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 Dec 9 03, 17:32
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 Mosaic Master  Posts: 18,892 Joined: 1-August 03 From: Massachusetts Member No.: 2 Real Name: Lori Kanter Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Imhotep  |
OK all.
 Let's get this one started! Let's try to focus on this topic: Holidays at the Spa  Let's try NOT to rhyme, but make it like a prose conversation. Good luck!  Here goes:  I wandered into the Spa the other day feeling quite like I wanted a change. I asked the receptionist for some "flair" and I guess you could say I got just that! "I don't use tinsel," Miss Poofy Hair remarked. "I rather like foil. You see, foil doesn't stick to the bottom! You can do lots of things with foil!" ·······  ·······"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Collaboration feeds innovation. In the spirit of workshopping, please revisit those threads you've critiqued to see if the author has incorporated your ideas, or requests further feedback from you. In addition, reciprocate with those who've responded to you in kind. "I believe it is the act of remembrance, long after our bones have turned to dust, to be the true essence of an afterlife." ~ Lorraine M. Kanter Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here!  "Worry looks around, Sorry looks back, Faith looks up." ~ Early detection can save your life.MM Award Winner           |
  
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Dec 13 03, 11:26
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"I rather like foil. You see, foil doesn't stick to the bottom!
"Weirder and weirder," said Alice."What would anyone want with foil in a public baths. I wonder does the Queen of Hearts know about this"? "Off with her head!" cried the Red Queen. "A spa is a spa is a spa! And she must learn to use toilet paper like everybody else" The Dormouse snorted disconsolately. "This could develop in a most peculiar manner. Different words have different meanings in differing areas of the English speaking world." . |
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Dec 13 03, 20:49
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Mosaic Master Posts: 18,892 Joined: 1-August 03 From: Massachusetts Member No.: 2 Real Name: Lori Kanter Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Imhotep |
LOL Tom!
I was talking about a HAIR SALON....  Let's see..ok, I'll continue.. ······· ·······"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Collaboration feeds innovation. In the spirit of workshopping, please revisit those threads you've critiqued to see if the author has incorporated your ideas, or requests further feedback from you. In addition, reciprocate with those who've responded to you in kind. "I believe it is the act of remembrance, long after our bones have turned to dust, to be the true essence of an afterlife." ~ Lorraine M. Kanter Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here! "Worry looks around, Sorry looks back, Faith looks up." ~ Early detection can save your life.MM Award Winner |
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Dec 13 03, 21:02
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Mosaic Master Posts: 18,892 Joined: 1-August 03 From: Massachusetts Member No.: 2 Real Name: Lori Kanter Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Imhotep |
I wandered into the Spa the other day feeling quite like I wanted a change. I asked the receptionist for some "flair" and I guess you could say I got just that!
"I don't use tinsel," Miss Poofy Hair remarked. "I rather like foil. You see, foil doesn't stick to the bottom! You can do lots of things with foil!" "Weirder and weirder," said Alice."What would anyone want with foil in a public baths. I wonder does the Queen of Hearts know about this"? "Off with her head!" cried the Red Queen. "A spa is a spa is a spa! And she must learn to use toilet paper like everybody else" The Dormouse snorted disconsolately. "This could develop in a most peculiar manner. Different words have different meanings in differing areas of the English speaking world." Alice didn’t quite make out the mouse’s mumbling. All she could think of was why foil didn’t stick to the bottom? While having her nails buffed and polished at the Spa’s only three-legged table, she accidentally spilled the spoils of her tarnished bowl all over the tinseled table. “RATS! Now, why is this tinsel sticking to my pointers,” she asked as the shaking syndrome began. “I’m going to be late…late, late late!” ······· ·······"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Collaboration feeds innovation. In the spirit of workshopping, please revisit those threads you've critiqued to see if the author has incorporated your ideas, or requests further feedback from you. In addition, reciprocate with those who've responded to you in kind. "I believe it is the act of remembrance, long after our bones have turned to dust, to be the true essence of an afterlife." ~ Lorraine M. Kanter Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here! "Worry looks around, Sorry looks back, Faith looks up." ~ Early detection can save your life.MM Award Winner |
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 Dec 15 03, 09:30
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A hair salon is a spa?? Hard one this - a spa here means a town with a health-giving spring eg Boston Spa or Lourdes. Also, I try to avoid hairdressers - how else would I hold on to my 1970s hippy looks? Nevertheless, think hairdressers / beauty salon ... ok... (and trying hard to resist "For a very important date - no time to say "hello", goodbye, I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!")
I wandered into the Spa the other day feeling quite like I wanted a change. I asked the receptionist for some "flair" and I guess you could say I got just that! "I don't use tinsel," Miss Poofy Hair remarked. "I rather like foil. You see, foil doesn't stick to the bottom! You can do lots of things with foil!" "Weirder and weirder," said Alice."What would anyone want with foil in a public baths. I wonder does the Queen of Hearts know about this"? "Off with her head!" cried the Red Queen. "A spa is a spa is a spa! And she must learn to use toilet paper like everybody else" The Dormouse snorted disconsolately. "This could develop in a most peculiar manner. Different words have different meanings in differing areas of the English speaking world." Alice didn’t quite make out the mouse’s mumbling. All she could think of was why foil didn’t stick to the bottom? While having her nails buffed and polished at the Spa’s only three-legged table, she accidentally spilled the spoils of her tarnished bowl all over the tinseled table. “RATS! Now, why is this tinsel sticking to my pointers,” she asked as the shaking syndrome began. “I’m going to be late…late, late late!” Then appeared a gigantic hare. "Hello," he said, "I'm Cedric. Do you, perchance, have a bunch of carrots? It's my lunch time." Cedric eyed Alice's fingers and her orange-painted nails. "Really, Cedric - leave those alone, they're mine - and they're fingers, not carrots!" The hairdresser came in. "Cedric Tsk Tsk! What are you doing here again. If I've told you once, I've told you 547.36 times - you should not be here in opening hours. It scares my clients! Anyway, yesterday you were a fox and today a hare; this transmogrification ought to stop - whatever next!?" "Tomorrow, I'll be a Gorn," was Cedric's instant reply. "A Gorn?" Alice and the owner said in questioning unison. "Yes," Cedric replied. "Hare today - Gorn, tomorrow!" "Groan," was the unified reply. "No, don't do that, Alice! You can only be here if you've shrunk," replied Cedric. "Don't grow any more." "Anyway," replied the hairdresser-owner, "Why are you visiting me at work and why as that particular creature? Any why are you nude" Cedric was quick to answer: "I am a hare - and this is a hare-dressers, isn't it?" Alice and the hairdresser looked at each other and started to sing "Yellow Submarine" to the part of music from "Carmen". For no apparent reason. OK, replied Cedric, I'll change twice today - just for you." With that he disappeared for a millisecond, only to re-appear as an ass. Cedric picked up the scattered tinsel and draped it round his large ears in a festive acknowledgement to cranium-exchange weavers everywhere. "Well," replied Cedric, this proves that tinsel does, indeed, stick to Bottom!" |
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Dec 15 03, 10:49
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Mosaic Master Posts: 18,892 Joined: 1-August 03 From: Massachusetts Member No.: 2 Real Name: Lori Kanter Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Imhotep |
LOL James!
BRILLIANT! :sun: :wizard: :dance: :rofl: :cheer: :sings: :operagal: :king2: ······· ·······"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Collaboration feeds innovation. In the spirit of workshopping, please revisit those threads you've critiqued to see if the author has incorporated your ideas, or requests further feedback from you. In addition, reciprocate with those who've responded to you in kind. "I believe it is the act of remembrance, long after our bones have turned to dust, to be the true essence of an afterlife." ~ Lorraine M. Kanter Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here! "Worry looks around, Sorry looks back, Faith looks up." ~ Early detection can save your life.MM Award Winner |
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