Another slapstick story

Statuesque Jane Bradley was putting stuff away, and accidentally dropped a syrup bottle on the floor. A moment before she dropped it, she saw her brown cat Herbie, out the corner of her eye, across the room. Then Herbie…

…ate a pink elephant that was holding…

…the right pinkie of Mike, Jane’s 17-year-old son, a big strapping fellow. Mike screamed when Herbie bit his pinkie, and chucked his bat like a spear out the kitchen window. The sound of crockery shattering told Jane and Mike that the bat had just hit…

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The Teeming Millions fell into an awed hush when Cecil appeared on the balcony, motioned to the crowd, and announced that Ignorance was dead.

One Doper could not contain her joy… she swooned and fell off a grassy knoll onto the buffet table, sending waves of hot, buttery…

…pancakes in through the kitchen window of the Sharp mansion, delighting Jack and Eloise Sharp and their fifteen kids, who all like pancakes. Mrs. Sharp was glad that neither she nor her cook, Emily, had to make the pancakes, just pour the syrup onto them (not Jane’s brand) on 17 plates. After breakfast Eloise and Jack sneaked off into an anteroom and promptly…