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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday, Keith, Catsynth, and Sandee at Comedy Plus.
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Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and has become a moveable feast of word or picture or music prompts to encourage us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy.
Much thanks to lissa for providing the prompts for February.
While Elephant's Child takes a blog break, River is providing the prompts on her blog.
This week's prompts are:
1. striking
2. deliver
3. insulting
4. coffee
5. spanner
Charlotte (MotherOwl) has selected Saint Patrick's Green as the colour of the month.
She'd gone to bed the night before determined, and woke up the next morning even more so.
No one would get away with INSULTING her mechanical skills, she'd earned her certification as well as the others.
As she drank her morning cup of COFFEE out of her favorite St. Patrick's Green cup, she drew up plans for how she would DELIVER on her promises. She was determined she would be STRIKING the winning blow pretty soon.
Let's see, she thought, I've got to get my SPANNER back from my brother...
She smiled to herself as she planned. This, she knew, was going to be good.
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Today is:
Act Goofy Day -- started by someone who wanted to see how far the internet could spread goofiness
Arivee de l'Evangile -- French Polynesia (Gospel Day)
Ash Wednesday -- Christian (beginning of the Lenten Fast)
Oskudagur -- Iceland (with the special tradition of hanging oskupokar [ash bags] on people, as girls try to hang bags of ash on men's clothing, and boys try to hang bags of stones on women's clothing; begins Langafasta, and during the fast, you may not even mention meat at all)
Babysitter Safety Day
Celebrate Your Name Week -- Wednesday: Learn What Your Name Means Day, go look it up, it's probably very interesting
Crispus Attucks Day*
Custom Chief's Day -- Vanuatu
Diasia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival of Zeus Meilikhios; date approximate)
National Absinthe Day
National Cheese Doodle Day
Navigium Isis/Ploiaphaesia: The Festival of Navigation -- Ancient Roman Calendar/Ancient Egyptian Calendar (Sailing Festival, honoring Isis as sea goddess and goddess of sailing, on the traditional start of the sailing season)
Scouts' Day -- Taiwan (celebration of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides in Taiwan)
St. Piran's Day (Patron of miners, tin miners, tinners; Cornwall, England; Piran, Slovenia)
St. Piran's Day Celebrations -- Cornwall, England; Kansas City, KA, US
Stop the Clocks Day -- another of those with-no-explanation web holidays that sounds like a good idea
Temperance Day -- North America's first Temperance Law was passed in Virginia this day in 1623
World Maths Day -- International
Anniversary Today:
Channel Islands National Park is established, 1980
Birthdays Today:
Jake Lloyd, 1989
Niki Taylor, 1975
Kevin Connolly, 1974
Eva Mendes, 1974
Andy Gibb, 1958
Penn Jillette, 1955
Marsha Warfield, 1954
Michael Warren, 1946
Paul Sand, 1944
Samantha Eggar, 1939
Fred Williamson, 1938
Dean Stockwell, 1936
James Noble, 1922
Rex Harrison, 1908
Zhou Enlai, 1898
Emmett J. Culligan, 1893
Heitor Villa-Lobos, 1887
Howard Pyle, 1853
James Merrit Ives, 1824
William Blackstone, 1595
Gerhardus Mercator, 1512
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"What the Butler Saw"(Play)1969
"Leningrad"/Symphony No. 7 in C major(Shostakovich Op. 60), 1942
"Mefistofele"(Opera), 1868
Today in History:
Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death, 363
Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama, 1046
English king Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) and his sons to explore unknown lands for England, 1496
Smoking tobacco is introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes, 1558
Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" is placed on Catholic Forbidden index, 1616
Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans to take possession of the Louisiana territory from the French, 1766
*Boston Massacre: British troops kill 5 in a crowd, including a young boy and Crispus Attackus, the first black to die for American freedom, in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War five years later, 1770
The Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays, 1820
Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber, 1836
George Westinghouse Jr patents the triple air brake for trains, 1872
Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of the ball lightning formation, 1904
Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri, 1946
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations, 1970
Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters, 1979
America's Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles, 1979
The Soviet probe Venera 14 arrives at the planet Venus, 1982
The graves of Czar Nicholas II and his family are found near St. Petersburg, 1995
President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, dies in office in the nation's capital, Caracas, at age 58, 2013
A survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights reports that about 1/3 of women in the European Union have experienced physical or sexual violence since the age of 15, 2014
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meets with South Korean officials for the first time since taking office, hosting a dinner in Pyongyang, 2018
The journal Nature publishes a study of the second person ever cured of HIV by stem cell transplant therapy, 2019
Explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, which sank in 1915 in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, is rediscovered in excellent condition, 2022
Yay, let her teach them a lesson! Well written.
ReplyDeleteDon't eat! Then for heaven sakes don't buy the box and set it on the counter.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes always, Mimi. God bless.
ReplyDeleteThe first thing that came to our mind with the pack of chips is Carl. It would be a good gift for him but without the don't eat message.
ReplyDeleteSomebody is marking his territory? Or is it a warning to all to stay away from junk food?
ReplyDeleteSomebody must be helping themselves to those snacks! Nice story, I hope she got her message across.
ReplyDeleteI would definitely not eat those. Who knows that the reason might be? 😹
ReplyDeleteDon't eat? That's an invitation to eat. Love it. You made me laugh out loud.
ReplyDeleteI think she'll make her point very well.
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Wonderful short story and use of the prompts!
ReplyDeleteI had to laugh at the pictures. I bought those kind of boxes for the kids' lunches years ago and they would always fight over the cheetos. Your story sounds like the start of a crime story show.
ReplyDeleteThat is a very big temptation to go ahead and eat and find out why not:)
ReplyDeleteIntriguing story - tell us more.
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