In honor of Nene moving home from Ireland, I want to do another limerick. I might note that she has had difficulty getting a flight out of Ireland because of volcanic ash blowing from Iceland. Please finish the following limerick. Remember we are keeping this clean! ;)
There once was a traveler named Nene.....
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
How Are We Feeling Today?
Okay, I will spare you the specifics and the details, but I am suffering from a stomach flu that has had hold of me for two days now. I went over 30 hours with no solid food, and limited liquids. I have been feverish and aching throughout the day and night. Tonight, after around 36 hours with nothing more solid than "Go-gurt," I ate dinner--pizza, and cheese-sticks, with root-beer.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to come up with a fictional word that describes exactly how I feel after this dinner. I will give you only one hint: it ain't good. And I'm still feeling it a couple of hours later.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Recipe for Disaster
(Sorry this took so long. I had family in town.)
This next game is courtesy of my charming, clever husband.
Each of you, if you feel up to the challenge, will create a recipe for a word in standard recipe format (see example below). The word you choose is up to you, but you can always turn to the Word of the Day gadget that is on this blog. The example word is not allowed. Your recipe can be funny, serious, profound, ironic, etc. (That said, I, as the judge, like a good laugh.) Your recipe can teach how to become that word, set up a scene that the word describes, or paint a portrait of a person that the word describes. In other words, be creative!
Example:
Disaster
Ingredients:
1 harried mother
2 overstimulated children, under age 5 preferred
1 pan delicious Lasagna
1/2 cup bad luck
5-10 important phone calls
1 cold granite countertop
1 box Mac and Cheese
Arrange ingredients about 30 minutes after you should have started making dinner. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Mix mother and children together until the mother can't see straight and is about to pull out her hair. Somehow manage to get the lasagna in the almost preheated oven. Sprinkle mixture with bad luck. Add phone calls one at a time with the most important and longest right as the lasagna should come out of the oven. Continue to mix the mother and children. When the kitchen is sufficiently filled with smoke, remove the lasagna with the mother and chilren mixture and place on cold granite countertop until the pyrex dish shatters. Allow the mother to steam and vent before mixing together the box of Mac and Cheese. Serve immediately.
This next game is courtesy of my charming, clever husband.
Each of you, if you feel up to the challenge, will create a recipe for a word in standard recipe format (see example below). The word you choose is up to you, but you can always turn to the Word of the Day gadget that is on this blog. The example word is not allowed. Your recipe can be funny, serious, profound, ironic, etc. (That said, I, as the judge, like a good laugh.) Your recipe can teach how to become that word, set up a scene that the word describes, or paint a portrait of a person that the word describes. In other words, be creative!
Example:
Disaster
Ingredients:
1 harried mother
2 overstimulated children, under age 5 preferred
1 pan delicious Lasagna
1/2 cup bad luck
5-10 important phone calls
1 cold granite countertop
1 box Mac and Cheese
Arrange ingredients about 30 minutes after you should have started making dinner. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Mix mother and children together until the mother can't see straight and is about to pull out her hair. Somehow manage to get the lasagna in the almost preheated oven. Sprinkle mixture with bad luck. Add phone calls one at a time with the most important and longest right as the lasagna should come out of the oven. Continue to mix the mother and children. When the kitchen is sufficiently filled with smoke, remove the lasagna with the mother and chilren mixture and place on cold granite countertop until the pyrex dish shatters. Allow the mother to steam and vent before mixing together the box of Mac and Cheese. Serve immediately.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Snow, snow, go away...
J.K. Rowling came up with "Wingarium leviosa" to levitate things, "Expelliarmus" to make someone drop something, "Reparo" to fix an item.
What I want is an incantation to make winter leave or spring to come (and stay), and I'm putting a 5 word limit on it. Then let's hope it works!
Good luck!
What I want is an incantation to make winter leave or spring to come (and stay), and I'm putting a 5 word limit on it. Then let's hope it works!
Good luck!
Monday, March 1, 2010
A NEW WINTER OLYMPIC GAME
Now that the Winter Olympics are over, I'm wondering if anyone thought there should have been "more" games? Your challenge for this round of Word Joust is to create a "New Winter Olympic Game". Anything goes, but no need to be really technically involved - just give me the basics. Describe your game and any equipment the contender might need, and what would determine a winner.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Tell Me A Joke- Part 2
Everybody can play because the joke doesn't have to be original (but you get extra points if it is.)
Which means of course, that you don't even have to be creative, which of course is NOT the point of the whole blog, BUT....... its my game, Mine, MINE (insert evil laugh here- really- insert it now because I have no idea how to type an evil laugh.)
OK so here are the rules. The same one for determining if I forward a joke at work, i.e. I laugh out loud.
In the case of multiple outbursts, the winner will be determined by the joke that makes me laugh so hard my wife will ask, "what's so funny." Pathetic laughs count, but not much. Politics is OK but probably far too easy
Extra points for jokes I haven't heard.
Extra points for originality. (you're on your honor for this one)
Which means of course, that you don't even have to be creative, which of course is NOT the point of the whole blog, BUT....... its my game, Mine, MINE (insert evil laugh here- really- insert it now because I have no idea how to type an evil laugh.)
OK so here are the rules. The same one for determining if I forward a joke at work, i.e. I laugh out loud.
In the case of multiple outbursts, the winner will be determined by the joke that makes me laugh so hard my wife will ask, "what's so funny." Pathetic laughs count, but not much. Politics is OK but probably far too easy
Extra points for jokes I haven't heard.
Extra points for originality. (you're on your honor for this one)
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