.....Rumor tells of a centuries-old orphanage in Japan, run by an order of Zen monks who, in order to instill balance, have always included strength training and flower-pressing lessons in the education of their charges.
Through a complex and rigorous program of exercise and the interleaving of flowers in the pages of books, they have graduated a huge number of Mighty Orphan Flower Pagers!
BUILDING A 1:1 BALUN
4 years ago
9 comments:
oh dear...
Aaaarrrrgggghhhh....
If I had a head of lettuce, I'd throw it.
:)
B-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ooo!
I know ... I should have seen it coming. Aren't 'groaners' just the best?
groan
I look forward to Tam getting you workouts on the re-loading bench. You could you could write about it on that internet thing.
Ah for the good ole' days, when telling puns that bad was rewarded with a rain of rotten fruit.. :)
If you haven't read Asimov's 100 Great Science Fiction Short-Short Stories (and the companion Fantasy volume) you're missing out. Isaac prefaces each story with a phrase or one-liner pun which only makes sense after reading the short-short. I thought of those books immediately after reading this post.
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