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The domino hit the spoon, sending the pea

  • The domino hit the spoon, sending the pea to bounce off the kettle drum, which awoke the gerbil, who spun the wheel, which turned on the fan,
  • woke the dog, which wagged its tail, which knocked over a stack of magazines, which toppled a vase of flowers, which splashed water all over my paperwork,
  • my presentation was ruined. I grabbed a towel to try to salvage as much as I could, however, the red ink from the pie chart I had created
  • somehow spilled on my boss's shirt, just when his partner angrily slammed the door to the presentation room shut. "I'M SHOT!!!" he collapsed to the floor, clucthing his chest. The
  • clock slowed its ticking. A bird chirped outside, far away. My Boss's head turned towards me, his eyes widening in fear. He was shot. I knew he would die. I opened Angry Birds on m
  • other's phone a began to rehearse the prayer that she said with me every night when I was young. "When the sun is dark and the moon is low the candles blow bawita ba bang da bang
  • banga ba-bang da who-dee doo-dee, bring us this day our daily da-doodie, da-haha-da-ma." When she had finished praying, suddenly a ghost came out from the ground, as it always did.
  • The ghost came out snapping its fingers and bopping around to the rhythmic prayer like a jerking hanky. Entranced, she continued: "Forgive us our skwee-vee-bop-de-diddly-boop-boop
  • as we forgive those who scattily-booda, scattily-booda against us..." She watched as the be-bop ghost pulled a translucent sax from its shroud and played a solo to her prayer.
  • Inspired by the musical apparitions she finished with "... and leads us not into slimshadipitybangdooda, but deliver us into scapetybop pie - the Great Beebop in the Sky!

2 Comments

  1. m80 Aug 13 2017 @ 15:48

    "Shoop shoop ba-doop, Shoop ba-doop, Shoop ba-doop ba-doop ba-doop" ( from me and Salt 'N' Pepa)

  2. SlimWhitman Aug 13 2017 @ 15:49

    It would be cool if once in a while a priest would just scat the Lord's Prayer, and the congregation would try to repeat it, but scat ain't allowed in church, I s'pose.

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