Discussion thread -- June 2016 75-word Writing Challenge

[Luiglin]

I'm not happy...

Who can I shoot????

I know where's a large wooden badger

 

[Bowler1]

I know where's a large wooden badger

That doesn't move, or give me any challange what so ever. But... let me ask you a question Luiglin. How fast can you RUN???

 

[Luiglin]

That doesn't move, or give me any challange what so ever. But... let me ask you a question Luiglin. How fast can you RUN???

These days like a snail fattened on garlic butter who's about to hit the frying pan

 

[Perpetual Man]

These days like a snail fattened on garlic butter who's about to hit the frying pan

I just read that and all I could see was 'Sitting duck'

 

[Luiglin]

I just read that and all I could see was 'Sitting duck'

Ah but it's a cunning plan dreamt up by a fox who passed with honours out of the University of Cunning. @Bowler1 wants a moving target and I've only offered the opposite. Shhh... don't let on, I think he fell for it.

 

[Mr Orange]

did someone say duck?

you leave the duck alone or i'll get Alfred onto you. you can go for the fat snail though

 

[Ray McCarthy]

I prefer "Chinese crispy duck" rather than "duck a la Orange"

 

[Mr Orange]

to be honest they both taste a bit fowl...

 

[sinister42]

Ooh I know what I'm having for lunch. There's this fantastic Chinese place not that far from my office that does a thing called a "superbowl," which has crispy roast duck (that they roast on site and have hanging in the window for purchase and which sometimes still has feather remnants in it when it's served), bbq pork, won tons, bok choi, and noodles...it's some of the best stuff in the world. Salty as all get out though - I'm sure my blood pressure spikes every time I eat it - but damn if it isn't tasty.

 

[Zen Dragon]

Now I want to get Phoenix and Dragon for dinner tonight - thanks guys ... only because, I am not a big DUCK fan - but Chinese and fowl equals = well, in my little world, Phoenix and Dragon ... hmmm

 

[Parson]

(Parson strolls in) "Brother Bowler, couldn't we just sit down a little while and remember how your mom used to cuddle you as a baby. Why don't you just lie back here on this nice soft sofa. There you go, now hand me that heavy old ray gun, you'll feel so much better."

He asleep now everyone move before he wakes and goes on a rampage. (Parson hustles out the door.)

 

[Heijan Xavier]

Anyway, traditional dictionaries (Collins online and the OED) give it as shape-shifter with a hyphen, but it seems contemporary usage (and probably particularly US) is moving towards its being spelt as a single word. Either way, it would count as one word for Challenge purposes.

Thank you!

 

[Mr Orange]

awww look at little bowler asleep on the couch, round yellow face all mushed up against the cushions...

<replaces the raygun parson took with a squeaky duck toy>

 

[Vaz]

Thanks for the review Victoria

 

[Luiglin]

to be honest they both taste a bit fowl...

Not even I would come out with a pun like that. I salute you, sir.

 

[Bowler1]

Yawn... rubs eyes and wonders what magic Parson wields to such great effect.

Now where was I. Dinner, which is Luiglin based in garlic butter and blasted to a nice crispy (no relation to the Mighty Chrispy) piece of toast - or just toast. Now, where has he gone?

 

[hopewrites]

The toast whent that way *points left* running fast and decidedly UN-toasted...

 

[sinister42]

what is even happening in this thread lawl

 

[Mr Orange]

The toast whent that way *points left* running fast and decidedly UN-toasted...

...driving a white Toyota 4x4 and wearing a little blue helmet.

 

[hopewrites]

Well my ray-gun only shoots out sunbeams, so it doesn't make very good toast. I figured if bowler's going to make toast I should get him to shoot a whole loaf of it so I can have some too.