Fill-In-The-Blank Game!

[Sam91]

'L'il leprechaun has went
From scoundrel to gent
His ways were so dire
So stuck-in-the-mire
I wonder what made him repent?' Sam91 also said, making the most of rhyme-time.

'@LaSorcia resident mod elect
With beautiful dresses bedecked
With pinkie raised
Her nobility praised
A flaw we can not detect' She continued; sucking up unashamedly.

"There was once a girl
We called her @gennypearl
On many a thread
Her wit we all read
Dirk dreaded the comebacks she'd hurl" Nudging @Dirk1540

 

[Sam91]

'Now on to sweet @joyshirley
Well written was that girly
Her posts were so fine
Much sweeter than mine
We miss her input, surely.'

'A helicopter stole @christine40
She was always such a good sporty
Her family she said
Needed her at the homestead
And the mission she had to abort-ee' She uttered wistfully.

 

[Doctor.Sphinx]

"There once was a lady called Sam,
Whose scheming didst ne'er go to plan,
'Til a doctor, 'tis said,
Put a hat on her head,
Now her skills do exceedeth a man.

Said the young lady ''Tis true,
With the hats dost I look like a Jew,
But from wart to a cancer
Cure or heal, I've the answer,
Come along, trust my gift, join the queue'" commented Doctor Sphinx, joining the new game, which was actually the dreaded barditis taking its effect.

 

[Doctor.Sphinx]

'@Lost4words, I am sorry to say,
Was a friend whom I 'ere drove away,
For his habits did seem:
Make adventures a dream,
And write about cats gone astray,' continued Doctor Sphinx.

 

[Doctor.Sphinx]

'Of @LaSorcia we've already spoken,
With hair like a princess betoken,
But she now is a mod,
And forms part of a squad,
Watch your etiquette thus, or be broken

Of the young one who's called GennyPearl.
Or is it the young Penny Girl?
Whichever way spoken,
She's fun when she's jokin',
But watch out if she e'er starts to skirl,' continued Doctor Sphinx.

The others must be really bored, or asleep already, he figured.

 

[Doctor.Sphinx]

'David Firth is a Captain, 'tis true,
Of the houseboat - CF Sea Forth 2,
And the Firth of the Forth,
Found a berth in the north,
For the Sea Forth, and all of her crew.'

 

[DavidFirth]

'If there is anything worse than a poet who dont know it,
It's a non-poet who thinks he knows it.' the captain managed to get out of his mouth before another poet could utter a word before you know it.

'And Sam, what ever happened to
Me green eggs and ham?'
the captain asked @Sam91
Before she could rhyme and spoil his fun.

 

[Doctor.Sphinx]

Doctor Sphinx, so severely suffering the effects of the Faux-Barditis that he'd even run out of his own poems, quoted 'The further adventures of the Owl and the Pυssy-cat' - modified slightly to remove the excess and annoying repetition, written by Julia Donaldson more than 140 years after Edward Lear wrote 'The Owl and the Pυssycat'.

'The Owl and the Pυssy-cat went to sleep
By the light of the moon so pale.
Their beautiful ring was tied with string
In a bow round the Pυssy-cat’s tail.

They dreamed of mice, and raspberry ice,
While slumbering cheek to cheek.
But down flew a crow who unraveled the bow
And flew off with the ring in his beak, his beak
And flew off the ring in his beak.

The Owl and the Pυssy-cat woke next day
To find that their ring had gone.
They wept in the shade of the Bong-tree glade
Where never the sun had shone.

The Owl sang songs of terrible wrongs
While Puss blew her nose on a leaf.
Then she said with a yowl, “O lugubrious Owl,”
Let us travel in search of the thief, the thief,
Let us travel in search of the thief.”

The Owl and the Pυssy-cat sailed away
In a beautiful blue balloon.
They took some jam, and a honey-roast ham,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon.

They sought the ring from autumn to spring,
Till they came to the Chankly Bore.
And there stood the crow, with his head hanging low,
Shedding tears on the silvery shore, the shore
Shedding tears on the silvery shore.

“Alas and alack,” said that bird so black,
“Tis I who have caused you woes.”
I fear I have sold your ring of gold
To the Pobble who has no toes.”

So they crossed the sea, and the Jelly Bo Lee
To the Pobble’s improbable land.
And there he sat, with his Aunt and her Cat,
And they spotted the ring on his hand, his hand
And they spotted their ring on his hand.

“Dear Friends,” said the Pobble. “You see how I hobble,
For all of my toes have gone,
Yet my fingers are fine, and this ring is divine.
O do let me keep it on!”

Said the Owl, “Too-whoo!” and with Pυssy he flew,
To visit the Calico Doves,
Who flapped in the air, while they knitted a pair
Of impeccable gossamer gloves, two gloves
Two impeccable gossamer gloves.

The Owl and the Pυssy-cat showed the gloves
To the Pobble who has no toes,
And both of them fitted, so well they were knitted,
In stripes of magenta and rose.

“I am quite in love, with the right-hand glove,
And the left is a joy to behold.”
He clapped and hopped, and he willingly swapped
The gloves for the ring of bright gold, bright gold
The gloves for the ring of bright gold.

The Owl and the Pυssy-cat sailed back home
To the land where the Bong-tree grows
They dined on stew with the Jumbly crew
And the Dong with the luminous nose.

They danced a jig with the Turkey and Pig
Then sang to the Owl’s guitar,
“O dearest love, by the stars up above,
How delightfully happy we are, we are
How delightfully happy we are.”

 

[Sam91]

It seemed that the faux-barditis malady had run its course in all but the good doc. The ship celebrated while the-rhyming-and-garrulous-doc continued exercising his vocal chords.

The dutiful @CtC had reprinted the ruggedly-handsome-twinkly-toed sphinx's nose and now just an adhesive was needed.

 

[Sam91]

"While yer at it Sam, do you think you could stick his lips together?" said the jocular Captain @DavidFirth

 

[Doctor.Sphinx]

The kind but duty-bound @Sam91 acquiesced to Captain @DavidFirth's reasonable request. With a squirt and quick dabbing across where the good-but-sadly-noseless doctor's nose was supposed to be and lips actually were, Sam91 fulfilled two requests for the price of one.

Doctor Sphinx was nosey again, but also speechless, as his lips had been firmly glued shut.

'Lip problems again, eh, Doctor?' teased the ex-taxidermist.

If Doctor Sphinx could have replied, he would either have quoted another poem, or elaborated on the superiority of British spelling over American spelling, or at least given the new doctor a verbal serve of what she clearly deserved, but alas, he could do none of these.

Instead, all the others heard was a muffled "Mmmmrrrn mmmmmm rrrrrrrrrrrrr".

 

[DavidFirth]

'I'll take that as a yes.'

 

[Sam91]

Meanwhile Doctor Sam91 realised there would be problems when the patient-doctor.Sphinx got hungry. She wondered about the strength of the adhesive and was looking forward to inserting her first NG tube. However, she doubted whether the rather infuriated-and-less-ruggedly-handsome doc was of the right disposition to bring that up yet.

She decided to fall back on the word, instead of quoting Ephesians she chose similar verses from Colossians chapter 3 NIV version for a fresh perspective.

"5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.b 7You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. 11Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

12Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity."

The good doc seemed a lot more settled, or at least resigned to his misfortune.

Captain @DavidFirth spotted @GreenWizard ....

 

[Doctor.Sphinx]

with the pink paint he had prepared earlier - lovely, bright-pink polka-dots all over the hapless creature. The leprechaun hardly moved. @Sam91 wondered if it needed embalming, before she remembered she no longer had a museum to store it in, anyway.

'There Sphinxy' exclaimed the good Captain. 'Now you won't feel like you're the only one with a problem'.

Poor Doctor Sphinx just glared at the Captain. He didn't think it would be fair to glare at Sam91, given she was only obeying the good Captain's orders when she had glued his lips together, so he only glared at her a little. He also glared at the pink-polka-dotted leprechaun, but it still didn't move.

With his lips in their current state, he couldn't recite poetry. He couldn't counter-quote Sam91's bible passage with another passage. He couldn't even complain about Sam91's use of bible version. True, he had practically been raised on the NIV 1984 edition, but ever since the newer editions came out, he had decided never to trust the NIV again. Or at least, to look into it quite thoroughly if he did, which usually, he was too lazy to do - so he generally just decided it was easier not to trust at all.

He wondered if the passage had been some sort of code. 'Now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.'

'Check. Check. Check. Hmmmm. May need a second opinion. And check,' he thought to himself. 'Maybe that's why the Captain had my lips glued - perhaps I have been slanderising?' he wondered silently.

Captain @DavidFirth and Sam91 were having an interesting conversation, with the good Captain ventriloquizing the GreenWizard like a puppet, but Doctor Sphinx paid no heed because he couldn't talk.

'Hmmmmm....' He thought. 'Here there is no Gentile or Jew... barbarian...'

'Eureka!' he would have shouted, but instead all he could exclaim was 'Mmmmrrrn!'.

The Captain and Sam91 looked at him questioningly. In a moment, the Green Leprechaun's head also turned in his general direction, under the talented puppetry of the good Captain.

'Mmmmrrrn!' Doctor Sphinx exclaimed. 'Mmm mrrrn mmm mmm mmm... mmm mmm-mmm-m mmm mmmm mm-mmm-mm mmm mm, Mmmmrrrn!' which, roughly translated, meant 'French!', 'Here there is no Jew... nor barbarian... so Sam91 must be French!'

'I think he must be hungry,' said Sam91. 'Time for me to get that nasogastric intubater out. Wish me luck - it's my first one!', she called out to the Captain, as she donned her yarmulke of Painful-but-not-so-spiritually-beneficial-minor-surgery.

 

[Sam91]

Doctor.sphinx, even though brave, was not going to submit to such treatment.

He leapt up and darted, rather masterfully up the mast. Sam91 being not the best climber could only gaze up from the deck, ng tube in hand. Alas, the wretched Sphinx would rather go hungry that have her put objects up his nasal passageway. He winced, remembering the way his countryfolk used to extract brains through that method, or at least popular opinion stated that. Another fact he would need to varify.

@CtC suggested '@Doctor.Sphinx I have a solution' (pointing to a bottle) 'for your predicament. We will try soaking your lips in hot soapy water and then using acetone to dissolve it. @*LILAC has kindly donated the use of hers.'

The sphinx nodded his agreement but showed no sign of climbing down. @CtC prepared a bag with the necessities and started the laborious and cumbersome climb.

Sam looked a little dejected at the loss of being able to develop the new skill but willed the procedure to be successful. She glared at the Captain trying to shirk responsibility, remembering the Milgram experiment, by telling herself she had only been obeying orders.

@ebony appeared

 

[Doctor.Sphinx]

'Squawk!' called Ebony. 'Squawk, squawk, squawk', which, roughly translated, means 'Doctor Sphinx, Sam91 is your friend and has saved your life on numerous occassions. Will you not trust her with a simple NG?'

'Mmmmmm mmmm mmmmm', exclaimed Doctor Sphinx in reply, which, when roughly translated, means 'But won't it hurt having that object inserted up my nose? Also, the humiliation!'

'Squawk! Squawk!' called Ebody.

'No Ebony,' called Sam91 from down below. 'You don't have hands, so I think you might struggle to perform the procedure. Also, it was my idea, so if anyone should be performing it, I should have first shot!'

At these wise words from the new doctor, Ebony flew down to CtC, collected the solution, and promptly delivered it to her master. The good doctor promptly applied the soapy solution to his lips, which were cleansed within moments.

The words from Colossians 3:9 - 10 came back to him.

'Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.'

How was it Sam91 so often knew the right words to say, he wondered. Or, he wondered, was it that God's word was always the right words to say, and Sam91 just quoted it more regularly?

'Anyhow,' he told himself, 'I shall really have to watch that lieing, because a Sphinx does tend to exaggerate to the point of... well... falsity. But this soapy water and acetone solution has been a really good solution to this problem.'

He tested a portion of the solution on his hand, to determine if, in addition to cleansing sticky lips, it was also able to take off the old self with its practices, but after a few moments, determined that there was probably a different method for this.

Climbing down from the mast, he thanked the Captain and Sam91 for their help, and set about using the solution to cure the Green Leprechaun's polka-dots...

 

[Sam91]

Poor @CtC began his weary descent. All that upheaval for no purpose and no thanks!

 

[Doctor.Sphinx]

'Poor @CtC. I didn't even notice you as I started the climb down. Please accept this token as an official recognition of my repentence at the slight.' Doctor Sphinx handed the annoyed, 3D-printing hobbyist a small, golden medallion, with the portait of a Sphinx emblazoned upon it.

 

[Sam91]

'Oh errr... thanks' he said. Biting it, rather hoping it was chocolate. Alas it was metal...

'Don't you consider it more than a little arrogant, putting your own face on a medallion... airbrushed too, therefore arrogant and vain?' Said the waspish @CtC

 

[Doctor.Sphinx]

'Oh no!' exclaimed Doctor Sphinx. 'That's not another sin, is it? There seem to be so many.'

He offered to take back the offensive medallion.