Herr D's CFLs

[Herr D]

This one was fun.–Phone challenge. I titled this one “APPrehended.”

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[Herr D]

Whenever somebody’s pullin’ a fast one, it’s bound to fail unless someone’s ready to cover their tracks.
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Who gave their blood today?

[Herr D]

I forgot to mention–my blood type is positive. Some guy asked me what my letter was. I told him that I never lettered in school. He gave me SUCH a look of contempt.

Not everyone can be great at sports . . .

[Herr D]

She loved Mardi Gras, especially when people would sing her name three times and greet her.
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And she set a record for most beads thrown back.

[Herr D]

Did you ever feel like maybe your tastes belong to a MUCH smaller minority than you originally thought?
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Okay, okay: it wasn’t my favorite issue either but come ON!
*hd

[Herr D]

Jerry is an artist. Skin is his canvas. He is great. His green mohawk seems to invite interesting customers as well. He gets to do fantastic, complex shapes on the most irregular surfaces . . .

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. . . he might work on his memory, however, before the worst happens . . .

[Moognation]

Thanks for the shout out!

[Herr D]

@Moognation said:

Thanks for the shout out!

You’re certainly welcome. ‘Playbeing’ is unfortunately not willing to give me a finder’s fee. Oh well.

[Herr D]

. . . It occurs to me that I don’t know whether these are obvious enough. I submitted them to the cards contest, but I’ve no idea whether anyone even understood them. Does anyone know what these four cards are?

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I realize no one is supposed to wonder about that sort of thing . . . Specifically, the top hand is a bad hand and the bottom hand is great. Feel free to PM me if you’re three blocks later responding.

[Myro]

I’m guessing 3 of Clubs, 10 of Diamonds, Jack of Hearts, and Ace of Spades?

[Herr D]

Awh, man! You DID have to guess? I need to study obviosity. Obviousness? Obviance? Oh-Be-Very-‘It’s-Obvious-U-See?’
Yeesh. This is a perfect example. The answer about the ‘state of being obvious’ is probably too obvious for me to think of.

–MYRO! You just won that hand of Blackjack at Herr D’s casino. [pushes grayed sour-cream-and-onion-chip across table]
Your chip, sir. Wish to cash out?

[Herr D]

Discovered on it’s way to Earth. No one knows where it came from, but the staticky recording of an old song and the transliteration of the audible snippets made translation a snap. The note with it translates to:

Maurice, lovey-dovey Space Cowboy, people here talk about you with pompatous. We show you not our peaches. Oo-ee sinner love you right right right at home. Don’t shake me [sic] trees. People here want to hurt no one.
–Baby.

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[Herr D]

I’m guessing the song I reference above isn’t as well-known as I think it was.
I always hated it. So I tried to imagine it was good for something. What I came up with was that it caused an otherwise warlike species to be afraid of Earth and send us a Trojan Horse. But we know that one.
So don’t open it.
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From Universal Biologic Special: Humanoids of the Hairbrush Nebula.
Tenna Is In Trouble. Her people use a sort of blowpipe that they pump up with a mouthpiece and a squeeze-bladder. The release valve supplies a powerful burst indeed. The condensation of their breath is collected as well to be used in the darts. After all, nothing is more toxic to their prey, the ‘Chukturs’ Beasts, than water. They make all their garments and most of their non-metal weapons from their blue fur and dried green guts. The cliff lizard after her has a pretty good chance against her since she is off-balance and hasn’t drawn one of her knives yet.

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[WMDBASSPLAYER]

“Some people call me the Space Cowboy. Some call me the Gangster of Love! Some people call me Maurice…” Steve Miller Band, 1976, I think. I was in high school then. Total coolness, all your stuff!

[Herr D]

Thank you, WMD. Your comments about the separation of media specialties really take me back. Did you know that early in human history, for example the ancient Greeks, artistry was frequently taught in separate media only as a part of a trade?
Hobbyists weren’t artists. The word ‘Poi-eet-eez’ as they may have pronounced it meant ‘maker.’ It may have applied equally to any art or craft. Our modern word ‘poet’ comes from it.

My muses have attention deficit disorder and like impersonating one another. It makes things difficult sometimes. I went to write a sonnet once . . . and the carving turned out well.

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