PromptlySusan: August 31, 2011 Challenge #16

The power of choice is in your hands. Use as many or as few as you like of the following prompts:

Poetry: Anapeat
Prose: Mystery
All Words: cannon, chew, curfew, curl
Phrase for Contemplation: By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.
Theme: mental illness
Graphic:

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Previous submissions are worthy of your attention:

Place and Time by A. F. Stewart

Night Remembers by Hinda Rochel Anolick

Summer Night by Kerry Dexter

Friendship, Inc. by Susan Budig

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Janet "Jax" B. Aug 31, 2011, 1:29am UTC

okay.....and I think I've passed that sign...lol

Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Aug 31, 2011, 8:37am UTC

So, you've passed Peculiar and have graduated to something beyond? ;-)

Janet "Jax" B. Aug 31, 2011, 6:29pm UTC

I can't seem to put a photo up here.....but I think I'm headed to Hell, michigan...LOL.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/2456

Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Aug 31, 2011, 11:50pm UTC

Uf-da

Marilyn is looking for whatever there is. N. Sep 4, 2011, 1:34pm UTC

Please s'plain Uf-da, I might want to say it ) Loudly!

Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Sep 4, 2011, 5:12pm UTC

Ohh, Geeze, I'm not sure dat I kan, you know? It's really sumptin to tahlk about. I can tell you, Mare, that you say it out loud only if you won't be bothering anybody else, you know? So this is sumptin...here's how you say it: Ooo-ff-dah. And don't go saying it all French-like. Put the accent on the furst syllable.

Now that's really sumptin that you want to say it. It's cute, you know? Ohh, yah, that's cute for sure, I tink.

Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Sep 4, 2011, 5:18pm UTC

I 'spose you'll be wanting to know when to say it, too. When my neighbor gave birth in her hallway at home, I said, "Uf-da."

When that tiny tot weighed in at ten pounds nine ounces, I said, "Uf-da."

And here's the kicker, ohh, yah, I tell yoo for sure, when that same neighbor turned up pregnant two months later, my husband said, "Holy Mackerel!" I said, "Uf-da, honey. You need to fix the plumbing at your house for sure."

Janet "Jax" B. Sep 4, 2011, 7:04pm UTC

LOL....I hear it all the time in Minnesota or rather Minnnn-eee-sota

Marilyn is looking for whatever there is. N. Sep 5, 2011, 5:50am UTC

I will say it loudly and often, dat's the way it's s'possed to be! This is not fair, you get all the good stuff from the state I don't live in.
In Connecticut, we tend to cuss. My neighbor, a long time ago, had her baby, (yep, a big baby boy), in the front seat of her husband's Firebird. What did he say to her? Not in the car, PLEASE, not in the car. He freaked out so much he drove her to the wrong hospital - she'd already delivered the baby herself.
Though, when I lived in Alabama, I learned all kinds of words, though my son picked up the accent in about two days (everybody thought he'd been born there), until I opened my mouth. A Yankee. Had one guy say to us, "we don't rent to no yankees here"
OK, is it Minnesota or Minnn-eee-sota? I'm going to learn the "right" way to say things, since I might not stay in Connecticut, not if I can escape!

Janet "Jax" B. Sep 5, 2011, 10:38am UTC

I'm a Yankee livin' in the south.....so you already know the ya'all and all ya'alls.

(Oh, the O is long in the sota portion....Minnn-eee-sooo-ta)

Janet "Jax" B. Sep 5, 2011, 10:39am UTC

Well, if you lived in the U.P. of Michigan, you'd better added the -a to everything (though it's -eh).

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Elsie Duggan Aug 31, 2011, 1:46am UTC

Oh, I remember doing one of these, will have to look it up and check it out, great graphic
Susan, love, Elsie

Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Aug 31, 2011, 8:38am UTC

I hope PromptlySusan members (and anyone else) have fun with this. I bet you will if you find the time, Elsie.

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Kathryn Flynn Aug 31, 2011, 2:37am UTC

Featured along the Promptly Susan Wall of the Triple Name Club.

Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Aug 31, 2011, 8:38am UTC

Thanks, KEO. Writing on a wall, always wanted to do that, ya know?

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Bernard C. Aug 31, 2011, 3:46am UTC

Very peculiar sign :-)) thanks for the prompt

Thanks for submitting to
The Surreal Circus.

Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Aug 31, 2011, 8:39am UTC

Hard to resist those silly puns, isn't it?

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Joann B. Aug 31, 2011, 3:23pm UTC

Mental illness ... mine? or someone else's?

Never mind, I fear the answer!

Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Aug 31, 2011, 11:51pm UTC

I don't think many have written on the theme prompt, but I would like to see more do so.

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Ann Marcaida Sep 2, 2011, 9:12am UTC

Thanks for sharing with Gather's Best Writers and Artists. This was featured yesterday shortly after being published.

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