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June 30, 2012 05:00 PM UTC

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Challenge: Using prose or poetry, write a brief story using everyday language. Then, write the same story using the biggest words you can find.

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Simple

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“Pam, do you take Len’s hand in friendship, to love, honor, cherish and obey?”

“Yes to the first three and no to the last.”

“Len, do you take Pam’s hand in friendship, to love, honor, cherish and obey?”

“I ditto Pam.”

The Pastor sighed and said, “Get away from me.”

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Stupid big words that I probably used incorrectly.

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“Pam, do you sieze Len’s manus, in friendlihood, for worship, honorance, molly-coddle and do obseisance to?”

“Huh?”

The Pastor issued a paralinguistic respiration and said, “Get away from me.”

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JOHN BECK Jun 30, 2012, 5:56pm UTC

You chose a tough example to fit with big words, Pam.

Pam Brittain Jun 30, 2012, 6:07pm UTC

Big words aren't something I'm interested in. Figured I'd at least give it a shot.

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Angela A. Jun 30, 2012, 5:58pm UTC

Ha, ha!

Pam Brittain Jun 30, 2012, 6:07pm UTC

Oooh, new icon. I'm on my way over to visit it.

Angela A. Jun 30, 2012, 6:12pm UTC

Why, thank ye kindly!

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Len Maxwell Jun 30, 2012, 7:15pm UTC

That is priceless. I don't know who that "Len" creature is, but he obviously made out.

Thanks for taking the SatWE challenge and I get to feature this one on both Gather Writing Essential and The Triple Name Club.

Pam Brittain Jun 30, 2012, 7:43pm UTC

I am greatly honored. It must mean that I actually did it right.

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Debbie W. Jun 30, 2012, 7:17pm UTC

You seized Len's manus? Maybe you should have noted that this post has adult content!

Pam Brittain Jun 30, 2012, 7:45pm UTC

I actually looked up the word quite a few times because it sounds sort of vulgar. It's apparently part of the forearm of an animal such as a paw. Sure hope I got that right.

I'm done with weird big words.

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☃ Shannon K. Wendt Jun 30, 2012, 8:51pm UTC

"Paralinguistic respiration..."

Never heard that phrase before. Love it!

Pam Brittain Jul 1, 2012, 1:52pm UTC

I'm going back to simple words. Glad you liked it, Shannon.

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Patricia J. Jun 30, 2012, 9:30pm UTC

What a mouthful that second try was, I loved this!!

Pam Brittain Jul 1, 2012, 1:53pm UTC

I'm so glad, Patricia. Your comments make the hour of research it took to write the second part worth while.

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Janet "Jax" B. Jun 30, 2012, 10:22pm UTC

LOL. What a mouthful!

Pam Brittain Jul 1, 2012, 1:54pm UTC

Glad you enjoyed it, Janet. Now can I go back to simple words?

Janet "Jax" B. Jul 1, 2012, 5:12pm UTC

Personally, your proclivity for avoiding garrulousness is refreshing.

Pam Brittain Jul 1, 2012, 5:21pm UTC

Jax, you made me look up another word! Good grief, why am I learning all these words? Avoiding talky, wordy and, frivolous chatter. Er - refreshing? Gee golly, I thank you. LOL

Janet "Jax" B. Jul 1, 2012, 5:34pm UTC

Hey, I get accused of speaking like a dictionary at times....LOL Too much reading apparently builds up the vocabulary. I like the big words...

Pam Brittain Jul 1, 2012, 5:45pm UTC

I'd rather use onomatopoeias. Chirp:)

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Alice G. Jul 1, 2012, 12:51am UTC

And to think I almost risked taking a sip of coke er... coca cola! You mean Len's girlfriend didn't object to you handling his manus?

Pam Brittain Jul 1, 2012, 1:55pm UTC

No objection. He handed me his paw readily. It was then that I realized he needed to have his nails trimmed and cleaned.

Alice G. Jul 1, 2012, 4:03pm UTC

That should have been grounds for an annailmenit.

Pam Brittain Jul 1, 2012, 4:15pm UTC

Hey! You made up that word. You made me look it up.

Pam Brittain Jul 1, 2012, 4:19pm UTC

Wikipedia asked if I wanted to invent the word.

Alice G. Jul 1, 2012, 7:26pm UTC

Yeah, I did. I mispelled it though-but you know, an annulment because he was so anal about the retention of his nails (and dirt under them).

Pam Brittain Jul 1, 2012, 8:01pm UTC

I can only laugh and I'm not about to ask for the correct spelling.

Len Maxwell Jul 6, 2012, 7:45pm UTC

Hey! Leave my nails alone. I've been camping in the desert for the past three days and haven't had a chance to do any cleaning.

Pam Brittain Jul 6, 2012, 7:58pm UTC

Not even your pots and pans? Or are you making your daughter do that?

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Bernard C. Jul 1, 2012, 3:46am UTC

Molly Coddling - geez haven't heard that in a while - haha - very amusing piece - I now pronounce you... stunned

Thanks for sharing and submitting to
The Surreal Circus.

Pam Brittain Jul 1, 2012, 1:55pm UTC

Gee golly, I'm stunned. Thanks, Bernard.

Alice G. Jul 1, 2012, 4:05pm UTC

I haven't heard it in a long time either but it is a word I love. I wish someone knew the origin of that phrase and would enlighten us.?????

Pam Brittain Jul 1, 2012, 4:18pm UTC

Me too. I looked it up and didn't find an explanation.

Bernard C. Jul 2, 2012, 4:52am UTC

I do think its something in the English comprehension section and more precise the local dialects..maybe that of the (UK) West country..those into cider apples and of molly coddlin'.. which to me sounds like the making of butter..or curdlin' of cheese...though again am unsure of what its origins are. Yet do recall that as a child heard it very often...an early form of amusing words to explain something or a process in a very funny manner indeed. We'll go a Molly Coddlin' much likened the word codswallop..it befuddles the mind and still makes it funny and amusing in conversations. If you do find a different interpretation then let me know...

Pam Brittain Jul 2, 2012, 3:48pm UTC

Codswallop?

Bernard C. Jul 3, 2012, 5:36am UTC

Haha another word for a 'lot of nonsense' :-) sometimes you read it as newspaper Headlines..its used especially when things are 'over fantasized'...exaggerated or have a tendancy to be overkill..that is, too weak for words..too silly to be true yet is sort of thing. That concludes your English lesson for today :-)))

Alice G. Jul 6, 2012, 9:10pm UTC

Bernard, I always, from the context in which it was used by my elders, considered "mollycoddling to mean catering to someone to the excess or handling them with a carrot when a stick was called for. If my mom had not spanked us when we deserved it she would have been accused of molly-coddling us. (It never happened that way though, sad to say.)

Pam Brittain Jul 6, 2012, 9:39pm UTC

Alice, you should have been molly-coddled.

Bernard C. Jul 7, 2012, 3:43am UTC

Thanks Alice for your input..LOL being tanned (getting a slap) happened very often in our household as a small child, so you can see where or how I would remember the term.. LOL
I think parents were hard nuts back in the day you had to do what was jolly well told..etc, etc..if it were not your parents slapping you it was the headmasters and teachers caning you for some other reason.. Hmm still thinks its a lot of butter though..LOL

Pam Brittain Jul 7, 2012, 5:17pm UTC

I remember being tanned. Ouch - it wasn't just a slap.

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William Dotani Jul 1, 2012, 4:51am UTC

Some altar language difficulties, eh.

Pam Brittain Jul 1, 2012, 1:56pm UTC

I refused to say I'd obey my husband at our own wedding. He was fine with the but the Parson wasn't.

Alice G. Jul 1, 2012, 9:30pm UTC

Ummmmm....William, did you mean some alter language difficulties? That seems to be a common problem among us Gatherites!

William Dotani Jul 4, 2012, 4:36am UTC

There is a ton of problems with onion skinned gatherites, and then some pompous asses, then some evil being whom assume and paint my words in erring fashion negative. Like a University of Victoria professor once said of me, 'I do not suffer fools gladly.' I hope that answers you Alice. I have been treated quite poorly because of my honesty by many an onion skinned hypocrite or a pompous charlatan who thinks Plymouth Rock a worthy monument. I do not. I do not sincerely. I think it a waste of space.

William Dotani Jul 4, 2012, 4:37am UTC

I agree with the Parson. I just wish my wife would too.

Pam Brittain Jul 4, 2012, 1:49pm UTC

William, I'm beginning to really like your wife.

Alice G. Jul 6, 2012, 9:06pm UTC

William, I meant nothing negative about my comment-it was meant to be funny since we Gatherites are always altering the original meaning and intent. Pam and I are two of the worst because we like playing with words. Actually, I liked the comment. I never was too keen on "obeying" my husbands. I do maintain when I find a man who will love me as Christ loved the church I will gladly be the most submitted woman you know and I would follow him anywhere.

Pam Brittain Jul 6, 2012, 9:41pm UTC

Alice, I love you. William, I love you too, like it or not.

William Dotani Jul 7, 2012, 3:06am UTC

I was in a negative space because of a hypocritical Christian whom exemplifies the reasons I will not attend church. It is the Laodecian church of fanatical political prejudice with words spewing hatred. Sorry, I was not pointing my finger at you Alice; especially after your spokesperson and booking agent Pam Brittain has said she loves me. I guess that means both of you do, so I guess we'll have to get married and move to West Texas or The Great Slave lake area. I had wanted to remain monogamous and frankly I don't think my wife will like this one bit until she can approve who fans me and who feeds me grapes and hominy.

Alice G. Jul 12, 2012, 3:07pm UTC

No apologies necessary, William. I am no fan of hypocrites myself-the true church has been done great harm by hypocrisy. You need to know ahead of time if we do run away and get married I also don't "obey" unless of course you are prepared to die for me. And I love grapes but hate hominy.

And we can only make this move if my sweetheart can also come.

William Dotani Jul 13, 2012, 2:46am UTC

When I read, 'but hate hominy.' I feigned fainting and my wife saw this and said, 'are you okay?' Wondering if I could gain an advantage from her hopefully sincere concern, I somehow found the nerve to say, 'My body needs hominy, dear.'

Pam Brittain Jul 13, 2012, 1:36pm UTC

If it helps any, I like hominy, but do you know how it's processed? I always hope they washed all the lye out before they canned it.

William Dotani Jul 14, 2012, 4:48am UTC

I thought about the embedded wisdom in your comment and realized it's not apple pie, but hominy that should be eaten in a Chevrolet after hanky panky. There are many a youth that canot explain backseat stains that do not seem, by lack of wrapper evidence, to come from a fast food restaurant. However, a teenager will never admit the obvious.
Unfortunately USA laws prevent us from having our children wash their mouth out with soap. I believe this has increased the per centage of teenagers who secretly laugh at abstinence classes. Some of these youth do not go to Confession because they are Protestant or some other religion we are having a crusade against.
Hominy with flecks of lye is the perfect subterfuge to punish our teenagers, or anyone else wearing a letter on their sweater.

Pam Brittain Jul 14, 2012, 2:25pm UTC

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Betty S. Jul 1, 2012, 6:13pm UTC

You folk surely do make me LOL with your conversations. Have a Happy and safe 4th of July!

Pam Brittain Jul 1, 2012, 6:24pm UTC

Betty, I hope you have a wonderful July 4th. I love this holiday and I love your laughter!

Alice G. Jul 1, 2012, 7:47pm UTC

I agree, Pam. We have way too many garrulous politicians and not enough true patriots. In spite of what all is wrong in America, there is still much that is right and good. Thank God. we have the LIBERTY for all to worship or not, to work or not, to protest or not, to vote or not, to opine or not, in fact, to think period or to let someone else do it for us. And those freedoms came at great price, the ultimate price for many.

Pam Brittain Jul 1, 2012, 7:59pm UTC

Wow, talk about a mouthful. I couldn't agree with you more, Alice.

William Dotani Jul 7, 2012, 3:11am UTC

I am simply shocked because my wife often has trouble sleeping. She must be the only woman over 50 to suffer from this. So, with two parks next to and across from us, the locals shot off fireworks until 2 a.m. My wife slept soundly. Women are more mysterious than the ingredients in my cereal.