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Saturday 6 September 2008

Saturday Wordzzle # 29



The idea is, every week Raven (View From A Raven's Nest) gives you between 8 and 10 words/phrases and you have to create a small but coherent paragraph using every one of them and the same with the mini challenge. You can do either, both or a megawordzzle using all the words, or even all three, it's up to you, you can post them on your blog or email them to Raven. If you join in go to Raven's and put your name on the Mr. Linky so other participants can come visit you.



Here are my efforts - complete with my doodles.


This Week's Ten Word Challenge is: invincible, falling leaves, two-year-old, fusion, grizzly bear, Jamaica, delivery, popsicle stick, caviar, lap-top




Jane’s two year old, Amy, was like a grizzly bear today. Jane had tried bribing her and it worked for a while, but now Amy was crying again holding the empty popsicle stick aloft. Jane had just taken delivery of her new lap-top and was trying to book a holiday online in Jamaica, as a surprise for her husband, Marvin The Invincible, a DJ who played fusion music in the nightclub ‘Falling Leaves’. Nibbling on a biscuit piled high with caviar, Jane decided to abandon the search for a holiday and take Amy to the park to shut her up.



And for the Mini Challenge: toad stool, liquid lunch, counting sheep, manacles, Jurassic Park




Bronto Sauras sat on the giant toad stool in Jurrasic Park. He was counting sheep and trying not to think about not being able to eat them because he was in manacles and couldn't reach them. He was making do with a liquid lunch of frog spawn today.



Megawordzzle



Jamaica Fusion, the famous palaeontologist, was enjoying a liquid lunch when the call came. This was the invitation he’d been waiting for, a chance to excavate the prehistoric remains that had been discovered in British Columbia, home of the Grizzly Bear.



Sitting on the plane he booted up his lap-top, he didn't want to watch the movie that was showing, Jurassic Park was just a load of crap as far as he was concerned. He perused the information he’d been sent online, the find looked fascinating, he couldn’t wait to get started. There was just him and a woman in a seat across the aisle in business class, but thankfully she was counting sheep so he was able to work quietly. The woman stirred as delivery of the in-flight meal was imminent and he placed his lap top on the next seat.



The lunch was a gourmet meal, as he was travelling business class, caviar, filet mignon, wild mushrooms, seasonal vegetables, followed by tiramisu, cheese and biscuits and of course champagne. During the meal the woman introduced herself as Wynona Cartwright, the mother of a two-year old, travelling to visit her mother who was ill. Jamaica dismissed most of the meal, just managing to eat the cheese and biscuits whilst trying to ignore the woman’s mutterings which were beginning to grate. As the cabin crew cleared away the remnants of the meal he turned to see Wynona trying to pick her teeth with a popsicle stick, minutes later she was out of her seat ripping up her magazine and scattering the pieces about the cabin like falling leaves. He looked on in amazement as she stood on her seat and began to beat her breast calling to him “Me Jane, you Tarzan”. She’s mad, he thought, and promptly pressed the button to summon one of the cabin crew. A stewardess arrived and asked Wynona if she needed anything.


“Of course I don’t need anything” said Wynona “I’m invincible!”


Rushing to the galley the stewardess returned with two other members of the cabin crew and by this time Wynona was heading towards the curtain that separated business class from first class. Grabbing Wynona’s arms the crew steered her back to her seat but she was fighting them like a lioness defending her cubs. They wrestled her to the floor and locked the manacles onto her wrists behind her back, by this time Wynona was foaming at the mouth. Thankfully there was a doctor on board who, after examining Wynona, was able to administer a sedative.



All thoughts of work had disappeared from Jamaica’s mind and he was relieved that it was only a matter of about 30 minutes before they were due to land. The doctor stayed by Wynona’s side, to make sure she didn’t take a turn for the worse, until he handed her over to the paramedics who were waiting on the tarmac.



On his return journey a month later, Jamaica was amazed to see Wynona on the same flight. She looked perfectly normal so he asked


“Hello, do you remember me from the flight out here?”


“Of course, how are you?” she asked


“More to the point, how are you?” said Jamaica “you weren’t very well last time I saw you!”


“Oh, I’m fine now” she told him “turns out the mushrooms on that gourmet meal were in fact magic toad stools!”

33 comments:

Anonymous said...

i really find your doodles very cute, ake! nice work. :)

Krimo said...

Great ten-word-challenge!
When I saw the words, I had a completely different story in mind. It's like giving 10 ingredients to a few chefs. They'll all end up with totally different dishes.

Akelamalu said...

Aw thanks Acey x

Hi Krimo nice to see you back! What a good analogy and you're totally right! :)

Unknown said...

Excellent! As usual.

BTW, how long does it take you to produce a Wordzzle post?

Akelamalu said...

Cheers Nick. It can take anything from 1 - 2 hours depending on how the old grey matter is working.

Akelamalu said...

PS Nick that's for all three, then I have to do the doodles!

Unknown said...

An hour or two for all three? Hmmmm... I may give it a try one day. That's less time than I usually put into a blog post, even the photo posts.

Akelamalu said...

Nick once you've done your first it gets easier and it really is good fun. I hope you join in. Go over to Raven's blog for the words for next week.

Melli said...

OY! Ya gotta beware of those magic toad stools! LOL!

I have to apologize because I completely forgot to come back over here on Wednesday to get the lovely award you gave me! I DO appreciate it and I agree - I think all the Wordzzler's are AMAZING too!!! :) Thank you!

Jeff B said...

Well played as usual. I could not get my brain to engage with these words any you did it splendidly. Bravo!

Raven said...

Excellent as always. I loved the name you came up with. Well done!

Empress Bee (of the high sea) said...

you little doodler! the leaves make me think of sitting on my porch. they are starting to fall now...

smiles, bee
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Linda said...

If I should have been a history teacher then you should have been a writer or English teacher as your stories are fantastic!

Anndi said...

I've finally decided to give it a shot. No where near as entertaining as yours, but it was fun.

magic mushrooms.. hey maybe that's what was wrong with me this week!

Excellent as always.

Akelamalu said...

You're welcome Melli, glad you enjoyed the wordzzles.

I look at the words every week and think WTF Jeff!

Thanks Raven

Ah yes Bee, Autumn is drawing nigh here too.

How nice of you to say that Linda, thankyou. xx

You ate magic mushrooms Anndi????? only joking I know you didn't but I hope you're feeling better now honey. I'll be over shortly to read your wordzzle. :)

Dianne said...

Just when I thought Bronto Saurus and Jamaica Fusion were brillant enough you wrote a story that contained a wild toad stool hallucination in it!! Wow!!

Richard said...

I contine to be amazed by your wonderful endings. Awesome this week. Thanks again for the award earlier this week. It is displayed proudly on my sidebar.

Rich

Anonymous said...

Hey there, I love Wynona Cartwright; that was a very funny story! Nice job!

Kaylia Metcalfe said...

Liquid lunch of frog spawn

Mmm, that’s good spawn!

Julia Phillips Smith said...

Wow - every one of your wordzzles were fantastic. You really swing the twisty end in there, every time.

Just wanted to let you know I did my Purse Meme...

TopChamp said...

You are amazing at this!! I enjoyed reading all three stories.

Chatty said...

Oh, wow! I loved them all! That last one was a hoot - although, toadstools notwithstanding, the description of the business class menu has me salivating...
Thank you for your kind words about my first efforts - I already had a sneaking suspicion these things was be addicting before you confirmed it.
And, how did you get your cursor to be a butterfly? I love that.

Travis Cody said...

Loved the middle one, but of course they are all excellent as usual.

Deb said...

I kept wondering how you were going to pull off the ending - and you did it perfectly! I am impressed that you complete these in 1-2 hours. Well-done! Liquid frog spawn - creative! I also love your doodles. You are talented on the computer - I am envious :)

Carletta said...

Wow - that ten word is so concise -someday I may get there. :)
Your mega ending was superb. I must admit I was thinking as I read what's she going to do this time as if you were just going to keep on writing for me to read - nicely done.

Robin said...

i just stopped by to say hey and to let you know i'm working on the next 50! a visit from you always makes my day!

Pam said...

i keep thinking about trying these wordzzles, but too much time involved! then there's the matter of the brain farts that i get. lol anyways, another great story and cute doodles, ake :)

Akelamalu said...

LOL I'm so pleased you enjoyed them Dianne x

You're very welcome Rich and thank you. :)

Thanks Mommywizdom :)

Sounds revolting doesn't it Kay :(

I'll be right over Julia, glad you liked the wordzzles. x

Oh thankyou Topchamp I'm pleased you enjoyed them.

Welcome to my humble abode Chatty I'm so pleased you enjoyed the wordzzles. Re the butterfly cursor, If you go to the bottom of my sidebar you will see a flashing button for free cursors, just click on it and go choose a cursor to upload - it gives you instructions on how. :)

Ah you're very kind Trav x

Why thank you Deb for your kind words, I try my best ;)

Carletta I'ts really pleasing when people say they enjoy what I write, makes it all worth while, thank you.

It's always a pleasure to see you too Robin :)

You should try it Ciara you have a week to write them and you don't have to do three you can just do the mini if you want to start with. You didn't think you could do 55s but look at you now!

Annelisa said...

Excellent...Can't believe you did all three! :-)

storyteller said...

Wonderful Wordzlls and Doodles as always … magical toadstools indeed ;--) I’ve not forgotten about the purse meme … I will follow through. Today I left a little something for you at Small Reflections along with my Unconscious Mutterings. Enjoy …
Hugs and blessings,

Akelamalu said...

Thanks Annelisa I enjoy doing them!

Looking forward to reading your purse meme Storyteller and I'll be right over to see what you have left for me. :)

San said...

You have a wayzle with wordzzles.

And you look SMASHING on the cover of Vogue.

Akelamalu said...

Gee thanks, how kind of you San x