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Joe believed his "challenge" was not to appear neither "goofy" or "stale", and the more agitated he got, the more his voice reached into a "soprano" range. Meanwhile, not to be outdone, the "intractable" Elaine & Val schemed to get in on the action.Spring
Beep-beep
Stink-rats
Stagnant
Jurisdiction
"Look at the Spring coats!" Val exclaimed. "Honey, this is Hawaii," Elaine drily said. "Beep-beep!" beeped April, running up to them. Sheila, following in a more adult sashay, was running her hands through the hanging leather jackets as April and she ran up up to Val and Elaine. "Where's T?" asked Sheila. Val shrugged. Elaine said, "She said something about feeling stagnant and going to see the stink-rats." "They have zoos in Hawaii?" April said plaintively, thinking of the caged cats. Everyone immediately began patting April's back. They all recognized that tone. "What a great idea, actually," Sheila said. "It should be in The Bus's jurisdiction." "Let's go!" enthused April, swirling her calico coat. "Aren't you hot in that?" asked Val. "Always," purred April, winking.Production
Prurient
Pocahontas
Poppies
Puppies
T detoured to play with the PUPPIES, plucking POPPIES along the way for the PRURIENT April, who was intent on making a huge PRODUCTION of "POCAHANTAS Does Hawaii" while the other gal pals only had eyes for our boy Joe.Delirium
Sashay
Salient
Batard
Sniffle
"Deliruim" set in when Cam decided to "salient" over the tiger enclosure at the zoo. She started to "sashay" over to the tiger named "Batard" and yelled something undecipherable. Cam started to "sniffle" because she was allergic to cats. Unfortunately she remembered that a little too late. Deplorable
Favorable
Indistinct
Ecstatic
Baguette
Poor Cam, whose allergies put her into a DEPLORABLE state, much less FAVORABLE and far less ECSTATIC she would be cavorting with the rest of the Fems, who now appeared INDISTINCT due to her allergy eyes....Cam missed Ms Sheila making off with her BAGUETTE - diamond, that is, not bread loaf!Snitch
Pokey
Alibi
Maserati
Shamus
Joe had to visit the local "pokey" to bail out Val who was picked up for doing 120 in a 20 mph zone. "Well, whadah expect "Shamus"?" she complained to Joe. "How would you drive a "Maserati"?" Just then all the other Fems appeared. T wanted to know where the fancy car came from. All the Fems did. Cam mentioned the theft at the Maserati dealership but Val insisted she had an "alibi". " I was scrapbooking with that little "snitch" who lives down the block from the police station," she said suspiciously. Innocent
pearl
clean
fork
ridiculous
Val, tried desperately to appear as CLEAN and INNOCENT as a cultured PEARL, but good ol' April was on to her and yelled "Oh put a FORK in it, Val, that's RIDICULOUS".Simper
Stout
Corrupt
Stinger
Scorpio
Val, laughing loudly at T's humor, confessed she had been taken advantage of by a CORRUPT police officer and had gone joy riding. Joe impatiently and returned to business. "SCORPIO is escaping as we speak. We must not fall prey to his STINGER again." The Fems, reorganized themselves and entered the closest pub for a pint of STOUT. April, spotting a man who resembled Scorpio, slithered over and in a SIMPER said "Hi, good looking."broccoli
machine gun
moll
boiling
tissue
Unbeknowst to our vamp April, she had BROCCOLI stuck in her teeth, which kinda ruined the image of a BOILING hot MOLL with a MACHINE GUN, and a TISSUE tucked into her ample cleavage, as she struck a pose.Mortified
Mordecai
Maximum
Meekly
Moribund
Scorpio decided to take April to his hideout since her sign was also Scorpio. The others followed "meekly" in a old beat-up car. The "maximum" speed was 45 so they hoped they wouldn't be "mortified" by losing them. Inside the hideout Scorpio had his arch enemy "Mordecai" laying "moribund"on the floor.Altruistic
Ectoplasm
Lethargy
Animal
Flotsam
Joe was kinda ALTRUISTIC, but only sometimes. Too often his LETHARGY got in the way and like ECTOPLASM, he just kinda bobbed along the sea of life like FLOTSAM instead of the ANIMAL he could be when he was free of those darned drugs.Simplistic
Sorry
Single
Sanguine
Simpering
Joe, tuning in his altruistic nature, decided he would go for a SINGLE day clean of drugs and booze so that he could rescue April who was SORRY that she had tried SIMPERING since it got her into such a difficult situation. "Things are not looking SANGUINE" she thought to herself, looking around the hideout. "Not to be too SIMPLISTIC" she thought, "I am in a bit of a spot". Mordecai was so hideously ugly even in his sad state that she didn't feel like turning him into an ally.teeming
teeth
tarantula
titmouse
Toronto
The Fems, drunk, showed up at Scorpio's hideout. They had asked the bartender where his hideout was. Bartenders know everything. Finding Mordecai on the floor, they asked him if he'd seen Scorpio and April. "You simplistic, sorry, simpering bimbos! Can't you see I'm tied up and need help?" "Sorry," mumbled Elaine, "I'm havin' some problems seeing at all." The Fems tittered. Val lost her balance, knocked into T, who grabbed Sheila, who stumbled into Cam, who fell, and they suddenly were all on the floor, except Elaine. A door slammed open. "Have you gone stupid, Mordicai? Keep it down or I'll take care of you now!" yelled Scorpio. Seeing the girls, he gulped. April pushed past him. She smiled. "Heeeey! Now we can party! Scorpio was going to show me something he calls his S and M collection, but now that we are all here, let's go and see a show!" Seeing the tied up man under all of the girls, "Honestly, T, now is not the time to show off your cow wrangling! We all know you can hog tie!" Elaine looked sanguine, happy to be still standing. Eliminate
Revulsion
Embellish
Supplement
Chickens
T, being the P.I.T.A that she is, looked at Mordecai & Scorpio with total REVULSION and decided to ELIMINATE both of them and SUPPLEMENT the Fem team with a Cheshire cat who had a special talent that would EMBELLISH the tales and tails of our cheery team, quite bawdily, I might add, so CHICKENS beware!Finagle
Flick
Forward
Feline
Fortitude
With fortitude ELaine and the feline cat untied the knots and set everyone free. With a flick of a switch the doors unlocked and as Shelia yelled to move forward, everyone ran for safety. How can I finagle people to return cried April.Many
Shouted
Goats
Gaudy
Pearls
Not to be outdone, poor old Joe attempted to herd his Fems as if they were GOATS, and SHOUTED at them to get their GAUDY butts (goats, head butts, get it?) away from the MANY innocent bystander-tourists, muttering something about casting PEARLS before swine, but wait, he thought they were more like goats....Poor confused Joe.Jinx
Jalopy
Jordache
Jiminy Cricket
Jail
"Unless you want to end up in "jail" you better be quick as "Jiminy Cricket" and move your "Jordache" butts", Joe yelled. They jumped into their "jalopy" and got out of the area as quickly as possible. I really do believe Sheila is a "jinx" the others thought. Organize
Game
Refill
Indiana Jones
Costco
Joe, nattily attired in his INDIANA JONES outfit that he bought at COSTCO, decided to ORGANIZE the Fems so they could win the GAME. "You want me to win, I'll need a REFILL" T slurred.
Licorice
Treaty
Mystery
Jaded
Fern
To break the crazy "treaty" everyone played who could eat the most "licorice" game. Fern won and received the "mystery" book of the dead "jaded" fool.Rings
Choke
Cigar
Memorial
Angry
April lit up a CIGAR and started to blow smoke RINGS, while the others got ANGRY or was it JEALOUS as they started to CHOKE on the smoke, or maybe it was the artichoke CHOKE that caused them to suffer....No matter, it being MEMORIAL day, they all whipped out a few smart salutes as they staggered in search of clean air.Ginger
Gorgeous
Gladioli
Garrulous
Granite
Out on the hotel balcony, once they stopped coughing, they heard a military band 15 stories below on the beach. "Look, they must be having Memorial Day celebrations! Let's go see," said Val. The gorgeous gang ran back into the room and changed into bathing suits. "Here," said April. "Let's put some of these gladioli into our hair." The Fems stared with eyes of granite. "All right, I didn't know a cigar would put ginger in your snaps," she said glumly, putting the cigar out. As they headed for the elevator, they ran into Joe, still in his Jones suit. "you're all garrulous! What's shaking?" he said staring at their skimpy bikinis. Tequila
Valuable
Appendix
Generations
Shiver
April's bikini showed her "appendix" scar that she covered up with a Donald Duck tattoo. She started to "shiver" so she took another healthy swig of "tequila". Walking around in bikinis and drinking probably isn't the most "valuable" lessons to hand down to the upcoming "generations". Unbound
Cola
Blast
Hunger
Whether
UNBOUND from her keepers, April switched to COLA, hoping to dilute the tequila in her system. WHETHER or not that worked, we'll never know as just then a BLAST of wind from the flatulent Joe (yep, *that* kind of wind!) knocked the HUNGER right out of her and left her heaving all the alcohol out of her system.Costco
Carrion
Caribou
Cartel
Capybara
April, now looking like a cross between a CAPYBARA and a CARIBOU, asked Joe what the plan was. "We're off to COSTCO. I heard the CARTEL is smuggling some CARRION and making the drop there."Liquid
Electronics
Giant
Display
Clerk
The "clerk" stopped the group from coming closer to the "giant" "electronics" "display". "Dont even think about bringing that cola over here. You should know that "liquid" and electronics don't go together."Aghast
Straw
Balloon
Disappointment
Kiss
AGHAST at the warning, our gal April blew her STRAW filled with cola at the clerk and used her smoldering stogie to pop the BALLOON attached to the display. She blew the clerk a KISS as the other Fems pulled her away, much to her great DISAPPOINTMENT.Lemur
Listopia
Leavening
Leavenworth
Lederhosen
Joe muttered, "you're going to end up in Leavenworth," to April. "Nice place, if you know where to go," she smiled. As the Fems stared, silent for the first time since entering Costco and T contemplated being agent on that book again, Joe exclaimed, "Look! A lemur! I think we should follow it!" Sheila pulled up her lederhosen (she was the Vogue fashion horse and instincts told her they were perfect with bikinis), and Elaine got on her cell to make a new entry on her Listopia list for odd animals that wandered into our build-a-story. Val cryptically says, "The plot is leavening," as all raced after the frightened creature. Joe, ever mysterious, screamed, "it's the key to everything!". "oh, gods," puffed April, a little bit handicapped by her cigar habit.Roughage
Roughneck
Roughhouse
Roughshod
Rough trade (I like that, is it allowed?)
T decided she better stop and get some ROUGHAGE for Joe, who was appearing to be constipated of thought, while he tried to ROUGHHOUSE with the Costco ROUGHNECK who was trying to prevent cutters in line and was running ROUGHSHOD over the Fems. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, er Costco aisle, our gal April Meow was contemplating which kind of ROUGH TRADE she actually liked better - the British record lable or the line of kinky gear or what happens when there is a riot on the financial trading floors.Walrus
Weasel
Wieners
Whip
Wallflower
Joe reminded April that even though Leavenworth is famous for their "weiners", it is important to know what kind of meat they use. "Weasel" and a "walrus" have been know to end up in a bun. In order not to be a "wallflower" Cam decided to take out her "whip" and enjoy the party.Classic
Glorious
Aisle
Samples
Pallets
Joe, returning to the AISLE that the Fems occupied, spied the brownie SAMPLES and stuffed 5 into his mouth at once. "Well, isn't that just CLASSIC," Cam muttered. Sheila, looking GLORIOUS in her Vogueness, climbed on top of one of the pickle PALLETS and began singing God Bless America.romaine
dice
lusty
livid
uncomfortable
Joe would rather have "lusty" beef stew but settled for the brownies and some romaine lettuce and dice potatoes. Shelia was uncomfortable standing on the pallets since she was barefoot and jumped off them causing flying pickles.Brave
Boast
Remember
Picture
Assault
Sheila thought she was mega-BRAVE and wanted to BOAST about the ASSAULT she launched with a landscape PICTURE of Howdy Doody in each hand, but she couldn't REMEMBER why she was fighting in the first place and decided the brownies looked much better and required less thinking.Halitosis
Hallway
Hiccup
Herpes
Hermaphrodite
The Costco manager ran over to the gang, his face purple. "you will pay for everything you are devouring! Now!" he screamed. April's hiccup halted in mid-hic, waved her hand and backed up so fast she fell over T. "Whoa! The halitosis! Omg, there goes my stomach..." T quickly pushed April off her and everyone retreated 5 feet. Then, Joe noticing all eyes were on the bikinied form and especially the tattooed duck dancing on April's stomach with each heave, tapped the other girls on the shoulder and indicated a quiet getaway was in order. They spotted a hallway with the word Exit. "You hermaphrodite!" April hollered, finally. Then she spotted the gang leaving. Thinking quickly, since she'd emptied her stomach of alcohol, she yelled, "Your fly is open! Omg! You've got herpes!". The manager looked down in horror. April, laughing so hard her duck started doing the moonwalk, quickly followed the others.Psychoanalysis
Post traumatic
Psychedelic
Psychopathic
Psychobabble
T was thinking what would happen if they all landed in the pokey....Joe could claim POST TRAUMATIC STRESS, well and PSYCHEDELIC thoughts as well....T wanted to claim PSYCHOPATHIC tendencies, which left PSYCHOBABBLE to April who was prattling on and Cam was providing the PSYCHOANALYSIS as the relatively sane one, with help from Sheila & Val....Did T forget anyone?Yaks
Yelling
Yippee
Y-incision
Y-chromosome
Elaine was yelling something from the car. "What?" asked T, engrossed in her thoughts of brain issues. "I think she said her Y-incision was not sewed up right," giggled April. "Do you have an extra Y-chromosome, or something?" sighed Joe. "Let's get over there. That manager will be coming after us.". The girls hustled after him, then quickly climbed into the car. "Watch the cat!" said Elaine. April picked up the cat in the box on the seat before sitting down. "Yippee! It's glowing in the dark! It's a glowcat! Where did you get it!" Elaine snorted. "While all of you were goofing around, I went to the meet at Yaks, the nightclub, and met the contact. He had stolen the cat from the super secret government lab in Honolulu." Joe stared. "But I had the money. What did you pay him off with?" he asked. Elaine blushed. Nervous
Retreated
Coroner
Expansion
Unsupported
"Let's move now!" screamed April. "I am nervous thinking about the coroner who will pack away our sorry butts if we don't get on the next plane out of here" The Fems decided not to argue with April's unsupported claims as she had been right once before and her breath was rancid. "The company is due for expansion," Joe said cryptically, before he retreated into his latest romance novel. superglue
president
waffle
torture
kleenex
April had moved on to her next plan and seemed to WAFFLE between SUPERGLUE on the PRESIDENT versus KLEENEX TORTURE. Sigh, our boy Joe and our gal APRIL, what a pair.Vocabulary
Vocalist
Visceral
Vantage
Vertical
Joe, had a visceral reaction to the vocalist who lilting on the car radio. Part of his anatomy had a vertical tilt. April, in her usual off color vocabulary, spat out an uncomplimentary phrase at the driver in the car behind them. From Val's vantage point, it seemed like they were being hotly pursued by a vintage Bentley.
sophisticatednonchalant
charming
grotesque
clock
"Charming," said Val, "We have a tail. Elaine, he must have picked you up after stealing the cat." Joe made a grotesque face, then panted. April, recognizing the expression with her sophisticated and convoluted history, moved to the door, looking disgusted. T, a touch more innocent about life and such, asked Joe what was wrong. "Nothing," he said, a bit too nonchalant. "I am really enjoying this music." Sheila looked at the clock. "We can't make that plane with a tail and an undeclared cat. We've got to try the hills and lose him." "oh, good," purred April. I love active volcanoes. Can we head there?" Elaine sighed. "Let someone sane talk now, sweet, ok? Pet the kitty. Good girl." Joe cleared his throat. "Let's go to the Macadamia Nut Farm."Zany
Zipped
Zeal
Zebra
Zenith
They ZIPPED their way to the Nut Farm, all right...The ZANY nut farm at the ZENITH of the Islands....With great ZEAL, April thought how fun to dress as the natives in ZEBRA stripes and blend right in with the nutjobs.Splinter
Spill
Spit
Spock
Snicket
Joe careened to a stop at the nut house. A wiry man carrying a pitcher of water that he was trying not to SPILL sauntered over to the car. "SNICKET, Lemony. At your service," he announced. April, who had been SPIT on by the cat and was in a bad mood, thought that Lemony looked a lot like SPOCK. She saluted him with a vee sign. T, deciding that the man was with a SPLINTER spy group, stuffed the cat up her shirt in order to hide it. pain
chuckle
threat
lopsided
popsicle
With a CHUCKLE, T felt a tad LOPSIDED with GlowKat under her shirt, if only she could place GlowKat to enhance her portly figure....Alas, GlowKat's nails were bringing a serious THREAT of PAIN. Perhaps a POPSICLE for both GlowKat and T would reduce the discomfort...nah, give T a Scotch instead...Sphinx
Sphincter
Sphere
Sitz bath
Stern
Strange things seem to be happening at the "Sphere" hotel. In the lobby a "Sphinx" was sitting in a "sitz bath" with a "stern" look on his face. Let's just hope Joe's "sphincter" is strong considering he is rolling around on the floor laughing.Ability
Boast
Crooning
Dill Pickle
Equality
The cat decided T was really a nice soft hiding place and warm too so it began to glow with talented ability. Lemony, seeing T's chest suddenly illuminate, fainted. T crooned to the cat because she felt rather special. Joe couldn't control that sphincter finally. April asked, "Funny, does that smell like a Dill pickle to you? I thought nuts smelt better than that." Sheila felt a boast coming, since she knew her nuts, but decided for equality rather displaying superior knowledge and stifled herself. Besides when it came to nuts perhaps April DID know something. Elaine, who was perhaps a tad more brighter than the rest, kicked Joe carefully above the waist. "oooooooh, you sodding wanker!" she exclaimed. Joe said a bit soggily, "Help me get over to that pond and I'll take Leminy's pants. Just then, that cool car stopped, and a handsome blond muscular man stepped out. "Dibs!" screamed April.Ibis
Intense
Icebreaker
Identical
Idolatry
The handsome blond man turned out to be April's ex-husband. He had a look of "intense" anger in his eyes and looked exactly like his "identical" twin who was known to be the recently convicted serial killer.For an "icebreaker" April offered him an "ibis" she was holding in her hands. As April handed him the ibis, he cried "Idolatry", which didn't make any sense but April knew that craziness ran in his family.
wig
fig
dig
antiestablishmentarianism
lighter
In the excitement, April's WIG flew off and hit a FIG tree. April felt the need to get a DIG in on the killer twin and reported to her ex- that his brother was so dumb that he said ANTIESTABLISMENTARIANISM instead of antidisestablishmentarianimsm. At which the physically killer handsome twin, as opposed to the serial killer twin, flicked his LIGHTER in April's general direction.Kindle
Singapore
Masochist
Belly dancer
Sea lion
"Hold On!" shouted Joe. "I might be a MASOCHIST BELLY DANCER (you never saw that coming!) but I would give my new KINDLE to stop this nonsense and return to the earlier problem -- what to do with the cat and why do I smell like SEA LION?" One of the Fems (you guess) stepped forward and said " We are needed in SINGAPORE!".nonsense
smoothly
young
strange
jejt
All the characters in this story are becoming "strange" and speaking of "nonsense", but that is what makes reading a fun escape from reality.The sentences "smoothly" follow one another. In the meantime all the Fems (both "young" and old) whoever they are, boarded the "jet" to Singapore for more strange and exciting adventures.
peace
world
freedom
roses
sunshine
Challenge
Goofy
Stale
Soprano
Intractable