Session April 20 2013

http://curiousphotos.blogspot.com/2009/03/top-15-most-bizarre-unusual-and-funny.html

And now for something entirely different:  One Picture - Many Responses

"He found his thoughts, somehow, dissolving."
by TT

Harry Schaffer put on his "thinking cap" which was a stuffed squid. He would consider his next escapade - should he blow up the dam? Or not? Let the penguins loose at Sea World? He would consider the consequences and decide. He found his thoughts, somehow, dissolving.


"I was at least doing my duty all those hours."
by PV
At first I thought it was an octopus, but then on clearer examination I realized it was a cloth squid which was gobbling my cranium. One thing nice about having your brains eaten is that, unlike other parts of your body, there is no pain. In a way, it started me thinking - with my rapidly diminishing capacity for reflection - that perhaps it was a new kind of therapy: A psychologist's - behavioral, that is - way to flense out those cobwebs in one's brain. In the beginning, we just tried on a number of hats, and the psychologists behind the two way mirrors were to note our subtle or not so subtle facial tics. However it would put some money in my pocket, assuming I knew what a pocket was after this. I was at least doing my duty all those hours.


"What an impossible task I've been given!"
by CC
I've suspected her for a long time. She's been on my radar. But I can't pin anything on her yet. There's not enough evidence. Every time she walks down the sidewalk in front of my house, I know what she's thinking. She's thinking how to get rid of me. All the neighbors listen to her. They don't want me around. It's my hat. Nobody knows what an impossible task I've been given! I am working for Dagon the Fish God! I have to wear this hat for my job! I keep telling my doctor how hard it is to wear this thing 24/7. He doesn't understand either. I think she's talked to him, too.


"He waited for approval."
by AD

Ned was excited to finally be getting his drivers license. He had been trying for 13 years now. He passed his drivers test. He was feeling great. He went and ate lunch at his favorite place, Sea Food-Eat Food, an ocean restaurant. He ate there, but had a kid's meal, for they had been open only one day and were giving something away with the meal. After lunch he went to get his picture taken for his license. You can imagine the photographer's surprise to see a 30 year old man wearing a bright yellow squid hat for his drivers license photograph. He waited for approval.


"Bert was a passionate enthusiast for all things green and ecologically sound."
by RMAF

"Bertie Boy" was a very passionate enthusiast for all things green and ecologically sound. That's why he never brushed his teeth after eating salad. And that's also why he wore his stuffed green squid hat every time he went to the grocery store to pick out his salad makings - so people would know he's serious about being green.

Session April 6. 2013

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/cutest-animal-kingdom-gallery-1.17271

"I don't intend to sit at home any more, Elgin."
by CC

Barry stood up on his furry back legs and waved his paws around. "You see my point," he said.

"Sit down, for God's sake. You really aren't built for dancing, plus it's demeaning," said his brother, Elgin.

"I know, but it's my only way out." Barry teetered a little but kept his balance. It was Elgin's only way out, too, but he wasn't going to come right out and say so. Elgin could figure it out for himself.

"I don't intend to sit at home any more, Elgin. Do you think I should study ballroom dancing?"

"Oh, sure, be ordinary. Every stupid dancing bear waltzes. Why don't you go for something more dramatic, like a tango?"

Barry looked up at Elgin. "My legs aren't strong enough for that, plus you need a partner. Elgin, would you help? We would be a real hit! We would go places, you know it."

"Well," sighed Elgin. "OK. What else am I gonna do?"






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"She was at pains to show she had not made much of an effort."
by TT

"A Buffalo Head Nichol."

Mister Nathan Nichols lived across the street from my mother's shop where she sold costumes and masks and hats. He was actually shorter than my mother who was a thin and haughty five foot six. She and Nathan were friends. She made him pose for her and took photos.

One day I visited her and walked down the narrow hall into the laundry room. Someone was standing there with the head of a buffalo. A muffled voice said: "Help me get this damned thing off - I'm suffocating and I can't get this head off." I began to laugh. It was Nathan Nichols, the stodgy census-taker from across the street.

I began to pull. I pulled and pulled at the buffalo head. It was so tight. It wouldn't fit through the door or in the hallway. Poor Nathan! How would he get out of the laundry room? How in fact did he get in there? I said, "Well, we need to get some help with this. I'll call my Mother." When I called she said she couldn't come up. She had custom fitting to do. So finally I rummaged in a drawer to find scissors. "What are you going to do," said Nathan anxiously. "I'll try to cut some of the fur around the neck," I said.

Just then Mother burst into the room with a Samurai sword and a bottle of vaseline. We heaved and pulled - feet against the wall. Finally when it came off Nathan was thrown across the room and down the hall. My Mother dusted off her hands. She was at pains to show she had not made much of an effort.