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The title of this #BlogBattle post is actually a play on words. It has a double meaning. See if you can figure it out! 😉
“Hey, Mara!” The ginger cat bounded in, slipping across the floor in an unintentional heap. “What do carob and peas have in common?”
“No,” Mara groaned. “Not another crossword puzzle, Arrow!” She was his superior officer. This wasn’t supposed to happen to her. On the other hand, she could order him to knock it off with the crossword puzzles… but then he might get started on the Sudoku…
And then again, she didn’t want to abuse her authority over her fellow Time Agent.
“No, Mara,” Arrow explained patiently. “It’s a joke.” Mara wheeled her office chair around, cautious to keep from catching her tail in the rollers.
“Okay,” she sighed. “What’s the punch line?”
“They’re both legumes!” Arrow announced. Mara rubbed her eyes with the back of a paw. There wasn’t enough coffee in the world to deal with her junior partner. And yes, coffee is a legume too, her unruly mind supplied.
And then there was Cally, who was obviously crushing on Arrow. Why the litterbox would she want to do that? Mara pulled her thoughts away and focused on her junior.
“Remind me to never eat either again,” she sighed and went back to her mountains of paperwork.
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Ginger isn’t a legume – is it?
Not at all. Its a tuber. 😛
So… why…?
(When someone tells a bad joke it’s almost like dropping a bomb. And the girl… likes him. For some inexplicable reason. :-P)
Also, carob is a legume. Voila! *backhands the Master by accident* *he tries to murder me* *runs*
Good story! 🙂
I’ve heard worse jokes. The benefit of having lots of siblings. The most recent ones I think were my 7 year old brother providing his “noun” for mad libs: “Guy banging his head on a teeter totter”
And my dad, of course. (Mom says I always laugh too hard at his jokes.) We were pulling out of a grocery store parking lot the other night and saw the gorgeous sunset, but it was across all the buildings and I didn’t have my camera. I bounced in my seat and said “Bust it for home, Dad!” kind of fast. My 14 year old brother said from the back “What did she say?”
And dad said “She was talking about Bustifer Holmes. It’s Sherlock’s younger brother.”
I laughed all the way home. XD
Lol, I’ve had quite a bit of bad jokes experience from similar sources. 🙂
X-P Yeah, Arrow’s sense of humor isn’t as spot-on as his name. 😛
I bet. XD and that’s not the worst of them. There was the knock knock joke I overheard one night, trying to get to sleep.
Knock-knock.
*silence*
Hey, knock knock!
*sigh* fine. Who’s there?
Orange.
Orange who?
Apple.
Come in.
I find knock-knock jokes disturbing now. If someone knocks four times, then I’m FREAKING OUT. (Blame Doctor Who. Fantastic show, but some of it will make you paranoid. Like, sometimes when I see a statue, I keep looking at it and refuse to blink. 0_0)
Haha, yeah… fiction does that to you occasionally. Like that poem, the “Lines and Squares” I believe it was. I read it when I was little, even though I really didn’t need any more encouragement to stop stepping on lines. 😛
😛 Yeah…
It’s almost like being superstitious, except not, because it’s really a fandom thing and you can blame Steven Moffat! 😛
Someday, these superstitions will pass down to our children while fandoms lie buried in ancient ruins. And our descendants will wonder why….
(far in the future)
Guy 1: *hugs other guy* Punk.
Guy 2: Jerk.
*silence*
Guy 1: You know… I’ve never really thought about it before, but where did that even come from?
Or:
Guy 1: “Don’t even blink! If you blink it’s gonna get you!”
Guy 2: *blinks* “Oh no! I forgot! …wait, it didn’t get me. I’M ALIIIIIIIVEEEE!” X-P
… and the list goes on… XD We could make a book of this.
Actually, we should. X-D
*rubs hands* When do we start? XP
Not now. I have to be at work in a couple of hours :-S
Hmm… another time then. I will finish my game of whist with lego people, then write down more ideas for this book of ours. XD
X-P Fun!
Well, I finished it. And the next Horatio story part is up. It was actually research, with Lego minifigure representations of Archie and Horatio. XP
Fun! 😀 I’ll head over and read it now ;-D
Hope you like it! 😀
;-D
Ouch…:D Well, generally the ones I get aren’t THAT bad. 🙂
X-P
Well, sometimes I can just enjoy the bad-ness of it. That way I can laugh at everyone’s jokes. XD
The funniest part is if the bad-joker thinks it’s funny. Then you get to laugh at them instead. 😀
Infectious laughs save a lot of people the embarrassment. 😉
True. 😛
Mom says I have an infectious laugh. The trouble with that is I’m not sure if people actually like my joke, or just my laugh. 😛 I can see why it’s infectious, though. My smile is crooked to begin with, then when I laugh one whole side of my face scrunches up.
It’s very strange… XP
*giggles* I tend to snort. ;-P
But what’s really bad is when the hiccups start… *wince*
I have one friend who just hiccups at random intervals. 😛
Laughing makes me hiccup. Rice makes my brother hiccup. XD Hiccups are pretty arbitrary…
Very true!
Sometimes when I swallow hard–even if I’m not actually swallowing anything–I hiccup.
Weird. That should be a question to ask people. Just say you’re taking a survey and ask them what makes them hiccup. XD
X-P That would be funny!
Yeah… me too. Sometimes. The rest of the time I just wince.
Yep. Some jokes just aren’t worth it. 😛
True.
Oh boy. X-D That is HILARIOUS X-D
Did I mention that Iris and I are working on a Sherlock Holmes project? It’s sort of set in the modern day and the main characters are Shannon Holmes and Jamie Watson. 😛 Right now, it’s just scripts, but we’re planning to film it. 😀
Ooh! *jumpjumpjump* I so want to see that!! 😀
X-D I can’t wait either!!! *hugs you and jumps*
When are you filming? Are you going to post them when you do it? *is very impatient in a happy way*
We’re filming when we can fit it around Iris’s and my schedule, now she’s moved away and we’re both in college *grimaces* And I don’t know if we’re planning on posting it online. Maybe we’ll make it available on Etsy for a donation (to pay for the DVDs we would have to burn.)
Oh, geez. That must be a hassle. Well, whenever you do put them up or sell them, I’d watch it! 🙂
Can’t sell them. Not our intellectual property. But you can donate to the project, of course. ;-P
I would definitely do that, if I was’t broke…. 😛
X-P I know the feeling!!!
I think all teens know the feeling… XP
Probably!
So is Cally the bombshell or Mara? Or is it the “joke”? <— See what I did there? I'd be using air quotes if we were hanging out. 😉 I'm sorry but this: "And yes, coffee is a legume too, her unruly mind supplied." had me laughing the most. I hate when random thoughts pop into my head. At least this one was related to the conversation but still.
The joke. Arrow is also a ginger cat. 😛 That’s the irony. Wait, did I forget to mention that he’s ginger? Gah *head desk*
fun with legumes and bad knock knock jokes an orange apple????
hahaha
Pretty much, yeah. What, you mean your life isn’t like this? 😛
mine is far worse hahahaha
*takes off hat and bows to you* My condolences, sir.
😛
Until I read the comments I didn’t get the joke. But now I get it, yes, very clever. 🙂
;-P Poor Mara. X-P
Kinda cute, actually. 😀
X-P Thank you! And everyone can expect to see more of them in the future. ;-P
❤️💐❤️
😀
Love a good bad joke. 🙂 Cute story, ErinKenobi! 😉 I love all the joking it inspired in the comments, too!
Thanks! X-D
Yeah, the comments are often the best part 😛
ERINKENOBI2893! You are a blog battler at the best moment! I’m celebrating six months of hosting the battles this week and I SUPER excited! Thank you so much for joining in! We’re so happy to have you be a part of it and looking forward to the next six months!
😀 I can’t wait! 😀 Oh, great. I just realized I forgot about this week’s entry. I’ll have to do next week’s, then. 😉
haha There’s still time if you have time. It’s only 8:20AM here and that means you still have like fifteen hours! 🙂
HEAD!
Okay! 😀 I’ll see what I can come up with! 😛
nice!
🙂 I don’t think I’m going to make it this week. I have an idea but am not sure what to do about the characters.
Guess I’ll just have to defer it.
That’s okay! It happens, Erin, but next week’s word is Distance. 🙂 Have fun with it!
Okay! 😀
Fun joke. 🙂 I like how they’re cats, drinking coffee and shuffling through paperwork.
I’m glad you liked it! 😀 Yeah, that is kind of amusing, stopping to think about it… 😛
I wonder if these cats would dislike humans picking them up and cuddling them?
Maybe. Maya would object, saying she has work to do, but Arrow might not mind… They’re actually pretty much human-sized, too, so they might be a lapful. 😛