That was the only standard for this contest. The entries that made me laugh the hardest are listed below. As always, it was keen competiton;
French sojourn 8:25am
I was blessed to be born a cat, but cursed having OCD, damn crooked pictures.
Sharyn Eckburg 9:29am
I can’t believe they took down the picture of me and put this shit up instead.
charlogo 9:29am
As the cat burglar checked behind every frame for the wall safe, he thought, once again, how opposable thumbs could have improved his profit margin.
Julie Weathers 10:14am
John Berendt was racking his brain for a title to his new book when he noticed Midnight attacking his garden of butterfly and dragon paintings.
lamandarin 10:44am
Cat-a-whompus
Claire Bowbrow 12:09pm
House rules, she said.
No climbing on the drapes, she said.
Artwork?
I don’t believe she did.
Mention it, I mean.
Categorically speaking
Janice Grinyer 12:46pm
"I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU!! NO...WIRE...HANGERS...!!!"
~ kitty dearest
Not Jana 12:47pm
Feline Buttonweezer finishing off the sea leg adjustment room on Carkoon while cussing out Canine Buttonweezer for eating all pictures of kale.
Scott Sloan 2:53pm
Peter Parker?
Peter Parkour is more like it…
♫ Spidercat, Spidercat…
Does whatever a Spidercat does ♫
Web…?
I don’t need no stinkin’ web…
AJ Blythe 3:37pm
Officer, you've made a mistake. I was framed!
flashfriday 4:56pm
Everybody mocked me, said Mama musta hung out with strays, cuz I sure looked funny after cocooning--tail and claws insteada wings. Who’s laughing now?
Steve Stubbs 6:33pm
This comment isn’t an entry. It is a comment about incomplete sentences. Since we are limited to 25 words I shall be brief. I can’t
Let me know your comments on the finalists.
I have a pretty good idea of who the winner is but I like to give it some time to ferment overnight in case inspiration strikes in the middle of the night!
Final results later today.
I must have missed that! Goes back to check. No. Not mentioned. I guess you just decided laughter was the medicine needed for a COLD Sunday!
ReplyDeleteThat said, my favorites out of your compilation here:
charlogo
Claire
Janice
AJ
Good luck to everyone!
I vote for Julie Weathers.
ReplyDeleteAnd I love Steve Stubbs' comment.
So many of these made me laugh. But Julie Weathers' entry . . . well, it went a beyond a mere laugh and stepped straight into storytelling.
ReplyDeleteWell done, everyone! Now I want to know who sent this pic and what the real story is behind it.
Claire. Because cats and kids have a lot in common.
ReplyDeletePerhaps NotJana for "Feline Buttonweezer"... but in the end I think I have to concur with others and vote for Julie's. Clever and funny. Especially after I looked up who John Berendt is... hey, I never said I was the most well-read person in the room! :)
ReplyDeleteI figured mine wouldn't make the cut since I wrote it in italics. ;)
I promised to explain after the contest closed what Coco was really doing in that photo that the QOTKU used in yesterday's Flash Fiction contest. Coco Chanel is my fashionista kitty. She's particularly interested in decorating...it's a passion for her. She decided some months ago that the row of four butterfly prints hanging above the sofa in my den were far too regimented and ordinary. She took that as a challenge...and rearranged them to her tastes.
ReplyDeleteNaturally, I would come in, see that they were all wonky, and straighten them up again. Next time my back was turned...she'd rearrange them to her liking. All wonky.
This went on for weeks, until the day came when I straightened the pictures and Coco went along right behind me and wonkied them up immediately.
At that point...I gave up. Wonky pictures it is. She likes them that way, and she's the fashionista in the house, so who am I to say it's wrong? Besides: She's Feline Management. I'm Staff. I know my place.
Lots of these were so funny but yeah, Julie - super clever. These were a fun distraction on a sick day Sunday. Winter is not my season.
ReplyDeleteClaire, Julie and Scott
ReplyDeleteI loved lamandarin's - funny in just one word! Steve's made me laugh. Heck, they're all funny :)
ReplyDeleteMy vote goes to Scott--because I can never not hear that song when I see animals climbing walls!
ReplyDeleteMeg: That true story takes the cake! Thanks for sharing your fashionista with us!
My top picks: Sharyn, charlogo,lamandarin, Julie.
ReplyDeleteHappy Monday, everyone!
ReplyDeleteMy vote is charlogo and Sharyn. Too funny.
I laughed at Charlogo's when I first read it, so I'll have to vote for that.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks y'all for getting it.
Writing quote for the day:
Writing well means never having to say, "I guess you had to be there.”
― Jef Mallett
That's what I'm going to focus on today. Making sure the reader is there, smelling the tobacco, feeling the grainy bits of Vienna semonlina cake wallowing around on their tongue, hearing the harness rattle when a horse shakes its head.
Scott Sloan, you made me smile!!!
ReplyDeleteGood morning all. I'm thrilled to be a finalist! Thank you, Janet, and everyone who mentioned my entry. Puts a huge smile on my face!!
ReplyDeleteI loved reading all the entries; many of the ones that had me doubling over were finalists. I really couldn't choose among them. Kudos to all who entered.
One that really cracked me up, but didn't make the list was Mary's.
I have to confess to an unfair advantage. I live with two speakative, opinionated and foul-mouthed cats plus a Feline Translation Facilitator.
ReplyDeleteI think Julie wins for the immediate Gary Larsen cartoon image.
Charlogo and Julie get my votes, but I had a lot of fun reading through all of them.
ReplyDeleteSharyn: If we're taking votes on the most Gary Larsonesque caption, then JD Horn gets mine: "The argument ended when Martha proved there really wasn’t room to swing a cat without hitting one of Mary’s butterfly prints." :)
ReplyDeleteAgreed, Colin! I thought JD's was really funny and sounded like a great cartoon caption. But I felt a bit guilty for laughing. Poor kitty :-)
ReplyDeleteAs jeez, I tried to be clever, write in alphabetical order ( left out x). I guess it didn't work. Oh well,loved the finalists though.
ReplyDeleteI'm not going to be clever anymore. Ha.
Charlogo and Claire get my vote! Thanks for the laughs!
ReplyDeleteDespite Feline Buttonwheezer and kitty dearest cracking me up, I have to go with the John Berendt socialite murder mystery that Julie Weathers concocted. Well done.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to be thinking of Midnight in the Garden of [Blank] and [Blank] all day today as I flit around.
I'm too late to weigh in before the judging, but JD Horn's and Charlogo's both made me laugh. I love the story of the feline decorator.
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