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Play the Kazoo and Win a Jigsaw Puzzle
After I retired, I made wooden jigsaw puzzles for twenty or so years and sold them monthly at a Portland craft fair. I’m now done with all that, but I have a few puzzles left over. Here is one of them: I call it Democrats Gather for Photo Shoot Before Debate. I’m giving it as a prize to the Ricocheter with the most talent.
Here are some suggestions:
Respond with a photo of a tea cozy in the shape of Peter Rabbit you made ten years ago. Or perhaps a quilt you made.
Write an ode to your mother. Or write a rap to your muther.
Perhaps you baked a really fancy cake and took a photo of it. Send it in.
How about a two or four-line poem, perhaps in couplets, that satirizes Donald Trump’s hair?
Can you play the flute or kazoo? Play a little ditty on video and post it.
Respond with a photo of a painting you did a few years back.
Can you touch your nose with your tongue? Take a photo and post it. You could win. I like human oddities.
Play a song by blowing into your cupped hands.
Film yourself doing an Irish jig? Moxie counts a lot in this contest.
Can you sing? Sing the scale or a short song in an interesting way.
Recite a soliloquy from Macbeth. “Life’s a tale told. . . .”
Take off your shirt and pat your head and rub your tummy in a circle at the same time. You probably won’t win, but you will win the hearts of all Ricocheters.
It doesn’t have to be new. Dig up some old thing you did when you were 16. Who’s to know?
Anything you call a talent is a talent. Who am I to judge? Wait, I am the judge.
Here are the rules.
- No poems over the length of a sonnet. That’s 14 lines.
- No prose pieces over 30 lines.
- No videos over 30 seconds. I don’t want to listen to your mouth harp rendition of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony or a recitation of Milton’s Paradise Lost.
- Multiple submissions are not just permitted but encouraged.
At the end of three days, I will announce the winner and send the lucky person the puzzle.
Published in General
Scottish dialect for “now.”
So the sentence is “Ach, the yes is now.” What the?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Och%20aye%20the%20noo
So it’s a Scottish idiom. That She is just a little show off.
Winter sunset over the Santa Catalina mountains.
@she confused me with Gossamer Cat for credit of the Jello concoction – I could not compete with that, so wrong cat – but Ken, you are one very talented dude! The puzzle is amazing! So is some of the talent here! I did a post on Trump’s hair before he was elected – it would take too long to find, but I wouldn’t win against the fun pics here!
Yes. I realized this morning that I was so busy self-promoting (thank you all for the comments and likes for my jello concoction) that I didn’t acknowledge the master himself-the puzzle is truly a work of art!
Thanks, Cat. I drew these figures just for this puzzle, using pen, ink, and airbrush. I drew right on the wood. My style was originally inspired by the drawings of Wally Wood in the old Mad comic book (it started as a comic book) and then, unfortunately, became frozen. I’ve drawn for the past 70 years and my drawings have never matured beyond a Mad comic book look.
Not much. What’s a noo with you?
Timeless – kids would love that theme even today.
Sunset on Old Mission Peninsula
Polar Bear Monument, White Chapel Cemetery, Troy, MI — Memorializing the men of the United States Armed Forces who invaded Russia back in Wilson’s Administration.
Yes, apologies to both cats for mixing them up. I realized that shortly after I posted it and fixed it (I thought), but I guess it got into the wild(cat).
Well you know what they say about all cats looking alike…
in the dark, not on a brightly lit Website. 😸
What a talented group of people. Jello Art? I learn something every time I visit Ricochet.
I think, in the words of my dear friend Glenda, that you are “overthinking,” this. @kentforrester.
Mrs. She, kill that comma after the word “overthinking” and put it after the word “this.” (When I can’t think of a good response, I resort to pettifogging.)
Submit!
Okay, Kent, here’s another entry:
Thank, A. I’ll read it carefully. I’ll be announcing the winner tomorrow morning.
Anybody can build a plane. that jello art is really impressive.
I agree, I certainly could not do that jello art.
Hey, I can’t build a plane. Of course, I can’t make jello art either.
I highly recommend it as an art form, although it is not for the faint of heart. At the end, the entire kitchen, every bowl and utensil, the cabinets, any pets that walked through and myself were covered in a sticky mess. And we’re still scraping jello off the floors in the rest of the house. But the results are spectacular, and I’m not even very good yet.
If you put a couple of tablespoons of beef broth into the gelatin the pets will take care of everything that winds up on the floor.
Of course then you have the additional problem of the pets jumping up on the counter tops……
You’ve obviously never seen me try to build anything.
Yes, your area of expertise seems to be around deconstructing things into small pieces. But what great stories!
You would recognize the zip ties that are prevalently used these days to supplement the Adel clamps in planes.
No duct tape is allowed however, so you would be at half strength.
Let me know and I’ll send you my mailing address…