Richard
Lizzie
Tom
Serendipidy
Norval Joe
Tura
Jared
Planet Z
The next weekly challenge topic is: Blinded
JARED
WC 883 PICK TWO
A Hip Double Dip
No one could figure out why Roderik spent $12,000 a year for membership in an obscure historical heritage society. They thought the Gothic Heritage and Historical Society sounded made up and pointless. As far as he saw it, it was money well spent. As a history teacher with traceable Visigothic ancestry, he got his membership for half price. As a member, he gets tax credit for the dues, and exemptions on his presidential salary. The group is tax exempt for all donations they receive. And as long as no one tattles, he can keep on being the only member.
WC 884 Shenanigans
Shenanigans
“Shenanigans!” The bar fell silent. “I. Call. SHENANIGANS!” The old man repeated, bellowing.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” responded Steven, hesitantly.
“By the terms laid out in the 2036 Treaty of TikTok, which ended the Internet Prank Wars, you’ve attempted an April Fool’s joke, and I’ve called you on it,” Old Man McCluskey lectured.
There was a mixed response from the rest of the patrons, but most of them nodded in acquiescence of McCluskey’s irrefutable legal standing.
“As is now my right,” he continued, “I will administer the public flogging with the requisite wet noodle. Now bend over.”
NORVAL JOE
Billbert felt Sabrina's forehead. He was in a quandry. He needed to get her cooled down. He also needed to take advantage of the chaos caused by pulling the roof from the cabin to save Linoliamanda. He struggled to get Sabrina over one shoulder and leapt into the air.
Landing in the back room of the cabin, he looked for his friend.
The old man burst into the room, shouting, "What shenanigans are going on here?"
Billbert gritted his teeth. "That's a good question. Where is Linoliamanda?"
The man scoffed. "What did you expect, that I would bring her here?"
SERENDIPIDY
The night of the full moon is when we get up to all kinds of shenanigans.
It starts innocently enough, with knocking on doors and running away, but soon progresses to vandalism, bricks through windows, breaking and entering and kidnap.
Then we drag our hapless victims onto the hillside, strip them naked and cut out their hearts on the sacrificial altar as an offering to the gods.
After, it's back down to the village for a communal supper in the community hall.
It's tradition, and traditions die hard around these parts.
So do those who choose to complain about us!
TURA
Shenanigans
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Shenanigans are benign swellings that develop on the flanks of elderly Alsatian dogs.
No, actually they're maggotty cysts that develop on the bellies of horses. When mature, they drop off and split open on the ground. The emerging horseflies go on to lay their eggs in the bellies of horses, continuing the cycle.
No, the Shenanigans are an Irish rock band.
It's an Irish version of cullen skink. It's an Irish jig. It’s a metaphorical jig: “dancing the shenanigans” means underhanded tricks.
It's a word game of making up new meanings for everyday words.
What do you think it means?
TOM
Descended from Kings
I grew up a third generation American Irish. Which isn’t as bad as being third gen American German, but not as cool as being seventh generation North American French. So, what do get after a century of assimilation, basically what George Carlin would call the: ear. You key in on the sounds that sound Irish. Take shenanigans. Yup, Irish that. We got a pretty good idea about what it means, but what does it mean. Etymologists say it might come from the Irish "sionnachuighim," meaning "I play the fox. To pull a shenanigan is prompt a greater one in return.
As To The Reason for my Absence
In the 100-word challenge there are a number of mythic designations.
