Dragon's Lair

Raven's Challenge 97

2010-01-30T01:00:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-28T16:31:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-28T01:00:00.000-08:00

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.

2010-01-27T04:07:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-23T01:00:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-21T15:00:00.000-08:00

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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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

2010-01-19T01:00:00.000-08:00

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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2010-01-16T01:00:00.000-08:00

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.

2010-01-14T14:00:00.000-08:00

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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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

2010-01-09T01:00:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-07T16:45:00.000-08:00

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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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

2010-01-07T01:00:00.000-08:00

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.

2010-01-06T03:30:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-05T01:00:00.000-08:00

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.

Raven's Challenge 93

2009-12-19T01:00:00.000-08:00

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle
Words for this week's 10-word challenge are: spaghetti, woe is me, mythology, avarice, windy, pathetic, paper towels, water, all my children, books
And for the mini: best deals of the week, Nobel Peace Prize, sleep deprived, cauliflower, practice

A Mega Challenge

Woe is Me

Spaghetti doesn’t grow on trees
All my children’s books have fleas
No Nobel Peace Prize for me I think
Sleep deprived I sink and sink
Best deals of the week are gone
Half price cauliflower ends at dawn
Windy gusts caused water spills
Pathetic loss of morning pills
Monsters from Greek mythology
Practice screaming just for me
Avarice and personal greed
Paper towels start to bleed
Woe is me!
I hallucinate

The Ten Word Challenge
The Story of Woe Is Me

Once a week, after a great spaghetti and worm banquet served on paper towels, Grandma Shingles gathers all my children around her and tells the little dragons stories from our great mythology. She never uses books but always recites from memory. This is one of her favorite stories.
Long ago and far away there lived a very small pathetic looking dragon known only as Woe Is Me . He lived on the bottom of a windy hill right next to a large body of water. He was a kind and gentle dragon who did not have an ounce of avarice in his entire body.
Woe Is Me lived in a nice little dragon house and that was his problem and cause of his woe. Twice a year the wind from the mountain would tear the roof off of his house and blow it away. Then poor Woe Is Me would have to shape shift to his human form and put on a new roof. It was a real pain. He hated doing it. He hated his human shape. He hated life.
One day when Woe Is Me was hungry he chased a bear into a cave. The bear was delicious but as he finished eating something a massive dragon thought came to him. “ Wind can’t blow the roof off of caves”. With some decorations, with a few friendly items, a cave would be a wonderful place to live.
And that’s how dragons came to live in caves and Woe Is Me became Great Cave Trueheart for whom all dragons give thanks.

55 -Too Late

2009-12-17T15:00:00.000-08:00

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 as bad as they get , we hope, 27 words)
spaghetti, woe is me, mythology, avarice, windy, pathetic, paper towels, water, all my children, books, best deals of the week, Nobel Peace Prize, sleep deprived, cauliflower, practice

Too Late

"Woe is me!", I missed the best deals of the week at Books are Us, as last week was their annual spaghetti sale.These great books were half price " The Avarice of the Cauliflower Trade","Pathetic Mythology", Windy Water", "All My Children-the Soap", " Sleep Deprived Practice", "Noble Peace Prize Recipients" and " Paper Towels".

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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.

Dog Magic

His lubency always showed up
When they brought the pup
It adimpeated his smile bin
Gave him that pamphagous grin
Murklins gave way to light
Gave the will to fight
The aeipathy pulled him down
In his sad hospital gown
The cute little isangelous pup
Built his fighting strength up
On heavenly vibes to sup.

lubency :(Noun) willingness; pleasure
Adimpleate (Verb). to fill up
Pamphagous-( Adj) all-consuming

Quilly 40

2009-12-17T01:00:00.000-08:00

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

The 3WT #40 words will be: lubency; adimpleate; pamphagous
lubency :(Noun) willingness; pleasure
Adimpleate (Verb). to fill up
Pamphagous-( Adj) Omnivorous.-eating everything; all-consuming

The lubency of the pamphagous creature to adimpleate on onions was a joy to behold.

His lubency to adimpleate on hot dogs did not make him a pamphagous eater.

Lucy the pamphagous Dragon found great lubency in adimpleating on polar bears since global warming was killing them anyway.

He got no lubency from watching the pamphagous polar bear adimpleating on poor little seals.

He had a pamphagous desire to adimpleate the page with Quilly words and doing so gave him great lubency.

Quilly has a pamphagous desire to bring back almost dead words. This gives her a great deal of lubency. You can help poor Quilly to be happy by adimpleating a page with her old words. In addition it can be fun. Give it a try.

Bad Day for A dragon

2009-12-15T01:00:00.000-08:00

A Picture Story from Portrait of Words

Bad Day For a Dragon

Gladys, the dragon was upset. It had been a very bad day.
First she almost collided with a jet plane.
She was sure that stupid pilot was out of his flight path. He certainly wasn't supposed to be there.
Then she had shape shifted into a human because she wanted to go to this lovely barbecue. They had some of her favorite food.
But they wouldn't let her in because she didn't have an invitation. She almost shape shifted back . They would have run like sheep and she could have had the entire barbecue for herself. But that was against those stupid protocols. Why dragons ever signed them she didn't know.
After that it was all downhill. Some stupid company built a hideous new headquarters in her favorite landing spot on the far side of Hasansack , New Jersey.
She had been landing there for years. She considered it hers. It was in the most isolated part of the town and not far from the cave she called home.
So she decided to visit some friends in the great Southwest. By the time she got there it was dark and she ran into a roof that had never been there before.
What idiot puts a roof over a structure that has stood on its own for five hundred years ?
She fell so hard that the display cabinet at the gift shop fell over
and all kinds of things broke. The owner almost saw her before she went to her invisible mode. It hurts a bit to be invisible and her head hurt from the crash.
The day could hardly get any worse.
But tomorrow would be better. She was invited to a fancy dinner with Dr. John and he promised it would include Magic Parrot Soup.
He even let her come as a dragon but she did have to scale down her size somewhat.
Given today she was so thankful for the promise of tomorrow.

Raven's Challenge 92

2009-12-12T01:00:00.000-08:00

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle
Words for this week's 10-word challenge are: sugar, mortgage, logical, roller skates, outlandish, Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, cumberbund, unexpected, photo album, scarecrow
And for the mini:tomatoes, turtles, basement apartment, circumference, make my day

A Mega Challenge

Newspaper Adds

Beautiful woman wants sugar daddy
One with an outlandish Caddy
Basement Apartment people need not apply
They just don’t qualify
Have large mortgage need to pay
Come make it go away

For sale my roller skates
And my set of weights
Unexpected bargains these
By them won’t you please.

Statue of scarecrow with sitting crows
New wife says out it goes
It’s logical to assume
A real bargain does here loom.

Fresh tomatoes from the farm
In a basket that will charm
Make my day and buy two
Special price just for you

Live turtles with circumference fence
Raising them makes good sense
Photo album pictures there
Show that you really care
Cumberbund –used just once
Used by a real dunce
Help pay my alimony
Cut down the acrimony

A DVD of a movie with no flaws
“Yes Virginia , There is a Santa Claus”
Film will make you cry
I’m not sure why

The Ten Word Challenge
The Great White Dragon

You humans might think it logical that our little dragons wait for Santa Claus just like your children do. But they don’t. So phrases like “ Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus “ have no meaning to us. Instead they wait the coming of the great White Dragon.
The Great White Dragon wears what looks like an outlandish comberbund but is really a container for the sugar scarecrows he gives the children. Our children do love those scarecrows. There is not a dragon family photo album that doesn’t have a picture of a happy little dragon with a sugar scarecrow.
The Great White Dragon also gives what is called “ the unexpected gift”. You never know what this will be. One year he gave roller skates. There is no funnier picture than dragons on roller skates. If cameras had existed then they might have made a movie and sold it for enough to “pay off the mortgage “ ( pay off the mortgage is a dragon idiom taken from you humans and it means to pay all we owe.)
The origin of the Great White Dragon is lost in antiquity but the legend says that he was the only albino dragon to ever live. He was picked on and made fun of as a little dragon. When he grew older he decided he wanted to help children have a better childhood than he did so he went around helping little dragons to have more fun in life.

Flash 55

2009-12-10T15:00:00.000-08:00

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 as bad as they get , we hope, 26 words)
They are: sugar, mortgage, logical, roller skates, outlandish, Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, cumberbund, unexpected, photo album, scarecrow, tomatoes, turtles, basement apartment, circumference, make my day

The Old Album

In the "Logical Circumference" photo album was an unexpected, outlandish picture of a scarecrow in a cummerbund on roller skates in a basement apartment with turtles in one hand and tomatoes in the other saying "make my day".
Next to the photo of Sugar paying the mortgage captioned " Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

Yelve- 1. (obsolete) A fork used to carry dung; such a fork used as a garden tool.
patration - -(n) perfection or completion of something
Aeipathy- 1. A continued passion; an unyielding disease.

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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.

Dog Poop

Dog poop fills the yard
Need to be on guard
Yelve to pick it up
Following after the little pup
Aeipathy could be the result
To the body an insult
When the poop is gone
We can walk on lawn
So bring us to patration
With a fully positive assertion
Leading to a massive celebration.

2009-12-10T07:54:00.000-08:00

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Quilly 39

2009-12-10T01:00:00.000-08:00

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

The 3WT #39 words will be: Yelve, patration, aeipathy

Yelve- 1. (obsolete) A fork used to carry dung; such a fork used as a garden tool.
patration - -(n) perfection or completion of something
Aeipathy- 1. A continued passion; an unyielding disease.

His aeipathy for the collection of yelves lead to its patration.

The aeipathy he developed after being stabbed by a yelve reached the point of patration and he died.

His aeipathy for ancient farming methods lead to the patration of his small book on yelves.

The dragons aeipathy to protect the earth from the patration of the farmer’s plan lead to her stealing all the yelves.

The crossed yelves on his wall were part of his aeipathy for the patration of old farming tools.

You do not need a yelve to work in a word garden. What you need is an aeipathy for words , old and new and a desire to reach a patration using them. Well Quilly will give you the words and help you use them. Give her a try.

Raven's Challenge 91

2009-12-05T01:00:00.000-08:00

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle
Words for this week's 10-word challenge are: edge, haven, sunglasses, sprightly, telling, frazzled, juicy, quartet, tied, necklace
And for the mini: bees, crackling, wooden, staple, earful

A Mega Challenge

The Beginning - An Epic Poem

This is the telling of all that we can tell
An earful of history told so well
On the edge of time when all chaos was
Came the sprightly hand of the Great Because
No haven then no wooden trees
No singing birds or buzzing bees
No quartets of juicy pride
Just crackling chaos yet not tied
In quartets of creative bursts
Came so many spectacular firsts
Land the staple once for all
Came at the Creator’s call
Sunglasses needed to observe
Or have frazzled facial nerve
Necklaces of things He made
A great and wonderful parade
And at the top when He was done
Stood the greatest greatest one
Dragon made to govern all
Answered now the Creator’s Call

The Ten Word Challenge
The Great Inventor

It is time for the telling of another dragon history lesson. This week we want to introduce you to our great dragon inventor sprightly Nicholas Haven. He had a quartet of the greatest inventions in dragon history. Of course, we are sure you already know he invented sunglasses and necklaces. The modern worlds could not survive without those two inventions. But for dragons these were minor inventions.
He also made two great cutting edge inventions that changed the dragon world forever.
First of all he invented the dragon equivalent of a GPS system. Prior to that invention dragons just hoped they were going in the right direction. Often they would aim for Hawaii and end up in England totally frazzled and fit to be tied. With his new invention, we think you call it a compass they went in the right direction. Is it any wonder we honor him.
The second great thing he invented was a way to keep dead animals from drying out. Until this invention if you wanted to save a dead animal to eat several days later you knew it would no longer be juicy. It could be eaten but it lost its taste. But Nicholas gave us the powder of juice. You sprinkled it on the animal and even two weeks later it was still juicy.
Dragons revere the memory of Nicholas who would still be with us but he invented something called a pasty. It was potatoes and meat and a very special crust. He loved them after he invented them. One day he ate one hundred and fifty of them and the gas they created in his stomach caused him to explode. There were bits of Nicolas everywhere, an explosive end to an explosive inventor.

We dragons wish to thank Argent for these wonderful words. We really appreciate that you gave us words and not phrases as phrases are much less fun.

Flash 55

2009-12-03T13:00:00.000-08:00

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 super wonderful only fifteen words no impossible phrases.
They are: edge, haven, sunglasses, sprightly, telling, frazzled, juicy, quartet, tied, necklace, bees, crackling, wooden, staple, earful

In fact the words were too wonderful . The dragons got into a fight over using them in a story or a poem. Too keep them from burning up the house and each other they decided to post both:

Poor Joseph

Joseph Haven had become frazzled , fit to be tied. He was acting like one with an earful of bees. His old sprightly . crackling self was replaced by a wooden caricature that wore sunglasses and stopped telling stories about enchanted sinister necklaces, angry staples that danced and a juicy quartet of evil spirits at the edge .

Selling on E-Bay

Sunglasses worn by a demon
Bees raised by a freeman
A crackling wooden fireplace load
A necklace with a code
Quartet music on the edge
Sprightly earful by the Ledge
Haven Staple Gun so wide
A juicy roast neatly tied
Frazzled by the telling here
All in the E-Bay sphere
Bid till the end appear.

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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.

aquabib - 1. A drinker of water.
ficulnean adj -of fig-tree wood; worthless
brochity n -projecting or crooked quality of teeth

Back to OZ
The aquabib waited for more
His water spilled on floor
Ficulnean water now it was
Made him stop and pause
Brochity of the person new
Startled him with the view
Kexy face stared at him
The body fit and trim
Sober then he really was
Aware of all the flaws
Wished himself back in Oz

Quilly 38

2009-12-03T01:00:00.000-08:00

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

The 3WT #38 words will be: aquabib; ficulnean; brochity

aquabib - 1. A drinker of water.
ficulnean adj -of fig-tree wood; worthless
brochity n -projecting or crooked quality of teeth

After his last drinking bout which caused his ficulnean brochity he became an aquabib.

You seldom see an aquabib with a brochity because they refrain from ficulnean activities.

Dragons must not be aquabibs because too much water causes their flame to become ficulnean and sometimes this creates a hitonious brochity.

Parents should see to it that their children are aquabibs , have any brochity corrected, and refrain from ficulnean behavior.

As I watched the old drunk fall down adding to his brochity as his face hit the pavement I decided to be an aquabib and refrain from ficulnean drinking.

We will admit that Quilly's words can be a bit kexy. But they are clearly not ficulnean words. If for example you find a person with a horrible brochity You can talk about it and he will never know you are talking about him. The words are very good for aquabibs since they pretty much like to know what they are saying.
So the next time you are in a group astound them with your superb vocabulary and remember to thank Quilly.

Picture Story/Song

2009-12-01T01:00:00.000-08:00

A Picture Story from Portrait of Words

Our hero Thom did his pictures as a song story.
We want to emulate our hero so we wrote a song story but we are just beginning so we set it to the old dragon song " Twinkle Twinkle".
So here is our story song:

Fly On, Fly On

Fly on Fly on Little Birds

Leave the driving to us nerds

Up above my hat so high

Like a wheel in the sky

Fly on fly on little birds

Leave the driving to us nerds

flash 55

2009-11-26T13:26:00.000-08:00

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.

This week no Raven's or Quilly's words so we just wrote a 55 word story.

The Knight had a terrible sharp sword.
The poor dragon tried to fly but his inured wing prevented it.
He turned and faced the Knight.
His flame would not come on.
He screamed loudly and

woke up.
It was a dream

Of course it had to be. Humans don't exist except in children's fairy tales.

Raven's Challenge 90

2009-11-21T01:00:00.000-08:00

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle
Words for this week's 10-word challenge are: love is a many splendored thing, trucks, inspector, symbols, rising, organic, liberation, costly, smug, naughty And for the mini: the nature of the beast, identical, charcoal, braggart, vacation

A Mega Challenge
Vacation Love

Love is a many splendored thing
Tis a beautiful song to sing
Symbols rising in the air
Organic, naughty we don’t care
Vacation liberation for the young
Promises from the braggart’s tongue
Prove costly when home they go
The nature of the beast you know
An inspector to check our truck
But none to check our love luck
All that’s left of the smug young man
Identical charcoal pictures in the van

The Ten Word Challenge
A Dragon Love Story

A long long time ago before The Great Organic Liberation took place and when there were no trucks or inspectors or humans, for that matter. dragons like people today suffered from the costly romance virus.
We had songs like “ Love is a many splendored thing” but of course in Dragonesse. We had our naughty symbols drawn on cave walls. Smug young dragons stole off together because they felt the rising they called love.
From that time comes the greatest dragon love story of all, the story of Jack and Tilda.
Jack and Tilda literally ran into each other when they were learning to fly and it was love at first bump. In their heads the heavens opened and fireworks went off and they knew they were destined to be together for eternity. But their parents were old school dragons and had already picked life mates for them and so they refused to let them even visit with one another.
Thus it came to pass that one day they snuck off together to a hidden cave. There they promised to belong to each other in the next world since they couldn't belong in this one. Having made promises they rose high into the sky carried by the rising thermals from the local volcano. Then they joined wings and singing our greatest love song to each other loud enough to be heard by all the dragons they plunged into the volcano below. They were never seen again.
Their story has been told and retold down through the ages. No we use it to prove how costly romance is. Someday you humans will learn that lesson.

Flash 55

2009-11-19T16:00:00.000-08:00

Love Lost

Costly organic symbols designed to show that love is a many splendored thing revealed instead the nature of the beast. In his liberation the inspector had become a smug, naughty, braggart of a man drawing identical charcoal trucks on costly paper. Rising on his vacation only to eat and draw, he no longer loved her.

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Bad History

In the gardeviance up there
Enough to make one swear
Secret kexy letters so old
Now waiting to be sold
An aretaloger needed right now
To help hide a sacred cow
Nequient of building a plan
He grabbed letters and ran
No paladin to save his hide
Onto the stage did ride
Caught he just loudly cried.

Quilly's 37

2009-11-19T01:00:00.000-08:00

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

The 3WT #37 words will be: aretaloger; kexy; & gardeviance

Aretaloger-braggart; one who boasts about his own accomplishments
Kexy-dry, brittle, withered
Gardeviance -chest for valuables; a travelling trunk

In his gardeviance the kexy old man had the symbols of his wonderful accomplishments that allowed him to keep up his reputation as an aretaloger.

Our local aretaloger brags about the magic qualities of his gardeviance which kept leaves from becoming kexy.

The old somewhat kexy dragon couldn’t carry her gardeviance into the air and thus was forced to listen to the worst aretaloger who walked alongside.

The deer hunting aretaloger bragged that he got the deer out into the open by rubbing kexy leaves across the bamboo gardeviance he carried them in.

Tired of his constant bragging people threw kexy bricks at the aretaloger as he dragged his gardeviance out of town.

We will admit that Quilly's words can be a bit kexy. They are often found in old gardeviances filled with yellowing love letters writen long ago. They are not the kind of words the village aretaloger uses i9n his bragging. But if you lrearn a few the next time he brags answer him with Quilly words. That will shut him up.

Juanita and the Dragon

2009-11-17T01:00:00.000-08:00

A Picture Story from Portrait of Words

Juanita And the Dragon

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Juanita who lived with her parents in a very big town.
It had a marvelous old Church.
It had a big factory that processed coffee beans.
But Juanita was not happy. From her home she could see the beautiful mountains

But the only way for her to travel there and back was by bus and she was too poor to pay the bus fare.
But Juanita had a friend . His name was Fandango and he was a dragon. Her parents couldn't see him because they didn't believe in dragons. Her Aunts and Uncles couldn't see him because they didn't believe in dragons. But Juanita could see him and told him all her troubles.
One morning Fandango came and had her climb on his back and he flew her to the mountains. There she played all day with the young dragons. Late in the afternoon Fandango gave her a special plant to plant in the family garden and flew her home.
Her parents hadn't even missed her. She planted the special plant and by the end of the week it was not only growing well but it had multiplied and there were now five plants.
It was then that Fandango told her to tell her father that a man was coming who would offer to buy all of her plants but her father was to sell only one and charge $50. So she did.
Her father wanted to know how she knew this and she told him the dragon told her. Her father smiled. He just loved his daughter's imagination.
But then a man came and offered to buy all the plants and offered him $5.00 for the lot. Remembering what his daughter had said and having very little to lose her father told the man he would sell him only one and the price was $50. Much to his surprise, $50 being a lot of money in that town at that time, the man paid it.
Fandango told her the man would be back and this time her father was to sell him three plants at $50 each. So she told her father that the dragon what the dragon said. This time he did not smile as he was beginning to believe in dragons.The man came and the deal was struck.
And so it went through the summer. The plant continued to multiply but would grow nowhere else. It had great medicinal qualities. The father was now selling twenty plants for $300. He became the richest man in the village.
Soon he and the entire family could see Fandango and they had many nice visits.
I have to tell you this was a true story and I still visit Juanita from time to time.

An Award

2009-11-16T13:01:00.000-08:00

Look! Look! Look!

We have another award.
This one from Clean and Crazy
This is a really special award.
It is special because it has dragons in it.
It is just for us.
We are so thrilled.
We don't even have to give it away.
There are no requirements.

WoW!

This is important because after tomorrow which is in auto post we may be gone. Dr. John is sick and when he is sick he gets crabby and is threatening to send us to his son's house. The end of our blog. We would them be very sad.

Raven's Challenge 89

2009-11-14T01:00:00.000-08:00

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle

This Week's Ten Word Challenge will be: officer, candid, drowning, turtles, sugar-coated, prospecting, shame on you, reclinder, luggage, brains
And for the mini: paragon of virtue, cats-in-the-cradle, swamp, sprinkles, garbage

A Mega Challenge
Dirty Officer

Cats-in-the-cradle and baby’s in the cage
Swamp turtles on the floor dropped in a rage
Luggage filled with garbage on the table new
When you walked sawdust sprinkles flew.
To be candid the place had an odor of its own
Drowning in cat droppings the odor had grown
There sat Officer MCGruth in the easy chair
The old reclinder looking none the worse for wear
Like a paragon of virtue he sat up straight and tall
How could this happen if he had brains at all
I have not sugar-coated this prospecting for the truth
Shame on you! Shame on you! Officer MCGruth

The Ten Word Challenge
Give us the Parrot

If you came for a dragon history lesson we apologize but we are on code flashing purple which is war footing. We may have to go to war with Phrog and company. We learned last week they have our Magic Parrot which we need to make magic parrot soup. We have dispatched an Officer of the Dragon Court to request the return of said parrot. To be candid with you we do not want to go to war. But it is our parrot and we want it back.
It is possible, of course , that Phrog believed the parrot’s lies. He tells people we want to cut him up in little pieces for the soup. Well Phrog if you believed that shame on you. Anybody with brains could figure out that we need that parrot not for its body but its magic. By magic it turns boiling legs of turtles, wings of bats, sugar-coated African beetles and dinosaur bones into magic parrot soup. This soup is drowning in out of this world flavor but without the magic it tastes like boiled luggage.
Until Phrog stole our parrot the hardest part of the soup to get was the dinosaur bones. It took a lot of prospecting to find them . And remember that dragons can not sit and relax in a reclinder like humans do.
So let us once more assure you no parrots are ever killed in the making of Magic Parrot soup.

flash 55

2009-11-12T13:00:00.000-08:00

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 .-19 words out of the 55)Words for this week: officer, candid, drowning, turtles, sugar-coated, prospecting, shame on you, reclinder, luggage, brains, paragon of virtue, cats-in-the-cradle, swamp, sprinkles, garbage

Officer Sprinkles, a paragon of virtue, pointed out that no matter how you sugar coated it the Cats-In-The-Cradle garbage company was drowning swamp turtles in garbage including old reclinders, old luggage, old prospecting equipment, and other old junk.
Shame on you Mr. And Mrs. America, to be candid, if you had brains this wouldn't happen.

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Nancy Wins

She sought to pudify him
His wings sought to trim
a rimestock of ideas old
Left standing in the cold
As confabulation not her style
He’s in her out file
Government Option had to be
To this she would see
An operiment on debate keep
Conservatives made then to weep
Freedom gone like BoPeep’s sheep

Quilly 36

2009-11-12T01:00:00.000-08:00

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

Week Thirty-Six: (11.12.09) confabulation; pudify; & rimestock.

confabulation-To talk casually; chat. or the replacement of a gap in a person's memory by a falsification that he or she believes to be true.
pudify- to cause to be ashamed
rimestock-old almanac with runic writings

Because his theft of the rimestock did pudify him he replaced that memory with a confabulation.

In his confabulation with friends he sought to pudify Frank because of having created the fake rimestock.

The old dragon knew where the stolen rimestock was hidden and that fact did pudify him , at least that’s what he told his friends during their confabulations.

The old rimestock contained information that would pudify the entite town and become the center of all friendly confabulations.

The rimestock contained nothing that would pudify me in the retelling of my grandfather’s confabulations with the spies unless it was hidden in the two pages of runic script.

If you had an old rimestock you would find many of Quilly's words in it. They have been around for a long time and were used in many a confabulation. But now they are almost forgotten. If your failure to help save them will purdify you then save yourself and use them every day.

An Award

2009-11-09T01:00:00.000-08:00

We are so excited our new friend Jesse gave us an award.
But squirt pointed out that we already have that award.
To be candid he is always ruining things
He thinks he is the officer in charge of truth.
But shame on you squirt for pouring garbage on our award.
Just because you have brains doesn't mean your a paragon of virtue.
It's your stupid prospecting for mistakes that take the fun out of life.
Why don't you take your luggage and go play cats-in-the-cradle in the swamp with the turtles..
We like our truth sugar coated with sprinkles.
You sit on your reclinder and enjoy drowning us in facts.
Even though we can't take it twice we are really thankful that Jesse thought of us.
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Raven's Challenge 88

2009-11-07T01:00:00.000-08:00

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle

This Week's Ten Word Challenge will be: Cute, come with me to the Casba, bloodhound, respiration, Facebook, Canada Geese, modern, gravity, spider webs, sea shells
And for the mini: curiosity killed the cat, charming Victorian, railroad tracks, tower, salt and pepper

A Mega Challenge

Setting the Mind Free

Come with me to the Casba
Holding a bouquet of the Calaba
Leave modern Facebook behind
Climb the tower of the mind
Clean out spider webs of doubt
See Canada Geese on route
Gravity can’t pull us down
Your wearing such a cute crown
Respiration slow and steady
Beginning to feel rather heady
Bloodhound yapping on railroad tracks
Want to see what it impacts
But curiosity killed the cat
Charming Victorian cat at that
So think of sea shells becoming plates
Salt and pepper from heaven’s gates
So fly free my soul fly free
Let us become what we should be.

The Ten Word Challenge
Two Great Dragons

We dragons are very pleased that you have liked our history and today we want to introduce you to two of our important historical dragons.
First there is Olympus Facebook. He developed the modern theory of gravity back when you humans were just learning to walk upright. Never mind that cute Newton guy he got his theory from a friendly dragon and didn’t give him one ounce of credit. Then he didn’t get it completely right. Old Facebook was watching Canada Geese dropping sea shells when he realized that no matter where they were when they dropped them they dropped down instead of up. Out of that experience he developed a complex theory of the universality of gravitational forces.
Second is Augustus Bloodhound who can safely be called the father of modern dragon medicine. He is the one who discovered that illness came from germs and that germs could be killed . He gave us the respiration treatment that uses ground up spider webs to restore normal breathing. The Epic poem about his life “ Come With Me to the Casba” is required reading for every little dragon.

Facebook Trap-a 55

2009-11-05T13:00:00.000-08:00

A Facebook Trap

Thinking " This is a modern version of come with me to the Casba" and knowing that curiosity killed the cat, still he was pulled by their cute charming Victorian Facebook message about gravity and its effect on Canada Geese,bloodhounds, spider webs, sea shells, towers, railroad tracks,respiration and salt and pepper.
He was trapped.

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Suffarcinate-to load up, to stuff
spiscious-adj. of a thick consistancy
tristifical-adj. causing to be gloomy or grievous

maleolent-adj 1657 -1727-having an ill odour
xenization- n 1818 -1818- to exist as a stranger.
pigritude-n 1623 -1656- slothfulness

tenellous adj 1651 -1651- somewhat tender
utible adj 1623 -1711- serviceable; useful
nubivagant adj 1656 -1656- moving throughout or among clouds

misqueme v 1395 -1658-to displease; to offend
tragematopolist (plural tragematopolists)- 1. A confectioner, or a seller of sweets.
vacivity n 1656 -172 -Emptiness, containing nothing; meaningless, without knowledge or sense; frivolous; foolish

Don't Mess with the Boss

A nubivagant bird up above
Might be a utible dove
The maleolent thing here below
Pigritude left nowhere to go
His tenellous face did ache
Misquemed boss with his fake
Vacivity was now his fate
Tristifical event laid out straight
Spiscious gloom over him laid
Xenization the price he paid
Suffarcinates up and then prayed.

Quilly 35

2009-11-05T01:00:00.000-08:00

It is a Quilly day. Time to take Quilly’s three words for the day and write a story.
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The 3WT #35 words will be: Your choice of any new words introduced in October. They are:

Suffarcinate-to load up, to stuff
spiscious-adj. of a thick consistancy
tristifical-adj. causing to be gloomy or grievous

maleolent-adj 1657 -1727-having an ill odour
xenization- n 1818 -1818- to exist as a stranger.
pigritude-n 1623 -1656- slothfulness

tenellous adj 1651 -1651- somewhat tender
utible adj 1623 -1711- serviceable; useful
nubivagant adj 1656 -1656- moving throughout or among clouds

misqueme v 1395 -1658-to displease; to offend
tragematopolist (plural tragematopolists)- 1. A confectioner, or a seller of sweets.
vacivity n 1656 -172 -Emptiness, containing nothing; meaningless, without knowledge or sense; frivolous; foolish

The poor boy suffarcinated on candy trying to forget the maleolent body he had tripped over in the cemetery that caused the tenellous spot on his arm.

In his mind he was a beautiful nubivagant bird and not the tristifical lowlife whose pigritude was risible.

The spiscious , utible soup was something the dragon had never seen before in his xenization.

His pigritude which misquemed the tragematopolist lead to his tristifical response.

His vacivity misquemed even those guilty of maleolent breath and pigritude causing him to be a not utible subject which became a tenellous spot in their relationship..

Quilly’s words are very important. These are unsolicited quotes from users.
" Before Quilly's words I lead a tristifical life that misquemed everybody and lead to my xenization. But since I found Quilly's words I have been enabled to live as a utible part of society."
" Once I suffered from maleolent pigritude which lead to my vacivity and a hitonious morsicant condition. But since I discovered Quilly's words and embraced them I feel like a isangelous, nubivagant bird"

This could be you. Come join the Quilly club.There is no admitance fee. Just use the words.

Quilly's words and definitions can be found HERE.

Cecelia the Bitten

2009-11-03T01:00:00.000-08:00

A Picture Story from Portrait of Words

Cecila the Bitten and the Shapeshifter

It is time for another exciting chaper of Cecila the Bitten.
As you remember a long time ago she was bitten by a radioactive spider which gave her unbelievable powers.
AS you remember Cecila wanted to be called Spiderwoman but The Hero's Society of America told her that the name was already taken and disallowed it and the costume. She was heart broken but settled for Celia the Bitten for her hero name.
Today she is on her way down town on the bus to chase the hitonious bubblegum serial thief.
She was accompanied by her faithful sidekick Margo, who you surely know used to be married to Lamont Cranston, the Shadow. The marriage lasted until they couldn't see eye to eye , in fact she couldn't even see his eye, and they divorced. The Shadow then picked up Diana who had been the Phantom's girlfriend before that horrible accident with the lion left him short a leg.
Margo made a great sidekick to Celia the Bitten.
The hitonious bubblegum serial thief was a shapeshifter and so was hard to catch. He often appeared as this man.
But could just as easily appear as one of these:
Or even as a telephone pole.
Tonight they expected him to hit the new Community Opera House which had new bubble gum machines at every entrance.
Cecila headed for the bubble gum machines closest to the main door. Looking she said "Aha I've got ya".
Margo said." That's just a little kid".
Cecelia fired her web over the child's head and got all three machines.
The kid ran off screaming.
"One of these three machines is our shapeshifter." Cecelia announced. " Bubble gum machines always come in sets of two. Never ever three." Then to prove it she pulled a gun from her purse and aimed it at the first machine. " If I'm wrong three times in a row I'll pay for the machines but if I'm right we have one dead shapeshifter."
At that moment the end machine became a human being still held by the web. Cecelia used her ring to contact Superman who took the shifter away to a special prison made to hold crooks like him.
" Would you really have killed him?" asked Margo.
"With this ?" Cecelia asked pulling the trigger and watching the flame come out of the barrel. " It's just a lighter and it's plastic that looks like metal so metal detectors won't pick it up."
Another case solved by Cecelia the Bitten.

Raven's Challenge 87

2009-10-31T01:00:00.000-07:00

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle

This Week's Ten Word Challenge will be:plumber, autograph, Florence Nightengale, a chill wind’s a blowing, watering hole, sleek, triplets, backwards, surface tension, parrot
And for the mini: Free estimates,French fries, carpet, Braille, silver-tongued bandit

A Mega Challenge
Death Parrot

Florence Nightengale was a plumber
Who drove a very sleek Hummer
Her free estimates were never right
Which lead to many a terrible fight
She was called “ The Silver Tongued Bandit”
for that Fr ench Fries Jackson gets the credit
Of the Tumbling Triplets he was just one
Held the carpet till the others were done
“a chill wind’s a blowing” his parrot said
The one they called “ Watering Hole Fred”
The same words backwards he could say
Or “autograph my Braille book today”
But still on the surface tension grew
Till through the air the bullets flew
Florence Nightengale now lay dead
“Blowing a wind’s chill a” said Fred.

The Ten Word Challenge

The Story of Heroic Maram

This week we are going to share with you a dragon story. It is the kind of story we tell little dragons.At the watering hole, in the early evening, when a chill wind ‘s a blowing and breaking the surface tension causing little waves to break on the shore. As we stand and shiver together it is the task of the Storyteller to parrot back the stories passed on to her or him from the generations past. This is such a story.
When the great plumber plague hit that wiped out one third of all the dragons in the world one great figure rose up in service to us all. She was our equivalent of the human Florence Nightengale. Her name was Mapam, an odd name for a dragon as it reads the same both forwards and backwards. She was one of triplets that emerged from the same egg , a very rare occurrence, in the world of dragons.
When the plague came it was the custom to leave the sick dragons in the cave and get as far away as possible. Thus many dragons went to parts of the earth where no dragon had ever been seen before.
Those left in the caves with none to bring them food or water usually died. But sleek young Mapam found this unacceptable. At that time she was singing with the Very High Flyers the most popular group of the time. She was famous , had many fans, and often signed autographs in fire.
But she left all that and began a ministry of love to those in the caves. Every day she brought them water and food, and such herbs as were thought to help. If they died she performed the ritual burning so their soul could go to the One Creator.
Other dragons said she was insane. They said she would get the plague and die. Every day more caves were added and the work got harder. But she continued. These were fellow dragons she said . They deserve to be cared for.
But then one day she got the plague. But in her pain she tried to keep going. The hearts of some other dragons melted and the Maram Corp was born to carry on her work.
When she died it is said that the One Creator Himself lit the sending flame.

Friday 55

2009-10-30T13:00:00.000-07:00

Breaking the Tension

" A chill wind's a blowing over the watering hole" said Florence Nightengale waiting for the sleek silver -tongued bandit as the surface tension increased . "Free estimates on carpet" said her french fry eating parrot doing backwards triplets over the cage bottom. still lined with the braille autograph of the plumber, and inadvertently breaking the tension.

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Bad Packing

Spiscious soup in a can
Big bottle of jellied pecan
They suffarcinated his back pack
Going away to the Outback
Tristifical food they carefully took
Tears ran like a brook.
He wanted ham and jam
Not this hitonious old Spam
Maleolent cheese was also there
He’d rather eat his underwear
Pigritude then fed the bear

Quilly's Words no 34

2009-10-28T01:00:00.000-07:00

It is a Quilly day. Time to take Quilly’s three words for the day and write a story.
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The 3WT #34 words will be: suffarcinate; spiscious; & tristifical.
Suffarcinate-to load up, to stuff
spiscious-adj. of a thick consistancy
tristifical-adj. causing to be gloomy or grievous

He suffarcinated the test tube with the suspicious spiscious liquid which caused tristifical wailings in those who touched it.

If you suffiarcinate your schedule you will find yourself crying spiscious tristifical tears.

The dragon knew that if he was to suffarcinate his stomach with a very spiscious soup it would lead to tristifical wailing caused by his stomach pain but he did so anyway.

The spiscious headed old man thought he could suffarcinate Quilly’s words but his attempt lead to a tristifical story that made everybody cry.

He would soon suffarcinate his pipe with a spiscious tobacco the tristifical odor of which brought tears to the eyes of those around him.

Quilly’s words are just plain fun so suffarcinate your word processor with them. They are good for all but the spiscious headed. they are not tristifiical words that cause great wailing. But instead are both mellifluous and isangelous words. You will know when you use them.

Quilly's words and definitions can be found HERE.

More Awards

2009-10-27T08:04:00.000-07:00

We were gone for a bit visiting our good friend Luke in Green Bay. He has a nice Lego castle he lets us play in.
But we are back and we are so very happy. We are dancing around the office. We did knock over a few things but given our great news nobody should care.
We have gotten three , count them, three more awards.

Aren't they beautiful. We love each one.
They came from the Great and Noble Thom who gives good things to dragons.
Of course we deserve them. Our blog is inspirational. And we really have the heart of the dragon. We are even as nice as butterflies.
How could one help but give them to us.
Brest of all there are no conditions.
We don't have to tell you eight ways to cook a banana or any other crazy thing.
Isn't that wonderful.
We don't have to give them to anybody else. So we can keep them just for us.
Again we want to thank all those who did a little tiny bit in getting us these awards.
The faeries deserve special note because their magic has kept Dr. John from heaving us out.
WE don't think he will be happy. But that is not important because we are.
What a wonderful world.

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Raven's Challenge 86

2009-10-24T01:00:00.000-07:00

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle

This Week's Ten Word Challenge will be: Incensed, sidewinder, bogus, conniption, Haz-mat, conniving, customize, perforated, zeal, rolling off a log
And for the mini: abstemious, chlorophyll, origami, cheerleader, dung beetle

A Mega Challenge

Saving the Dung Beetle

The poor city Haz-mat team
Was pushed to the extreme
Dung Beetle needed to be saved
From the conniving and depraved
Who perforated the ground
Where it was usually found
Incensed the ecological crowd
Screamed this couldn’t be allowed
With zeal they lead the fight
To make everything be right
Like cheerleaders they shouted out
They had great political clout
With origami beetles filled city hall
In the fight whatever befall
The Mayor a conniption had
Drove him stark raving mad
No bogus anger his reply
“Let the Dung Beetles die
They smell like rotting things
Rotting things with wings”
“Chlorophyll can fix the smell
Save the planet . Let them dwell
Customize the city reply
They all don‘t have to die
Don‘t fire a sidewinder
You can be much kinder
Abstemious destruction of the bug
Better than acting like a thug
Like rolling off a log you see
The best answer for you and me ”’

The Ten Word Challenge

The Dragon’s History Book– Chapter One

At the dawn of time as dragon’s know it the world was perfect. We needed no Has-Mat teams as there was no hazardous waste.
History was saved as stories ,told by the Storyteller Dragon to the little dragons, as there were no humans to write things down.
These stories were treated as sacred truth and no bogus stories were allowed. You might think that becoming a Storyteller would be as easy as rolling off a log but it was not. It required many years of instruction to sure they got the stories right. They also had to demonstrate a zeal for the sacred truth given to us in stories by the One Creator.
But it came to pass that there arose Sidewinder who had been a Storyteller but was thrown out because of his conniving to customize the sacred texts to fit his generation of dragons. The GSAAS ( Great Storyteller Above All Storytellers was incensed and almost had a conniption fit when heard what Sidewinder was doing. He called the High Dragon Council together and they order Sidewinder’s death by perforation.
But before he could be perforated he formed “ The Reform Dragon Group” . It was made up of people like himself who believed in their hearts that the truth needed to be set free.
Eventually this lead to the Great Dragon War. The only war where dragon killed dragon. The reform movement was crushed. But there were those who told the story of the war and one day it was added to the official stories. And thus Sidewinder became our first Great Martyr.

Flass 55-Terror

2009-10-22T13:00:00.000-07:00

Bogus Terror

Abstemious eater Joseph Has-Mat was incensed, having a cheerleader like conniption with much zeal . He had by careful conniving purchased a customized sidewinder dung beetle missile .The promise that it would be as easy to use as rolling off a log was bogus.It couldn't have perforated the smallest origami, yet alone a chlorophyll tank.

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Daddy's Little Boy

His xenization period was short
Because of his dad’s support
His pigritude was then ignored
By members of the Board
A maleolent action they say
Certainly in the area gray
His action deserved a summotion
They gave him a promotion
A CEO he then became
His performance then so lame
He got paid the same

Quilly's Words # 33

2009-10-22T01:00:00.000-07:00

It is a Quilly day. Time to take Quilly’s three words for the day and write a story.
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The 3WT 33 words will be: maleolent; xenization; & pigritude.

maleolent-adj 1657 -1727-having an ill odour
xenization- n 1818 -1818- to exist as a stranger.

pigritude-n 1623 -1656- slothfulness

It was a maleolent town because of the pigritude of it’s people so he felt his feeling of xenization was justified.

His pigritude lead to his maleolent body which then caused his xenization.

The poor dragon’s pigritude caused him to fall into the maleolent swamp leading to his feeling of xenization.

His xenization followed by his pigritude lead him to think of this as a maleolent town but in reality it was not.

The maleolent lady married the maleolent man and because of their shared pigritude lived a life of xenization.

Quilly’s words are just plain fun and by using them you will be free of all feeling of xenization. . They can serve a utible purpose in allowing you to say things are maleolent without people knowing what you are saying.. They can even help you get over your pigritude. So please use them.

Quilly's words and definitions can be found HERE.

2009-10-21T16:37:00.000-07:00

We are proud to announce that we have received another award.
It was presented to us by the Great and Mighty Thom.
He is the kindest blogger on the internet.
He fills our dragon hearts with joy.
We love awards.
The Neno’s Award Rules and Regulations:

1. As a dedication for those who love blogging and love to encourage friendships through blogging.

2. To seek the reasons why we all love blogging.

3. Put the award in one post as soon as you receive it. ( done)

4. Don’t forget to mention the person who gives you the award. ( done)

5. Answer the award’s question by writing the reason why you love blogging. ( done)
We love blogging because so many really nice people blog

6. Tag and distribute the award to as many people as you like. ( done)
Jeans ‘n T Shirt
Jaque Machpherson-
Dragonstar-Dragon Days

7. Don’t forget to notify the award receivers and put their links in your post. (done)

Again we want to thank all those wonderful beings that made this possible. Though we certainly deserve it still we know you helped.

More Dragon Idioms

2009-10-21T01:00:00.000-07:00

Jientje at Heaven is in Belgium, hosts these picture idioms.

As we said last week we dragons have lots of idioms but they aren’t the same as yours and many have never been translated from old dragonize into English, probably because they don’t translate well. For example an idiom we use a lot in dragonize translates out to “Seventeen big black bugs and a cow “which is just nonsense in English.
Here are two more idioms that did translate well into English and in English are over two hundred years old.

Flying with a boken wing.
Which means that you have taken on a project you can't complete.

And

Go drop a rock
Which means quit whining and do something.

It comes from long ago when angry dragons picked up the biggest rock they could fly with and dropped it on whaterver they were angry at..

An Imaginary Story

2009-10-20T01:00:00.000-07:00

A Picture Story from Portrait of Words

An Imaginary Story

The mother dragon gathered her three little dragons around her and began to read them a story from " Gram's Imaginary Tales" Tonight my little dragons I am reading the story of the dragon and the troll" she said.
And so it began:
Once upon a time in a land called Cornwall there was a nice little village. Every house in the village looked like this.
And a street looked like this
Which meant that a human coming home late at night having had a few to drink had trouble telling where he lived. But that's another story.
The village of course had a beautiful old church.
Which had a cemetery.
It was your typical Cornish village. It even had a temple left over from the days of the Romans.
One day Kitto the Cornish dragon was flying over when he noticed the beautiful bridge over the town's watercourse.
Kitto liked old bridges so he flew down to walk across it . But before he could he was stopped by a smiling troll. The Troll said " To pass over this bridge you must pay a toll"
Kitto responded," I never pay tolls on bridges because I can fly over and besides your a mythical being and don't really exist. "
The troll said" Well! Your a mythical creature and you don't exist either."
With that exchange reality hit and they both vanished forever.
"End of story" The mother dragon said. Closing the book.
" Oh! " said the little ones. " Does that mean we are mythical and will cease to exist?"
" Of course not little ones" the mother said." It's only a make believe story. Just an imaginary story"

Another Award

2009-10-19T03:55:00.000-07:00

WE dragons are so proud. We have received another wonderful award. This one from that very special blogger , Thom. He knows quality when he sees it. He gave us this award.

We. of course, deserve it. There is no more honest blog than ours. It is not just honest it is super honest. ( Except for Henry)
We want to thank all of our relatives that have worked so hard to keep us honest.
We want to thank blogger because it is free and we are thrifty ( tight)
We want to thank the wonderful Dr. John for letting us use his computer ( Sorry about the scorch marks and the spilled can of soda)
Thanks to all the little people who made this possible.( Fairies , gnomes, and elfs)
We want to thank Bill who gave the award to Thom.
We want to thank that farmer who didn't see us swipe that cow thus keeping us technically honest.

First Award

2009-10-18T07:53:00.000-07:00

We have received our first award. Isn't that wonderful.
We don't know what it means but we know we deserve it. Who could deserve it more than us.
Now we need to list ten things about us.
1. We dragons are smarter than humans.
2. We can fly farther than the biggest bird.
3. We can become invisible.
4. Some of us are shape shifters.
5.We are very old.
6. We come from eggs.
7. We don't like Phrog.
8. We don't get the flue but do get Topaz fever
9. We have our own Secret Society
10. We no longer eat humans as tasty as they are.

Then we are supposed to pass this wonderful award on to seven deserving blogs. here they are:

Kathy-Reflection by Kathleen
Liz-Mommy’s Little Corner
Slacker-Chic
Jeans ‘n T Shirt
Dragonstar-Dragon Days
Becca-Beccas Back Yard
Marisa-Getting Back to Basics

Our hope is they will love this award as much as we do.

Raven's Challenge 85

2009-10-17T01:00:00.000-07:00

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle

This Week's Ten Word Challenge will be: early morning light, Pinocchio, mist, leaves, sandy, coffee, walking, traffic, pray, stomach
And for the mini: train, art, admirable, cotton, fluffy

A Mega Challenge
In Chase of Ghosts

In the early morning light
When the mist is just right
Where no traffic can run
In a place that most will shun
And the air feels like fluffy cotton
Along a sandy beach long forgotten
One leaves the coffee behind
And goes looking to find
The ghost of Pinocchio walking
And if you listen well, talking
And your stomach grabs up tight
While you pray to end your fright
It’s admirable that you stay
And do not hasten away
That too is an ancient art
You train to do your part
For soon the mist and ghost are gone
Gone with the morning dawn.

The Ten Word Challenge

The Dragon High Priest

It is time to share with you a little more about us dragons. Just do not share this information with Phrog.
The High Priest who is the head of our religion is named Pinocchio. No matter what his name was before, he becomes Pinocchio upon becoming the high priest. There have been in our recorded history twelve High Priests. There were probably more but the others are lost in the mist of time before recording began.
Every day in the early morning light the High Priest brings the ceremonial cup of coffee to the altar ,walking not flying into the temple. There he will pray to the Great Creator that no Air Traffic Controller will see a dragon on his or her radar screen. He then drinks the ceremonial cup and leaves the altar. It is said that the reason we have gone through so many High Priests is because the ceremonial coffee is hard on the stomach.
The coffee is made by soaking sandy coffee beans in turpentine and then setting them on fire. The ash is placed in a filter and hot water is passed over it producing the ceremonial coffee. So it has been for thousands of years. So it will continue to be. May Pinocchio be blessed and bless forever.

Flash 55-Pinochio

2009-10-15T13:00:00.000-07:00

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 really, really, really wonderful.-17 words out of the 55)early morning light, Pinocchio, mist, leaves, sandy, coffee, walking, traffic, pray, stomach, train, art, admirable, cotton, fluffy

Morning Adventure

Pinocchio looked through the mist in the early morning light to the sandy beach were Geppedo was walking. With admirable art he ground the fluffy, cotton like ,coffee leaves and made a stomach pleasing brew. Now he would pray that the traffic would be light and that the train leaves on time for his trip.

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Utible Things

Utible things I am told
Can be new or old
Nubivigant gliders that fly free
Carrying away you and me
Or a very special lotion
Healing tenellous spot in motion
Candy from the tragematopolist’s place
Energy burst for the race
Phalerae from very long ago
Laid out in a neat row
Utible things not for show

Quilly's Words

2009-10-15T01:00:00.000-07:00

It is a Quilly day. Time to take Quilly’s three words for the day and write a story.
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The 3WT words will be: tenellous; utible; & nubivagant.
tenellous adj 1651 -1651- somewhat tender
utible adj 1623 -1711- serviceable; useful
nubivagant adj 1656 -1656- moving throughout or among clouds

The blow to his head left him with a tenelous spot that ached and a feeling like a nubivagant bird as he tried to walk but he was still a utible member of the gang.

The old thing was a utible glider capable of nubivagant flight if handled with a tenellous touch.

The young dragon flew like a nubivagant and utible old timer even if his bottom was tenellous from his last landing.

This is the tenellous story of utible Joe who often dreamed he was a nubivagant superman.

My nubivagant days came to an end as I entered into a tenellous relationship with Sally who saw no utible purpose in flying.

Quilly’s words are just plain fun and by using them you feel like a nubivagant bird with such freedom. They can serve a utible purpose and give you tenellous thoughts. So please use them.

Dragon Idioms

2009-10-14T01:00:00.000-07:00

Jientje at Heaven is in Belgium, hosts these picture idioms.

We dragons have lots of idioms but they aren’t the same as yours and many have never been translated from old dragonize into English, probably because they don’t translate well. For example an idiom we use a lot in dragonize translates out to “Have three rocks and a yellow baby “which is just nonsense in English. It means the same as “ Have a good day”.
We do have two idioms that did translate well into English and in English are over two hundred years old.

Trying to hatch a can

Trying to do the impossible.

As in “ If you think you can fly from here to England in an hour your trying to hatch a can.
It was originally “Trying to hatch a rock” and grew from some old poor sighted dragon mistaking a rock for an egg.

That ain’t my fire.

I didn’t do it.

When a dragon is accused of doing something he didn’t do he responds “ That ain’t my fire”.
It comes from the days when there were many more dragons and they were always being accused of starting fires.

Raven's Challenge 84

2009-10-10T01:00:00.000-07:00

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle

This Week's Ten Word Challenge will be: plaster, cottage cheese, hallowed, hard working, food for thought, blood drive, broken finger, ceiling fan, pastry chef, production
And for the mini: the sky is falling, variations on a theme, bravery, powder puff, empty soda bottles

A Mega Challenge

Thoughts on War

Bravery at Broken Finger
Staring William Winger
Hard Working Soldiers Three
With old Amanda Lee
The Blood Drive of War
No hallowed stars at the core
The Sky is Falling
With Debra Rawling
Variations on a theme
Movies in the war stream
Give food for thought
What has man wrought?
We made cottage cheese and plaster casts.
Ceiling fans and stuff that lasts
Powder Puffs and go-cart throttles
Full and empty soda bottles
Productions by a pastry chef
Hearing aids for the deaf
And bombs to blow them all away.

The Ten Word Challenge
Pastry Chef to the Dragons

Our hard working pastry chef has produced for us dragons some of the most fantastic pastries ever made. He has one that looks like a broken finger dipped in blood from the blood drive. If you can imagine that. How he shapes them without using any plaster is a mystery but we think it has something to do with cottage cheese. His most recent production is a cake shaped like a ceiling fan with four blades, strawberry, chocolate, banana, and grasshopper. We will be celebrating with this cake after the grand rededicate of our hallowed Shrine which we got back from Phrog and his evil dominions. He cleared out after we “ lost “ the war. This kind of loss should happen more often and deserves two cakes. I’m going to talk to the cook. Exactly how we lost the war and got the Shrine is food for thought.
This is food that makes you think.

Flash 55- Variations

2009-10-08T01:00:00.001-07:00

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 really, really, really horrible -hitonious even.-33 words out of the 55)
They are: plaster, cottage cheese, hallowed, hard working, food for thought, blood drive, broken finger, ceiling fan, pastry chef, production, the sky is falling, variations on a theme, bravery, powder puff, empty soda bottles

Variations on a Theme

The sky is falling, food for thought, plaster cast of empty soda bottles, extreme powder puff bravery, cottage cheese pastry chef, and extra hallowed blood drive were all variations on a theme being developed by the hard working writers of Ceiling Fan Production at Broken Finger, Michigan. But nobody can remember what the theme was.

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Dumb Kid

The vacivity of his head
Made his mom see red
Tragematopolists by name he knew
School stuff not a clue
Misqueme her every other day
would just play and play
Pulchritudinious though he surely was
Like a character from OZ
Murklins his poor mind stayed
He never made the grade
From stupidity he never strayed.

Quilly's Words # 31

2009-10-08T01:00:00.000-07:00

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

Click on the blue highlighted words for definitions.
The 3WT #31 words will be: misqueme; tragematopolist; & vacivity

Vacivity, vacivity all is vacivity said the tragematopolist when he discovered that his candy would misqueme the King.

The vacivity of the tragematopolist’s head caused him to misqueme his best customer.

The fact that all the dragon had to eat was three tiny rabbits left a vacivity in his stomach that a fat tragematopolist for super would not misqueme.

He did not wish to misqueme but when he saw the vacivity of the candy barrel the tragematopolist began to swear.

The vacivity of the child’s mind caused it to run into the street when it saw the tragematopolist and its parent became very angry though it did not wish to misqueme the child.

Quilly’s words are just plain fun and by using them you bring them back from near death. Unless you suffer from a vacivity of the brain it will not misqueme you to ask you to do that. Think of yourself as a Think of yourself as a tragematopolist who brings sweet words to a sour world.

Mean Widdle Kid

2009-10-06T01:00:00.000-07:00

A Picture Story from Portrait of Words

Hi there.

My names is Mellisa Ann and I'm not a mean widdle kid. This is my brudder
We don't neeed him but my swilly parents got upset when I said throw him away.
They called me a mean widdle kid. But I ain't.
Ask my dragon friends. I solve problems for them.
It seems they had this special place called a Shine or Spine or Shrine. It was hidden in a dark scary area.

But inside they tell me there were real rainboows.Yes rainoows and special light.
But this evil Phrog went to war to take it away from them. Bad phrog. The bad phrog even had magic for his evil. But so did my good dragons. They were ready to fight. Yes they were.
But then , one night the Evil Phrog and his minnuews snuck away. I think in this.

The evil Phrog moved to here

But we aren't supposs to know that . Then they announce that they WON.
This made Fandingo mad. He wanted his magicians to turn Phrog into a rock. But I said. You guys got the shine . If losing means its yours be happy and end the war. He was and he did.
See I'm a good widdle kid. I end wars.
But I still think we shouuld lose the brudder.

Raven's Challenge 83

2009-10-03T01:00:00.000-07:00

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle

This Week's Ten Word Challenge will be: family, cheese cake, 20 years ago, refrigerator, laugh and the world laughs with you, bath brush, zombies, African violets, butterflies, holding hands
And for the mini: monsters in the closet, roughly, bowling, menu, Pennsylvania

A Mega Challenge

A Really Bad Game

Laugh and the world laughs with you
Is a saying that’s not true
For there are monsters in the closet
Zombies with cheese cake to deposit
Holding hands with family butterflies
In Pennsylvania lies and lies
Holding hands of evil cards
Taking money from retards.
African Violets growing still
Roughly reminding of the thrill
Bowling balls in refrigerators
No match for the terminators.
20 years ago you played the game
Things have never been the same
No bath brush can make you clean
After all that you have seen
On the menu for today
Laughs are called for any way.

The Ten Word Challenge

Dragon Humor

“Laugh and the world laughs with you” does not apply to dragons. The dragon family has its own sense of humor and what we find funny you may not. For example if we picture Phrog in a butterflies tutu holding hands with zombies that makes us laugh. But then any picture with a zombie in it makes us laugh. And our idea of what is funny keeps changing. Twenty years ago a bath brush on a cheese cake in a refrigerator would have had us rolling on the ground in laughter but today it wouldn’t even rate a snicker. The big thing today is potted African Violets on hats. We saw a human with one of those hats last week and we almost died laughing. You humans have such a strange sense of humor. You laugh at people being hit in the head or poked in the eye and that isn’t funny to a dragon.

Friday 55-Monsters

2009-10-01T16:00:00.000-07:00

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 really, really, horrible -29 words)
Every week a nice lady named Raven gives us fifteen words and phrases to use in a story. Here we try to use those words and phrases in a flash 55.This week's words are:
family, cheese cake, 20 years ago, refrigerator, laugh and the world laughs with you, bath brush, zombies, African violets, butterflies, holding hands, monsters in the closet, roughly, bowling, menu, Pennsylvania

Family Monsters

Twenty years ago in my family in Pennsylvania the monsters in the closet were not refrigerator zombies holding hands filled with African Violets , butterflies, cheese cake, or bath brushes. But bowling cousins that said laugh and the world laughs with you while treating you very roughly and tearing up your personal menu for the day.

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Heads will Roll

The bacchante with weird hair
Didn’t really seem to care
That the glabrous man had none
she wanted just more fun
His tenebrous mood she ignored
Till he raised that sword
Ebullient he took her head
She of course is dead
Hitonious is the terrible game
Where heads roll the same
Rated R for not tame.

Quilly's Ungiven Words

2009-10-01T01:00:00.000-07:00

It is a Quilly day. Time to take Quilly’s three words for the day and write a story.
Well Quilly didn't give us three words this week. Instead she said get our three words from this list, HERE.
We dragons couldn't agree on which three words and had a bit of a fracas over them. We singed the monitor and knocked over a few things with our tails and people were not happy with us. We don't want to sound ebullient but we reached an agreement where each dragon picked his or her own words.
Click on the blue highlighted words for definitions.

Vultuous , Viliorate, Veteratorian, volgivagant
The vultuous head of Mushka identified her as a dragon of the volgivagant group from the mountains of Tennessee but in no way did it viliorate her veteratorian nature.

Opprobrious, operiment, obstrigillate , obrumpent

His opporbious conduct caused the obrumpent of the glass operiment and caused them to obstrigilate his future activity.

Perspicacious, Prolix, Paladin, phlyarologist
The perspicacious perception of the paladin saw through the prolix speech of the phlyarologist.

Sternutation, sublunary, susurrus, summotion
His continued sternutation was assumed to be sublunary but still lead to his summotion from the chamber where only susurrus was allowed.

Assiduity, Acrasia, amanuensis, Antediluvian
His antediluvian clothing hid his acrasia and allowed him to get a job as an amanuensis which he worked at with considerable assiduity.

Quilly’s words are just plain fun and by using them you bring them back from near death. Think of yourself as a word paladin and a bringer of a mellifluous new age.

Raven's Challenge 82

2009-09-26T01:00:00.000-07:00

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle

This Week's Ten Word Challenge will be:Tibetan sky, symbols, won’t you come home Bill Baily, shadow figures, brain cortex, practice makes perfect, life, start of school, lavender, chow down

And for the mini: mental hospital, falling leaves, apple cider, packing crates, clues

A Mega Challenge
Crazy Thoughts

Won’t you come home Bill Baily
That stupid song played daily
He was painting a Tibetan sky
Never ever sure as to why
Symbols danced in his head
Lavender never ever red
Apple cider and packing crates
Two pair of boys ice skates
Shadow figures in falling leaves
DaVinci code clues from thieves
Chow down he has to eat
Then the process repeat
Paint it all over again and again
Practice makes perfect my friend
Brain cortex hurt at start of school
Life in mental hospital so cool.

The Ten Word Challenge

Dragon Mental Care

It’s time to tell you a bit more about us dragons. We bet you didn’t know we have our own mental hospital. It is located in Tibet under a beautiful Tibetan sky filled with symbols of peace and tranquility. Here there are dragons whose brain cortex was injured in the human dragon wars for the most part. There are a few who shredded brain tissue flying to close to jet planes. Our resident psychologist does the best she can like matching dragons to room colors. It seems that brain damaged dragons like lavender best of all.
But brain damage is brain damage and the results are often weird. One old dragon goes around all day swatting at shadow figures that he says won’t stop singing “ Won’t you come home Bill Bailey”. You have to stay out of his way because he swats hard. Of course he has had lots of practice and practice makes perfect.
Life here at Dragon Rest is very peaceful. There is none of that start of school nonsense that some places have. We know they can’t be taught. We just want them to be as happy as possible.
We make chow down or meals the best part of the day. They are served special dragon treats like frogs stewed in peanut butter , spiders boiled in apple cider, and , of course, whole American buffaloes . We dragons do care for our own.

The Mini Challenge- Magic to Magic

The High Dragon Council met in a back room of the Dragon Rest Mental Hospital. Each dragon had been served a plate of spiders boiled in apple cider and a jug of special apple cider as well.
The plates were seated neatly on the packing crates in front of each dragon. It was an urgent meeting as secret agent " Falling Leaves" had reported that there were clues leading one to believe that Phrog and company were calling in the magicians. This was not good news as it meant that sheer force would not return their shrine. Now it would be dragon magic against the stupid magic of the Order of the Salamanders. That could get really messy. Humans could get hurt. This was not a good thing.
Perhaps, we need to try diplomacy and find some way to share the shrine.

55 with a Raven side

2009-09-24T04:00:00.000-07:00

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 really, really, really horrible -33 words)
Every week a nice lady named Raven gives us fifteen words and phrases to use in a story. Here we try to use those words and phrases in a flash 55.This week's words are: Tibetan sky, symbols, won’t you come home Bill Baily, shadow figures, brain cortex, practice makes perfect, life, start of school, lavender, chow down, mental hospital, falling leaves, apple cider, packing crates, clues

Hallucinations

In the Falling Leaves Mental Hospital he could see shadow figures holding life symbols beneath a lavender Tibetan sky while he sang won't you come home Bill Bailey again as practice makes perfect. His apple cider on packing crates gave clues to his brain cortex on the start of school and when to chow down.

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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. Click on the special words for definitions. Please, again, note this is a quivel it does not pretend to be a poem or even poetic drivel.

Finding a Wife

The mariturient man was odd
Wanted us to play God.
Find a woman for him
Isangelous and so very trim
Not the openly ossifragant type
One not prone to gripe
One he could not obstrigillate
This surely his intended fate
Should prefer a ruricolous life
With an absence of strife
This to be perfect wife

Quilly's Old Old Words

2009-09-24T01:00:00.000-07:00

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

Click on the blue highlighted words for definitions.
obstrigillate ; ossifragant ; mariturient

Bob decided not to obstrigillate his mariturient cousin since she had thrown him down once with an ossifragant result.

The mariturient dragon afraid that at 500 years life was passing her by and with an ossifragant desire to sit an egg could not obstrigillate the young dragon’s advances.

In the ring she was an ossifragant wrestler that nobody could obstrigillate but outside she was a mariturient lady who kept her occupation hidden from potential suitors.

If you called her a mariturient lady she would obstrigillate the title with sometimes ossifragant results as she was convinced it was her brother that was the mariturient one.

Only an ossifragant accident would be a force strong enough to obstrigillate the walking down the aisle of the mariturient lady.

If you are a mariturient man or woman these words won’t help you any. Perhaps you should quit your obstrilligation of on line dating. I know that some people had ossifragant experience with people they met that way but others found an isangelous friend for life.

In any case Quilly’s words are just plain fun and by using them you bring them back from near death. Think of yourself as a word paladin and a bringer of a mellifluous new age.

Dang that Phrog

2009-09-22T01:00:00.000-07:00

A Picture Story from Portrait of Words

This is a frog.

We dragons have no problem with it. We do have a problem with Phrog. Phrog is the Mucky Muck High Beans of a Secret Society. The Royal Order of Dragons are trying very hard to get along with that society. But to be honest with you Phrog and company are quite standoffish and difficult to relate to.
Our latest fight comes over the shrine of the Dragon Queen which they want to call the Sacred Shrine of the Salamander . Aside from the fact there is clearly nothing sacred about Salamanders we found it first. You have to fly a long way down a peaceful river to get there. Phrog can’t even fly. They had to go by boat. The shrine is ours.
The Dragon Council will meet and if Phrog is not careful he could end up as Phrog pie. That would be very tasty.
Our lawyer Nerstorica Snodgrass, shown here with her pet cactus, says we have a great case if it were to go to Court. But she doesn’t think Secret Societies should fight in Court too many secrets end up leaking out. She recommends that we get tough as we are bigger than they are.
But we are a peaceful group. We really don’t want to use force. Our lawyer attended too many wild west shows on her vacation. She forgets diplomacy is better than war.
So we have decided to give Phrog and his bunch a week to clear out of our shrine. After that the Council will meet again and this time we might listen to our lawyer.

Raven's Challenge 81

2009-09-19T01:00:00.000-07:00

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle
This Week's Ten Word Challenge will be: dangerous, engine, sullenly, bespoke, evergreen, bauble, medicine, freight, destined, tinsel

And for the mini: carbon, feelers, outright, ballet, fizzing

A Mega Challenge
An old word better forgoten

Bespoke software made for you
Now suits can be bespoke too
Dangerous this word to use
Destined for outright abuse
Can there be bespoke freight?
Sullenly I contemplate
A bespoke engine free of gas
Evergreen help in its class
Fizzing medicine now bespoke
Makes us well ,that’s no joke
Bespoke baubles in lady’s wear
Carbon feelers hanging there
Bespoke tinsel for your tree
A bespoke ballet for you to see
An old word come back to life
In my poor head causes strife

The Ten Word Challenge

A Dragon Adventure

Once upon a time deep in the evergreen forest there lived a very dangerous dragon who would fly out to the nearest human freight station and steal precious baubles. The owner of the station saw his profit being destroyed and was afraid his lifestyle of bespoke suits, fancy cars with big engines, and trips to Tinsel Town would end. So he sullenly swore that the dangerous dragon was destined to die at his hand. He was so determined to carry out his threat that he went to an auction of items from a twelfth century castle and bid on what the auctioneer said was rumored to be the last of the great dragon slayer swords. The sword was supposed to have been given magic powers by the greatest magician of the time.
The owner then had his guard put on a suit of armor and stand on the loading dock with the sword in hand every evening. The dangerous dragon feeling the magic and seeing the guard never returned. The guard and his sword soon became the symbol for the company which changed its name to Knight of the Road Freight. The owner so wanted to kill the dragon and was so disappointed in his failure to do so that he became sick and needed expensive medicine just to survive.
The good news is that the dangerous dragon now gets his baubles from HSN on television.

Flash 55 Again

2009-09-17T13:00:00.000-07:00

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 really, really, really wonderful -15 words)
Every week a nice lady named Raven gives us fifteen words and phrases to use in a story. Here we try to use those words and phrases in a flash 55.This week's words are: dangerous, engine, sullenly, bespoke, evergreen, bauble, medicine, freight, destined, tinsel, carbon, feelers, outright, ballet, fizzing

The Fizzin Engin

The freight he was hauling consisted of evergreen branches, tinsel baubles, large medicine bottles and carbon feelers destined to be outright props in the Winter Ballet "Santa Bespoke".
Then his engine started fizzing. Was it dangerous ? He had no idea as it had never happened before. But he sullenly drove on hoping to reach town.

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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. Click on the special words for definitions. Please, again, note this is a quivel it does not pretend to be a poem or even poetic drivel.

Bad Learning

Stop with the quibbleism now
She said to the talking cow
The cow obrument with pride
It never ever having lied
But casuistry it did enjoy
Such a very human ploy
So intransigent it then became
Could play their silly game
Talking on and saying naught
The cow was television taught
Words didn’t mean a lot

Quilly and More Words

2009-09-17T01:00:00.000-07:00

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

Click on the blue highlighted words for definitions.
quibbleism; obrumpent; & temeration

He was told that his ceaseless quibbleism would not prevent people from seeing that the temeration of his wedding vows began with the obrument of the balloons.

It is a fact that constant quibbleism leads to many temerations of vows and this leads one to believe that obrumpent vows is the intent of such quibbling.

Obrumpent with pleasure he put aside his usual quibbleism to enjoy the spectacle of a Senator caught in the temeration of his campaign promises.

Obrumpent with self importance the silly dragon said things that lead to the temeration of his vows to the group never to enter into undragon like quibbleism.

The obrumpent of bombs were part of the war that began because of the temeration of promises one country made to the other They had tried to cover up the breaking with a barrage of quibblesim but to no avail.

Quilly's words are perfect if you wish to get really good at quibblesim. You can say much and nobody will know what you are saying. They are good in marriage as well. Give your wife a beautiful bouuquet of flowers and tell her you are considering tremeration of your wedding vows. She will think it's something wonderful.
Futher just knowing the words will allow you to be obrumpent with pride.

And if you begin to use Quilly's words on your blog people will notice your blog.
So be brave, step up. Use Quilly's words

Raven's Challenge 80

2009-09-12T01:00:00.000-07:00

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle
This Week's Ten Word Challenge will be: Charitable, alligator, tribute, drunk, slave, preparation, carrots, mountainside, propeller, lark
For the mini challenge: chisel, worship, suicide, organic, plus

A Mega Challenge
Bad Man

The lark from the mountainside
Now caged somewhere inside
Is as much a slave as ever was
That fact makes one pause
The alligator in the zoo
It’s a slave you know it’s true
Would commit suicide
But even that is denied
You worship in the house of God
While on their rights you trod
Being as charitable as we can be
The best preparation that we see
Is a tribute to your greed
Of a Zoo there is no need
Drunk with power you’re the man
They have to fit your plan
Propeller planes plus boats as well
Bring animals to your hell
Chisel them in statues great
Never mind their real fate
Organic carrots for your meal
They get food with no appeal
Perhaps some far future day
Something puts you in Zoo to stay.
Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!
What else is there to say?

The Ten Word Challenge

One Very Ticked Dragon

One of your so called experts, Professor Linus T. Lark, has really ticked us dragons off. He suggested that dragons evolved from mountainside alligators. He must have been drunk. We notice your human experts do a lot of drinking. We also notice that ,no matter how silly, you humans tend to be slaves to the opinions of your experts. We are trying very hard to be charitable here but we are so upset. Our Holy Book clearly states that before the Great Creator created the earth He created dragons out of nothing. “We came from nothing we go to nothing” we say at every funeral. It is how we make preparation for the life yet to come. You know where there will always be carrots for all.
How dare you people ,who wear hats with little propellers , dare to attack our Holy Book. Can those hats make you fly?
I would have eaten your expert as a tribute to the Book but the other dragons reminded me that would break the Accords. In four hundred years no dragon has done that. But if he keeps pushing?
What next? People evolving from Monkeys?

55 Mountainside

2009-09-10T16:00:00.000-07:00

( This week's Raven's words were really, really, really wonderful -15 words)
Every week a nice lady named Raven gives us fifteen words and phrases to use in a story. Here we try to use those words and phrases in a flash 55.This week's words are: Charitable, alligator, tribute, drunk, slave, preparation, carrots, mountainside, propeller, lark, chisel, worship, suicide, organic, plus

No Shrine Here

Lark Alligator raised organic carrots plus radishes on the mountainside . The garden was a tribute to his slaving at chiseling away rock in it's preparation .Now some drunk had crashed his propeller driven plane in a suicide act of mountain worship. Lark did not feel charitable when they wanted to make it into a shrine.

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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. Click on the special words for definitions. Please, again, note this is a quivel it does not pretend to be a poem or even poetic drivel.

The Good Life

To live a ruricolous life
To put aside urban strife
Live with the outdoor crew
Ponsak a bird or two
No stiricide in winter there
Winter walk without a prayer
This is my daily dream
impossible as it may seem
Where noises do not viliorate
Man and nature do cooperate
there is no passing hate.

Quilly's Magic Words

2009-09-10T01:00:00.000-07:00

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

Click on the blue highlighted words for definitions.
.ponask; stiricide; & ruricolous

The poor bird left its ruricolous life to live near the barn in order to be warm but then stiricide ended its life and it was ponasked by the farmer.

People who live a ruricolous life know enough not to ponask a bird by the barn in winter because of the danger of stiricide.

In his rush to escape from being ponasked the little dragon caused a stiricide killing the man who had chased him from his ruricolous life.

After he almost died from the stiricide Fredrick became a vegetarian and pledged to respect all ruricolous life and never again to ponask a bird.

The practical Manuel on Ruricolous Living, written in 1753, illustrated both how to ponask a bird and keep from being killed by a stiricide.

I can not promise you that if you begin to use Quilly's words there will be no stiricide from your house this winter. Quilly's words won't help you ponask a poor partridge if you insist on shooting birds. And I'm sorry to say that Quilly's words can't give you any of the benefits of ruricolous living.
But if you begin to use Quilly's words on your blog people will notice your blog.
So be brave, step up. Use Quilly's words

Portrait of Words

2009-09-08T01:00:00.000-07:00

Before we get to the story we dragons want to thank Southlakes mom and her Daughter for our new logo.

This is our first Portrait of Words so please be kind to us. We decided to do it because we felt soory for Thom and Dr. John. They put in all that time and effort and so few people play so we joined in.

Searching for a Dragon

A Portrait of Words

It was a beautiful day , the sun was shining, and the white high clouds hung in dragon formations urging Kevin on.
He was halfway between the River of Mystery and Two Dragons Lake in the far North of Canada. He had stopped for a short rest before portaging the rest of the way. On his back he was carrying his canoe, everything he needed to camp for the night,
and the last of those wonderful peanut butter cookies his sister had made for him before he left the States.
The day had started well. He saw a squirrel and decided to see one this far North was a good omen. It might even have been a shape shifting dragon.
As far back as he could remember Kevin had only one real goal in life, he wanted to see a real dragon. Because of that he had mastered more languages than the average person knew existed. This language mastery both paid the bills and allowed him to read everything ever written about dragons. He knew that up until four hundred years ago dragons seemed to be everywhere. Then there was something vaguely referred to as the Accord and they ceased to exist. There were after that point no dragon sightings, no dragon attacks, no fossil records and that was that. All that was left were the folk tales .
Kevin looked around the little clearing where had stopped. It was filled with beautiful flowers. In the back of his mind he remembered some folk tale that said dragons love these flowers.
He felt that he was getting closer.
He hoisted the canoe onto his back and started up the trail again stopping only to pick up the can of worms he bought yesterday at the bait shop. Their big sign had reminded him that he had read that dragons love worms.
He just might need those.
Around four o’clock he reached the lake. He set up his tent and decided to put off exploring until tomorrow. He poured some water to rehydrate one of his meals, cooked it and sat back to just enjoy the lake.
That’s when the old man showed up.
“ Welcome! Kevin.” He said “ I’m the custodian of the lake.
We have decided that you can be trusted with the secret.”
At that the old man slowly became a dragon just a little taller than Kevin.
Then Kevin heard him speaking inside of his head. Kevin learned that he was to tell nobody what he had seen. He would be give an ancient amulet to carry with him. When it became warm he would know a dragon was near. He was on the edge of a new adventure.
“Would you like a worm ?” Kevin asked the dragon.
“ Don’t be silly dragons hate worms. But catch us some fish. We love fish”.

Raven's Challenge 80

2009-09-05T01:00:00.000-07:00

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle
This Week's Ten Word Challenge will be:Spam, perpetual motion, sprinkle, telephone pole, stains, alphabetical, surgery, flattery, liberty, preservation
For the mini challenge: shadows, singularity, Florida, caterpillars, copy

A Mega Challenge

My Surgery

Hickory Dickory Dock
The Mouse ran up the clock
But the clock was a telephone pole
And Florida was the goal
The mouse in perpetual motion ran
Too many shadows to get a tan
Caterpillars sprinkle shiny stuff
Spam stains on lady’s rough
Alphabetical data falling down
Sailor on liberty begins to drown
Sugary flattery by a clown
Preservation of tree frogs project one
Copy over and it is done
This singularity in the life of mine
Came with surgery just in time.

The Ten Word Challenge

Dragons Like Spam

Believe it or not Dragons love Spam. Of course our Spam is a little different from yours. Ours is made from parts left over after human surgery. Our Spam industry even has an alphabetical lists of the hospitals that will supply us with the parts. The preservation process consists of dropping the parts into large bins with huge rollers the size of telephone poles which crush and flatten them. Then they are sprinkled into hot ovens and cooked. If you were to visit the plant it would look like perpetual motion with everything going at once. The final step is to press them into containers that look just like your Spam cans. You are at liberty to pick one up and try one before you leave the plant. We are not responsible for stains and flattery won’t get you another can.
Sometimes our Spam ends up in your stores. You may have had some for breakfast. You can tell if the Spam can is ours by looking at the bottom of the front side. Down on the left hand corner there will be a little tiny dragon.
Good eating to you all.

The Last Singularity

2009-09-03T13:00:00.000-07:00

With a nod to Raven and Quilly
( This week's Raven's words were really, really wonderful -17 words)
Every week a nice lady named Raven gives us fifteen words and phrases to use in a story. Here we try to use those words and phrases in a flash 55.This week's words are:Spam, perpetual motion, sprinkle, telephone pole, stains, alphabetical, surgery, flattery, liberty, preservation, shadows, singularity, Florida, caterpillars, copy

The Last Singularity

When the singularity happened all surgery was performed by perpetual motion telephone pole like machines. Florida was under water, all caterpillars were gone, alphabetical Spam was the rage, machines that did not respond to flattery could copy themselves, stains weren't sprinkled away, and an effort at the preservation of liberty existed only in the 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. Click on the special words for definitions. Please, again, note this is a quivel it does not pretend to be a poem or even poetic drivel.

The Gnome's Treasure

The collected phalerae from Rome
Belonged to the little gnome
Old stibograms he also had
They always made him glad
Oporopolist sold him some berries
Food to share with fairies
Kept an operiment on them
An act one can’t condemn
Gnomes aren’t isangelous you know
Hitonious their mighty fisted blow
Don’t touch their phalerae , NO

Quilly's Wonderful Words

2009-09-03T01:00:00.000-07:00

It is a Quilly day. Time to take Quilly’s three words for the day and write a story.
oporopolist; phalerae; & stibogram
Click on the blue highlighted words for definitions.

The great detective studied the stibogram made at the scene of the murder of the oporopolist and noticed , for the first time, the phalerae half buried in the mud.

The oporopolist had noticed a large increase in business since he placed the cement stibograms leading up to his front door over which he hung the ancient six headed phalerae.

In ancient days there were no stibograms or oporopolists so hungry dragons had to follow real footprints to find a Roman Soldier that they ate phalerae and all.

You will look in vain if you try to find a phalerae from the first century that serves as a stibogram or depicts an oporopolist.

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Tom Mix, the local oporopolist, had the strange hobby of collecting both crime scene stibograms and ancient Roman phalerae.

If you begin to use Quilly's words on your blog people will notice your blog , as if you had posted stibograms pointing to it. Then create a modern phalerae for the logo and they will flock like people to an oporopolist displayng fresh fruit in front of the store. This is clearly not a risible matter.

So be brave, step up. Use Quilly's words.

Raven's Challenge 79

2009-08-29T01:00:00.000-07:00

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle
This Week's Ten Word Challenge will be: records, impulsive, really cool, bread crumbs, angels, Sponge Bob, magical moment, back and forth, suffering, good fences make good neighbors
For the mini challenge: side effects are generally mild, clingy, rooster, samples, curiosity

A Mega Challenge

A Good Fence

Good fences make good neighbors
Building worthy of our labors
Keeps the old rooster in and the clingy dog out
But really cool ones are built stout
A magical moment and art does flair
And you will find Sponge Bob there
A poster with a message wild
“Side effects are generally mild”
But little birds go back and forth
To eat bread crumbs henceforth
impulsive curiosity tears them down
History records this with a frown
Samples of the things we do
Struggling in life to get though
Suffering angels decry those labors
Good fences still make good neighbors.

Usually we dragons being a bit lazy by nature write only one mega challenge poem. But this week's words from Raven upset us. Raven has gone from fifteen words to twenty nine , when you count them all. That made our use of the words yesterday in the flash 55 very difficult indeed. Then she included a five word phrase that made creating a poem nigh onto impossible. So we are upset and have created another poem to voice our discontent.

A Mega Challenge

Raven's Bad Words

Raven’s words are becoming wild
Side effects are generally mild
Impulsive suffering in the head
Back and forth and seeing red
Sponge Bob now a word becomes
Angels eating bread crumbs
And what in curiosity I ask
Is really cool about this task?
In a magical moment find a word
When the pot is really stirred
Clingy records that won’t play
Rooster samples yet the day
But when all is said and done and you have stopped your labors
Your still stuck with good fences make good neighbors.

The Ten Word Challenge
Dragons Are Like This

A number of you who have visited this blog have asked for more information about us dragons or should that be we dragons? When you speak and write forty languages you sometimes get a little confused on the word usage in one of them. But in response to your request I, Singing Weasel, am going to tell you a bit about us dragons.
Dragons are not impulsive but we are long suffering and believe in Angels. According to the records which make up our Holy Book we were created in a magical moment long ago. We were really cool before the term existed. We don’t build fences because we can fly back and forth over them. But we agree that for you humans good fences make good neighbors. We do like crazy names . The dragon down the street calls herself Sponge Bob. That’s short for Sponge Bobbie but still weird. We use phrases that have passed down from generation to generation like “ bread crumbs to donuts” even though we longer really know what they mean. But they sound right. We are older and smarter than any human on the planet. We can easily change size and we can become invisible. Some of us are even shape shifters and walk among you looking just like humans. Isn’t that scary?
But we do keep our Word and since the Great Accords were entered into we no longer eat people. That’s too bad because you were very tasty.

Flash 55

2009-08-27T13:00:00.000-07:00

With a nod to Raven and Quilly
( This week's Raven's words were really, really less than wonderful -29 words)

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.
Every week a nice lady named Raven gives us fifteen words and phrases to use in a story. Here we try to use those words and phrases in a flash 55.This week's words are: records, impulsive, really cool, bread crumbs, angels, Sponge Bob, magical moment, back and forth, suffering, good fences make good neighbors, side effects are generally mild, clingy, rooster, samples, curiosity

The Quick Cure

Doctor Sponge Bob of the Angels Magical Moment Society prescribed really cool bread crumbs dipped in rooster blood for people suffering from impulsive, clingy , curiosity who no longer believed that good fences make good neighbors.
According to records of samples passed back and forth the side effects are generally mild and very quickly pass over.

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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 elevel lines with exactly five words to a line. Click on the special words for definitions. Please, again, note this is a quivel it does not pretend to be a poem or even poetic drivel.

The Word Fight

Put an operiment on it
Or I will surely quit
Ambition made her speak thus
Raise such a foolish fuss
Pessundate my work you know
Leave no place to go
Her amarulence drives her now
Have to stop her somehow
Hitonious now this silly thing
Needs new song to sing
Let the past take wing

Quillly's words

2009-08-27T01:00:00.000-07:00

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

Click on the blue highlighted words for definitions.
ambition; pessundate; & operiment-plus one other that we took from the vault at the Fortress of Dr. John- amarulence

Her failure to put an operiment on her amarulence not her ambition caused her glowing future to be pessundated.

It was his ambition in life to put an operiment over the amarulence that showed in his lapses in judgment before they pessundated his promising future as a politician.

A dragon without ambition causes amarulence on the part of hard working dragons who put an operiment over the emotion before it pessundates their image among dragons.

My amarulence toward him was exceeded only by my ambition to pessundate him but thus far he had kept a operiment on his activities

.All of the ambition that lead to his getting the new bike was pessundated by her failure to put the operiment on it before the rain and left him full of amarulence.

If you begin to use Quilly's words on your blog people will notice your ambition to increase your vocabulary. For some this will lead to amarulence but ignore them. They seek to put a operiment on everybody's growth. To let them influence you will only pessundate your growth.

So be brave, step up. Use Quilly's words.