Estelle had always wanted to be a famous Broadway actress, wowing the crowds every night and sipping champagne at fancy restaurants. But as she fought to maintain her balance while she posed for the “September” photo in the Cackling Cluckers annual calendar, she realized that her career was not going as planned. Naturally, she blamed her mother…
Originally published in “Crusty Pie” on 03/10/15 and “Bonnywood Manor” on 03/01/16. No changes made, as it really doesn’t matter what my words are because the picture alone is wonderfully absurd. It reminds me of a time in high school when I…. wait, I’ve made a promise to myself to quit hinting at other stories that I might write since I often never do, a failure that makes certain followers truculent. So, nothing ever happened to me in high school. Nothing.
Categories: Past Imperfect
That photo drips with potential, doesn’t it?
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There was no way I could let this image drift by me without commentary…
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Nothing much happened to me in high school either. Especially if I was wearing an egg.
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Totally agree. The word “dork” etched in my forehead didn’t affect me at all. Swear. 😉
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Estelle?? Like in ‘Golden Girls – The Early Years’? 🙄
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Um, yeah. That’s exactly what I was going for, sure was. 😉
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Okay, you’ve forced my hand. There was an Aussie diplomat who misread his invitation (he insisted on reading the foreign language without translation) and mistook the words for ‘national dress’ as ‘fancy dress’. Australia doesn’t have a national dress. We don’t have a national dress, but he felt quite silly turning up as Humpty Dumpty.
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I’m agog at this revelation. How can Australia not have a national dress? Wait, I also sense that you might be trying to trip me up with your beguiling ways. Is this where I plead the Fifth? Does Australia have the Fifth? So many questions, so little time to think of clever responses to all the comments on this post…
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No fifths in Australia, unless scotch counts.
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So “Humpty Dumpty” DID have a gender. You know, I always wondered about that…
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I’m not so sure that we’ve resolved the gender issue at all, but I still must protest that only horses and men were allowed to try and put Humpty back together again and they failed. A woman could have patched things up in a jiffy…
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Aren’t mother usually blamed for this. Ask her therapist.
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Therapists would have no idea what to advise if the mother option was taken off the menu…
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Exactly lol
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No, nothing ever happens to us in high school. That’s why we’re so well-adjusted. Unlike poor Estelle. 😉
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You say “well-adjusted”, I say “somehow avoided incarceration”. Po-tay-to, Po-tah-to… 😉
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I survived high school well but if I think I can still blame my mother for something 😂…….waiting for my time:I have two daughters 🙄
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It sounds like there might be a few rounds of blame-game in your near future. The past always repeats in one way or another… 😉
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It started already 😱
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I don’t think she can blame her mother for looking at all the king’s horses and all the king’s man with that kind of a “come and get me, boys” attitude.
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Are you saying that Estelle was a bit… over-easy?… 😉
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I calls ’em the way I sees ’em
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