With a slip of the tongue and a burp of the brain, I bring you........
By Sparks
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
Regina, Saskatchewan
January 29, 2009 9:19pm CST
.....the response to a challenge made to me by one of our own here (who truly believes she is SO clever!LOL), wherein I would write a piece using synonyms for
ordinary words. The words in bold letters replace more pedestrian ones and the words in brackets have been added to make sense of the ones in bold lettering......!I will not hold it against you if you can't follow what I've written. Frankly, I know that I'll have a hard time myself!So.
My little piece of flash fiction:"I aroused (myself) to a sudden winkle of pain, precipitating down upon the left side of my monomorphemic neck.
For a microcosm(of time) I actually smirked at the beauteous winkles of (a colourful)luminosity, drifting down and morphing (to) ash when the heat left them, the residue remaining simply (an)implanted boring ache of query and (a)boo!.
I lifted my noggin and screamed pointedly at the second pentrating thrust into the tender epidermis of my neck.
In that dusky moment betwixt awareness and unliving the profile of the chiroptera that orthodonicly dined (on)me unwrapped it's chalcoptera and slipped stealthily from my exterminatedvision..........."Take THAT, my beautiful chaotic one!
Now, who needs a translation?
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
30 Jan 09
Yep. LOL Although this pain was caused by the bite of a vampire bat.......
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
30 Jan 09
A bat? In MY house? Shut yo mouth! The hubs is due home in a few days and if we have bats, I'll be going bats trying to clear them out before he gets here! LOL
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@thebohemianheart (8827)
• United States
30 Jan 09
You are a pain in the neck?
No,no, that's not right.
You had a pain in your neck, but it finally went away?
I don't know, it's too early for me to decipher this.
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
30 Jan 09
You're getting there! LOL Yep, BIG pain in the neck named bellaofchaos! ROFL
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
30 Jan 09
I made the mistake of hitting 'preview' before 'submit' and it posted in this garbled way. I have to stop doing that.
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@thebohemianheart (8827)
• United States
30 Jan 09
*LOL* That was hard to read in my e-mail. And, I keep saying this, I gotta stop doing that!
After coming in and reading it here, I got it.
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
30 Jan 09
When I first wrote it out, it was layed out much better for reading. And really not long at all. But I made the mistake of hitting the preview button and the layout got all screwed up on submission. And it's the first time I've written anything like this here, so I don't under the 'It was fun once." comment.....?
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@cynicalandoutspoken (4725)
• United States
30 Jan 09
Twilight addict! You are as bad as my daughter. She uses the word edjumicated too. And ginormous. *shaking head* But good call on the vampire.
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
30 Jan 09
Well done MissAmie! I'm not a Vampire fan by any means, but the friend who issued the challenge is, so I thought I'd oblige her obsession! LOL
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
30 Jan 09
It hurt me too to write it.........made me stretch the edges of my brain! LOL
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@kaiein (2)
• Philippines
30 Jan 09
Hey... nice one...
Anyway, I have a suggestion to the challenge. Why don't you do it without those anatomy terms. I think your "piece" would have been a lot better without those. I imagine it would have been more poetic and not sound as if two anatomists are talking about Batman and his weird and wonderful body parts.
And you can try using the most bizarre grammar structures you know, like old English or something...
I hope you will always challenge yourself to excellence!
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
30 Jan 09
Trust me it sounds a LOT better without the synonyms! Thanks for the critique and encouragement though. Some good thoughts for me to ponder there............
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@moondancer (7433)
• United States
30 Jan 09
lol, sparks we got a kick out of this one. It sounds like a vampire is sucking on your luscious neck, well I do. The husbby says a dinsaur is having a meal out of you and starting with the neck. lol
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@moondancer (7433)
• United States
30 Jan 09
Oh it's just this extremely analytical mind with it's never ending thoughts of vampires, love, and love going on for centuries, with the broad aspects of the life lived by the blood thristy ones that walk the night looking for their next meal or a mate. lol
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
30 Jan 09
Do a happy dance moonbean! YOU'RE RIGHT and hubs is wrong. So
to hubs and to you! ROFL
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@moondancer (7433)
• United States
30 Jan 09
woooop wooooop, I got it...I got it....so much for what's on my mind. We do have vivid imaginations...don't we?
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
30 Jan 09
Which is exactly what it was brew! Well done!
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@olivebranch56 (910)
• United States
30 Jan 09
Oh My dear Sparky, you are a Chiropractors dream. I guess you have to be a "neck" person to understand that the neck can be the center of libido. Am I right? Hugs from the "Blow on my neck and I'll follow you anywhere gal", Marilyn
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@olivebranch56 (910)
• United States
30 Jan 09
Dang, Just my luck, I felt it and thought it was the wind. ROFLMBO, Sorry Sparks, but as one of my previous employees used to say, "I'm strickly dickly!" Hugs Marilyn
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
30 Jan 09
Well damn! ROFL Just yankin' you hemline sweets. If you gave me a wink and nod, I'd probably faint!
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
30 Jan 09
I'm blowing baby, I'm blowing!
*looks behind myself...*
Nope. You're not there!*pout*
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@LouRhi (1502)
• Australia
30 Jan 09
Oh Sparks you are so clever! Your talents really are wasted here on MyLot, though I am glad you are here as you are always entertaining and bring a smile to my face.
I got it all, though I did need to read it a few times. I agree that the brackets were not really needed. Can't wait for the next installment
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
31 Jan 09
I'll have to check my files. I haven't memorized them all! LOL And I'll have to pm you with them, as I don't want them made public.....
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
30 Jan 09
Good for you Lou, and believe me my talents appear in sites that pay way more than this one! LOL I come here to play and try out and get, new ideas........
And there won't be a next installment! LOL This was written late at night and taxed my brain to the limit of my vocabulary skills! I went to bed aching in every muscle in my brain! LOL
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@cynicalandoutspoken (4725)
• United States
30 Jan 09
Ohh I love Alice Cooper. I'm shocked to see you reference him, but it just makes me like you all the more.
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
30 Jan 09
LOL, I have to admit that I wasn't thinking of Alice, but yeah....it fits!
Bella put me up to this, and I wanted her to relate so I ran with the vampire theme she is so fond of.
Glad it made you nostalgic for great music though P1ke. LOL
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
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30 Jan 09
Why does that shock you Cyn? I am a big fan of Alice. I'm old you know. I can remember him before he started to play golf!! I often pop round and we listen to Perry Como LPs (vinyl disks) together as we compare Pringle sweaters and remember when men were men; and women waited for us to sweep them off their feet!! LOL.
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@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
30 Jan 09
Beautiful, Sparky! You woke up to a pain in the neck... radiating downwards... because you were being bitten by a...vampire bat... but it got away before you had a chance to smash it flat!
BTW I am awake right now because of coffee-induced insomnia and my daughter rolled into MY spot in the bed...
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
30 Jan 09
BOO! You got it! You got it! BR to you my dear! Well done!
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@tamarafireheart (15384)
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30 Jan 09
Hi sparky,
Its 4.am in the morning here I've got a headache, my eyes are burning with tiredness, I was just about to pack up and turn off my computer when your disscussion droped in, Don't understand what its all about but I think is to do with wrinkle, lol I have got some of those, don't like it but have to live with them things, they have taken up residents and won't even pay the rent, its on me for good. Love and hugs. I'm off to my bed.
Tamara
xxxx
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
30 Jan 09
Good night sweetheart. Hopefully in the morning your headache will be gone. I had one all day, and now it will never leave, but I'm charging it rent! LOL
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@Paula1966 (1102)
• United States
30 Jan 09
I feel SOOOO close to getting it.... I have it except "chiroptera" and "chalcoptera", LOL. That's darn frustrating!!! I guess going to the online dictionary is cheating.
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
30 Jan 09
Don't tell anyone, but those are for 'bat'a and (bat)wings. Shhhhhhhhhhhh now, don't want others cheating of your answer! ROFL Good for you Paula!
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
30 Jan 09
Sh*t, ignore the extra 'a' after the word 'bat'. I'm tired from putting this discussion together.........LOL
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@Paula1966 (1102)
• United States
30 Jan 09
Ohhhh, I just thought you were using some weird form of pig Latin to hide the answer, LOL.
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@StrawberryKisses (2833)
• Canada
30 Jan 09
I read this once using the word in the brackets and once without them and I find it sounds like it flows better without the bracketed words LOL now you can give me a translation LOL
Please..................
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
30 Jan 09
Ah, then you are not guessing the right words the bold lettered one replace! LOL
So no translation yet! ROFL
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@royal52gens (5488)
• United States
31 Jan 09
I think I followed that. But I will take the translation just to make sure. Thank you for twisting my brain again.
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
22 Feb 09
*raises hand unassuredly*... So do I detect bites from a vampire? I am quite unsure, lol, although I'll be honest I am distracted at the moment.
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@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
30 Jan 09
I got it!! Very well done! You should be proud of that, oh great and wise teacher! Triple A's for that little bit of delight!
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