And so are the WordPress prompts! O happy day!
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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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 have the funniest readers in the blogosphere (not necessarily ha ha…)