Game 5, Book 4 Results
I'm sorry this is late. I had this post all squared away by 10:30 last night, and I went to post it and LiveJournal wouldn't let me. And then it wouldn't let me an hour later. Then two hours later. I finally gave up, so here we are.
The real first line of The Firm:
2. The senior partner studied the resume for the hundredth time and again found nothing he disliked about Mitchell Y. McDeere, at least not on paper.
1. As Mitch reviewed the brief for the fourth time that night, he felt his brain glaze over.
-written by: sammywol
3. Surprising as it might seem, music nostalgia is far from the largest area of business activity in Memphis.
-written by: alextiefling
-picked by: spookycat50
4. Finally, the years of sacrifice had paid off.
-written by: a_d_medievalist
5. A junior associate at a typical law firm generally puts in around one hundred hours of work each week for the first three years of his career.
-written by: jeffr23
-picked by: zoje_george, majea, pisica, dorianegray, and tsukata
6. The plain business envelope gave no hint that its contents were about to change Mitch McDeere's life forever.
-written by: dorianegray
7. Washing dishes paid the rent.
-written by: tsukata
8. It was going to be another difficult afternoon.
-written by: spookycat50
9. Mitch knew that Memphis was a wonderful place to raise his family, but it was turning out to be a horrible place to be a lawyer.
-written by: majea
10. The day after Mitch McDeere graduated from Harvard, he found an envelope in his mailbox.
-written by: pisica
-picked by: daegaer, a_d_medievalist, sammywol, and jeffr23
Points this round:
jeffr23: 5
pisica: 4
alextiefling: 1
sammywol: 0
a_d_medievalist: 0
dorianegray: 0
spookycat50: 0
majea: 0
tsukata: 0
Cumulative points:
pisica: 9
jeffr23: 8
spookycat50: 5
majea: 5
alextiefling: 5
a_d_medievalist: 4
tsukata: 4
daegaer: 3
sammywol: 2
nhw: 1
wonderlanded: 1
zoje_george: 0
dorianegray: 0
braisedbywolves: 0
The real first line of The Firm:
2. The senior partner studied the resume for the hundredth time and again found nothing he disliked about Mitchell Y. McDeere, at least not on paper.
1. As Mitch reviewed the brief for the fourth time that night, he felt his brain glaze over.
-written by: sammywol
3. Surprising as it might seem, music nostalgia is far from the largest area of business activity in Memphis.
-written by: alextiefling
-picked by: spookycat50
4. Finally, the years of sacrifice had paid off.
-written by: a_d_medievalist
5. A junior associate at a typical law firm generally puts in around one hundred hours of work each week for the first three years of his career.
-written by: jeffr23
-picked by: zoje_george, majea, pisica, dorianegray, and tsukata
6. The plain business envelope gave no hint that its contents were about to change Mitch McDeere's life forever.
-written by: dorianegray
7. Washing dishes paid the rent.
-written by: tsukata
8. It was going to be another difficult afternoon.
-written by: spookycat50
9. Mitch knew that Memphis was a wonderful place to raise his family, but it was turning out to be a horrible place to be a lawyer.
-written by: majea
10. The day after Mitch McDeere graduated from Harvard, he found an envelope in his mailbox.
-written by: pisica
-picked by: daegaer, a_d_medievalist, sammywol, and jeffr23
Points this round:
jeffr23: 5
pisica: 4
alextiefling: 1
sammywol: 0
a_d_medievalist: 0
dorianegray: 0
spookycat50: 0
majea: 0
tsukata: 0
Cumulative points:
pisica: 9
jeffr23: 8
spookycat50: 5
majea: 5
alextiefling: 5
a_d_medievalist: 4
tsukata: 4
daegaer: 3
sammywol: 2
nhw: 1
wonderlanded: 1
zoje_george: 0
dorianegray: 0
braisedbywolves: 0