February 6, 2004
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Are You Game?
It's Friday after a truly long and hideous week (where did all the short, fun weeks go?? Lost in the mists of childhood?). So this week's word fun is very simple, because I need to laugh a lot at nothing. Here's the challenge:
Write something short. Within the text you must include these three words (by themselves, or as a part of a whole):
PIERCE
BREAST
SONG
Mega-points, of coourse, for the non-obvious. Such as, perhaps:
"Pierced, she fell upon the breast of the new-fallen snow with something like regret, warbling in song. 'On Donder, on Blitzen,' she cried, 'But why on top of me?' As the reindeer, oblivious to her trampled form, dashed away, dashed away over the wall."
Or maybe:
"Breasting the wave with the sangfroid of the long accustomed, he pierced the tunnel in exhaltation."
I'm not up to form today, but I know you can do better!
Comments (15)
Have you read or seen The Thorn Birds? That legend is the obvious solution to your game.
The bird, with the thorn having pierced its breast, lifted up its voice in a song so sweet, even the gods wept.
Your first example is so hilarious.
"Pierce!" she exclaimed in amazement. "Your tastes in music are so eclectic, however do you keep abreast of all the latest songs?"
blessings.
His dulcet tones pierced the silence of her morning with his moving and very erotic song. Her breast swelled with pride at having moved him so.
...and this fine example of a red-breasted merganser, having copulated with the 17th female of the day, let shriek a piercing song, to punctuate the triumph of his brief 45 minute mating season...
ok, it's not poetry, it's twisted david attenborough
The crooning young man tore away his partner's gladiator costume to reveal her pierced breast, thus drawing all attention away from their playful song.
((Come now, you must've expected something like this to come down the pipe...)) Ahhh, TGIF...!
The song was bad enough, then the pierced breast...too much!
I know this is the exact opposite of the challenge. Couldn't suppress my non-conformist side.
Maybe I can come up with something funnier or even titillating (love that word).
Keeping abreast of the latest titillating song can require long hours of review that often pierces the night with shrill and thumping sound.
The mini-series was really, really good. One of the best ever. It was marvelously cast and the acting was brilliant. It will be out on DVD next month and I heartily recommend it. I loved the miniseries as much as I loved the book. I've read it a couple times as well. A true modern classic.
My daughter is named after Meggie.......
DiDi often dreams she is sipping sangria while sitting abreast of David Hyde Pierce in a cafe on Barcelona's Paseo de Gracia.
She had no idea what the dream means, but suspected the Professor's ever-increasing fastidiousness had some connection.
Not much of a poet
but when I'm pressed
I can write a verse
to use the word breast
But pierce-- and song?
Now don't get me wrong
I could do it, but really
that would make it too long.
You've been watching replays of the Janet Jackson Super Bowl half-time show much to much, me thinks...
In the heat of nomadic battle, Leif Erickson gave his enemy a pointed thrust that pierced the breastplate of his armor.
i am getting more of a video idea, not the written word.