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M wrote: "These are excellent, Guy and Ryan! Guy’s “five toes too far” sounds like a good title for a war movie."LOL! I know you said this a while back (#2745) but I didn't notice it before and couldn't stop laughing!
Thank you, CJ!With stewed fushigi,
the lentils work to enhance
coincidentals.
Kat, I think yours (#3022) is one of the best ones I’ve read (“I'll take my hobbit / raw and wriggling . . .”). What a way with words!
Orcs will take hobbitlegs if the dwarves don't take
the black chicken eggs.
How quickly the plotthickens! Just add fushigi
and blackened chickens.
Kat's @ 3062 reminds me of an old triptych Jessica wrote!1062 (that's funny and amazing, exactly 2k posts ago!)Okay, here's my besotted effort:
Remember when he
crawled into a butcher's shop
and said, "I hear God"?
Remember when they
tied him up and put him through
the sausage machine?
And fed the whale with
his end bits, the ones that writhed
like belly dancers?
How the heart quickens!
Drunken hobbit with Dickens'
chicken intestines.
@3071. Ryan, very funny! And M and Stephanie, RotFL. These really do bring a smile to my face. LoL!And Kat, in case you missed it, my comparing you to Jessica is just about as high a praise as I'm able to give!
Thank you, Guy. And right back at you!Twisted tale of two
city hobbits. With great hearts,
great expectations.
Thanks Guy *huggle*Of becoming a
Count, these hobbits dreamed; the Counts
of Gondor Mordor.
A marvelous string of haiku, everyone! Love it. With great expectations, comes
hard times. When the orcs
arrive, the Sting's all blue.
Oops, sorry Kat. Mine's not related at all. As always, I was typing at a snail's pace in response to Ryan's haiku and missed out.
You're fine Ajay :D I like it.Gandalf summoned to
his side a battalion of
Greek Olympians.
Muttering under
his breath, Smeagol slunk away
with his hobbit's leg.
:) Thanks, Kat. Poor Smeagol, he's always muttering around. Very well done!
*In a series of
unfortunate events, the
band of fighters ran
to a little house
on the prairie, only to
be taken over
by the dark of the
moon, a gaggle of cave trolls
and a large Balrog.
Brilliant, Kat! Wow. Can someone think and write this fast :) I guess only Alex can match you.
I'm sure Alex can do much better than I. XD But thank you Ajay. HUGGLE
LoL! Kat, Ryan, Ajay! I go away for a few minutes and you explode into paroxysms of clever wit and laughter. These are so clever and well constructed. Excellent!Where went the Waltons
There went Smeagol muttering
Like a shrunk John Boy.
Thanks, Guy! You pave the way, we just follow :) Wow, that is perfect! :) Kat, both of you are wonderful! Geniuses in your own unique ways!
Where went the cave trollsThere went the sad old farm house
Blown to see the Oz.
Ryan, the wizard from Ozdoesn't mince with words and
is a Gandalf with a guitar.
Guy, the wizard from C,
weaves magic with words and
is a Baggins yet a Czar.
Sorry if this is inappropriate in even the slightest way! In my defense, I'm a bit sleepy and high on coffee.
RotFL! Still laughing! Ajay, I am sure these are highly inappropriate, but HC, so funny! And talk about being quick!
So funny, Ajay! I'm dying to fire one back but, sadly, am walking out the door to work :(
Ajay the Rajahdances his words as fast as
Bollywood stars.
Ajay's magic penflies us over the rainbow.
A ruby slipper.
:) Hahahha. God, that is funny, Guy! And sorry once again, your's is wonderful. How I wish to be a Rajah! Ryan, I'l be waiting for your shot as well!
Wow, Ryan! Thank you! I'm honored! (How and why am I always posting so late.)
Thank you Ajay! And as to being a Rajah, lots of negatives with the positives.
You are spot on, Guy! I would have to master all the 64 divine arts perceived to be of importance. Quite a task for someone who is as lazy as me. Lol.
Somewhere over therainbow, Glamdring, Van Halen,
and Sting have turned blue,
and Dickens’ chickens’
intestines are a Church’s
hit. Try them. They’re new!
Hello Al and M. Yes, these are very VERY funny!That last one M, is just a shade above brilliant!
The old leprechaun
colourblind and almost deaf
played a mean pin-ball.
Below the rainbow,
he was known as the wizard
who out-scored Smeagol.
Thank you, Guy! Yours will be fun to follow.Rich with gold from his
treasure-crocks, he laughed and shook
his long silver locks,
this jaunty, jacketed,
leprechaun, as the jukebox
turned some Elton John.
LoL! The bohemian
was mesmerized by Freddy
the rhapsodized;
The teenage idol
was eulogized by The Who
being demonized.
Hello, Guy! I’m puzzling over the Freddy reference. All I can think of is Freddy Martin.
Sound the fog horn! I’m slow. It can be none other than Freddy the Leprechaun, since he’s the one being rhapsodized.Freddy pulled out a
hankerchief. “If you don’t want
to cry like I do,”
he looked through red eyes,
with a long sniff, “Keep away
from Runaround Sue!
LoL! Again, so funny.And I love that image for Freddy, but in my mind it was Freddy Mercury of Queen and just a slight reference to Freddy Krueger of the Elm Street Nightmare movie franchise. The bohemian is the unexpected Queen hit, Bohemian Rhapsody, about a man on death row. And, of course, Teenage Idol is the song I'm Gonna be a Teenage Idol on the very early Elton John LP Don't Shoot Me, I'm only the Piano Player.
Can the truth be readin the eyes of dead Fred
at the rainbow's head?
Or in the last pause
between Toto's land of Oz
and the first because?
Wow! It is like watching two masters fencing. So very clever and extremely funny. Well done :)
Hello and thank you Ryan and Kat. These have been fun to write. Jump in!
Guy wrote:"Or in the last pause
between Toto's land of Oz
and the first because?"
Fantastic phrase, Guy! This is brilliant writing!
Secreted insidesuch a pause, empires rise
and fall. Eons pass.
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tastes fine. I like Fushigi
with my glass of wine.