Mosaic Member Names Challenge, All forms of writing apply Options

[Cleo_Serapis]

Hi all.  

I had been planning to post this challenge soon, and then I read this awesome reply that Dove made in 'The Basilica' in response to Angelinasky's welcome tile.

So, now seems like the perfect opportunity to start this challenge!  

Thanks Jessica and PLEASE post your Alice in MM Land. It's very good!  

Best of luck all!

~Cleo    

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JOHN FOX’S TRAP

John Fox had an unusual obsession, but then, it could be said that all obsessions are unusual. He was a compulsive collector of trivia.

He did specialise. He collected trivia about the ancients, the famous, and anybody else he considered important. As can be seen, this allowed quite some latitude for acquisition, and was to be his ultimate undoing .....

As examples of John’s collecting, we have an original Dove (in fossil form, from Mount Ararat), the bell from the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, spelled the Italian way, Cybele, a cherished icon of his TV-watching mis-spent youth, namely a Mutant Teenage Ninja Turtle carapace, which he proudly refers to as Michelle, the Siren from Don Corleone’s car, famous for the incident in which, when suddenly surrounded by G-Men, the Don was heard to exclaim “Eisa innocenti-arrrgghh” while pulling out his last tommy gun, which led directly to the use of so-called “sudden-death” overtime (extra playing time in level games) in American football, in his honour.

John also collected tat, although one would never dare tell him that. He gave pride of place to a 1960s modern painting, all squares and squiggles, entitled “Zeus Haranguing Aphrodite and Pygmalion on the Unexpected Success of a Young Gladiator against the Lions”. This picture, an “Athena” print, is so vague in it’s portrayal that the viewer must by necessity supply untold measures of his own interpretation, and its title so unwieldy that it has become known simply as “Just Daniel”.

Another pride-of-place item is the arnfinn by which the movie makers were able to control the shark during the making of “Jaws”. This was a complex electronic and mechanical device, unique in the world when it was made. Similar technology was later used by NASA on its moon buggy. It is a little-known fact that the astronauts nick-named their buggy “Attila the Hun” because it was so difficult to control, always dashing off on new conquests all by itself. Luckily its slow speed, and the giant steps for mankind permitted under the moon’s low gravitational pull, meant that it was easily caught. NASA deemed this mechanical oddity worthy of suppression, news-wise.

This suppressed news nearly did leak, though. In a worthy example of man’s ability to get things wrong in a chinese whispers manner, the phrase “giant step for mankind” became a household phrase !

Now to explain John Fox’s downfall. First, it must be told that John Fox had a young grandson, who, as children will, concatenated John Fox into “Jox”, and this name stuck. Jox, then, as we must surely call him, eventually went too far with his acquisitive obsession. He had an amethyst from the tomb of AkhenhatenII, and late one night, when he was shall we say, listening to the intoxicating inner music of Brahms and Liszt, he compulsively rubbed the gemstone “chanting “Cleo, Cleo, wherefore art thou Cleo” (he never was too hot on his Shakespeare), and went Alan over Orion over his masses of accumulated junk, falling finally into his cellar.

The trap door, which he had attempted to grab to prevent his fall, slammed shut after him, and there he was, incarcerated in his own basement for a whole week, until a postman heard his feeble cries. No permanent damage was done to poor Jox, but it was years before the story ceased to reverberate aroung his circle of family and friends, and even after that, his cellar was universally known as ....



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JOX’S TRAP !

Alan McAlpine Douglas, who can’t resist a challenge (no, NOT the MM one, but Jox’s ! )  :devil:  :idea:  :angel:[b]