A message for new readers: every couple of days, I take a random selection of Daily Post prompts and attempt to answer them in a serious manner.
horse (Photo credit: possan)
Link to an item in the news you’ve been thinking about lately, and write the op-ed you’d like to see published on the topic.
Horsemeat Found In Frozen Burgers
Op Ed:
Stop complaining! The French are laughing at us.
Besides, you never really believed there was any actual meat in processed burgers, did you? This is a step up.
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What’s the best piece of advice you’ve given someone that you failed to take yourself?
NEVER make fun of the WordPress prompters; they know your host.
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Open your nearest book to page 82. Take the third full sentence on the page, and work it into a post somehow.
The third full sentence in the book nearest to me is taken from Grace Nichols’ Everybody Got A Gift:
poop po-doop
poop-poop po-doop
poop po-doop
poop-poop po-doop
She has such a way with words.
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Winner of the Silly Face Contest (Photo credit: Linda Hartman.)
Write about your strongest memory of heart-pounding, belly-twisting nervousness: what caused the adrenaline? Was it justified? How did you respond?
A WordPress prompter got into the lift with me one day. Given my relentless tormenting of the evil creature, I was terrified. Fortunately, however, I was thinking about Grace Nichol’s sublime poetry at the time, so I had an idea how to distract him…
Some people eat to live, while others live to eat. What about you? How far would you travel for the best meal of your life?
As far as a horse could take me.
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What is your earliest memory? Describe it in detail, and tell us why you think that experience was the one to stick with you.
I remember carefree days on an English farm with my mother. It sticks in my memory because I was suddenly, cruelly separated from her and put to work driving cabs in London, even though I was still young. I did eventually retire happily to the country but along the way, I met with many hardships, much cruelty and some kindness.
Oh, wait…that was Black Beauty.
My first memory was of reading a rather sad book. I forget what it was called.
The Laughing Housewife 
Neeeeeiiiiiggghhhh.
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You. Are. Funny.
Thanks. 🙂
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I’m a little ho(a)rse from laughing now! 🙂
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😀
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Do I detect a horse theme amongst the Word Press prompts here? You could develop them into one massive horse post, you know. Or not.
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😀 😀
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I am very disappointed wit the reply to ‘How far would you travel for the best meal of your life?’ I expected the answer to be as far as the bag of Maltesers on my desk!
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There is never a bag of Maltesers on my desk. They don’t last that long 🙂
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Too funny!
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Not only the French, we eat smoked horse meat as cold cut .. and so do they in Belgium too. And may restaurants serve horse meat instead of beef – very difficult to detect. Only when you cut the meat in a special way and it’s doesn’t fall apart as it should you will notice it really. Great meat.
By the way .. you’re both mad and funny. *smile .. I have crawled out again.
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So I see! This was interesting stuff. Though my British stomach suddenly feels a little queasy 🙂
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Tilly, promise you … you wouldn’t be able to taste the difference. Horse meat is really good.
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Best get to the doctor today, I sense you may be coming down with hoof-in-mouth disease.
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Okay…that last answer made me laugh out loud…I seem to be getting some strange stares from the people around…I’d better leave now. 🙂
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Your last remark is pure proof of how gullible I am! Despite the fact it didn’t really make much sense to me I actually started to feel this tug at my heart concerned for your childhood…good grief! You got me!
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Heeheeeheeheehee!
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You’re so hilarious, Tilly. Thanks for the belly laughs. 😀
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Memory, what memory? People who have lost their minds don’t have memories. Dianne
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Ouch!
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Hahaha … you saved the best for last! 🙂
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Horse meat burgers? Yum! I think I’ll stick to tofu.
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Have you been answering prompts furlong? Horses for courses I suppose. This may be closing the stable door after the horse has bolted – but did you know they’ve now found uniquorn in the veggie burgers? So, I had a closer look at my processed burgers AND THEY’RRRRRRRE OFFFF!
I really need to reign myself in, but I seem to have got the bit between my teeth.
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Can you hear the applause for your magnificent comment? Clop clop clop clop… 😀
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The horsemeat saga has driven me mad, forcing me to generate and collect puns Thanks for providing me with an outlet.
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“Besides, you never really believed there was any actual meat in processed burgers, did you?” Exactly!! My first thought when I saw this in the news was “at least horses are animals! I’d be more worried about the other stuff that’s in them!”
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And there was me, inundated with colourful visions of you at 12 with The Knowledge propped up on a dashboard, trying to pick up an extra fare at Waterloo.
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😀 🙂
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I enjoyed all of these but guffawed out loud at the Black Beauty.
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Silly face award- SO FUNNY- finally catching up on my mail!!
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