If you stumble across attractive blooms like these when working your way through dense undergrowth while lost in the forest, turn back. For you see, these flowers are sentinels guarding the local witch’s cottage. If you approach this close, she already knows you are there. Reverse course with all possible haste.
Triffid troops assemble for inspection wearing camouflage headgear. Beneath the earth, their venom-filled bodies stretch out a good ten feet below their attractive lavender and green heads. Venom spray spigots are neatly hidden in the yellow camouflage.
Loon: I’d like to welcome today’s ghost to the 3 question interview. Welcome, ghost. First question – When you ran for president against FDR, what was your favorite meal? Wilkie Collins’ ghost: I never had the honor to run for the office of president of your nation. By no calculation whatsoever was I deemed an […]
Anthony did write a novel while punting on the Thames. His best kick traveled 70 yards in the air.
Anthony Trollope, who wrote short novels during vacations between writing long novels,: a. once considered trimming his beard, but decided it would interfere with writing a novel. b. once wrote a novel while punting on the Thames. c. tried writing two novels simultaneously, one with each hand, found it to be too difficult, and wrote […]
Once upon a time a lackadaisical car dealership owner’s daughter traipsed into the woods hauling her wagon loaded with four 2 gallon jugs of brandy. First she met a wolf who threatened to read tax instructions at her. He was soon placated when the girl shared with him one jug of brandy. Continuing on her […]
Loon: I’m told this gentleman composed music. Mr. Strelinski, was it hard to clean between the piano keys when cracker crumbs got in there? Stravinsky’s ghost: Da, you bet. Even harder was the syrup. Loon: I can imagine. Also, is it true that all musicians like to ski? Stravinsky’s ghost: Da, that’s true. Even better […]
For a run of years there back in the 1920s, Max was the most successful prosecuting attorney in all of Carpathia.
Max: a. didn’t entertain often, but when he did, oh my. b. had a long and lucrative career as a prosecuting attorney. c. originally hailed from Jupiter. d. wrote two novels, but ate them before they could be published. e. really drank a lot of coffee.
Upon a once time there dwelt in a queendom by the sea the loveliest of pinks. And she knew it, flaunted it, snobbed it endlessly up and down the strand. ‘Am I not lovely?’ she cried out to ptarmigans and flying whales cruising by in the sky. She shouted it to a huddle of distant […]
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