Monday, May 31, 2010

Fun With the Alphabet

Words are fun, as they can create stories that thrill, chill and bring joy to the reader. With that in mind, I took it upon myself - well others joined in and did the same - to create a coherent story using every letter in the alphabet, in order. Then, we did the same thing, only backwards. Below are two that I came up with, what do you think?



Another black colored day,
examinations from gregarious haunts.
Indeed jealous kids limit making new ornaments,
preferring quasi relationships,
secretly taking unique versions,
with xenophobic young zealots.

Zebulon yearned Xanadu.
While venturing umpteen times,

searching religiously, quieted Pike’s
obdurate needs.
Making life keen, jumping into

hellacious gambles, forever engaged.
Discovering constant beauty about.






7 comments:

  1. That looks like a lot of fun, however it will take a working brain and mine is still on hiatus. My blog is back up and running, though. I don't need a brain to write those posts. ;-)

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  2. All around town the rumors were spreading like wildfire.
    Barack had announced that he will be giving a speech of national importance, the content a tightly held secret from the press.
    Chicago newspapers were trying to outdo themselves with catchy headlines as they reported his sudden plans to come to Chicago to give the speech.
    Did he plan on testifying in the Blagojevich trial or was he thinking of resigning as President?
    Ending his career so soon would certainly be out of the question, wouldn't it?
    Fox News was having a ball, speculating that it was Glenn Beck's reporting that brought him Obama down!
    Googling on the Internet was no help at all.
    Huffington Post was reporting that Michelle was expecting a new child.
    Insiders at the White House said this was absurd, she's just got a pot belly and forgot to wear her wide belt last week to cover it.
    Jack Cafferty on CNN made some snarky remarks about Obama's virility and was kicked off the aire for being a racist.
    Katie Couric tried to get an exclusive interview, but the White House refused to take her call.
    Lord knows, Reverend Wright had no clue.
    MSNBC were reporting that the announcement will be covered live on their show with a live panel of commentary by Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann at the ready.
    Not one single leak was coming from the White House!
    Oprah Winfrey was beside herself with angst and had to call her private masseuse for an emergency back rub.
    Pigs would fly before Barack would resign from office, the teary-eyed Chris Matthews sniffled.
    Quiet murmurings of a take-over by Hillary Clinton began to surface.
    Revenge was hers for the way she was treated in the Democratic Primary Elections.
    She had a carefully plotted plan according to the reports on the blogosphere.
    TPM did their usual hit piece on Hillary, claiming she was hatching a story that would destroy Obama.
    Until now, Hillary has remained silent as she waited for the perfect time to pounce, when his poll numbers were sinking.
    Verification of his birth certificate would certainly come into play the "Birthers" stated.
    Women would finally be treated as equals cried the PUMA's!
    X-rated sex videos were found in John Edwards' dresser drawer...wait, that already happened, sorry.
    You've been patient so I'll tell you now what the big announcement was.
    Zzzzzzzzz....just another boring speech by Obama telling us that the economy is Bush's fault.

    Ok...not only did I do a story...albeit a stupid one, I even put the first letter of each sentence in "bold". And I was almost late for my son's doctor appointment doing this. I hope you appreciate this and never ask us to do work again...cuz thinking is hard work. ;-)

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  3. And the "bold" letters didn't even show up as bold! Curses!

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  4. Oh wait...I was supposed to do each word with a different letter of the alphabet??? Ok...do I can an A for effort? How about a B for bizarre? Or a C for Cute? A D for dumb, ok...I'll take that.

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  5. Nunly,

    So glad to see you back. :) For the record, the bold letters showed up on my email, so there is that. I would have responded via email, but the address showed up as the "no-reply comment..." so then I thought about sending you a random email, but I figured that I would completely lose the context and then confuse you back into a new "break" and Lord knows I wouldn't want the internet's to be mad at me for that. Plus, I was going to point out that you didn't quite follow the rules, but I see that you realized that as well (don't get me wrong, I love the story and it makes perfectly good sense and I laughed and that my friend is really the most important thing, right?), so then I was in a quandary because well, I really had nothing else to say - as you can plainly see. So I thought I would do this instead.

    Already Bored Creating Desirable Effects For Glamorous Hallucinations I Just Kept Leaving More Notes Over Physical Quadrants Regarding Stationary Tricycles, Unicycles, Vespa's... Why Xanax, Yes Zoe.

    Ta da! :-)

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  6. Roger- It's scary how you can come up with those so quickly. I could make an attempt at it again tonight but that would be too much of a brain strain after spending the day with my granddaughter who thinks arguing with me over every.single.thing. will get her somewhere other than to the back yard to pick up dog poop.

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  7. Hey, where's that new post you were promising me? Just because you work all day and have a houseful of kids is no excuse. ;-)

    Come over to Bad Habit and give us your favorite Bike story. I'm sure you have a few good ones from your childhood or your kids. :-)

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