Baker’s Dozen III

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

  1. Frame her for embezzlement and have her sent to prison
  2. Marry her off to a wealthy landowner with several kids
  3. Write her a big fat check and classify it as a business expense
  4. Write a song about her Wall Street reporting then (presumably) roll over in your grave when she becomes a Fox News shill.
  5. Have David Pecker buy her story then bury it.
  6. Hire her out as a governess and let her new employer deal with the problem.
  7. Take her to a mountaintop and have her spin until she loses all sense of direction.
  8. The cement bath, a la Lips Manliss
  9. Let her sing and spin on a mountaintop, sure, but arrange for the helicopter overhead to come just a bit too low with its razor-sharp blades
  10. Outlaw raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles, warm woollen mittens, cream-colored ponies, crisp apple strudels, doorbells, sleigh bells, and schnitzel with noodles.
  11. Convince Ray A. Dropofgoldensun that she means to kill him, and he’d better not give her the chance
  12. Have her, her husband, and children cross a mountain to get away from the Nazis, only to end up right at Hitler’s summer home (which is what would actually have happened, geographically speaking)

After some inner dialogue, I decided that my offering was too similar to the Professor’s earlier submission…

so I have replaced it as shown below —

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

  1. Frame her for embezzlement and have her sent to prison
  2. Marry her off to a wealthy landowner with several kids
  3. Write her a big fat check and classify it as a business expense
  4. Write a song about her Wall Street reporting then (presumably) roll over in your grave when she becomes a Fox News shill.
  5. Have David Pecker buy her story then bury it.
  6. Have her climb every mountain. That ought to take the spunk out of her.
  7. Take her to a mountaintop and have her spin until she loses all sense of direction.
  8. The cement bath, a la Lips Manliss
  9. Let her sing and spin on a mountaintop, sure, but arrange for the helicopter overhead to come just a bit too low with its razor-sharp blades
  10. Outlaw raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles, warm woollen mittens, cream-colored ponies, crisp apple strudels, doorbells, sleigh bells, and schnitzel with noodles.
  11. Convince Ray A. Dropofgoldensun that she means to kill him, and he’d better not give her the chance
  12. Have her, her husband, and children cross a mountain to get away from the Nazis, only to end up right at Hitler’s summer home (which is what would actually have happened, geographically speaking)

-“BB”-

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

  1. Frame her for embezzlement and have her sent to prison
  2. Marry her off to a wealthy landowner with several kids
  3. Write her a big fat check and classify it as a business expense
  4. Write a song about her Wall Street reporting then (presumably) roll over in your grave when she becomes a Fox News shill.
  5. Have David Pecker buy her story then bury it.
  6. Have her climb every mountain. That ought to take the spunk out of her.
  7. Take her to a mountaintop and have her spin until she loses all sense of direction.
  8. The cement bath, a la Lips Manliss
  9. Let her sing and spin on a mountaintop, sure, but arrange for the helicopter overhead to come just a bit too low with its razor-sharp blades
  10. Outlaw raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles, warm woollen mittens, cream-colored ponies, crisp apple strudels, doorbells, sleigh bells, and schnitzel with noodles.
  11. Convince Ray A. Dropofgoldensun that she means to kill him, and he’d better not give her the chance
  12. Have her, her husband, and children cross a mountain to get away from the Nazis, only to end up right at Hitler’s summer home (which is what would actually have happened, geographically speaking)
  13. Put her in a white dress with a blue satin sash.

A long-ago girlfriend was forced to wear such an outfit once at a family function. She looked just fine to me, but she absolutely hated it.

Pass.

But those are a few of my favorite things!

Animals whose names tell us what they do.

  1. Woodpecker

Animals whose names tell us what they do.

  1. Woodpecker
  2. Anteater

-“BB”-

Animals whose names tell us what they do.

  1. Woodpecker
  2. Anteater
  3. Flycatcher

Animals whose names tell us what they do.

  1. Woodpecker
  2. Anteater
  3. Flycatcher
  4. Rattlesnake

Animals whose names tell us what they do.

  1. Woodpecker
  2. Anteater
  3. Flycatcher
  4. Rattlesnake
  5. Killer Whale

Also known as the Orca, it’s actually not a whale, but a dolphin. But it is at the top of the marine food chain, living on a varied diet of fish, whales, and, yes, other dolphins.

Animals whose names tell us what they do.

  1. Woodpecker
  2. Anteater
  3. Flycatcher
  4. Rattlesnake
  5. Killer Whale
  6. Fly

Animals whose names tell us what they do.

  1. Woodpecker
  2. Anteater
  3. Flycatcher
  4. Rattlesnake
  5. Killer Whale
  6. Fly
  7. Stink bug

Animals whose names tell us what they do.

  1. Woodpecker
  2. Anteater
  3. Flycatcher
  4. Rattlesnake
  5. Killer Whale
  6. Fly
  7. Stink bug
  8. Grasshopper

Animals whose names tell us what they do.

  1. Woodpecker
  2. Anteater
  3. Flycatcher
  4. Rattlesnake
  5. Killer Whale
  6. Fly
  7. Stink bug
  8. Grasshopper
  9. Roadrunner

Animals whose names tell us what they do.

  1. Woodpecker
  2. Anteater
  3. Flycatcher
  4. Rattlesnake
  5. Killer Whale
  6. Fly
  7. Stink bug
  8. Grasshopper
  9. Roadrunner
  10. Oystercatcher

Animals whose names tell us what they do.

  1. Woodpecker
  2. Anteater
  3. Flycatcher
  4. Rattlesnake
  5. Killer Whale
  6. Fly
  7. Stink bug
  8. Grasshopper
  9. Roadrunner
  10. Oystercatcher
  11. Laughing hyena

Animals whose names tell us what they do.

  1. Woodpecker
  2. Anteater
  3. Flycatcher
  4. Rattlesnake
  5. Killer Whale
  6. Fly
  7. Stink bug
  8. Grasshopper
  9. Roadrunner
  10. Oystercatcher
  11. Laughing hyena
  12. Nightcrawler

Animals whose names tell us what they do.

  1. Woodpecker
  2. Anteater
  3. Flycatcher
  4. Rattlesnake
  5. Killer Whale
  6. Fly
  7. Stink bug
  8. Grasshopper
  9. Roadrunner
  10. Oystercatcher
  11. Laughing hyena
  12. Nightcrawler
  13. Bed bugs

They live in your bed.

New category:

Animal names that are kinda dirty

  1. Cockroach

Animal names that are kinda dirty

  1. Cockroach
  2. Titmouse

Animal names that are kinda dirty

  1. Cockroach
  2. Titmouse
  3. Dickcissel

A small seed-eating bird

Animal names that are kinda dirty

  1. Cockroach
  2. Titmouse
  3. Dickcissel
  4. Pussycat

Animal names that are kinda dirty

  1. Cockroach
  2. Titmouse
  3. Dickcissel
  4. Pussycat
  5. Woodpecker

-“BB”-