Wet and Aggressive Corella challenges Magpie

Wet and Aggressive Corella challenges Magpie

Wednesday 25 January 2023

Words for Wednesday 25/1/2023

 

 




This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Computer issues and then life issues led her to bow out.  The meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast. 
Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write.  Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image.   What we do with those prompts is up to us:  a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore...  We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged. 
 
Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog.  I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants.  If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud.  And huge thanks to those of you who come back, sometimes time after time to cheer other contributors on.

The prompts will be here this month, but are provided by  Sandi
 
This week's prompts are:

  • Cyrillic
  • Rogue
  • Perish
  • Paris
  • Parish
 
And/or

  • A foolish waste of time
  • Overcome
  • Reading secret messages
  • New orders

And/or

 


 

   

She has been very generous hasn't she?
 
I am going to continue to add a further challenge to the mix.  Charlotte(MotherOwl) has assigned a colour to each month of the year.  This month it is pine green and if you can include it in your Words for Wednesday contribution each week in January she and I would be very grateful.
 
Have fun.
 
I hope you will join me in thanking Sandi for the prompts she has given us this month. Next month  lissa will be providing the prompts on her blog.

Have fun.

99 comments:

  1. This was going to be the week I tried using the prompts again__not sure after seeing these.

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    1. Anne in the kitchen: Sandi is right. I have missed your take on the prompts and as you know you don't have to use all of them.

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  2. Bonus if you can incorporate all of it!

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    1. Yes. You win the Internet today if you use all of them and the song! 🎉

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    2. Alex J. Cavanaugh: I have done it. Sort of.

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    3. Mine probably could have - but I didn't read before I posted ... but Alex - challenges us ... cheers and EC - I'm going to read now! Cheers Hilary

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  3. I am ashamed to admit it but my chances of reading new orders in a secret message would be a foolish waste of time if they were written in Cyrillic or as a musical score. Cyrillic I could perhaps learn, but musical appreciation is a step too far, Mission Impossible as it were.
    You and I would perish if deciphering messages in either language depended on me. Others are overcome by the beauty of music. Not me. Bird song yes, but not the sounds produced by humans. People have told me that they cannot trust anyone who is not moved by music, but it seems I am a rogue. It means very little to me, and irritates me as often as it pleases me.
    I am humbled to know that millions of people all over the world, from a small parish community in Paris to a sprawling city in Uzbekistan would fare better than me, and have a language in common that I lack.

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    1. Well done! All I could think of was To perish in a Paris parish would be a foolish waste of time.

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    2. Janie Junebug: I really, really like your use of Sandi's prompts.

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    3. EC, you did a great job using the prompts to showcase your uniqueness.

      Janie Junebug, well done!

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    4. Congratulations EC - love the use of Paris and Uzbekistan ... fun to read - cheers Hilary

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    5. Impressive and entertaining as always, Sue.

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    6. I'd also do better with Cyrilic than with music. Althoug I love some music and have even played myself, my memory for music is bosh. I love your honesty.

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    7. Nicely done, Sue! My periodontist told me that he never trusts anyone who doesn't like dogs. We both love dogs and music!

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    8. Fundy Blue: It seems that you can only half trust me. Dogs yes, music no.

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  4. She was an outlaw, a rogue, living in Paris, but no one knew that. She had narrowly escaped her past because she finally realized if she continued her pursuits she was sure to perish. She wanted to carry out the new orders but reading these new Cyrillic secret messages she was overcome with dread and knew it had all been a foolish waste of time. She had been altruistic in previous pursuits to benefit her small town parish but now she realized her identity was sure to be revealed and her life would be in danger if she continued. She bowed out gracefully and took up a new life hopefully devoid of the dangerous adventures she'd had in the past. Linda Starr

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    1. Linda Starr: This is wonderful. I hope her new life is safe and fulfilling.

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    2. There comes a time when to gracefully bow out is the right thing to do.

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    3. Hi Linda - cleverly brought together ... I could visualise her plight - glad she bowed out early enough to start again with a new life - cheers Hilary

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    4. Great job, Linda. I hope her new life will be tranquil and satisfying.

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    5. Here to a new life for your heroine. Cheers!

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  5. New orders will help me overcome a foolish waste of time reading secret messages.

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  6. A note in Cyrillic from a rogue agent may cause him to perish in a Paris parish.

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    1. Mike: I love that Sandi's prompts have been spurring Captain Succinct on to multiple efforts.

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    2. I like how you squeezed together perish, Paris, and parish! 😂

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    3. Fun to read ... and Sandi's comment is very appropriate - you've been succinct and to the point once again = cheers H

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  7. That Cyrillic
    Rogue must
    Perish!

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  8. Thanks for the prompts, Sandi!

    I hear the game is afoot and will be back to read and link up.

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    1. messymimi: As always I am looking forward to reading your take on Sandi's challenging prompts.

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    2. Sandi: The link will go live in a few hours. It is always worth waiting for the positive spin that messymimi puts on the prompts.

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    1. Sandi: I am really glad that you are enjoying it. You certainly stretched me.

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  10. Yes, thank you Sandi, this has been quite a challenging month.

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  11. Yes very generous and I'm going to try and put something together since, It's so not a waste of foolish time to overcome reading secret messages and keep placing new orders for more wild and blazing secret messages to decipher!

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    1. 21 Wits: Thank you for joining us again - and no, not a waste of time at all.

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    2. Well done 21 Wits ... good to see you - cheers Hilary

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    3. Nicely done. Deciphering secret messages keeps the wits sharp.

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  12. Mine has been posted a bit earlier than usual here: a stranger in a strange land

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  13. Hi EC and Sandi … here's mine on the 2nd set and video:

    I don't have the brain to deal with this – Mission Impossible – honestly what an incredibly foolish waste of time to set the group this test.

    Which one of us has the capacity to deal with these scribbles … yes a few clever clogs … but could we have some new orders – I don't think I can keep my eyes on these extraordinary coded, or are they secret, messages for the rest of the day?

    I'm almost overcome with exhaustion worrying about another remarkably odd assignment – known as Words for Wednesday.

    Cheers Hilary

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    1. Hilary Melton-Butcher: Well done. This week's prompts ARE challenging and you have more than met them.

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    2. Hehe, well done. Now you can rest.

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    3. The ending really made me laugh, Hilary!

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  14. Creative and delightful, Hilary. These are challenging prompts which I hope to be able to get to this afternoon.

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  15. It was bad enough READING SECRET MESSAGES in CYRILLIC script, but on this PINE GREEN paper it was even more difficult. At first, I thought it was A FOOLISH WASTE OF TIME but that ROGUE, Andrew, had insisted that it would be fun and intellectually stimulating. This spy game was getting a little too intense for me, however. Andrew issued NEW ORDERS with the gravity of a real spy. He was quite OVERCOME with it all, and even inserted cryptic messages into the PARISH newsletter. PERISH the thought that he could just let it go for a while. Imagine my shock when I turned on the morning news to hear that a double agent had been arrested in PARIS for passing secrets to the Russians. It was Andrew, of course. I guess for him it really did get a little too serious and he got caught up in his own world of fantasy. I imagine he will enjoy deciphering messages on PINE GREEN paper in his prison cell. We may not be seeing him for a while.

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    1. David M. Gascoigne: Loud applause. Which I hope you can hear...

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    2. Hi David - more likely mouldy walls ... no paper and certainly not bright pine green?! Excellent little snippet of life ... cheers Hilary

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    3. Perfectamente tu relato podría servir como guión de una buena película de espionaje.
      ¡Enhorabuena!
      Saludos.

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    4. A spy thriller in a few sentences. Well done!

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    5. He pretended until his pretending became real. A little like my story, but probably more likely.

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    6. Good job with all the words and phrases.

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  16. Once again a chapter on Susan. After dinner I'll return and read all your lovelyt stories.

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    1. Charlotte (MotherOwl): I have read and am intrigued with your take. I am also pine green with chagrin that I left your colour of my take. Mea culpa.

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    2. Oh, EC it's perfectly fine. You wrote so well.

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  17. I love how creative this is getting. Sorry I rarely contribute and have nothing for today either.
    Be well, friend.

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    1. Rawknrobyn: Thank you for visiting and applauding. Stay safe, well and happy.

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  18. AN IMPOSSIBLE MISSION by Granny Annie

    Her parents told Susie the ROGUE was a FOOLISH WASTE OF TIME. Randall kidnapped Susie and took her to PARIS. Her mom and dad were frantic to get her home and by some miracle they managed it. The pair of lovers then communicated in their own way, READING SECRET MESSAGES written in CYRILLIC. Her parents found the packet of bound letters in Susie's pine green box. They were OVERCOME with grief, knowing their child would definitely PERISH under this man's trance. The took the messages to the PARISH and let their priest read them. This religious leader demanded Susie be given NEW ORDERS in the family. It was time to lock her in the basement.

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    1. Great story! Poor Susie, locked in the basement, pining for Randall no doubt.

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    2. Granny Annie: Poor, poor Susie. I hope that love laughs at locksmiths and she and Randall can be reunited.

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    3. Sure sounds impossible for Susie and Randall. Who knows what's best?

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    4. Great job! And what an unexpected ending:)
      Sandra sandracox.blogspot.com

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    5. Good take, GA.Locking her in the basement probably won't work. Some people will do anything for love.

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  19. For my first assignment, I was bluntly told; You will be reading secret messages in cyrillic then when you reach Paris, go to the parish of Notre Dame. Your contact will be a shot man dressed in a pine green suit. There you will make arrangement to be picked up by a Nissan Rogue to continue on. I thought I would perish before I even began this assignment. What a total waste of my time, I thought. The only way to overcome this mission impossible was to ask for new orders and hoping the assignment would be more doable.
    Julia

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    1. Julia: I love this, and hope that the new orders are forthcoming. Soon.

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    2. Yeah, sounds rather impossible. I hope the new orders are more doable.

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  20. What an amazing of strings. I:M or M:I has come great music.

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    1. Susan Kane: The video was impressive wasn't it?

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  21. What fun and thank you, always an enjoyable read :)

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