircut bet.) Please enjoy Joe’s story as much as I did.

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Why My Dad Hates Street Luging

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At the age of 16, my adrenal gland was raging at 170% capacity and was regularly known to spew out the back of my neck. I was the designated bike jump tester, my (mom’s) truck had been to the vertical extreme several times before I crashed into two parked police dirt bikes in the middle of the hills, my face was pocked with copper BB rounds from the eye-protection-free BB gun wars we had behind my house, I almost dropped all my money in semi professional paint balling, surfing, snowboarding, hiking, mountain biking, snow fights, judo, and most pertinent to this story… street luging. Here is how I lost all the skin on the left side of my body.

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For Sale: Ball Breaking Speed. $5000

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And to those who do not have balls to be broken… labial lip flapping velocity. This Suzuki GSXR600 will change you, and anything you choose to put on top of it, into a long stretch of blur as you dart through the endless traffic of life.

Just imagine this rumbling between your legs.

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BRIAN vs LUKE vs DAVE: The Post of Christmas Past

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CHALLENGE

“Thursday Threat” -where we pit author versus author (or in this case author vs. author vs. author) in a challenging game of mesmerizing malarky and wit flavored mumbo jumbo. An author will select a prompt, write a 300 word or barely less response to that prompt (or in this case NOT write one but . . . → Read More: BRIAN vs LUKE vs DAVE: The Post of Christmas Past

Fair Trade Meets Wake Up Coffee Company

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His words were always rife with thought and significance and continue to be so in his current endeavors. From the dearly beloved Charles Pearson who was a past author here at OurThursday…

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Ollett vs Burner : Dark Days

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Welcome to this addition of “Thursday Threat” where we pit author versus author in a challenging game of mesmerizing malarky and wit flavored mumbo jumbo. An author will select a prompt, write a 300 word or less response to that prompt, and then send this bundle to a challenger. The challenger will then be . . . → Read More: Ollett vs Burner : Dark Days

Contest Update – First failure

Thank you everyone who has sent their stories in. Keep them coming for a chance to win some of our fantastic prizes. Click the tongue on the top right of this page for details. I wanted to share a fantastic submission that just did not quite make the cut but I thought worthy to . . . → Read More: Contest Update – First failure

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