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Fill-In-Friday

May 9, 2008

So this is the deal. We’re all gonna write a story together. Only we each write a small bit at a time. One after the other. I will start the story out with an incomplete sentence and you follow to add to the story…and so on and so on. Got it? Great!!! OH – don’t forget to REFRESH the page before you submit…just in case someone else has already added to the statement you were working with. Clear? Sure it is! Alright…HAVE FUN!!!!

Here we go…


“Ma’am! Ma’am! You dropped this!” She turned to see what it was and….

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  1. May 9, 2008 5:12 am

    …to her surprise she recognized a face from the past. It was her ninth grade teacher handing her the wallet that had fallen from her purse. She didn’t talk much about her high school days because…

  2. May 9, 2008 5:28 am

    she knew that there were things best left unsaid because

  3. May 9, 2008 5:35 am

    “she” was a “he” back then.

  4. May 9, 2008 5:37 am

    And “she’s” being “he’s” back in 1979 would have made the Bee Gee’s…

  5. May 9, 2008 5:52 am

    run for their lives.

  6. May 9, 2008 6:05 am

    But since she wasn’t fond of any of the Bee Gee’s 3-part harmonies – she didn’t care if they ran – and she couldn’t help staring at old Mrs. Johnson who now looked like…

  7. lori permalink
    May 9, 2008 6:07 am

    a California raisin. What struck her most was

  8. May 9, 2008 6:37 am

    that Mrs. Johnson was even humming the old Motown hit…

  9. May 9, 2008 6:50 am

    Sugar Pie Bloggin BUNS

  10. May 9, 2008 6:52 am

    and tentacles were growing out of her head.

  11. May 9, 2008 6:55 am

    She wondered if, in her current condition, old Mrs. Johnson would remember that…

  12. lori permalink
    May 9, 2008 7:04 am

    she once fell asleep in the girls bathroom, which of course meant that

  13. ramsey72 permalink
    May 9, 2008 7:09 am

    She woke up with the impression of the toilet seat on her face even though she swore she was sitting down

  14. May 9, 2008 7:15 am

    but since old Mrs. Johnson had seemed completely unaware of what students did back in the day, it was a safe assumption that…

  15. ramsey72 permalink
    May 9, 2008 7:34 am

    she had forgotten all about Karaoke night at the Holiday Inn when

  16. May 9, 2008 7:59 am

    all the teachers got busted along with most of the staff at the holiday in for

  17. May 9, 2008 8:01 am

    table top dancing.

  18. lori permalink
    May 9, 2008 8:02 am

    and over-indulging in

  19. lori permalink
    May 9, 2008 8:03 am

    (shoot…mandy, you took my line!! Oh well..gotta be quicker in this game!)

  20. May 9, 2008 8:04 am

    pickles and root beer!

  21. May 9, 2008 8:04 am

    The pickles weren’t Kosher and the root beer had no root.

  22. May 9, 2008 8:08 am

    But it did have some good barley and hops. 😯

  23. ramsey72 permalink
    May 9, 2008 8:08 am

    which made them puke all over

  24. May 9, 2008 8:20 am

    the snazzy leather pants Mr. Johnson…

  25. May 9, 2008 8:22 am

    found the tentacles in…

  26. May 9, 2008 8:25 am

    He swore up and down he had no idea how they got there, but everyone knows you can’t…

  27. May 9, 2008 8:30 am

    Keep a monkey in the bathroom without…

  28. May 9, 2008 8:31 am

    having to clean poo off the walls. i’m just sayin 😯

  29. May 9, 2008 8:38 am

    [DANG IT TAM!!!]

  30. May 9, 2008 8:38 am

    Walking away, she thought to herself

  31. May 9, 2008 8:40 am

    “what’s that smell?”

  32. May 9, 2008 8:45 am

    She looked down and for a brief, horrifying moment, thought she saw a tentacle on her…

  33. May 9, 2008 8:46 am

    monkey

  34. lori permalink
    May 9, 2008 8:49 am

    but it was just

  35. May 9, 2008 8:58 am

    a ‘filament’ of her imagination.

    From out of nowhere…..

  36. May 9, 2008 9:03 am

    Barry Gibb walked in and she said…

  37. May 9, 2008 9:08 am

    ” I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE THAT MONKEY ALONE!”

  38. lori permalink
    May 9, 2008 9:09 am

    then all of a sudden they broke out in 3 part harmony, singing

  39. May 9, 2008 9:11 am

    “Monkey Love – Monkey Love – Won’t you let me be! Beee-eeee-eeee!”

  40. ramsey72 permalink
    May 9, 2008 9:14 am

    Then Simon Cowell walked in and said….

  41. May 9, 2008 9:15 am

    Great googlie mooglies! You people should…

  42. ramsey72 permalink
    May 9, 2008 9:17 am

    be on my new tv show…

  43. May 9, 2008 9:32 am

    Paula will play the part of the monkey and you three will…

  44. May 9, 2008 9:33 am

    sing and dance with Dora and Boots!

  45. May 9, 2008 9:35 am

    We shall call it ” The Gibbs Evolution Hour”

  46. May 9, 2008 9:41 am

    and you shall all wear swim suits that show your toity marks because…

  47. May 9, 2008 9:49 am

    Tam likes to stare at toity marked tooshies

  48. May 9, 2008 9:55 am

    which leads us back to old Mrs. Johnson…..

  49. May 9, 2008 10:10 am

    who is extremely familiar with toity marks.

  50. May 9, 2008 10:11 am

    But so is someone else besides Mrs. Johnson and Tam…

  51. Heidi permalink
    May 9, 2008 10:17 am

    suspense is killing me who is it?

  52. May 9, 2008 10:19 am

    the infamous photographer Hoity Toity who has published a coffee table book of famous toity marks and whose next book will be a collection of…..

  53. May 9, 2008 10:22 am

    photographs of fingers that have letters permanantly ingrained onto them from their keyboards because they were all addicted to blogging. This will also include B.A. therapy, which consists of

  54. May 9, 2008 10:48 am

    making you go outdoors for long walks and engaging in conversation with people in the flesh! 😯

  55. May 9, 2008 10:49 am

    OH THE HORROR!!!!!!

  56. May 9, 2008 10:51 am

    Ouch! Deadgum sunlight!

  57. May 9, 2008 10:58 am

    Meanwhile, Barry G., whose closet blogging addiction was at its zenith, tried to scuttle out of the room but was stopped by the monkey who said…

  58. ramsey72 permalink
    May 9, 2008 11:08 am

    I think I have Saturday Night Fever and need to boogie down with John Travolta at the disco

  59. lori permalink
    May 9, 2008 11:10 am

    to which Barry G. replied

  60. lori permalink
    May 9, 2008 11:10 am

    “You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em…”

  61. May 9, 2008 11:24 am

    (I’m astonished at how much sense this story is making!! I LOVE it!!!)

  62. May 9, 2008 11:25 am

    “Know when to walk away and know when to”…..

    RUN!!!! Here’s comes a monkey in a bikini wanting to wax me!!!

  63. ramsey72 permalink
    May 9, 2008 11:35 am

    But the monkey ran smack into Mrs. Johnson and decided

  64. May 9, 2008 11:51 am

    wax her instead.

  65. May 9, 2008 11:54 am

    The monkey gave her the choice..where shall I wax?

  66. May 9, 2008 11:58 am

    Mrs. Johnson replied “Please wax my unsightly chest hair before Barry G. see’s it!”

  67. May 9, 2008 12:12 pm

    “What the! That was NOT my chest!!!!”

  68. Heidi permalink
    May 9, 2008 12:19 pm

    That’s my bum!!!

  69. May 9, 2008 12:27 pm

    😯

  70. May 9, 2008 12:29 pm

    Like a flash, one of Mrs. Johnson’s tentacles whipped around the monkey’s…

  71. May 9, 2008 12:33 pm

    medulla oblongata

  72. May 9, 2008 12:45 pm

    trapped in the tentacles Barry Gibb then decided to

  73. May 9, 2008 12:46 pm

    and throttled the poor monkey until he resembled

  74. May 9, 2008 12:47 pm

    ooops….

    throttle the poor monkey until he resembled

  75. May 9, 2008 12:56 pm

    a limp noodle, which reminded Barry that he…

  76. May 9, 2008 1:07 pm

    he forgot to eat his chow mein at lunch!

  77. May 9, 2008 1:33 pm

    Barry was completely bummed out that he forgot to eat his chow mein and started singing in a note that only far away dogs could hear.

  78. May 9, 2008 1:40 pm

    (hahahahahaha!!!!)

  79. May 9, 2008 1:40 pm

    Sadly enough those dogs…

  80. May 9, 2008 1:45 pm

    are being held captive by the Monkey and Mr. Johnson!

  81. May 9, 2008 1:46 pm

    There’s only one thing we can do. Take everyone to the First Annual Toity Convention in Las Vegas!

  82. Heidi permalink
    May 9, 2008 1:48 pm

    Now?? I don’t have my clean underoos on and mom alwaystold me to have

  83. May 9, 2008 1:50 pm

    clean undies and extra blow pops on hand just in case…

  84. Heidi permalink
    May 9, 2008 1:51 pm

    In case someone drops the big W question at the Eternal Wedding bliss Chapel.. who will it be?

  85. May 9, 2008 1:52 pm

    things blow

  86. May 9, 2008 1:53 pm

    (too fast for me!)

  87. Heidi permalink
    May 9, 2008 1:54 pm

    (I’m sorry papa)

  88. May 9, 2008 1:57 pm

    out of hand here quickly. OOO – maybe him? He looks like he could be a great husband. Wait. He….

  89. dwpoyner permalink
    May 9, 2008 2:16 pm

    Has a hairy back! That can’t be …

  90. May 9, 2008 2:22 pm

    cousin Earl, can it???

  91. May 9, 2008 2:29 pm

    OOooh… he was the cousin who

  92. May 9, 2008 2:32 pm

    brought mistletoe to all the family Reunions was he?

  93. ramsey72 permalink
    May 9, 2008 2:47 pm

    and gave a whole new meaning to “kissing cousins”

  94. May 9, 2008 3:33 pm

    Yep! That’s him. Here he…

  95. ramsey72 permalink
    May 9, 2008 3:48 pm

    jumps on stage, grabs the microphone and starts to

  96. Heidi permalink
    May 9, 2008 4:11 pm

    girate to jailhouse rock

  97. lori permalink
    May 9, 2008 4:18 pm

    never expecting HER to show up…

  98. Heidi permalink
    May 9, 2008 4:19 pm

    but she does and gasps

  99. ramsey72 permalink
    May 9, 2008 4:25 pm

    so hard that she begins to hyperventilate

  100. May 9, 2008 4:25 pm

    at the site of

  101. ramsey72 permalink
    May 9, 2008 4:32 pm

    a hairy chested monkey with tentacles coming out

  102. May 9, 2008 4:33 pm

    we always knew cousin Earl was hiding something. 😯

  103. TheNorEaster permalink
    May 9, 2008 4:34 pm

    [[let’s got poeple…alece needs some serious puppy love!! she’s over 100 comments behind hte anti-blogger!!]]]

  104. May 9, 2008 4:34 pm

    Of course, his psychologist (oddly named Doctor Foot) new about this all along. You see…

  105. ramsey72 permalink
    May 9, 2008 4:37 pm

    He had been diagnosed with Attention Seeker Syndrome better known as A.S.S.

  106. lori permalink
    May 9, 2008 4:39 pm

    but he never let that stop him from

  107. ramsey72 permalink
    May 9, 2008 4:40 pm

    Feeling pretty fly for a white guy

  108. lori permalink
    May 9, 2008 4:42 pm

    even though he had no idea how to do that being a white guy and all

  109. May 9, 2008 4:42 pm

    Suffering from A.S.S. they decided thy needed to get to the bottom of it

  110. May 9, 2008 4:43 pm

    so at the “crack” of dawn they…

  111. May 9, 2008 4:43 pm

    lets get that problem behind him they shouted

  112. ramsey72 permalink
    May 9, 2008 4:44 pm

    and they began the hairy undertaking

  113. May 9, 2008 4:51 pm

    [[ let’s all go here http://gritandglory.com/2008/05/05/puppy-love/#comment-4344 for a little bit and help Alece beat her husband in the comment was so she can win and get her a new puppy!!!]]

    [but please come back here too! You all have been awesome today! This is a Hysterical Story!]

  114. May 9, 2008 7:55 pm

    working cheek to cheek to get the task done

  115. May 9, 2008 8:01 pm

    they worked into the wee hours only to find that

  116. May 9, 2008 8:02 pm

    They named their first puppy ‘cheeky spotty’ in result of this (flash forward)

  117. May 9, 2008 8:07 pm

    (huh?)

    😆

  118. TheNorEaster permalink
    May 9, 2008 8:09 pm

    strange phenomenon going on over at “Grit & Glory.” So then Tam said,

  119. May 9, 2008 8:10 pm

    Never mind — I’m so tired and losing it. The puppy thing was throwing me off!

  120. May 9, 2008 8:13 pm

    ( i am officially confused now – and laughing hysterically!! is it just me???)

  121. TheNorEaster permalink
    May 9, 2008 8:15 pm

    But at least Alece gets her puppy! So maybe that is worth getting thrown off!” So TheNorEaster said,

  122. May 9, 2008 8:16 pm

    he is very sorry for mutilating Tams Family Tree and he will do anything to make up for it. So Tam decided that…

  123. May 9, 2008 8:16 pm

    she would make him a fluffernutter sandwich

  124. May 9, 2008 8:21 pm

    (wait HE is suppose to be making up with ME. why am I making HIM a sandwich????)

  125. May 9, 2008 8:34 pm

    ( 😆 )

  126. May 9, 2008 8:34 pm

    evil.

    evilevilevil!

  127. May 9, 2008 8:42 pm

    she would make him a fluffernutter sandwich, but would dangle it on a string out in front of him while he does a silly “I’m sorry dance” and begs for his sandwich…..and Tam, being how she is tells him…

  128. May 9, 2008 8:42 pm

    THIS will do bad things to your insides, and you will be in the bathroom MUCh longer than you would like, because

  129. May 9, 2008 8:51 pm

    i have mixed chocolate exlax in this pretty lil sandwich. That’s right! How ya feelin now Massacre Man!?

  130. lori permalink
    May 9, 2008 8:57 pm

    He sank to his knees in total submission

  131. May 9, 2008 8:58 pm

    and with that, TheNorEaster grabs his pen and paper, and settles in for a long haul in the potty room, working on his new essay titled “an ax, fluff, and a bloggers nightmare” Which of course the nightmare being stuck in a bathroom unable to blog. Oh the horror! In the meantime, Tam sneaks back over to

  132. May 9, 2008 9:00 pm

    [OH how I love genuinely love you all!!! you brighten my heart and day every day! I am off to watch a movie with my family. Have fun!!! And Let the Nor really have it 😀 ]

  133. May 9, 2008 9:02 pm

    watch a movie with her family, who occasionally likes to see her in person as opposed to in blog world! Have a good night all!

  134. May 9, 2008 10:07 pm

    NE ended up having “the dia” for 15.9 days straight, until finally he…

  135. May 9, 2008 10:28 pm

    decided he didn’t have a prayer without

  136. TheNorEaster permalink
    May 9, 2008 11:12 pm

    his wonderful dog, Sam. Whom he rode off with into the sunset to escape further punishment from Tam and Her Blog-Gang.

    And they all lived happily ever after! 😉

  137. May 9, 2008 11:34 pm

    ***THE END***

    shewww…………..

  138. May 10, 2008 12:18 am

    [good glory, girlfriend…this was nothing short of amazing – suspense, romance, and the god forbid demise of blogging…the best stinkin 3 am read for sure!!!]

  139. TheNorEaster permalink
    May 10, 2008 4:26 am

    ***THE END***

    Until Sniper Tam pegged NorEaster in the back of the head with a cream pie from 500 yards. He fell off his horse and did not get up again. So Tam took Sam home with her and THEN they all lived happily ever after! 😉

  140. May 11, 2008 7:58 am

    my meds must be wearing off! 🙄

    No – wait it’s just another frantic Friday! (as opposed to a manic Monday or Whatever Wednesday) 🙂

    <B

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