And the two word challenge continues! This time my friend specified not two words, but rather a word and a two-word phrase (hence the title of this post).<\/p>\n
But the challenge remains the same — to spin these words into a tale. Below is the story I came up with this time.<\/p>\n
-KP<\/i>
“My love is like a red balloon.” he smiled sweetly at her as he said it, although he needed to lean closer in his chair for her to hear him over the party music.<\/p>\n
She shook her head. “Thanks for the compliment, but that’s not right. What Robert Burns actually wrote in 1794 was ‘My love is like a red red rose’. Wait, how can you be getting that wrong?”<\/p>\n
He looked puzzled. “I could swear those were the words.”<\/p>\n
“Look,” she said, “your typical modern latex balloon is made by refining natural rubber through a process that wasn’t even perfected until 1931\u2026”<\/p>\n
“Yes, I know,” he said, rolling his eyes. “the Tilly Cat balloons, made by Neil Tillotson in his attic. Everybody knows that. What’s your point?”<\/p>\n
“The point, dear, is that you said ‘red balloon’ instead of ‘red red rose’, and 1931 happened a lot later than 1794. I mean really, you might want to get your Google Chip checked.”<\/p>\n
He snorted. “My Google Chip is just fine thank you. Don’t you like it when I say sweet things to you?”<\/p>\n
“Oh yes, most definitely. It’s just that sometimes you say the weirdest stuff since your last upgrade. But feel free to woo me any time.”<\/p>\n
“OK, then,” he said, “Shall I compare thee to a red balloon? Thou art more lovely and more temperate\u2026”<\/p>\n
“Now wait a minute,” she said, “that is not what Mr. Shakespeare said. Even Faraday’s original balloon in 1824 was a distinctly post-Elizabethan development.”<\/p>\n
“So you’re saying I’ve got my facts wrong? But that’s impossible — nobody ever gets their facts wrong. That’s the whole point of \u2026 Oh, wait!”<\/p>\n
“What?” she was eyeing him curiously now.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re playing that song I really like, you know, the English version. It was a big hit for that 1980\u2032s German singer Nena. What\u2019s it called again \u2014 99 something.\u201d<\/p>\n
“Oh, whatever,” she smiled at him. “You are totally useless, and that’s why I love you.” She kissed him on the lips and pulled him to his feet. “Let’s shut up and dance.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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