And so are the WordPress prompts! O happy day!
High on the Happy Side (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
First, me: I’m not really back; I just need a break from banishing extraneous semi-colons and you know I can’t stay away from blogging even when I’ve told you I’m staying away from blogging.* But I won’t be visiting you yet, sorry.
Didn’t I do well? I went one whole day without posting!
*I’m sure that sentence needed a semi-colon after ‘semi-colon’.
For readers who joined us this year, in 2011 the WordPress people posted a prompt a day to encourage bloggers to post every day. I needed no encouragement to post but I liked the idea, so I signed up.
I took the prompts seriously at first but on the day they asked us how we would react to kittens in a sack on a railway track, my seriousness flew out of the window, typing fingers dug deep into the back of their credibility.
It led to responses like these:
What makes someone beautiful?
An offer to clean my house in one hand and a bag of Maltesers in the other.
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How do you know when it’s time to go?
I get a little damp patch around my lower-middle area.
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Will Smith (Photo credit: Martin de Witte)
Describe the perfect sandwich.
Will Smith.Me.BradPitt.
What? It could happen…
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What should you do when sick on vacation?
Find a bucket, quick. Some things cross the cultural divide.
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What does “home” mean to you?
Too much cleaning; too little pay. But at least I know where I keep the buckets.
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What is your favorite way to get physical exercise?
I have a really good system: I spend all morning at the computer, exercising my brain and fingers at your blogs. At some point I fall into a dead faint, which tells me I’m hungry.
- walk from computer to kitchen
- put kettle on
- walk back to computer
- walk from computer to kitchen
- make tea
- prepare cereal
- walk back to computer
- eat cereal whilst reading blogs
- walk back to kitchen
- get piece of fruit (also known as ‘packet of crisps’)
- walk back to computer
- eat frusps whilst reading blogs
- walk back to kitchen to dispose of fruit packet
- get another piece of fruit (also known as ‘chocolate’)
- walk back to computer
- eat other fruitlate whilst reading blogs
- walk back to kitchen to dispose of other fruit packet
- walk back to computer with tea, now at perfect drinking temperature (adding weights to an exercise regime gives a better workout)
- drink tea whilst reading blogs
- walk back to kitchen with almost-empty mug (it is impolite to drain the cup)
- walk back to computer
- read blogs
As you can see, I get a lot of aerobic exercise on a daily basis. Time to celebrate with a slap-up meal!
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My readers and I decided that I didn’t have to introduce every prompt post with the sentence, The WordPress prompters asked….
If a post has an italicised, bold introduction, it’s probably a WordPress prompt and you should expect a silly answer.
And I wonder why I’ve never been Freshly Pressed.
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If you enjoyed these responses, here are some more:
I’m freshly impressed.
That was a quick return … and still bonkers mad – love the your physical exercise- do something similar … but today I cleaned the windows … so now I can take another Marabou. Wonderful to have you back. Love your idea of sandwich, my filling will be a bit different.
So what’s changed?
Nothing I hope … *smile
I’ll kick in for the bag of Maltesers if someone else will offer the house cleaning.
Have you noticed how Will Smith seems to be trying to fight the fact that it’s time to go?
That sandwich sounds adventurous.
I like your sandwich. My type : Johnny Depp.Me.Tom Hardy. Yum
Sorry Tilly, I hadn’t noticed you’d gone away.
(I’m playing catch up again, so there is a reason!)
I cannot respond to this post; cannot respond to any post that maligns My Beloved semicolon. There are no extraneous semicolons. Without semicolons life would barely be worth living; would be like life without (dare I say it?) Maltesers.
Happy days for all of us!
Welcome Back! The world is a happier place when Tilly is around, even the weather has become more bearable. I’ve joined you in the ‘Not Freshly Pressed’ club.
You always make me laugh, Tilly. Glad you don’t stay away for long.
You’ll probably be Freshly Pressed now because this is hysterical. I’ll have a word with our sponsors – haha! Oh I do not miss those semicolon days!!!
I almost fell off of my chair laughing, as your exercise sounds just like mine!!!!
HI! HA!
I remember when they had that prompt about a pile of puppies on a railroad track. I posted a picture of a group of golden labs in the post along with my outrage about the prompt and how ridiculous it was. To this day, I am still getting comments about how cute the photo of the puppies is. NO ONE comments on the post but EVERYONE comments on how they want a puppy. Such wonderful prompts Word Press has produced. I can’t wait for more.
glad you’re sorta back…..How do they chose someone to be FP’d ..is it country, subject, wittiness…so why they never picked me?
Away? I thought you were having a Malteser party for one!
How true for so many of us Love it
Welcome back and I must have missed the kittens post!
Early 2011, if I remember correctly.