Saturday, October 31, 2009

Halloween punnery

Just to bring yesterday's collection of micro ghost stories up to a Baker's Dozen, here's a final little spooky frippery for All Hallow's Eve....
 
 

He haunts the back benches and the lobby bars: an old ghost Tory.

 


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JES said...

Oh God. An awful pun. Or a great one.

(I do happen to like puns, and wish I'd come up with that one. It has the feel of a phrase you might have been turning over in your head for a while, just waiting for an occasion to use it.)

Whew. I think I've caught up on my Froogville reading now.

October 31, 2009 2:57 PM
Froog said...

No, it just came to me out of the blue yesterday - prompted by all the recent rumination on ghost stories, no doubt. Glad you liked it!

You're familiar with Flann O'Brien's Keats & Chapman stories? Some of the most intricately contrived puns ever!

Whew - that was quite a torrent of commenting you unleashed yesterday, Mr S. I'm glad you got that out of your system. Maybe you need to try to catch up more than once a week, to stay on top of things!

November 01, 2009 10:49 AM
JES said...

Keats & Chapman: oh yes. In those pieces, the sequence had to have been 1. Settle on punchline. 2. Develop whatever ludicrous storyline necessary to enable punchline's delivery.

Well, I do visit -- read -- throughout the week. One curious side-effect of the employer's experiments with Internet blockage, though, is that I don't want to spend too much time at my favorite sites. I don't want to attract the wandering eye of Big Brother, because I know the blockages are highly selective. So my thinking goes: if you hang around long enough to craft one or more of your extensively researched and tightly reasoned comments, JES, they will single out Froogville for special punishment.

Which won't be the comfy chair, believe me. And you won't be punished; I will.

And even you'd have to admit, this was an especially comment-worthy barrage of posts this week.

November 01, 2009 5:13 PM
Froog said...

Thank you for being so considerate, JES. I'd hate to be battling against censorship at both ends of the pipeline.

I had thought I'd included a couple of Keats & Chapman stories on here, but.... it seems not. That might be a job for later in the week.

November 02, 2009 7:26 AM

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