A family reunited...

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Early morning chat was shattered with, ‘You're eatin my babies.’ 

McChickadees went very quiet, a six-foot talking Rhode Island Red kinda makes you slow-witted. But Tom was a rookie prankster. He forgot the CCTV and that truck drivers with hangovers and no coffee ain't messed with. 

What they did next with the eggs went viral.

It seemed a good idea at the time

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A successful marriage is all about give and take

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Beer can in hand, Billy said, 'Mate, I think you're in bed with my wife.'

'No pal, it’s kosher, I'm just mending the bed slats and they needed testing.'

Katie gave a look: 'You're think I'd be that stupid.'

Billy, ignoring the discarded trousers, opened his beer and said, 'No.'

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For the King is a Lion when Rats rule

Royalty hath assented Laws on me. No dirty paws shall sully my face with thank-you scrawl.

'Dad, the new desk is wobbly.'

From the other room, Jeff snapped,'Alice, now, or no X-Factor.' That brought him creaking silence.

Yet later, he found just a bare desk: 'Alice...Alice'

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Sergeant Patterson's Day

'The grass is bent, the tree branch broken and the wall scuffed…what does this tell us?'

'Don’t know Sarge …that they have a big dog?'

Peering over his glasses, Detective Sergeant Patterson sighed, 'Remind me again, Stevens why you joined the police force.'

'Easy Sarge, the intellectual challenge like.'

'Hmm…'

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In the worse of times

'In other times, as the child was ripped from its womb, Wolfstan would have cheered at one less enemy. But slaughter gave no victor—'

‘Come again, but how is this Spamalot? Misery is so like epic fail.'

'Well, the baby tap-dances to Human League's "Don't You Want Me."

'Soooo random!'

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A Dance Too Far

Tonic Tony and Big Bertha were on a roll, one more and they had the Jackpot.

'What McCartney duet was recorded live but separately in 1982?’

Tonic Tony, without thinking shouted out, ‘Black and White,’ and started a victory dance.

Smack!

'What? That hurt.’

 ’You plonker, it was Ebony and Ivory.'

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Summer

Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon (2006)

Story of a weekend that goes very badly wrong as Grady Tripp, a writer stuck with a book he can’t finish, and relationships he can’t stick to, manages to get drunk and high in all the wrong places, as wife, girlfriend, best friend, new rising writer, Jewish-Korean in-laws are caught up in ever shady dealings and shock revelations. And yes it’s now a film! The story unfolds from his point of view and memories with clearly delineated characters with their own voice from the mid 90’s. My only hmm moment with the plot is a drunk, pot smoking professor has a female student lodger from his own course and gets drunk with one of his male students, getting him laid. Were USA colleges that liberal back then? Leaving that aside, the story builds a fast and jaw dropping set of events with a wonderful light and shade of farcical humour and subtle loss.



: Good - read it again and loan it out or give to friends when shelves full.

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Idle Hands

140 character story – drop by to Grandma's Goulash to leave your own.

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She left a job in finance

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In days of yore

Random Word: Fabliau

They said it couldn’t work

Random Word: They said it couldn’t work

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Alien Probe

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Staggering under the gravity as the humanoid halo tingled his hide, Yatz struggled with the broken transbox.

‘Sir, could you try touching your toes,’ PC Royston said, sniffing for alcohol.

Sadly,  the polite Obeasins response of, ‘May your sun sticken the dark,’ was mistranslated.

PC Royston subsequent use of his truncheon caused years of misunderstanding.

 

Random Word: Long forgotten

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Size does matter

‘I want a square coffin  so I’m buried in my wheelchair.’

Without a pause, the undertaker, said, ‘Naturally sir.’

Harry snapped back  ‘I’ll have that in writing.’

As Franklin Funerals  said after their victorious court case, ‘ It was square, we just had to chop things to get everything in.’

 

Random Word: The Cut

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The knight’s still young

Random word: Brandish

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C'est la vie.

 

Random Word: a little different

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Let the customer decide

 

 

Doing a pitch, as the plane still burned, wasn't ideal but Al saw an opportunity. However, Prof Barry when approached about investing in the Philly BreadMaker just reached for his suitcase gun.

As the gun was cocked, Harry sneered, ‘Jesus, you East coast boys are so up your own asses.’

 

  Random Word: Bread Maker

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Perhaps tomorrow

 Artist: Norman Rockwell

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Love will find a way