Raven's Challenge 97

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle
Words for this week's 10-word challenge are: teflon, idealistic, marshmallow, opportunistic, kittens, beef, sawing logs, slapped, tickled, scissors
For the mini: ripen, shelve, laminate, goofy, Siamese

A Mega Challenge

A World Inside

In the goofy world of self sawing logs
Siamese kittens live with frogs
Marshmallow men hold scissors sharp
And idealistic cows play the harp
The rich laminate their best beef
Safe from the opportunistic thief
Teflon is slapped and tickled
Left to ripen and be pickled
Come visit this goofy place
Found in your own inner space
Shelve your images of the here
And you can see the talking deer.
Flying turtles and crows of red
All coming from your head.

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The Maxi Challenge History of the Log Cabin

Today we bring you a little more dragon history. Did you know that we had log cabins before there even were people. They were huge buildings made from trees that no longer exist upon the earth. We had no power saws or even hand saws so sawing logs was done with finely tuned breath fire. After a big bowl of beef, kitten, and marshmallow soup one dragon would fly up and cut off all the branches on the tree. In the process the poor dragon was slapped and tickled by the branches not yet cut. It was almost as if the tree was aware of what we were doing and was fighting back. One poor dragon lost a leg when two branches suddenly pinched shut and acted like a scissors. That even was remembered and one of our more opportunistic dragons used it to invent your regular scissors.
When the logs were all cut and the cabin built the floor of many of them were covered with a Teflon like substance made by melting some kind of rock. The more idealistic among us, however, insisted that only a dirt floor was proper for a dragon. Eventually this caused the great split and the Floor Wars but that’s another story.

Flash Fiction

Friday 55 Flash Fiction is brought to you by G-man (Mr Knowitall). The idea is you write a story in exactly 55 words. If you want to take part pop over and let G-man know when you've posted your 55.
With a nod to Raven and Quilly
( This week's Raven's words were wonderful at 16 words)
teflon, idealistic, marshmallow, opportunistic, kittens, beef, sawing logs, slapped, tickled, scissors,
ripen, shelve, laminate, goofy, Siamese

The problem with having only sixteen words is we dragons always see more than one possiblity . Then we fight over which one to publish. Today we offer you both of them.

The Office

Behind the idealistic Teflon inventor's personal desk was a goofy mural showing two Siamese kittens being tickled by a marshmallow man while sawing logs.It was partly hidden by the expensive laminate shelve on which there was a scissors, four cans of slapped beef from the Opportunistic Beef Company and some beginning to ripen tomatoes.

Serial Cat Killer

Being opportunistic the idealistic killer used the Teflon laminate pan to kill the Siamese kittens there being no scissors available. In his usual goofy manner he covered the bodies with marshmallows and beef drippings and slapped them down on the shelve of sawing logs to ripen. It tickled him no end to watch the process.

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And Now for something completely different. And we mean completely different.
First there is poetry- written well by a few experts. You know it when you see it.

Then there is poetic drivel- written by many. Lots of fun and often punny.

Then below them all is quivel.
The following is quivel.
It in no way even pretends to be poetry or drivel.
Instead it is something that looks like a poem, uses at least three of Quilly’s words.
In this case it is also a flash 55 quivel since it has eleven lines with exactly five words to a line. Please, again, note this is a quivel it does not pretend to be a poem or even poetic drivel.

CULTivated

Scaevity was his from birth
Made him doubt his worth
Till gnathonized by the cult
Which lead to this result
Pretending to be real nerds
They roblet him with words
Mellifluous the words all spoke
His ego they had to stroke
They lived a ruricolous life
Away from the world’s strife
With music from the fife.

Quilly 42

It is a Quilly day. Time to take Quilly’s three words for the day and write a story.
The 3WT #42 words will be:
scaevity = unluckiness
gnathonize = to flatter
roblet = to lead astray


The cult looked for people whose primary feature seemed to be scaevity to gnathonize and roblet.

Because he knew how to gnathonize people one did not expect that anyone could roblet him but one must take into account his scaevity.

Sir Roland Uppity , Knight of the Round Table and Slayer of Dragons, was not know for scaevity but a shape shifted dragon was able to gnathonize him and roblet him to an old clearing where the dragons got their revenge.

Nellie Blot was a con artist of the old school who could easily identify people whose primary feature was scaevity and then gnathonize them into seeing themselves as special people. She could then roblet them into one of her scams.

People whose primary feature would seem to be scaevity are hard to gnathonize because they have such low self esteem they see all flattery as lies. One can however roblet them by offering good luck charms that are guaranteed to work..

WE are sure that our loyal readers do not suffer from scaevity but you might as well if you don't use Quilly's words. We know you are smart enough to see the value and we are not trying to gnathonize you by saying that. Nor are we trying to roblet you but simply calling your attention to the truth.

We dragons love awards. We love silly, meaningful, dumb, super, and any other kind of award. We just like awards. Awards make us dance with joy.
Now our good friend and mentor, Thom, has given us another award.
Here it is.

Isn't it beautiful?
We just love it.
It comes with some rules.

1. Copy and paste the award on your blog.( Did that)

2. List who gave the award to you and use a link to her blog (or hyperlink).( Did that)

3. List 10 things that make you happy.

Getting awards
Reading Thom's Blog
Quilly's Words
Magic Parrot Soup
Shape Shifting
Giving Awards
Fat Cats
Flying
Our Blog
Raven's Words

4. Pass the award on to other bloggers and visit their blog to let them know!

KB's Room
Reflections by Kathy
Shadowplay
Enchanted Oak
Buildeth Her House

The requirements are now met.
We have a new award. Yay!.

Raven's Challenge 96

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle
Words for this week's 10-word challenge are: Badger, roll out the barrel, amazing, a lovely cup of tea, pressure, frozen, gandalf, pixies, top gear
And for the mini: smelly, politician, favourite, token gesture, garden

A Mega Challenge

The Politician

Roll out the barrel was playing
The old donkey was braying
Frozen pixies guarded the garden path
That lead to the amazing Turkish bath
When the smelly politician came
Trying to wash away guilt and shame
Caught by the Badger News in sin
There was pressure to resign give in
Here a lovely cup of tea he had
But thoughts his wife made him sad.
A top gear defense is what he needed
With a token gesture for forgiveness pleaded.
He was the favourite to be elected President
Now never to be the White House resident.
Cheating on his wife while she was sick
Put an end to that dream really quick.
No wizard Gandalf would arise
To wipe the tears from his eyes
Roll out the Barrel would be his song
Drink to forget what he did wrong.

Ten Word Challenge ( Nine this week)
Dragon Origin

.Where did dragons come from? One of our oldest legends says that before dragons there were pixies. These were not little pixies like you see today in frozen statues in the garden . No, these pixies came in all sizes big, medium and little. They also had top gear magic ability and could create anything from a lovely cup of tea to a barrel of whiskey with the wave of a hand. They could even roll out the barrel without ever touching it. Among these pixies there came forth the amazing Wizard Gandalf. He was taller than your average pixie, he was smarter than your average pixie, and he lived longer than your average pixie.
One day when he had just rolled out and consumed two barrels of whiskey he felt pressure on his foot as the ground rose up before him.. It was a huge badger looking for something to eat. Now badgers at this time were considerably bigger than they are today and often ate small pixies for lunch. It is well known that your average pixie is not very smart and very slow to react so many ended up as lunch. But this time the badger was dealing with the Amazing Drunken Gandalf who waved his hand and the badger became your very first dragon created with a real desire to protect pixies from predators. The Wizard was so pleased that he went about finding badgers and turning them into dragons. That’s why there are no big badgers in this age. It is also why to this day dragons will do everything possible to protect pixies.

Flash 55

Friday 55 Flash Fiction is brought to you by G-man (Mr Knowitall). The idea is you write a story in exactly 55 words. If you want to take part pop over and let G-man know when you've posted your 55.
With a nod to Raven and Quilly
( This week's Raven's words were bad at 23 words)
Badger, roll out the barrel, amazing, a lovely cup of tea, pressure, frozen, gandalf, pixies, top gear, smelly, politician, favourite, token gesture, garden

End of the Politican

Gandalf was having a lovely cup of Top Gear pressure tea, waiting for his favourite frozen tarts to thaw , and listening to the Badger Choir sing roll out the barrel when the smelly politician made the amazing but token gesture in the garden of the pixies. Irritated he turned him into a very ugly cow.

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And Now for something completely different. And we mean completely different.
First there is poetry- written well by a few experts. You know it when you see it.

Then there is poetic drivel- written by many. Lots of fun and often punny.

Then below them all is quivel.
The following is quivel.
It in no way even pretends to be poetry or drivel.
Instead it is something that looks like a poem, uses at least three of Quilly’s words.
In this case it is also a flash 55 quivel since it has eleven lines with exactly five words to a line. Please, again, note this is a quivel it does not pretend to be a poem or even poetic drivel.

TV Reporter

Continue to rogitate that question
And send me into depression
My quite ruricolous life upset
Those things I should forget
My risible history on display
Feel like your chosen prey
Yes rimestock runics I believed
I was so easily deceived
Rubefacient effect on my face
You give no worldly grace
Go away from my place.

Portrait of Words 25

A Picture Story from Portrait of Words

Shapeshifting

Greetings. My name is Daniel Dragon and I have been chosen to tell you a secret. We dragons are master shapeshifters. W can become anything .
That clown you saw last summer that was one of us.
We dragons really like to clown around. It is such fun. We just can't leave it to you humans.
Then there was that cute flag girl in the parade . That was one of us.
She isn't the prettiest of dragons but as a human she turns a lot of heads.
In that same parade the guy driving the funny old red car was a dragon. He just loves cars but he isn't a very good driver. Your lucky he stayed off the sidewalk.

If you went to the big football game andd watched the band at half time the trumpet player on the left was a dragon.
If your a student at the University a fellow student may be a dragon or the visiting professor on Ancient History.
You know the one that sounded like he lived it. Well he did.
But we don't always shape shift as humans. Just for fun and practice sometimes we become trees.
Sometimes when a human comes by we nudge him a little. You should see how scared they get.
Well I hope you know a little more about us now.
Remember we could be anybody even your Aunt Gertrude.



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It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle
Words for this week's 10-word challenge are: alternate reality, shadows, frantic, tomatoes, field, lilies, DVD, snow mobile, aggravation, music
And for the mini: grounds for divorce, pink panther, salutations, wavering, lasagne

A Mega Challenge

Death in Alternate Reality

He created alternate reality TV shows
Including “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes”
His DVD of talking field lilies
Still gives one the wavering willies.
His snow mobiles could fly
With music playing cross the sky
Pink Panthers hid in shadows deep
And disappeared without a peep
Lasagna sang frantic romance songs
Cigars replied by banging gongs
His reality was just not kind
How could he have been so blind
Grounds for divorce he surely had
His wife had been really bad
Aggravation filled his working mind
Salutations of the very wicked kind
He saw her dead upon the floor
Reality or something more?

The Maxi Challenge
Bad Dragon DVD

This week I am all upset. I saw a DVD made by one of those alternate reality companies, GFD ( Grounds for Divorce). It was supposed to be a look at how dragons lived in this age. It gave me nothing but aggravation. Those people wouldn’t know a dragon if a dragon bit them and I’m frantic enough to do just that. The show began with dragons eating lilies in a field. It would never happen. We will eat lilies if they are baked and served on lasagne in place of tomatoes but raw, NEVER!
Then there was the background music. It was okay for people in an elevator but it would have driven real dragons mad.
The stupidest scene on the DVD was the winter scene where the dragons simply stopped moving because of the cold. Dragons, I need to tell you, are snow mobile. Snow and cold may slow us down a bit but never stop us.
I have to wonder if the vampires are as upset by GFD’s DVD “ Return to Dark Shadows”. Some day the producers may wake up with vampire and dragon bites.
A dragon can dream can’t he.

Friday 55 Flash Fiction is brought to you by G-man (Mr Knowitall). The idea is you write a story in exactly 55 words. If you want to take part pop over and let G-man know when you've posted your 55.
With a nod to Raven and Quilly
( This week's Raven's words were not so bad at 20 words)
alternate reality, shadows, frantic, tomatoes, field, lilies, DVD, snow mobile, aggravation, music, grounds for divorce, pink panther, salutations, wavering, lasagne

Strange DVD

In the alternate reality DVD she married the frantic pink panther who grew tomatoes in the snow field next to the wavering lasagne lillies.
Life was wonderful except for his dreadful snow mobile music salutations which she considered grounds for much aggravation but not sufficient grounds for divorce. So she wept in the dark shadows.

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And Now for something completely different. And we mean completely different.
First there is poetry- written well by a few experts. You know it when you see it.

Then there is poetic drivel- written by many. Lots of fun and often punny.

Then below them all is quivel.
The following is quivel.
It in no way even pretends to be poetry or drivel.
Instead it is something that looks like a poem, uses at least three of Quilly’s words.
In this case it is also a flash 55 quivel since it has eleven lines with exactly five words to a line. Please, again, note this is a quivel it does not pretend to be a poem or even poetic drivel.( Because Quilly had no new words this week we dug these out of the achieves)

Life Changing Wife

His acrasia ruined his life
Filled it with constant strife
He adimpleated with his pain
Then he would loudly complain
Like a aeipathy it grew
Not allowing a life new
Lost his big amanuensis job
Resulting in many a sob
A Confabulation changed his life
Took him out of strife
And got him a wife

Raven's Challenge 94

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle
Words for this week's 10-word challenge are: space cadet, silver lining, wood, turtle soup, minaret, ice, grease, sales, mandala, mug
And for the mini: broken bones, slide rule, garbage, Chinese, sanguine

A Mega Challenge

Free at Last

The Silver Lining Space Cadet sold drugs
His sales were interrupted by nasty thugs
A Chinese gang gave him broken bones
Under garbage in grease left to his moans
He made the long crawl to the ice minaret
The mosques mandala with blood he wet
Priest gave him a mug of wood turtle soup
Sent him to the hospital to recoup
There he learned to use a slide rule
His sanguine self saw that as cool
So back to college then he went
His old life of drugs he did repent

A Mega Challenge
Dragon Facts

This week we give you useless dragon facts:
1. The very first mandalas are found on the floor of dragon caves.
2. Wood turtle soup is a dragon delicacy much preferred over water turtle soup and often served in minaret shaped mugs.
3. One of your astronauts was a shape shifting dragon . The Dragon Council has now named him Space Cadet.
4. Before humans existed our richest dragons lived in ice caves with silver linings.
5. Dragons dislike foods that are cooked in grease and Greasy Spoon restaurants get no sales from them..
6. Chinese dragons are often born without wings but with the ability to think themselves where they want to go.
7. Our great dragon Imastein invented the slide rule.
8. Broken bones in a dragon heal faster than in humans.
9. Dragons help rid the world of garbage by eating it. It fuels their flame.
10. There is no more sanguine creature in existence than a dragon.
Now you can astound your friends by dropping these into your everyday conversation.

Flash Fiction

Friday 55 Flash Fiction is brought to you by G-man (Mr Knowitall). The idea is you write a story in exactly 55 words. If you want to take part pop over and let G-man know when you've posted your 55.
With a nod to Raven and Quilly
( This week's Raven's words were not so bad at 20 words)
space cadet, silver lining, wood, turtle soup, minaret, ice, grease, sales, mandala, mug, broken bones, slide rule, garbage, Chinese, sanguine

Discovery in Space

The space cadet using a slide rule and old Chinese ice charts found the turtle soup planet of wood with the silver lining but covered with garbage and broken bones. His company Mandala Minaret Inc. saw feauture sales of sanguine grease mugs with pictures of the planet on them once the planet was cleaned up.

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And Now for something completely different. And we mean completely different.
First there is poetry- written well by a few experts. You know it when you see it.

Then there is poetic drivel- written by many. Lots of fun and often punny.

Then below them all is quivel.
The following is quivel.
It in no way even pretends to be poetry or drivel.
Instead it is something that looks like a poem, uses at least three of Quilly’s words.
In this case it is also a flash 55 quivel since it has eleven lines with exactly five words to a line. Please, again, note this is a quivel it does not pretend to be a poem or even poetic drivel.

Gossips

Incompossible as ice and heat
Are gossips and the discreet
Harl all gossips far away
Before they have their say
Thropple them one and all
Before your troubles they recall
Your pigritude shared with many
Of garbage you have plenty
Your opprobrious conduct made known
Will cause many a groan
At them throw a stone.

Quilly 41

It is a Quilly day. Time to take Quilly’s three words for the day and write a story.


The 3WT #41 words will be: incompossible; harl; thropple (Click on a word for a definition)

Placing his finger on Henry’s thropple he decided to harl him in to meet Brian which made no sense since the two men were incompossible.

If you want to harl somebody who thinks they know everything just ask about the existence of two incompossible objects. They will act as if you hit them in their thropple.

Since the dragon and the bear were incompossible the dragon crushed it’s thropple and decided to harl the body to his cave.

Peanut butter and jam are not incompossible but are meant to be together. By telling you this we do not mean to harl you but we do hope to keep peanut butter out of your thropple.

A thropple and a karate chop are incompossible. If you try to bring them together they will harl you into court for murder.

Quilly's words give you an advantage in a difficult world. For example if you tell someone that you just want to thropple them and give them a hug they will never know you'd like to strangle them. Thus you can use these words to harl together two seemingly incompossible people.
These words are advantage words and everybody ought to learn them.

WE dragons have received another award.


It is from the greatest award giver of all:

Thom

And we thank him.
We want to thank our parents who watched over our eggs for making us such grand and wonderful dragons that we deserve these awards.
We will cherish it.

How Dragons Got

A Picture Story from Portrait of Words

Once upon a time there was a very small dragon that really wanted to be large , but at that time dragons had no power to change shape.
He was told by the old ones that to get this power he would have to go to a far away land
and talk to the lonely old oracle who had existed since time began, or perhaps before.
Once there he needed to ask the oracle where the Castle of Power was located.
So the little dragon went off to find the oracle. It took him two years , seven months and three days but he found the far away land , and the lonely old oracle.
The oracle not only told him where the Castle of Power could be located but where the brick had to be removed so that the gate would open up.
Then he was given the password to get by the bone crushing upside down man.
So our little dragon went to the Castle of Power, pulled, the brick, said the password and reached the tattoed horses.
As the Oracle had instructed he went to the blue horse and asked for one wish. The blue horse gave him this riddle:
What can you give away and still keep for yourself?
The little dragon though for a moment and then said:
" My word"
The blue horse then granted him one wish.
He wished that he and ll dragons would have the power to shift shapes.
This is why to this day dragons are shape shifters.