Quote: Perry Nium @ May 28 2008, 3:28 PM BSTWas he called Guybrush Threepwood?
That's him! His friend Billy, though admittedly spectacularly well endowed, has recently had a bit of a shocker re: garden implements.
Nasty business.
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I hear the woman who lives next door to Billy is up on charges of assault. She's claiming he drew his weapon first, apparently.
Quote: Perry Nium @ May 28 2008, 3:27 PM BSTWise words indeed.
Can I have this as my avatar?
As you can see, Deferenz, life goes on!
Quote: Norton&Wright @ May 28 2008, 3:37 PM BSTThat's him! His friend Billy, though admittedly spectacularly well endowed, has recently had a bit of a shocker re: garden implements.
Nasty business.
Rakes are indeed dangerous implements, especially when embroiled in unlikely rhyming penile / reptile misunderstandings.
I thought it was a reference to Ho's , my mum told me to stay away from those.
Depends on the type of guitar and proximity to the amp I guess. Check out Jimi Hendrix for different styles of feedback. 
Sorry to hear, Vaz. The rejections hurt but it's part of the deal with wanting to succeed in ANY area.
Feedback is different because people are different, that's the nub of it. As has been pointed out, the best have been rejected time and again. If someone doesn't like your work, concentrate on getting the script in front of someone else. At some point it'll find the right person and become a basis for a working relationship (if it's good enough.) It means preparing yourself for extra 'low' days like this but if you want it hard enough then the bumps will make the journey all that more memorable. Who wants success from a can?
As to accomplishments (whether future or present / real or imagined (Jake, do I have to look your way? 
/ derided or applauded ), it helps to remember that no matter how high (or low) we are up the ladder, there are always more rungs above us, going on into infinity. No one reaches the top, they all feel they could have done better. I think even the great writers look back on their lives and think "Yes, but what did I REALLY accomplish?" Think of our careers in this way, and we can then get a sense of perspective (and the desirable but often cast-aside humility) that we'll need at the higher end of the ladder.
It is an accomplishment for us to each day pick up our pen and return to our work and push it that little further.
Yeah like SlagA says, it's getting your script to the right person. One of my sitcom scripts was, to put it bluntly, ripped apart by Screenplay Productions, yet John Hill at Baby Cow found it genuinely funny with lots of positive aspects, it still had negatives which stopped it from going any further, but the point was what one person found unfunny someone else found funny.
And it goes for the actual top dogs of comedy to. There was a point where Seinfeld wasn't even going to get a series because a fair few people at NBC just didn't get the script or find it funny, but one producer really loved it and battled for it to get made and it became the biggest sitcom in America and one of the best sitcoms in the world ever.
The Office also went through stages of been turned down I think, and in the end Gervais and Merchant filmed a pilot themselves and it got commissioned off of that.
I agree with many of the comments already made here. I have had material broadcast that others have passed on. I have also been mauled and it hurts.
Don't get down about it when you get the proverbial kick in the nuts. Sure it hurts and that's understandable. But Look at anything comedic. On this site alone you'll find Gervais fans (self included)and those who think he's cack. I can't imagine he and Merchant thought about binning early drafts of the Office though.
Just blast on with what *you* think is good. As long as it's well written or at least has strong ideas or gags then it will sink or swim on its own merits. Some's gonna like it and some's gonna holler "Shee-yitt George that dang thang sure is a Turkey!!!!!"
And as SlagA says. Nobody ever gets to the top. I always remember hearing about the classical guitarist Segovia (yer carpet) who at a very advanced age told an interviewer that he thought he was making progress as a player!
It's also important to not lose sight of the fact that we're all gonna die someday.
I'm not, actually.
Quote: oldcowgrazing @ May 28 2008, 7:01 PM BSTIt's also important to not lose sight of the fact that we're all gonna die someday.
F**king hell. 
Quote: oldcowgrazing @ May 28 2008, 7:01 PM BSTIt's also important to not lose sight of the fact that we're all gonna die someday.
A promising career as a motivational speaker beckons if the writing bombs out
You're only just reaching 1000 posts Blenky and you joined the site when it first started. What does this say about me? What does it say about Aaron?!