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I heard loud footsteps thudding through the

  • I heard loud footsteps thudding through the bushes, much to big to be human. "RAWR!!!" A loud roar rang out and I saw a lizard-like head pop out from between the trees. "HAI!" It
  • bellowed as it poked me with its razored talon. "TAG! YOUR IT!" and then tramped into the foliage. Sighing, I pulled my 3-horned bulk from the ground and trundled after him.
  • Trundling is fun for about three minutes. At first it's sort of a rolling, bouncing gate. It's almost funny, but then it starts to feel like exercise. Thighs burn.
  • Calves cramp. Semitendinosus spasm. Flexor hallicus longus fibrillate. Where was I? Ah, right "trundling". Or did you mean trust fund investing? In investor parlance "trundling"
  • All these fancy words were confusing the young couple sitting across from him. They had won a nice, if not huge, sum from the lottery and were just looking for advice. "Trundling?"
  • "Trundling." Even that word confused the couple, as they exchanged looks to see if each others partner knew what "Trundling" meant. "Yeah." The man said, "Trundling. That too...
  • " The couples were forced by embarrassment into 'trundling'. They took their clothes off and sat on the carpet. They passed round some sandy compost, trowels and marigold seedlings
  • . Now, without going into any graphic details, let's just say that within six weeks, they all had large, lush marigolds growing out of their behinds. The warm, moist, well-fertiliz
  • ed impaction was the perfect flora to cultivate marigolds. Butt, (& that's a BIG BUTT) along with marigolds, dodders and peppers flourish in the symbiotic medium.
  • And /that/ is why it should be legal for me to grow my own pizza ingredients in my own damn backyard.
Started
2011-10-25 00:52:39
Finished
2013-04-17 18:17:40

15 Comments

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    Zetawilk Apr 17 2013 @ 18:18

    We should do more stories that involve us attempting to give convoluted advice in everyday tasks to predictably catastrophic results.
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    sensedatum Apr 17 2013 @ 18:30

    Love that it took 1.5 years to complete this story.
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    Zetawilk Apr 17 2013 @ 18:40

    That's actually pretty par for the course.
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    lucielucie Apr 18 2013 @ 11:00

    Butticulture for Dummies
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    PurpleProf Apr 18 2013 @ 11:40

    I had to look up the word "trundling." It has several meanings... Tried to make something nice "come out of it."
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    lucielucie Apr 18 2013 @ 11:52

    lol - I've just looked up 'trundling' in the urban dictionary! I had no idea... I didn't know what they were going to do with the seedlings when I wrote that fold.
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    Zetawilk Apr 18 2013 @ 12:00

    If you need to look up anything I say (and I doubt it), use TFD instead.
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    PurpleProf Apr 18 2013 @ 19:12

    Funny, LucieLucie, I thought that's what you were trying to accomplish with the trowels. ;)
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    lucielucie Apr 19 2013 @ 11:45

    PurpleProf - It seems we were at cross purposes with unintended comic consequences!
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    SlimWhitman Apr 19 2013 @ 15:03

    That's FS at its best.
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    Chaz Apr 20 2013 @ 00:01

    I probably used the word incorrectly. I thought it meant "move slowly and heavily, typically in a noisy or uneven way." But it refers to wheeled vehicles. Maybe the dino was on a moped?
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    lucielucie Apr 20 2013 @ 14:13

    Does anyone else feel like confessing to the inappropriate use of he word 'trundle'? While we're all at it? Better out than in : )
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    Zetawilk Apr 20 2013 @ 14:17

    Looks appropriate to me. He moved in such a way as to simulate such motion. We can overlook militant semantics for the evocative sense of words.
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    lucielucie Apr 20 2013 @ 14:31

    The wheels have come off my query.
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    SlimWhitman Apr 21 2013 @ 04:58

    @GB: That was actually the whole fun of this story, wasn't it?

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