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  • Mysterious

    I remember watching classic episodes of Hanna-Barbera’s ‘Scooby Doo, Where Are You!’ as a kid and predicting the actions of the main characters, based on their distinct personalities. Once the formula was established, every episode practically wrote itself. — Gang stumbles upon mystery. Shaggy and Scooby get scared. Shaggy and Scooby get hungry. Shaggy and Scooby eat. Shaggy and Scooby get scared, again. Fred leads. Daphne looks beautiful. Velma geeks out. Shaggy and Scooby save the day powered by Scooby Snacks. Gang solves mystery and unmasks suspect. Suspect would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for these meddling kids. Gang goes out for food. — Seems simple enough, but what if the character roles were mysteriously reversed?

  • Fierce

    Chuck has fallen on hard times and couldn’t afford to keep ol’ Snoopy current on his shots. Going for walks is more challenging now because he growls and barks at anything that moves.

  • Teeming

    Teeming is such a ridiculous word, but it happens to be the official Inktober prompt for today, so here goes nothing…

    ‘Imagine Ron’s surprise when he discovered his fast food burger was
    teeming with more than just flavor.’

  • Shattered

    Sorry, but the Rolling Stones song was the first thing that came to mind. Does it matter? This town’s been wearing tatters.

  • Run

    Team Green bested Team Gray in Game Two of the Mystics World Series last night by one run, 11-10. Green currently leads the Series, 2-0, with Game Three tomorrow night at Haaland Field at 5pm.

  • Gigantic

    My kids never experienced the elementary lift-top combo desk. You know, where the seat and the desk were one? For six years we sat and learned in the desk equivalent of an old iron-seat tractor, only less comfortable. I doubt Herman Miller came up with this painful melding of wood and metal, but whoever did comfort wasn’t a priority. That flip-top cubby was more like a car trunk which held a stash of loose papers, broken crayons, eraser crumbs and pencil shavings that grew exponentially as the year wore on. Throw in the accidentally left-open Elmer’s glue bottle (no doubt because you had been smoothing it over the palm of your hand and peeling it off like dead skin when the teacher caught you) and the inside of your desk was most likely to get wallpapered with your math homework.

     

  • Screech

    My apologies to those who may be unfamiliar with the early 90s sitcom Saved by the Bell. The series’ stereotypical nerd, Samuel ‘Screech’ Powers, seemed like a logical choice for today’s prompt.

  • Crooked

    ‘I know that name.’ A crumpled old sailor shuffled toward me from the shadowy corner of the public house, listing sideways as he steadily worked the floor with his mangrove cane. I couldn’t be certain if this was the fellow they called Billy Bones or the legendary Ben Gunn himself, but the man was a crooked creature, doubled over from years of arduous seafaring. As the distance closed between us with each labored breath, he churned forth in a stench of briny sweat. The pungent odor of stale rum charged my nostrils.

  • Shy

    According to Starch Research Professor of Psychology, Jerome Kagan, shyness has been found to be an inherited biological trait that can be detected in infants as early as four months. There are a number of factors that can help individuals overcome their shyness, so it isn’t necessarily a life sentence. Kagan’s research found that only 25% of children that exhibited extreme shyness as children will be extremely inhibited as adults. This should be good news for the shy introverts that believe they always will be.

  • Sword

    Count Rugen could count on his right hand the number of times I’ve seen this movie, but the persistent Spanish swashbuckler, Inigo Montoya, from the classic 80s flick – the Princess Bride – immediately came to mind.