They started one of these on dpchallenge, and it has been hilarious.
Here's how it works. I post the start of a story (one or two sentences). The next person then adds to the story, then so on and so on. If you have a picture (a small one), either yours or another's that illustrates the "sentence" that seems to add to the humor.
Let's begin . ..
Once upon a time, in a land far far away, but not so long ago, lived a small man by the name of Fred. He loved to sit for hours and contemplate the meaning of life
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but he hated . . .
being in a place where there were no birds
Fred thought and thought about the situation. He really loved birds but there were none here. What in the world would he do?
He thought about this and came up with a wild plan.
He'd learn to whistle like the birds. So off Fred went whistling everywhere he went until one day...
he looked up to the sky and saw something tiny coming towards him. It got closer and closer and then he saw that it was in a V shape, oh my he thought what is the world is all of that.
His heart raced. His pulse fluttered. He just knew that this was the flock of birds he had anxiously been awaiting and whistling for.
But when it got to him, he was shocked and amazed to see that . . .
they were very large birds,with a long red thingy hanigng down under their neck, there were hundreds of them and they looked like Turkey Vultures, but
in all the world, he thought, has there ever been turkey vultures flying as this? Fred closed his eyes, wishing for the serenity of meditation. The sounds caused him to open them again. The strange birds, now nearer, seemed to have one cry, one voice.....and all around him Fred heard
a strange sounding call that he could not quite make out, but it sounded like words and not just a call, were they speaking to Fred? He scratched his and listened closer then he
realized he was half-asleep and half-awake and the noise he was hearing was his mother waking him from a surreal dream. At least he thought it was a dream.
He began to get dressed, when he heard something outside his bedroom window. He looked, and
what do you think he saw. He saw the trees were full of these very large bird. The sun was almost all the way up and the birds were beginning to stir and slightly move thier wings, when all of a sudden...
a gale force wind swept him off his feet. Or he thought it was a wind. Actually, it was one of the giant birds swooping down and taking him for a ride.
Fred, nervous at first, looked around and saw . . .
his house there on the ground, so small now, his dog was looking up and barking but he could just barley hear him. The giant bird dove toward the ground and his dog Barney jumped on the back of the big bird and Fred hung onto him for dear life. The bird swooped up again and...
and turned to Fred and said, "You have been chosen for a very special task. I am taking you to the land of Waikaidisisidiiikekeid, and there you must . . ."
rescue the Princess Haida from the ..... by .....
large gnarled sycamore ogre by counting to 100 by 2.5s in 10 seconds or less.
Fred starts practicing (2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, 12.5 . . .) and he is concentrating so hard, that he does not see the forest beneath them. Suddenly, he hears . ..
the roaring of the river rapids and sees a large boulder looming in front of the giant bird, who was getting very close to the roaring water, so Fred decided to...
be braver than he'd ever been. With one reaching hand, he tapped on the bird's head. "Heh! Do you know there's a boulder looming in front of you?" His words were caught by the wind, seemingly unheard, and before Fred could think more, the boulder that was before them opened wide and they were inside.
Fred whispered to his best friend, Dog, "You see what I see?"
(good Nita!!!)
Suddenly, a chorus of bats and small rodents began singing,
"Way up in the sky, little lamb?
Do you see what I see?
A star a star shining in the night,
With a tail as big as a kite
With a tail as big as a kite."
Fred was awed by the beautiful sound, so much so, that he . . .
told the big bird to stop and set him and his dog Barney down so he could get closer to the beautiful sound. As he walked toward the bats their singing stopped and they said in unison to Fred "...
We were waiting for you. We called and called and now you are here. Welcome".
Admidst bat swarms and rodents in chorus, quieter now, Fred wondered......and Barney sniffed.
"You called me?" Fred watched Barney sniff, and then turned to the largest of all the bats. He'd never seen a bat smile, but there it was. Fred smiled back. It was easier than he thought it would be.....smiling at a bat. Soon another of the bats moved closer. He
began to get a bit uneasy. Afterall, how often does one get approached by smiling bats.
But, then, in a quiet tone, the elder bat said, . . .
We welcome you to our Bat Cave, you are the first human to every come to visit us. We would like it very much if you stay awhile and observe the way we worship our...
leader!
Our bat traditions aren't at all what you've seen among humans but please be aware that we are bats. We fly around in here and we love to eat...
bananas after they get all soft and squishy, that is when they taste...
so sweet. When fruit is allowed to get old and aged, the sugar content increases and that's when we enjoy bananas most. We have been known to hang upside down for hours just sucking on rotten bananas.
Suddenly Barney...
spotted another human entering the cave, and floew over there, when he got there the human...
screamed! :eek:
And turned around and ran out of the cave. In the meantime several of the bats had gathered around one that was laying upside down on the floor and began to pray they said.....
really disturbed us by coming into our cave and.....
Would you care to sit down and have a meal with us? The humans looked at each other and said sure what are we having? The Cheif bat said we are having baked gourmet...
Is there a shower here? He looked confusd by that last statement so what else could he say except He did need a shower after all that rolling around on the bottom of the cave in bat guano. so the bat replied...
he cleaned himself off and thought about all the bat leader had told him about the Great one. He wanted to go there and see the Great one and partake of what was being offered to him. He felt in his heart that he was ready for a change in his life. So after he got out of the waterfall he said to the leader take me to the Great one now. As they continued walking he said to the Bat leader...
"I'm really, really hungry and would appreciate having a meal just about now..." ;)
The bat leader said, "to bad :P, we ate all the rotten bananas while you were in the shower".
So fred said.....
"Why am I here? Why did I have to sign up for this trip? I'm hungry and they ate all the bananas while I was showering!"
Fred was so upset at the way he was being treated and he was still very hungry so in anger, he said, ....
Fred was so upset at the way he was being treated and he was still very hungry so in anger, he said, ....
I am really hurt and i think it time for me....
...go to the store (if he could find a store) to buy more bananas. He had a need for bananas to raise his potassium level in his body which was now dangerously low!
So, off he went looking for "The Great Banana Store"!
As he walked along looking this way and looking that way, suddenly out of nowhere...
jumped out a frantic little guy wearing an apron. Obviously he was a store clerk, but why was he so angry?
"Oh, no. Oh, no. You can't be here. You simply can't be here now. You'll have to leave immediately before it's too late.."
With that, the squat little store clerk began....
...to sing an aria from the Alma Del Core (La Constanza In Amor Vince L'inganno) and as he hit the high notes, all activity on the street stopped to listen to this squat little man who could sing so well.
As he finished the aria and he wiped his brow on his messy looking apron, out of nowhere came running from around the corner a dog carrying a bunch of bananas.
Oh, my! How happy the hero of our story was but just as he reached out to get one of these lovely bananas that would certainly help his potassium level, a
a monkey crossed his path and grabbed the bananas climbed a tree and ate them.
Fred was so flabbergasted he just stood there and......
wept!
and wept until he could weep no more. He straightened up and threw out his chest and said......
"I know where you live!" So Fred stole the store clerk's motorcycle, and rode away.
After riding a few miles, a police car pulled up behind him and started flashing his lights.
Suddenly, Fred remembered that he had forgotten to steal the clerk's helmet as well. Thus breaking the law.
So, the police officer leaned out his window, and using his megaphone, yelled........
"pull over you idiot". So Fred pulled over, the cop got out of his car and came up to Fred and Fred said to the officer "That wasn't very nice to call me an idiot I demand an apology" Promptly the officer apologized, when to the trunk of his cruiser and took out something very special for Fred. It was a helmet and inside the helmet was a bunch of bananas. So Fred put the helmet on and headed for the bat cave on the motorcycle thinking "that cop didn't even know this motorcycle was stolen".
About 100 yards from the bat cave Fred looked behind him as saw........
The Batmobile! When Fred looked closer at the Batmobile, he noticed that the Joker was driving it.
So, Fred decided to help Batman by.....