BYC's Random Funny Posting Thread! Hosts Mike & Sally

[nuthatched]

Invented is a better word. Someone had to make them all up.

To clarify, it feels like they're making it up as they go. It's like monetized Calvinball

 

[AntiqueB]

There was always a running joke with friends that if I ever got kidnapped I’d be dumped thirty minutes later from being annoying. A friend even acted it out once… “Do you have chickens? What kind of coop do they have? I wanna see a picture. What do you feed them? Why do you feed that?…”

Read "The Ransom of Red Chief!"

 

[MROO]

To clarify, it feels like they're making it up as they go. It's like monetized Calvinball

I LOVED Calvinball!

 

[PeaShack]

Read "The Ransom of Red Chief!"

Hilarious! Just read it…the accent in my head was from “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”, bona fide.

It’s from 1902!

https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/the-ransom-of-red-chief/

“Just at daybreak, I was awakened by a series of awful screams from Bill. They weren't yells, or howls, or shouts, or whoops, or yawps, such as you'd expect from a manly set of vocal organs--they were simply indecent, terrifying, humiliating screams, such as women emit when they see ghosts or caterpillars. It's an awful thing to hear a strong, desperate, fat man scream incontinently in a cave at daybreak.”

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hilarious! Just read it…the accent in my head was from “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”, bona fide.

It’s from 1902!

https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/the-ransom-of-red-chief/

“Just at daybreak, I was awakened by a series of awful screams from Bill. They weren't yells, or howls, or shouts, or whoops, or yawps, such as you'd expect from a manly set of vocal organs--they were simply indecent, terrifying, humiliating screams, such as women emit when they see ghosts or caterpillars. It's an awful thing to hear a strong, desperate, fat man scream incontinently in a cave at daybreak.”

Might cute read huh.

 

[PeaShack]

Might cute read huh.

It surely is! I believe I also have a new favorite word: “Philoprogenitiveness”.


“Philoprogenitiveness, says we, is strong in semi-rural communities therefore, and for other reasons, a kidnapping project ought to do better there than in the radius of newspapers that send reporters out in plain clothes to stir up talk about such things.”