When is a Wordzzle not a Wordzzle?
When is a Wordzzle not a Wordzzle?
When it’s a pain in the neck!
And, it’s ALL Chatty’s fault. She opened her big mouth and volunteered to come up with some miscellaneous words for Raven - momentarily forgetting that she, too, would be expected to use those words in a a couple of short short stories.
Yes.
Naturally, Chatty felt honor-bound to contribute a couple of paragraphs, since it was she who had dumped these words on her unsuspecting playmates - but the going wasn’t easy.
However, she persevered, and here’s what she came up with.
The mini-challenge required the use of these words:
Washing machine
Cholesterol
Blatantly
Birdman of Alcatraz
Poltergeist
“Burt glanced up from the miniscule list of “acceptable” foods he’d been studying and realized he should have been paying more attention. So, what else was new? The Laundromat was hardly his favorite place to be – and he was in a lousy mood, anyway. His doctor had told him he had to lose weight and lower his cholesterol immediately, if not sooner. How was he going to do that on his favorite diet of cheeseburgers and fries? Now, some guy with a parrot on his shoulder (who did he think he was, The Birdman of Alcatraz?) was gesticulating wildly, bouncing up and down, and gibbering at him from across the washing machine Burt was using. Plus, someone had either blatantly removed his whites from the dryer while they were still wet, or else there was a poltergeist at work.”
The 10-word challenge required us to use these words (thanks a LOT, Chatty!):
Tattletale
Homogeneous
Flighty
Cornucopia
Plethora
Militant
Lovelorn
Myopic
Digitalized
Mute
“In addition to being flighty and a notorious tattletale, Jessica had a plethora of other faults. In fact, she embodied a veritable cornucopia of sins, both venial and mortal. But Edgar - a myopic and lovelorn dweeb lost in his world of digitalized daydreams wherein he was the militant hero of worlds unknown - stood mute before her beauty, which encompassed that homogeneous all-American ideal of blonde hair, blue eyes, and Barbie-like dimensions. His abiding hope was that someday she might actually deign to speak to him in study hall. With a sigh, he turned away from the many candid shots of Jessica adorning his bedroom walls and toward the 22-inch computer monitor, clicking his mouse to start streaming the latest episode of The Big Bang Theory.”
When it’s a pain in the neck!
And, it’s ALL Chatty’s fault. She opened her big mouth and volunteered to come up with some miscellaneous words for Raven - momentarily forgetting that she, too, would be expected to use those words in a a couple of short short stories.
Yes.
Naturally, Chatty felt honor-bound to contribute a couple of paragraphs, since it was she who had dumped these words on her unsuspecting playmates - but the going wasn’t easy.
However, she persevered, and here’s what she came up with.
The mini-challenge required the use of these words:
Washing machine
Cholesterol
Blatantly
Birdman of Alcatraz
Poltergeist
“Burt glanced up from the miniscule list of “acceptable” foods he’d been studying and realized he should have been paying more attention. So, what else was new? The Laundromat was hardly his favorite place to be – and he was in a lousy mood, anyway. His doctor had told him he had to lose weight and lower his cholesterol immediately, if not sooner. How was he going to do that on his favorite diet of cheeseburgers and fries? Now, some guy with a parrot on his shoulder (who did he think he was, The Birdman of Alcatraz?) was gesticulating wildly, bouncing up and down, and gibbering at him from across the washing machine Burt was using. Plus, someone had either blatantly removed his whites from the dryer while they were still wet, or else there was a poltergeist at work.”
The 10-word challenge required us to use these words (thanks a LOT, Chatty!):
Tattletale
Homogeneous
Flighty
Cornucopia
Plethora
Militant
Lovelorn
Myopic
Digitalized
Mute
“In addition to being flighty and a notorious tattletale, Jessica had a plethora of other faults. In fact, she embodied a veritable cornucopia of sins, both venial and mortal. But Edgar - a myopic and lovelorn dweeb lost in his world of digitalized daydreams wherein he was the militant hero of worlds unknown - stood mute before her beauty, which encompassed that homogeneous all-American ideal of blonde hair, blue eyes, and Barbie-like dimensions. His abiding hope was that someday she might actually deign to speak to him in study hall. With a sigh, he turned away from the many candid shots of Jessica adorning his bedroom walls and toward the 22-inch computer monitor, clicking his mouse to start streaming the latest episode of The Big Bang Theory.”
lovelorn DWEEB?
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Wow! You did great. I had an awful time with these, but there's nothing like a good challenge. My 10-word is horribly long and a political rant. You may enjoy my mega, though. I hope so.
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Hi Chatty,
I think these are great! Both concise - I mean you got all ten words in your first two sentences with that challenge-cool!
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Ah so you're to blame!
I really struggled with the words I have to admit but you did a great job!
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Those are great use of the words. I'm feeling challenged by next weeks words.
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The words may have made you nervous but you did a great job with them.
I really loved the washing machine adventure it seems so plausible. But then the lonely nerd is plausible too.
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Yea... THANKS Chatty! And I'll thank you now for NEXT weeks list too! sheeeeesh! LOL! Challenges are good... I keep telling myself...
Edgar is a little scary! As a matter of fact, Jessica is too! You did great on that 10 word!
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Nicely done; good save. Veritable cornucopia of sins - that was good.
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I love how you picked on yourself in the 3rd person!! I do that all the time
loved your stories!!
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I don't whether to thank you or curse you for this week's words!
Had to shake the cobwebs loose to eek out a couple of stories this week. Still, it was a good challenge.
The nutty experience in the laundromat seems so true to life. Always an experience going into one isn't it?
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I absolutely LOVE the stories you come up with!
Lovelorn dweeb *snort* I think I know him...
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