Woo hoo! After a hiatus, the mid-week dose of satire (along with the combo challenge) is back for you to enjoy.
How was your going so far? On Monday I took a day for myself to go downtown for all the Opening Day hoopla. (I’ll report on that later). In return that means the rest of the week will be full of run around and more reorganizing.
Yesterday’s post about April celebrations included a BBC video about the spaghetti harvest. Coincidentally, the BBC also did this report about their 1957 … (or the post gave them the idea for the report.) A special thanks to Debra (at Bagni di Lucca & Beyond) for featuring my post in hers, which gave me a nice spike in stats.
On to the satirical headlines. For those willing to step up to the challenge, scramble the words in the headlines to make your unique headline. Mine is found at the end. Have a good rest of the week.
Spaced-out flowerchild groovin’ on a doobie wave
New leather-bound notebook to unleash area woman’s creativity
All-knowing invisible hand of free market guides millions in profits to nation’s bead stores
Hypochondriac maple tree convinced it has Asian Longhorn Beetles
Nation’s moms dance nude around moonlit bonfire to conjure spirit of Emma Thompson
Woman takes short, half-hour break from being feminist to enjoy TV show
Interns treated to informative 30-minute Q&A session with totally miserable employees
Laid-off man finally achieves perfect work-life balance
Nation’s lunatics lament rising cost of car meat
More Hollywood celebrities reproducing by asexual budding
My Combo: Spaced-out, all-knowing, laid-off, nude, hypochondriac lunatic profits from Q&A session with Emma Thompson
Area nude lunatics groovin’ to invisible bonfire.
Today, we saw our son move ‘graduate’ from level 1 of his pilot training to level 2. His plane will be bigger and faster and go farther. Enjoying the Air Force way.
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Jim,
Amazing that the region of Area gets so much news attention!
That’s awesome news about your son. Congratulations and thanks for sharing. Keep us posted!
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You must check out Pee’s pictures today;). I thought of you when I posted them. Tomorrow will be my little sluggers:)
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Kimberly,
Consider it done … awesome!
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budding asexual Spaced-out feminist flowerchild to dance nude around short, totally miserable leather-bound man
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Fasab,
Oh wow … the poor guy is either tortured or thankful for being leather bound! Well done!
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Welcome back to normalcy, Frank.
And thanks for letting me know that it is baseball season. I might have missed that at my house. In fact, that might have made me quite happy …
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Elyse,
I knew you would want to know about baseball season …. just so you can remind John!
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Invisible nude laid-off man enjoys half-hour dance in bead store.
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X,
Including nude seems to be today’s big winner. Well done!!!
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And you’ll probably get more visitors searching for “nude” something, so it’s a winner for you, too. 🙂
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Glad to see you back, Frank! Nation’s lunatics dance nude around moonlit bonfire reproducing by asexual budding. Ha ha.
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Amy,
Moonlit bonfires seem to bring out strange behaviors!
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Hollywood lunatics dance nude, groovin’ to Asian woman’s creativity. Makes about as much sense as the others, right? Glad you had some fun on Opening Day, Frank. 🙂
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Debra,
Hollywood has lunatics? Say it ain’t so!!!!
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How can one beat this…”Spaced-out flowerchild groovin’ on a doobie wave”
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Bulldog!!!!!
Cheers as you must be feeling better!
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LOVE your combo Frank. I won’t attempt, as I’m a failed humorist. Still, I’m glad to hear your life has returned to relative normalcy.
We had an magnitude 8.2 earthquake hit northern Chile last night, and it triggered a tsunami warning along the entire coast of Ecuador until just a bit ago. Felt important to us since we are headed to the beach in a couple of days. But all is well. And things could have been much worse in Chile than they turned out to be.
That’s not an April Fool’s joke, by the way.
Hugs from Ecuador,
Kathy
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Kathy,
I got the news about the quake last night before going to bed. As daylight comes, more will be known. That’s a strong quake, so the wait is a bit unnerving.
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Glad you are OK – thought about ya’ll last night when I got the earthquake alert. Wishing the earth back to slumber. Take care.
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Gosh your making my brain work awfully early in the morning Frank, but here is what I came up with “Interns treated to informative nude dance to unleash Asian Longhorn Beetles”
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Catherine,
Good morning …. and considering the hour, well done! … and how could have imagined nude dance having so much power!
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No competition for “Spaced-out flowerchild groovin’ on a doobie wave.” FAR OUT!
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Tim,
Given that is your generation, I understand.
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You might also enjoy Gretchen Kelly’s april fools day story about Marshmallow Trees.
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Oops – here’s the link:
http://driftingthrough.com/2014/04/01/foolin-around/
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Will definitely check it out soon! Thanks.
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All-knowing invisible hand of free market guides spaced-out flowerchild groovin’ on millions in profits to nation’s bead stores.
You know, why didn’t I think of that?
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Val,
Oh my … that is too funny!
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Hollywood lunatic celebrities take short half hour break to conjure spirit of Emma Thompson.
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Sylvia,
The lunatic is popular today! Well done.
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Laid-off man treated with totally miserable invisible hand to conjure spirit of spaced-out flowerchild. Happy Wednesday, my friend and happy reorganizing! 🙂
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Marina,
Hooray …. cheers to your best combo ever!
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Wacky Wednesday is back. But I’m tired with headaching, so I’ll just laugh at the others’ efforts. Do hope it storms and rains soon: the pollen is horrendous. Even the dog is sneezing
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Mouse,
Best wishes on getting the rain to wash away some pollen. Hang in there!
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Rain bound to be just around the corner – we’re having the German sleepover for the weekend…it will storm and rain and rain and mud…(roof will be closed for the baseball game tonight)
Hope you’re finding time to enjoy the new house!
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We are currently awash in rain, thus looks like the afternoon game may not get played. More reorganizing today and dealing with a service call.
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Opening Day. Seriously? How did I miss it? I see Boston is in third. Good thing it’s very early. Thanks for the heads up. I miss going to Fenway.
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TBM,
After the horrendous winter, the wonderful weather for Opening Day in Cincinnati was a fitting passage into spring. Last night was our Opening Night celebration, which started with a 2+ hour rain delay.
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New leather-bound notebook to unleash area woman’s creativity – this got me going, but I thought it was all leather-bound notebooks .. I should read a bit more careful.
My combo: More Hollywood celebrities reproducing by asexual budding with laid-off man that finally achieves perfect work-life balance. – hope I got it right .. *smile
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Viveka,
Wow … a lot going on in that combo. The laid-off man has to do what a laid-off man must do.
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… especially if he lives in Hollywood.
I didn’t know what budding was .. google helped me.
So then I got my combo for free nearly.
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Hypochondriac car meat celebrities budding! (it must be a spring thing)
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Resa,
Sounds like a reality show potential.
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As you have seen – my weeks have been busy. But – I’m here tonight catching my breath & trying to make my WP rounds.
LMAO on the headlines! 😆
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RoSy,
Catching up is a quite the undertaking …. good luck! … and I appreciate your effort!!!!
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car meat
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Rich,
A good choice.
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was at work when i read it and had to fight not to laugh too loudly. didn’t work out.
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