#CCC62
Welcome to my weekly challenge—open to all—just for FUN, FUN, FUN
Here’s how it works:
Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE
Here are some suggestions:
- An answering photo
- A cartoon
- A joke
- A caption
- An anecdote
- A short story (flash fiction)
- A poem
- A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
- An essay
- A song—the lyrics or the performance
You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:
- Your creative offering is indeed yours
- Your writing is kept to 150 words or less
If you post a link in the comments section of this post I’ll be able to find it
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory)
by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)
Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN.
crispina kemp 
Alrighty then. Looks like this weeks prompt is already all zipped up….
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Might be zipped up, but it could also be a challenge. Wish you well with it. 🙂
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Happy Wednesday.
Here’s a shot at this one.
Enjoy.
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I found it on your site before I found it here, and I knew at once what it was, before ever you said. Excellent.
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Glad you like it. It seems you got to enjoy it twice too.
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No, only the once. 🙂
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Sheesh… Well I can tell you THIS one I have no ‘matchy-matchy’ photo 😉
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Go visit a dressmaker. Or a street market.
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No, no, no…the point is not to take a photo but to go through my existing ones!
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I understand. And I’m confident you’ll come up with something. Cos I know you always rise to the challenge. 🙂
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It’s funny. All day yesterday I was going in one direction but it just wouldn’t gel. This morning, I flipped it and realise it is more fitting to me and my style 😉
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That’s the way to do it; go with what’s right for you 🙂
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“Hello, Zipper & Zipper, Ltd. We ARE zippers.”
“Yes, we sell zippers in all sizes. And in all colours. And with every type of tooth. We do air-tight zippers, water-tight zippers, child-proof zippers, and Belgian-proof zippers.”
“I don’t understand. Incisors?”
“Really, madam, I think that most improper.”
“I don’t care what your husband did. Our zippers are a thing of beauty and utility, not some sordid tool of revenge.”
“Very funny. I doubt he thinks of it as a sordid tool of revenge.”
“I think perhaps you should consult with the manufacturers of velcro. They have the low sort of mindset that would appreciate your disposition. Good day, madam!”
“Hello, Zipper & Zipper, Ltd. We ARE zippers. . . .”
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Brian, that is brilliantly done. I’m chuckling.
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Buahaha! Now I’m thinking of the movie “There’s Something About Mary”…
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While I will show my age and trace the idea back to the character Ernestine, a telephone operator played by Lily Tomlin.
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I’m in total ignorance regards the movie. And Brian, we all know you watch movies from bygone age, so however old the movie, your ability to remember points no fingers at your age 🙂
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With that in mind, now I can make all my Theda Bara jokes.
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Was she was special pin-up girl? Yea, I know, she died before you were ever born! 🙂
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She was the original “vamp,” and famously plaid a scantily clad Cleopatra in a movie which no longer exists.
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I looked her up. Yea, I’d say she was a looker. 🙂
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Just so you know, my father always got me to imitate her in front of friends 😉 I apparently did her very well!
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And I can imagine you doing that Dale. 🙂
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Can you now? Face all scrunched up, tongue sticking out… LOL
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Yep, reckon you have the spirit for it 🙂
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Buahaha! Now I’m wondering how that comes across…
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🙂 🙂 🙂 I grin. I smile, I laugh. You are a joy to know… that’s how it comes across 🙂
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🙂 🙂 🙂
Thank you, kind lady… 😘
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Always 🙂
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🙂
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Ha-ha!
As for me, I was too bland to imitate Bob Newhart, so stand-up was never going to work for me.
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But, Brian, your humour is more subtle; I’m tempted to say… English 🙂
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Why, thank you!
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🙂
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Ha ha!
Well, I am rather funny… so I’ve been told 😉
Bland seems rather harsh, no?
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Well, I was like the family cooking, a cross between old New England and Scots-Irish, in which spicing our food meant putting salt on it, and the pepper shaker was purely decorative.
Or, put another way, I’ve aged like a monstrous cross between a vintage red wine and a rhinoceros: some parts have improved with age, other parts, eh, it ain’t pretty.
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And take no notice of him, Dale. He’s vvery modest… I think that’s the Scots side of him
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Buahaha!!! You are also quite funny.
Ah yes… that ageing thing – it does not all go according to plan, does it?
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I’ll second that 🙂
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Ah, aging. Sometimes it’s funny. I have a congenital condition which has become more noticeable as I grow older. When it’s out of control, it literally gives me a pain in the butt. 😉
Then there are other times. My mother, aged 90 at the time, fell and hurt her pelvis and backbone, and was never able to quite walk properly for the rest of her life.
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The joys… I guess the important thing is to try and find the humour…
Falling at the age of 90 rarely leaves no repercussions, unfortunately.
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Now being able to imitate someone, as you did Ernestine, requires a fair amount of empathy and self-knowledge, requisite for wit and humor.
I am able to imitate a corpse. But that’s only because there were funeral directors in the family.
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Didn’t I tell you about his wit 🙂
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I don’t know how good I was but it did “entertain the troops” 😉
Oh lordy, you are too funny.
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Very clever! Love the lurid use of incisors. Pure brilliance!
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I am beginning to think I was a less than admirable soldier in a previous life……
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Yet something says, here is an accurate memory of a soldier’s life 🙂
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So, things did NOT go in the direction I originally planned… but one must go where the muse leads, right?
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The muse led you in an ingenious direction 🙂
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So glad it did… I didn’t think I’d come up with anything!
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I often think that. But inspiration usually calls… eventually 🙂
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Most times. I really think it is a muscle. The more we use it, the better we become. Of course, sometimes, it just ain’t gonna happen…
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That’s a good image, and it is kinda true. Certainly if you don’t use it to goes all flabby and nigh-on useless. And if you do… chance are the inspiration will flow
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I feel I have been writing more and more and have improved so, I figure it helps…
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Well, since we get more critical of our writing as we go on, I’d say that’s a real good sign 🙂
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I think so, too. Plus I have been made to accept that I ain’t too bad 😉
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Love it. I’m laughing, but in delight of you. I want to hug you. You’re brillig! 🙂
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So glad I make you laugh, Missy! Brillig, eh? Well now… 😉
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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🙂 😉 🙂
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Looks like your imagination unzipped and let something loose. 🙂
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So it would appear 😉
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🙂
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Hi Crispina! Pingback is not working perhaps.
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Yea, but it doesn’t work till I approve it… and I’m late in rising 🙂
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Okay. We are in a very different time zone, dear.
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I’m guessing that’s true.
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Hi Crispina 🙂 Joan got Zipped
https://jengoldie493473930.wordpress.com/2020/01/16/dragons-live-j-e-golde-a-nancy-and-joan-story-for-crimsons-creative-challenge-62-jan-16-2020/
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Indeed she did. Nice one. 🙂
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Thanks
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Here’s mine (probably a bit cruel): https://jedigirlblog.wordpress.com/2020/01/17/ccc62-just-zip-it-flash-fiction/
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Not cruel. A zipping good tale. Though whether the shop is doomed to failure is another matter 🙂
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Reblogged this on All About Writing and more.
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I thank you 🙂
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You are welcome
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Hi Crispina, my thoughts:
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As always, I like what you and Crisp get up to 🙂
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I wasn’t sure I’ll have time for another challenge, but then I saw I did, and I remembered I did not do yours yet this weekend. So … I zipped right over … 😉
Na’ama
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And very good it was too. A completely different take. Bowled me over… and thus I went zipping along 🙂
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All that zip and we best be careful we don’t get zapped … (“zippy-dee-doo-dah, zippy-dee-hey…”) 😉
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Are you allowed that song these days? Isn’t Song of the South now in doisgrace? Though I have to say, I do love that song. 🙂
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Oh! I don’t know! I confused it with hi-ho-hi-ho, which was what was in my head! I’m amending the comment – no reason to step on toes once one knows one might be doing so!
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Yea. 2020… hindsight 🙂
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yep. Amen.
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I finally got to respond! https://chelseaannowens.com/2020/01/19/how-much-is-that-poem-in-the-window/
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It’s excellent!
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