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I hopped into 1984. "I'm from the future!"

  • I hopped into 1984. "I'm from the future!" They were skeptical. "Oh really? What's the next big movie?" "The Great Gatsby in 3D with rap music!" I piped. "Oh, gag me with a spoon."
  • asked one snappy gum-chewer while the other one chimed in, "And what's rap music??" I had forgotten. It would be 2 more years before RUN-DMC & Aerosmith broke down the wall. 1984
  • was a novel by George Orwell that everyone has read except for that long assed middle bit. The snappy gum chewer asked again, "What is rap music?" As a time traveler I never interv
  • -ened into anybody's business, really. Just as a matter of protocol. Well, being a time traveller, Orwellian scenarios were not something I was drawn to when I wanted to escape.
  • Now as you know, Bob, time travel is a lot like traveling by car. It takes time. Time isn't straight. You need a steering wheel. You merge with the 5 millennia/hr traffic on the
  • super-galactic highway. The traffic is terrible; space ships, shuttles, rocks, meteorites... you name it, they are there blocking your way & then there is the menace of the
  • Cyborgs taking over policing. They will spot you eating those kosher dill pickles and drooling at the prospect of them being on your next sandwiches. Who needs Dijon mustard when
  • Carcasonne is only a protracted siege away? The cyborgs digitally huddled to discuss which heresy to pursue first: kosher dill or the idea of a next sandwich. Smacking more of Hope
  • -well Virginia honey-cured ham than vegetarian meatloaf, the cyborgs put whatever was in front of them intot eh deli slicer: the mailman, a fire plug, Mrs. Murphy's weigela bush.
  • Out came the spiciest sausage in the world. It was served to the Grandiose Gauze king. Whose fingers had programmed them all. But Mrs. Murphy had had a virus now all were infected.

5 Comments

  1. dTwanty Feb 09 2017 @ 17:25

    I like it that this one started in 2013. Imagine what Chaz would have thought if we had tried to explain 2016 to him...

  2. dTwanty Feb 09 2017 @ 17:26

    And now I'm imagining Chaz recieving this comment back in 2013 and freaking out about 2016....

  3. Rebbie Feb 09 2017 @ 17:50

    Someone dug it out of the closet. YAY!

  4. Chaz Feb 09 2017 @ 22:00

    Chaz circa 2013, "Really?" (Switches off internet. Storms off.)

  5. Woab Feb 10 2017 @ 13:56

    It appears that time travel makes Chaz cranky. Here, Honey, have some sausage.

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