PROBLEMS
willful ignorance
religion
greed
Robin is taken aback because he had been under the impression that the aurochs was extinct.
Here is Robin:
a. about to collapse after a remarkably coordinated cluster of arrows has entered his upper torso from the rear.
b. realizing the hat, instead of flattering, is way ridiculous.
c. stopped in his tracks by the sight of Friar Tuck cavorting with a goat, a cat, and an albino aurochs.
d. trying to calculate in his head the speed of light.
Well, to tell the truth, Ida Lupino if I’d thought of it sooner.
The display of jewels twinkled on top of the square cut board. The baker’s assistant nervously shifted her weight from foot to foot. And why not? She had won the right to select one jewel by winning the hopping race, outstripping by a good margin all the other assistants in the flung far and wide queendom. The Queen tapped her shiny green shoe impatiently against the marble floor.
‘Well,’ she said, rolling her eyes, ‘make a decision. I haven’t got all day. Queens have duties, you know, some even more important than this, if you can believe it.’
The Queen was a sarcastic Queen, but her subjects didn’t care as long as she remained beautiful.
‘I wonder…’ said the baker’s assistant, her hands writhing and twisting, one in the other.
‘What? You wonder what?’ asked the impatient Queen.
‘Could I have the board instead? It would make such a splendid surface for kneading,’ said the baker’s assistant in a rush of words.
The Queen snorted slightly and side-eyed the wall.
‘Make it so,’ she decreed, and stepped briskly out of the grand hall, throngs bowing as she passed by.
And that is how the baker’s assistant came to possess the finest breadboard in all the flung far and wide queendom.
Loon: The Lords of the 4th Dimension have produced for this week’s 3 Question Interview Robin Hood, a man who needs no introduction. And so, without further ado, I introduce him as a raconteur and archery diva with the first question. Mr. Hood, in the olden days of which you are a member, who held the world record for the 100 yard dash?
Robin Hood’s Ghost: I can assure you that it wasn’t Friar Tuck.
Loon: That wasn’t the question. Who was it?
Robin Hood’s Ghost: I admit I do not know, and furthermore, do not care.
Loon: Finally, did you ever construct a tambourine and play it by banging it on your head?
Robin Hood’s Ghost: Yes.
Loon: Thank you and good-bye.
(Loon bows. Robin raises bow and selects an arrow from his quiver, pauses, decides not to shoot Loon. Disappears instead.)
Einstein Gandhi Edwards, sandwich maker, couldn’t help but wonder if his parents, both killed in a publishing accident, would have been disappointed in his chosen profession.
Sadly, he wasn’t rich.
Darius was unsuccessful dating because:
a. no maiden was ever impressed by his ability to type 100 words a minute with his proboscis.
b. he wasn’t rich.
c. although everything about him was problematical, the eyes took it over the top.
d. he mistakenly thought he was a small tractor.